I just saw a post where a woman said "I'm from the West Coast -- Arizona."

Tom Nichols, aesthete.

You’d think that “i have to ignore the voters so I can get money from the rich in order to appeal to voters” would be unsustainable as well as inefficient, but here we are.

The messaging just writes itself. Your cable company rips you off. Airlines rip you off. Are you tired of it? And it's not just good enough to whine generally about "affordability." Name and call out the culprits. They've already allied with authoritarianism. why not?

harper’s letter 2 better be off the fucking rails

Donald Trump's son owns 200,000 shares of stock in, and is on the board of, a drone maker that got a $620 million loan from the Pentagon, but I'm sure that's coincidental to the Chinese drone ban

A not-impossible scenario is that we get a pandemic that's 20x worse than Covid, and it saves America by killing off huge numbers of vaccine denialists. Note: I am not hoping this comes to pass. I'd rather we save America by explicitly rejecting fascism. But that scenario seems remote at the moment.

They keep serving fetid stew because people keep sopping it up.

Easter again! Like Trump with Covid in March 2020. Something about the Resurrection, maybe?

"Liberals are mean to us just because we're evil clowns" is like 3/4 of the GOP message, and, much worse, the media plays right along.

Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.

I really don’t mean to be bilious, but just to observe cold reality: how are the people who routinely do stuff like this not morons? Seems like a big problem!

Weird how “American nationalists” get mad at immigrants dying to work hard and be American, but not at the super rich guys who are in Epstein’s little black book and would throw away their loyalty to this country to avoid taxes

I always come back to the fact that, for normals anyway, writing, editing, and publishing the stuff would be utterly joyless.

By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

But their product is nowhere near as good as Palpatine’s.

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Funzo makes playtime fun!

In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.

it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

Remember when Trump asked Flynn early in term 1 whether it's better for the dollar to rise rather than fall and Flynn told him he should ask his economic advisors, and everybody laughed at the notion of Trump showing his ass to the "adult in the room?" Flynn was portrayed as a Very Serious Man.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Good lord. I just saw a reference to @kenjennings.bsky.social's "Jeopardy" streak and was plotzed to see that it had happened nearly 22 years ago.

Head of Downplaying and Rationalizing.

Local papers are often just as bad as the NYT on politics (especially on their opinion pages) but this is great stuff from the Chicago Tribune. The plain truth in plain language. Nothing “partisan” about it at all. So, it IS possible. Not doing this is a choice.

"Maybe it's just coincidence..." No, no. Collins and Parker took a meeting at Casa Bonita. That was when they hatched the plot to respond to the fascist takeover with humor, thus returning to relevance.

And they won't see the connection until there's a straight-up dustbowl that makes the Joad farm look as fecund as Kew Gardens.

The celebration and digital metastasization of conspiratorial thinking culminating with the U.S. head of health and human services believing that and governing as if modern diseases don’t emerge naturally, pandemics are all manmade, and science (not the complexities of nature) is to blame.

We are overwhelmed by sociopaths with college degrees.

I dunno, I’m pretty ok with being separated from the enraged morons who insist that schools are providing litter boxes for kids who identify as cats, and who also enthusiastically vote those oligarchs into power in every election.

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

When I was a kid, I walked past a little-league practice that was just breaking up. The coach snarled at the players: “I don’t want to see any of you stopping at a water fountain on your way home.” That was one of my first inklings that American jock culture was depraved.

It amazes me that there are still people out there who think we can stop political criminals by being nice and meeting them halfway. As if we should let them take half of their bribes and erase half of our history. As if we should let them blow up half as many boats and murder half as many people.

"photograph." Two things are possible here: Nichols only half remembers what happened and couldn't be bothered to do a quick, pre-bloviation refresher, or he's following his instinct to downplay terrible dude behavior, as is the way of his people. Eight women accused Franken of groping them.

I think the “impeachment isn’t popular” people really need to consider whether impeaching would be okay for something like the President had his pedophile pal killed to protect himself. The question is typically posed with a lack of imagination to the absolutely wild possibilities this time around.

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

I don't begrudge anybody fror taking money that people are handing them, as long as there's no ethical breach involved. The far more disturbing thing about this is that so many people and institutions think the mush people like Klein purvey is worth their time, attention, and money.

Hey, most pilots don't even make it to air.

It's refreshing to see a reporter telling the plain truth in plain language, without the jive, highly affected "impartiality." "raid on an American city" would likely get an NYT reporter yelled at, insane as that fact is.

It wasn't even slightly misleading. The story was just incomplete, but nothing that came out after the fact made the photo any less terrible.

"photograph." Two things are possible here: Nichols only half remembers what happened and couldn't be bothered to do a quick, pre-bloviation refresher, or he's following his instinct to downplay terrible dude behavior, as is the way of his people. Eight women accused Franken of groping them.

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

Literally had to go double-check, after seeing the reference to “dismal ticket sales” alongside the demand for $1 million in supposed damages, to confirm: It was a free concert.

If we follow the etymology of "phrenology" (study of the mind), then it's "pygeology," study of the butt.

Remnick also hired Emma Green from the Atlantic, where her beat was out-of-touch coastal elites' disdain for everyday Americans and their traditions (like bigotry). And he employs the gossipy mild-takes-haver Susan Glasser. He's better than most editors, but he's still stricken with media sickness.

It should have been enough. These voters (or nonvoters) are culpable. But it’s just a fact that Biden lost them because of this, and should have known that was likely to happen. It’s also a fact that it’s bad to support an authoritarian lunatic who is committing genocide.

Remember when Trump tried to get Zelensky to investigate Biden during the 2020 campaign and it roiled the nation and got him impeached?