We have discovered a planet. Clouds made of nitrogen drift through the skies. If there are photographers there, you could thrive.

when you're drinking on a balcony that's called balcohol

If they ever send federal troops into Philly it's gonna be Revolution II cause Philadelphia does not fuck around

I'm sure we all look forward to this new and bold direction:

Learn from recent history: Democrats win when they're popular with the left and the center, not when they knife the one to pursue the other

"Movements that abandon core supporters in pursuit of mythical moderate voters often end up with neither. Energy drains away, activists stay home, and the authentic moral voice gets replaced by calculated positioning that convinces no one." data4democracy.substack.com/p/you-cant-e...

How is it that I've never seen this image before?

Happy Halloween!

If I understand Ezra Klein's position it's that 35% of the country supports full on fascism and it's totally unacceptable for the other side to be upset about that or even say it out loud.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I've been thinking lately about how the justice department is supposed to be independent but the actual delegated powers are mostly presidential, even pre-2016, and the independence is protected by people yelling at you if you break a norm

This is straight up not Melania

as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

They're coming after Sherill because they want Cittarelli running New Jersey. He'll deport your neighbors, she'll protect them. He'll ban books, she'll fund schools. He'll support the tariffs, she'll protect the ports. He'll cancel clean energy, she'll clean your air and cut your bills.

Pete Hegseth is planning a military coup in the right way by Ezra Klein

Laser weeding is one of those “no wa-well actually no that makes perfect sense doesn’t it” things.

I think bluesky is the slowest app on my phone and I have grindr on this phone

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The No Kings protests really were shockingly ineffective, particularly given their size. It's not that they accomplished less than everything or less than they might have, as far as I can tell they accomplished pretty much nothing at all.

-ard has got to be my favorite English suffix because it's sneaky. Like you probably knew "drunkard" is a person who drinks too much but you probably didn't realize that a "wizard" is a person who is wise or a "coward" is a person who allows themself to be herded like a cow.

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

Under the fascist regime of Donald Trump, comedy is banned in America. Also whatever Jimmy Kimmel was doing

Charlie Kirk was not a great man. He was not a good man. You have no duty to pretend that he was because he was murdered.

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.” —Ezra Klein

On Earth 2, Broadway directors hold hearings for actors and singers while judges preside over auditions before a jury

Do high schoolers know that it's called a podcast because it's a broadcast that you would download to your iPod?

Pod Save America still, for some reason, not criticizing him btw

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

Pod Save America is wildly out of touch with their audience if they can't even bring themselves to say anything bad about Charlie Kirk. Even my parents (a CNN/CNBC Democrat and a NYT Democrat) said they don't care and he sucks

Is it problematic to like futurism as a style of art

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

My mom asked me about Charlie Kirk tonight so I showed her some of his greatest hits online (I was fixing her Kobo account) and within a couple minutes she was like "Well why are people saying such nice things about him?"

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

If there's one thing we know about this administration, it's that it will faithfully disburse congressionally authorized subsidies.

While Republicans are endlessly lecturing everyone else about civility and respect, part of civility and respect is following rules and norms, but the median American is 38 years old and in their lifetime Republicans have never let rules and norms stop them from doing what they wanted to do.

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Everyone is talking about Trump looking like he had a stroke but thats a distraction from Melania body double

it's actually very funny that all these right wingers are threatening to start a civil war over charlie kirk when far right Republicans currently control the government. A civil war against who? You people are stupid bloodthirsty terrorist wannabes

Sure he died WITH a bullet wound, but we don't know if he died OF a bullet wound. Need to see the tox screen, I bet he was on fentanyl

It is incumbent upon us to display the grace, humility, and empathy that the deceased displayed throughout his own life right now.

the (perhaps obvious) explanation for the different responses to the MN leg assassinations, the CDC shootings, and Charlie Kirk

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

In 2020 I wrote about 9/11 and why it really mattered gammafactor.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/l...

I was a self-driving skeptic for a long time because I associated it with Tesla's scammy and illegal approach to the tech, but now I'm a convert. Biking and walking around San Francisco, I find sharing the streets with Waymos to be *much* safer than sharing them with many human drivers.

Charlie Kirk died doing what he loved: being a huge piece of shit

It's sad Charlie Kirk isn't alive to incite violence, he would have loved this