@jfruh.bsky.social Editor: Dennis the Menace's minister appears to have stickers for the Blue Man Group and pretzels on his tippet, worn over a flax(? Let's go with flax)-colored surplice and a clerical turtle neck. Modern religion has gone too far! Yours, Confused and Vexed in the Comics

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Maybe all of this will settle down again in a few weeks, but it's hard to see how the rest of Trump's term isn't completely taken up by dealing with the fallout of Epstein and other misdeeds.

Fact check: true.

[SCENE: AMERICAN LIVING ROOM. MOM, DAD AND JUNIOR SIT FACING ONE ANOTHER. MOM ANGRILY SCROLLS JUNIOR'S PHONE.] JUNIOR: But Moooom, the president likes teenage girls in bikinis! Why can't I? Dad: By gum, I think he's got us on a technicality. [MOM LOOKS UP FROM PHONE, DOPE SLAPS JUNIOR AND DAD.]

Is it too much to hope that in the interregnum between Mike Johnson's ouster and the Democratic onslaught that we see the brief tenure of Speaker MTG?

This is solidly into the writing style of elderly bachelors worked up about how BARABBAS means "Son of the Father," and something something fluoridated water.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Should it bother me that I both think this is monstrous authoritarianism at work and kind of want to see what they find out?

• Most useless thing to do on Bluesky: implore people not to fall for outrage bait • Second most useless thing to do on Bluesky: implore people to remember that not every minister person who wears a clerical collar is a Catholic priest

Previous post deleted because two seconds after it went up, I saw this identifying a different Protestant minister. C'est la Bluesky.

Deal a pound of weed: lock him up for life! Deal underage girls to the current president: here's a puppy

Read the whole thread, but this is key. Invest less in messaging and more in messengers, forever.

Somewhere in South Florida, a hand shoots up from the loose soil of a grave. The bloody quest for revenge has begun, and it will not end until it reaches the White House.

Pretty soon it's going to be "wine bottles and bricks moms" amirite

Sure, let's give the hospice chaplain a lunch prominently featuring red and green cabbage. After all, what could go wrong?

Good morning, who stayed up all night reading the Epstein files?

Remember, kids: it's all fun and games until someone forgets that Jeffrey Epstein was *also* a lying, self-interested piece of s**t.

(sleepily holds up a That's a Nasty Question sign) (Vance sneaks in to put a nightcap on his head and blanket over his legs) (announces visiting hours are over at the home)

oh gawd it got better its absolutely chicago

Dude has more lives than the Predator vs. Alien franchise, is what I'm saying

The Epstein Files are the new government shutdown are the new 2024 elections are the new indictment for mishandling classified documents are the new indictment for election interference are the new indictment for campaign funding violations are the new conviction for defamation and adjudication of

Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, but for billionaires

Is it wrong to groove to Leon Redbone? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Did...did the Northumbria Community read the headlines?

To put things just slightly differently: Congratulations, Mr. Schumer, you just made Democrats part of the bums voters are going to want to throw out in 2026, if not sooner.

[Extremely Doug Niedermeyer at Faber College parade voice:] ALL IS WELL, STAY CALM! EIGHT CENTRIST SENATORS DO NOT REPRESENT THE ENTIRE PARTYA

If you would like a better model of leadership than Dem centrists in the Senate: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIG...

I was thinking along the same lines. A deal to reopen in exchange for FSAs just isn't enough. There would have to be something else to sweeten the deal. What is that something else?

“What if something terrible has happened?” said Toad. “What if Frog has fallen into a deep hole and cannot get out. I will never see him again!”

Echoing Jack's next post, they wouldn't ban it if it didn't work.

Uh, religious freedom, hello?

Just had to tell someone "I'm not Lisa," how's your day so far? *I did not tell them she'd died long ago

The devil's greatest lie was [checks notes] that Elon Musk was a genius.

"Voters are tired of hearing something can't be done." Really enjoyed this conversation with @alexshephard.bsky.social

He's looking for the button that opens the tank with sharks with laser beams

THEY'RE LITERALLY SENDING OUT BEAR PATROLS IN JAPAN PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A DRILL

The point of reading is so you can move your books around, right?

Must we

NPR headline promises 5 key takeaways from the 2025 elections. I've got: 1. F*** Trump 2. F*** MAGA 3. F*** the GOP 4. No, really, F*** Andrew Cuomo What am I missing?

Centrist pundits tonight

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

This may actually be the worst result of the night for Republicans.

The ballrooms will continue until polling improves

Yeah but did you ask the Pennsyltuckians

okay but where are the thought leaders telling us that bernie would have won

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Before polls close and we start to learn results from today's elections is as good a time as any to remind everyone to never quote anonymous Democratic strategists or operatives

🧵In the maelstrom of Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts refusing to condemn Tucker Carlson for platforming Fuentes, I am not seeing folks connect the dots to Project Esther - a supplement to Project 2025 designed to root out anti-Semitism. The document frames pro-Palestinian voices as pro-Hamas.