The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

To support the Republican Party in 2026 is to set aside any semblance of intellectual honesty or morality in favor of whatever rationalization can best soothe the conscience. And the Fox News Cinematic Universe is all too eager to assist

"The U.S. and Iran are close to a deal to end the war and open the Strait but no one has signed off on anything and the two sides have yet to come to an agreement on any of the terms and we swear, we know you've heard this before, but this time we're serious and not at all manipulating the market."

Fuck MAGA and fuck their fucking feelings

Say it with me... The fascists aren't having any fun and the latest concert debacle is downstream of this fact. Their art sucks and this is a major reason they can't stand the Left(s).

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

Called this back in October

Don't be sorry, they offer the best nap you will ever have AND are an incredibly effective tool at helping you not die from cancer, everyone eligible go get this done

Amen to the responses here

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I hate these people so fucking much, man years of whining about "weaponized DOJ investigations" and they're just going down the enemies list launching frivolous bullshit because the bossman says so

Weird! Nobody could have predicted this.

The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Waging a war because Trump feels inferior to Obama is some pretty spectacular psychological damage on display

I wrote about the DNC autopsy and why arguing about messaging is pointless and counter productive. you want to improve D electoral fortunes? enfranchise DC. end gerrymandering. expand the court. stop fucking around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/procedural...

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

(10/X) I will say this: history will not be kind those who minimize the awfulness of Trump. I think we all know that.

(8/X) they don't have the energy to do him justice or that they face pressures which make them pull their punches, that would one thing. Instead they just their eyes and make jokes about the "Bluesky liberals" who are so uncool as to care about the destruction of our society...

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

This is who the money is for

Trump and Musk’s profoundly evil decision to cut off U.S. aid is now making an Ebola outbreak in the DRC much worse. The world will live to regret the cruelty and stupidity of Trump, Musk, their flunkies, and the scumbags and fools in the U.S. who voted them in.

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Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

this is a masterpiece

spending $100m so 9,000 people can look at their health insurance bill and move back to south africa

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

“They don't want to talk about Trump's crimes. They don't want to talk about accountability for Trump criminals. They want to talk about whatever A/B tested slop their latest favorite consultant is feeding into their ear.” www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

"Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months Note to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

"To the folks at CBS, in the words of the great Ed Murrow, good night and good luck, motherf* kers."

Trump and his entire cabinet and all of their staffs and every Republican who voted to overturn the election should have been in military prisons before the end of Biden’s first day. That’s the level of response January 6 and the Trump presidency that preceded it has earned.

Biden had one job and only one job: crush the insurrectionist Republican Party, because the moment they got back in power they clearly intended demolish any other progress made before or after. He never even started to pretend to try.

AOV was asked if she’s running for president. Her answer was a masterclass in communication and values.

They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

I am aware of the whole "Roberts's decades-long project" and yes there have been plenty of bad decisions but MAN is it wild watching voting rights and representation and the idea that there are rules both parties theoretically have to follow all go up in smoke over the course of like 10 days

If the Republicans try this shit they need to be thrown in prison

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Evil motherfuckers in charge of our country

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

Blue State Dems need to gerrymander every last Republican district out of existence to counter the Supreme Court’s war on democracy until the Republicans finally agree on a nationwide ban on gerrymandering.

they should have just issued that ruling with their klan robes on, to be honest

These people should be required to wear helmets when out in public

Music update: one of my bands, The Bluebillies just won Country/Bluegrass Artist of the year at the Capital Region (NY) Eddies Awards