The left doesn't need to tone down the rhetoric. The right needs to tone down the fascism.

The overheard conversations at World Dairy Expo next week are going to be interesting.

*Opens SkyCards* Crumbs.

Perhaps the most important workplace skill to learn is when to day "no" to a request. I'm...very bad at it, and it's making my life stressful. I average about 1 "no":10 "yes" answers.

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

there's a difference between conspiracy theories and "this is too fucking stupid to be real"

This was a genuinely astonishing segment of the interview, perhaps only outdone by the Kissinger anecdote.

*rapid blinking* www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

One thing I don’t like lately is referring to a group of people like they’re a problem just for existing! That’s not what people are! They’re people!

I can't help but notice polarization and societal dysfunction have increased since we stopped making websites like this

Maryland officials at the local, state, and federal levels are pushing back on BARC’s removal. They held a press conference yesterday in front of the NAL. #altgov #usda www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/b... www.wbaltv.com/article/usda...

Whoa.

I feel like a pretty good rule of thumb is don't take drug advice from someone who can't pronounce the name of it.

There's too much liquid in the baby.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Seriously. I mean, who's actually a fan of a "defense tech giant"? WTF?

So, my healthcare provider changed scheduling systems and now they have to recreate each appointment by hand? No wonder everyone hates IT these days (aside from the industry's enthusiastic support of fasicsm).

Rapture will be pretty bad for Republican turnout

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Upon further reflection, deciding to finally re-read Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" might have been a terrible idea. That whole section about the migration of scientists from Europe to the UK and USA in the face of anti-Semitism is hitting very hard right now.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

This is the only answer.

I America's actually worth loving you don't have to brainwash people into it. Make it a country that deserves love.

If you’re a democratic lawmaker who won’t do the right thing in Congress because of an outside threat, this is going to sound callous but you’re in the wrong job. This kind of stuff is your job. It’s the whole ballgame. “I’m afraid” is not a viable excuse.

I'm very disappointed to see that @pocan.house.gov voted "PRESENT" rather than "NAY" on H. Res. 719.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

I bought a bass amp today. It kind of magnifies all of my (justified) insecurities about my playing, but it does mean I can start rehearsing with my drummer.

In the last year, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and John Yoo have all expressed that Donald Trump is too evil for them. Can you even comprehend how awful someone would have to be for these morally depraved creeps to say that someone else went too far?

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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I'm just going to go ahead and treat this is real in spirit, if not in the details.

"Occasionally allow yourself the luxury of an unexpressed thought"-Senator Everett Dirksen

I need quit reading about LSU football until Kelly's fired. Every time I do, he's embarrassing himself. He's paid almost $10 million a year to coach the team, which includes answering questions from the media even if they're not the questions he wishes they'd ask.

Where would you even find that many conservatives with PhDs?

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

IMO, debates aren't a useful test of ideas, they're just a spectacle. "DeBaTe Me!!!" Nah, I've got laundry to do.

I’m choosing to remember Charlie Kirk’s contribution to American civic life in his own words.

“Me and the people l respect deserve empathy and those i judge inferior or lacking do not” is the beating, rotten heart of a hierarchical social structure and most white people in this country have listened to it beat since our birth.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 📅Sep 10, 1885 Francis Galton introduced the idea of regression (toward the mean) (In his presidential lecture to the Anthropology Section of the British Association, perhaps the most influential such in statistical history)

I feel like @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social missed out on the opportunity to create Cool Ranch (tm) Dudewipes, it's a logical pairing with Nashville Hot Chicken.

"Thoughtful debate"! 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, great, @jrossibarra.bsky.social is going to be insufferable now...

"But what about—" "I literally do not care what name you're going to say. If someone has to explain the shit about them in Epstein's files then that's their problem." "But—" "How do you not understand there is no 'but' here? Are you in those files?"

I got a robocall from Ron Johnson (R-WI) and I'm blindingly angry that improvident lackwit would dare to phone me.

At some point, we need federal judges, state officials, Democratic lawmakers, and others to start loudly pointing out that all their various oaths are to the CONSTITUTION, and that: yes, it IS possible for SCOTUS to behave in unconstitutional ways, and that it should be ignored when it does.

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it." a must-read from @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the Anthropic settlement defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Senate Dems agreeing to fund the government in exchange for a brief, exploding extension of ACA benefits to help Republicans maintain the Senate would be political malpractice of the highest order www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/sena...

no one should've ever fretted about political homogeneity on college campuses, and if you did you were the fucking one living in a bubble and you were a fucking idiot