I really hate podcasts that are actual news. I am begging you, if you have a podcast that is real journalism, please release some form of written component. I don't care if you just post a transcription. I don't really feel like listening to it and I just want to read.

"By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress,"

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

in victorian times it was incredibly tempting to say "nice hat, dumbass" to anyone wearing a goofy hat. the british boarding school system was designed to beat this natural instinct out of the next generation of hat-wearers

So basically

This is a publicly funded industry, proof that the U.S. can create jobs programs and design industrial policy when it wants to, but only substantially does so for the purpose of war and violence.

this part I also didn't get but then I saw an NBC anchor goggling open mouthed like a 12 year who just saw boobs for the first time because the Iranian foreign minister was like"yes we will fight if you invade" and they really don't think of other people as having any sort of agency, it's wild

Trump is continuing his crusade of erasure at our parks. This time, removing films that tell the history of women and immigrant labor organizing against terrible conditions at the Lowell Mills. Trump cannot erase the truth. Watch one of the films now on my YouTube: youtu.be/PhfN-c_Qv3o

To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

“thank you sir for firing me like a dog, which seems distinctly preferable to other ways one might deal with an unwanted dog”

@christianitytoday.com reviewed my book STUCK today:"The book is most useful..when Kornberg identifies the...changes Gingrich implemented to push most power into the House speaker’s office, changes she notes Democrats turned around and kept in place." www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/cong...

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: I have read different things.

I think this means we can start asking Pam Bondi about the Epstein Files again.

“Little Bright Eyes”. Postcard from my collection, 1905.

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Broke: guacamole Bespoke:

buy a cybertruck! everyone hates your car, and you by proxy, but don’t worry! it will kill you so you don’t have to suffer their scorn

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I enjoyed the Claude commercial until I realized it was promoting AI and not mocking AI

When I visited Florida I went swimming in this lagoon which I didn't know was off limits because it was home to the state's largest sea cow. So I got charged with a crime against huge manatee.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

With knowledge of colonial agrarian economies, you could impress a LOT of girls on here

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat named Nic Cage

Drake Maye you are the future of the Patriots please protect yourself

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.

thank you, salem, mass social media manager, for bringing the whimsy back to train travel

Universities need to become more meritocratic. That's why I'm proposing the creation of new institutes with names like Center for Western Civilization that can be staffed by mediocre right-wing PhDs

Remember Pizza Rat? Say hello to Pizza Cat

Being alive right now is like a constant game of mad libs. Everything is just words and concepts thrown together in new, stupid ways and I'm tired of it

Enya’s real name is Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin which she should have used in show business because that name is more Enya than Enya

I am haunted by this because a lot of my current interests (freeze dryers! making jam! baking bread! home improvement stuff! long-term food storage!) means that tiktok is constantly trying to shove me into the crunchy left to nazi pipeline AND I DEEPLY DISLIKE IT

I'm still mad Biden tossed Doug Jones to the way side.

Today I will a a guy at the liqour store when it opens because I cannot risk champange stocks running out.

Undertale

standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”

ploughman's lunchables (regular lunchables but with a thick slice of raw onion)

I love that he’s following up “your parents are rich and yet you live in an apartment that costs a reasonable amount per month” with “do you know who my father is?”

“I love making women upset” is a really underestimated motivation of modern conservatism

"Bluesky is dying" Oh yeah? Then explain why this GIF always does numbers.

You know, handing these out July 12th is probably less effective

I want to stress he was a playable presidente alongside the likes of Castro and Peron. You could be brutal dictator Lou Bega.

romance heroines love to see their love interest for the first time and be like "never before had I seen such a cruel, uncaring countenance" girl you are going to be gasping for it in 250 pages. as soon as he processes his trauma from the Crimean War its over for you

[having someone describe hardcore pornography to me]: By Jove! Extraordinary!

I don't understand why the leopard is doing this, I already paid it $16 million not to eat my face

On the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) speaks for a lot of us about the Big Beautiful Bill: “I say to my Republican colleagues, what’s wrong with you people?... Jesus Christ, what are you people thinking?”