When BlueSky doesn’t like my posts.

I hated this reductive conversation 20 years ago when I had it with different assholes at otherwise fun parties. It hasn’t aged well. But the article is Proustian (derogatory) for me. I can smell the cigarettes, BO, and PBR.

6ix Se7en (1995)

The Odyssey is mostly about a bad dinner party. Should've been a Robert Altman adaptation.

Elite Publications Stop Hiring Jay Caspian Kang to Troll Your Readers Challenge, etc.

Slightly diminish a book Shoknife

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Shoutout to the jury consultants who fruitlessly attempted to impart to Musk just how much jurors hate witnesses who behave this way.

no surprise that an institution that has always been highly solicitous of privilege and power would look suspiciously on those amendments and that project

First draft. Thought about putting Foucault in all four corners.

"These motherfuckers are stone cold crazy" has to be the starting point for campaigns because as soon as you treat this as a policy debate you have already lost.

No Beethoven? What about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? James Brown much?

This is oversized Florsheims and a half inch of mismatched coverup on paper. Burnt steak and ketchup on paper. Mar a Lago face on paper. Debauched aesthetics are mandatory.

Someone’s gonna call him “Marco Shoebio” on that 25 podium debate stage and that will do it.

Quick, you will make it.

Uniting two risible constituencies to form a somehow less serious whole, Marco Rubio will ride a tide of laughter to fall woefully short of becoming our first Beta Herb American President.

Tucker Carlson: “The paranoid antisemitism I’m embracing is more lucrative and yields more clout than going down with a sinking ship captained by a demented loser and far too many Jews for my liking.”

I'll ride this horse until one of us dies: the reporting convention of treating the COMPLETELY MADE UP damages figure at the end of a complaint must stop. "Patel Sues Atlantic for Defamation" is the headline--$250 million should be reported (if at all) with a caveat that it's unsubstantiated demand.

Wormtongue Capital Advisors OTOH

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

“Amen! It's funny how significance make a difference Notice parables of three in every other inference For instance: ‘Who wants to battle? On the real? Choose your weapon: microphone, beats, or the wheels-of-steel’” -First DOOM

Friendly Fyre Festival

The good news is that this dynamic opens up all sorts of options for punitive extractive taxes directed at the political coalition responsible for it.

I have an unpopular take that we need to cool it with the "big pharma" rhetoric because it very easily transitions into the antivax gateway for the crunchy-to-fashy pipeline.

All this Augustine talk has me humming.

it'll be back in three days

“The Pope is WEAK on crime. Also, I am probably JESUS and I am building a hotel on the MOON.”

You tell a guy to “gey kakken oifen yom”—a Yiddish curse—for doubling down on supersessionism and then the real good stuff comes out. Scratch and sniff ass antisemites.

FOH with your supersessionism.

[outside the diocesan tribunal adjudicating Vance’s annulment request] Candace Owens: Schism! Schism! Thirty seven other celebrity adult convert tradcaths, banging fists on table: SCHI-SM! SCHI-SM!

The Vance bump!

George Soros living long enough to witness Orban's humiliating defeat is the cherry on top.

One noteworthy thing about this article is that Platner IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS REPORTER, IN 2026, describes the claim that his Nazi tattoo was a white supremacist symbol as "the fucking most retarded shit I’ve ever heard in my life.“

“abrupt citation of a randomly selected case for a banal proposition of law” is my favorite prog record

EMBRACE CIVIC SEDEVACANTISM!

I’m sure those who screamed at me for a decade that the JCPOA was bad specifically bc of the unfreezing of Iranian assets, which were used to fund Hamas and Hezbollah will be lining up to apologize.

Looks like a lot of you haters are going to be his waiters at Zero Bond Tiranë

The bet here is actually pretty simple. Current trends put “red” districts and states in play. A big part of those trends is depressed Republican turnout. Impeachment threats risk mobilizing low-propensity Trump voters. Don’t mess with it before the midterms, QED. It’s not actually unreasonable.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Heading toward the University of Austin of schisms.

TL;DR: we killed a bunch of people and blew up a bunch of stuff, all to end up in a worse position than we were in with Obama’s nuclear deal. (4/4)

Speaking purely in terms of Kills Above Replacement Easter (KARE), you have to admit he’s got a point.