If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

Seen elsewhere: Me: What is Mitch McConnel’s health right now? Them: He appears to have no brain activity. Me: Yes but what i s his condition right now?

So much better.

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia is a fundraising juggernaut, raising more than $81 million so far this cycle and holding nearly $33 million in campaign cash, or $30 million more than his opponent in the November election, Republican Representative Mike Collins.

You are going to get more and more of this crap as the Slaughter ruling disables the effectiveness of good sense and even a modest regulatory structure. Rich idiots will run roughshod, endangering the public and the public will have little to no recourse.

I’m pet confident we’ll get out of this Trump era intact. I’m starting to focus just past the horizon on two things: the Republican Party still being illiberal with a large and growing near-Nazi contingent.

You could reboot Indiana Jones & have this scene take place in modern day America & everyone would go yeah, sure

What I think this 4th of July means to me. Maybe not a noble sentiment, but one better suited to the moment. One that sums up the impossibility of being other than a US citizen even now, constantly moving towards liberty. Fuck you, make me. You don‘t get to steal our power without a fight.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

I'm by no means some veteran Hollywood insider, but I was once told "Everybody wants to be second" re: how the place operates, and god DAMN has that been the truest thing I've ever heard. Risk-averse to a fault, but once something's proven itself? Feeding frenzy. Whether it's a good idea or not.

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Skimming atop the conversation and people are so aggravating how they don’t get the shtick. Maybe it’s just something you learn to expect after you’ve watched your Civ professor toying with a number of freshmen sniffing their farts.

What the fuck is going on with video games?

One of the saddest things I’ve read in awhile. Trump isn’t radical enough for them. They need a real outspoken racist. Oh, and they hate the Jews (and on that latter point they find excellent company on the far left). www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social happy Maine college professors fixing bayonets day. I assume you celebrate.

Lots of people approving of this (a military officer in uniform calling for the President’s removal) would understand very clearly why it is wrong if the President were Obama or Biden.

we should have hung lee

Ultima VI proved that RPGs could build a living world instead of just a dungeon. Every NPC, every conversation, every moral choice mattered. Even your enemies deserved to be understood. A masterpiece that made adventure feel genuinely human. Photo shot in my studio: IBM PS/1 Model 2133

In another administration it would be fascinating to wonder what intent this image was meant to serve. That it will enforce federal authority at whatever cost? That our unity was challenged and hard won? But here we can safely assume the oafish message is “Lee owns and the wokes hate him lol.”

The Vatican responded Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X in schism and excommunicating its bishops and priests. n.pr/4p20A0k

The secret of Elon Musk’s business success is creating a permanent sense of being close to the next big breakthrough. Sometimes he delivers like reusable rockets and mass market EVs while other times it’s vaporware like the Hyperloop and full self driving. An iPhone killing AI device? Vaporware.

Hey, dumbass: Everett, Washington is the exclusive home of the Boeing 747. Every single 747 ever made, including the 747-8 model gifted by Qatar, was assembled here. So yes, the US can, and DID, build a plane like this - including this one. Nice to see the "president" shit on American Manufacturing

PSN in 2028 when you buy a new game

"The prestige just isn't prestiging as hard as it was on the PS4."

Johnson is so full of crap.

One of my measurements about how much conservatism is so much 🐴💩 is things like this. I would have thought, coming from evangelical spaces that the prospect of the mission field coming here would be exciting. Nope. Missions was just imperial export & self aggrandizement. Party uber Dalles.

Here’s a member of the Texas State Board of Education openly bragging that they excluded “false religions” when they k-12 overhauled curricula last week.

At Tom Nichols’s behest I read the Chait column on the Atlantic. And while I mostly have similar worries about the wider American public’s response to DSA politics, I feel like I still want my time back.

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

In my darkest imagination in 2010 I never would have thought I’d live in a country soaked in God damned John Birch society drek with the Constitution itself barely hanging on and a philandering corrupt ass getting the wild support of the supposed God fearing folk of rural Texas. Yet here we are.

“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The tech industry people who suddenly say they care about “taste,” culture, visual arts, fashion, history, etc feels especially strange and grating, I think, because this moment of abundance for them is made possibly only through the displacement of folks who make the things in the first place.

Via Jake Tapper on Threads, the Federalist Society is displaying their shocking bigotry and anti-American attitudes:

This is it. This is what’s making my blood run cold.

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

The reality is that overturning birthright citizenship would have led to bureaucratic chaos. Immigrants have naturalization papers, but for the native-born we simply don't have a mechanism set up, besides birth certificates, to prove valid citizenship.

The legal theory that Alito and Thomas use could be accurately described as “makin shit up”. Its garbage top to bottom.

two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott

Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.

In the article Pocan mentions Vought is responding directly to the book Taking America Back for God, which I wrote with @profsamperry.bsky.social. Vought didn’t like that we were revealing what he was up to. I hope you read it. www.amazon.com/Taking-Ameri...

If we have no guarantor of rights then we do not have a Supreme Court and must rebuild it from its current perversion.

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

If any of the dissenting opinions today taught us anything it’s that “originalism” is an utterly fallacious legal philosophy. It’s politics and feelings that govern Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh.