Happy monday, friends.

Happy Raptor Day!

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

IN LIGHT OF CURRENT EVENTS

if you think you need to say something about current events on social media right now, no the fuck you don't. i cannot stress this enough: no. the fuck. you don't. shut the fuck up online and connect with people on private channels.

@profanity.accountant how did i do

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

i’m celibate now. i can’t with these fucking men.

emo nights get wild round these parts lmao

What a time to be alive (it’s a bad time to be alive lmao)

i hate to hand it to 'em but "there is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos" goes hard

It’s been a long five years. I defended my dissertation sure but neglected that “spark” of doing research on things I enjoy discussing. That’s where all these awards came from. Doing things I enjoy doing because they’re worth doing, and saying things I need to say because they’re worth saying.

Taking a moment to brag on myself.

we are so fucking back with the top paper panel energy

So I finished my Invisaligns about a year ago and ever since my stress dreams are always about breaking off my permanent retainers 🤪 could be worse I suppose

Needless to say, if you’re friends with a man named Lance Bashaw, don’t be.

Someone found me on FB because apparently they were abused by the same man. What a complicated range of emotions that elicited.

every so often queer bsky gets those “all cocks are fat on fat cock friday 🥹” apologia posts maybe if yall didn’t use terms that by definition will trigger dysmorphia, the years-long apologia wouldn’t be necessary just a thought

The ability to recognize the suffering of others and offer assistance is not only honorable, but it will serve you well in many situations, some unexpected. Compassion is a transferable skill.

Imagine being so wedded to a certain style of horse-race political analysis that you "nothingburger" away the very likely possibility that the current President of the United States *raped children* and is using the vast and powerful apparatus of the government he controls to cover it up.

Based on my research of uprisings, I don’t think it’s as abundantly clear as it should be that this current order is coming to an end and we’re in the midst of a fight over who gets to define the next one.

The Ozzman left it all on that final stage.

Silly pirate anime/manga One Piece has made me sob twice now. Episode 1136 was absolutely beautiful and devastating

We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Happy Independence Day to all who celebrate.

I love Star Wars. Pass it on!

I encourage everyone to watch the video of Ryan Nobles interviewing Senator Murkowski. It's like you can watch the self-rationalization occurring in real time as she stares at him silently for ten seconds, formulating the answer.

a friend called me “an absolute unit of a man” today and I gotta say that gassed me up more than I expected lmfaoooo

Let shit like this radicalize you further. Understand that this is the reason why we have a goddamned Pride month.

Happy Pride! Got called a faggot by three losers driving by in a busted up 2004 Kia Sephia. Enjoy the drive around the block, boys! It’s clear you can’t afford to join us in the actual bar!

I want you to remember this... everyday

This is the lesson that hurts the most. Nicholas would know.

Independence Day is Roland Emmerich’s best movie, but The Day After Tomorrow is his most important imo

Reflecting tonight on the fact that it’s been six months since I functionally went no contact with my folks and two since I formalized the boundary.

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

as a californian for a couple of years, can relate

Gavin Newsom sucks and he would be a terrible President and I retain faith that he will eat shit in the 2028 primary because he's an insincere mountain of hair grease but we should absolutely encourage the message that the best way to feed your own ambition is to do the right thing

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Reading the Obergefell v. Hodges decision for a research essay and it mystifies me, a scholar of rhetoric and argument, that anyone could think of Antonin Scalia as a serious legal interlocutor. Of all the bluster and hyperbole, what’s probably worst about his dissent is his hubristic ad hominem.

another day of wearing the button as the republic inches closer to the unilateral violation of posse comitatus

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

He is polishing his big ol Legend horns right now doing a little skibbity bop down the hall. I hope you like smugness & blue steel bravado because you are going to be eating a lot of that for dinner and I'm not sure you have the palate for greasy weasel night after night. don't trap yourself in here

He isn't going to be cool about this guys. It might seem cool from the outside but I'm telling you he is eating kittens in bed rubbing his hooves together with glee at the prospect of the absolute miasma of opportunities coming his way rn. I'd call it off now, just go while you still can.

The thing about Gavin Newsom is that he's a ghoul. But he's a top tier ghoul, one of satan's very best for sure. Just look at him, he looks like he was minted in the Kennedy wing of hell's demon factory. He is a menace & honestly I would not rile him up if I were a junior authoritarian government js

i personally do not think the administration is actually prepared for what happens if they are facing mass protests in every major city in the country

3RD AMMENDMENT HEADS ITS OUR DAY

Yo @jaketapper.bsky.social you just gonna let the comment about a hope for a rise in “civic nationalism” slide?

They’re not doing “law enforcement” per se yet, which is a loophole in posse comitatus. Yet here we are, seconds before midnight on the doomsday clock apnews.com/live/immigra...