Will focusing his endless font of energy when it comes to being annoying towards ICE totally rules and I tip my cap. Someone buy that man a tank of gas

NMFW

have you considered that your strategy of "try to kill enough brown people that a race scientist who goes by Trannyporno will let you into his groupchats" failed worse than any dem candidate since Dukakis

why did we let anyone other than the engineers of the noble honda civic even attempt building for space flight www.theverge.com/news/689183/...

I hate when recipes call for 1/2 tsp kosher salt, please be serious

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

I would love to see orders of magnitude more discussion about what "swing voters" should figure out, deal with, suck up, get a clue about, etc and orders of magnitude less discussion about how protestors should coddle random third party's hallucinations about this section of the electorate

"i bet you feel bad for saying that guy was insanely old, now that something that happens to really old guys is happening to him" no i dont actually

This is probably nothing right?

Good morning

No Schnucks, I don’t want to test out your computerized grocery cart that lets me scan and bag my items as I go so you can lay off all your checkers and baggers. Actually.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

it can't be overstated what a profound and shameful journalistic failure it was to not properly communicate the fact Trump genuinely has absolute no fucking idea what he's doing

It’s always been this, all the way back to 2015, and it’s a real disservice to try to convince people it’s 5D chess or Putin’s orders or whatever. Those fictions are more comforting than a world run by morons whose opponents can’t stop them and who half of voters love. Fictions, nonetheless.

Okay, point taken and agreed in spirit and all, but people say this “dumbest ruler ever” thing all the time, and like, there have got to be some inbred teenagers were overlooking in that assessment.

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

I’ve kept receipts for months about Matt Yglesias vaguely implying Dems need to embrace racial explanations for crime. Yesterday, his pal David Shor was outed for posting race science. Today he says Dems should work with an overt Nazi. Time to consider that Matty himself buys race science, I’d say.

is this good? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Since the election, I’ve been keeping a thread of influential centrists breaking rightward. Yglesias and his ilk are here several times implying that Dems should stop shunning people who explain crime with race science so it shouldn’t be a surprise that David Shor is a closet white supremacist.

The one premise that most robustly explains the entire landscape of 21st century American politics sounds too vulgarly reductive to be true, and yet nonetheless: well-heeled centrists find more affinity with fascists than with socialists.

oh i think this is exactly right. people care about your views but they ALSO care about whether you seem real and authentic

I came of age during Web 1.0, back when you’d encounter beheading videos and whatnot with little warning, and I still remember the day I read a summary of the movie he posted as one as one of my most appalling moments on the internet.

So like, am I supposed to know what Cold Harbor is now because I definitely don’t lol.

Remember that time Megan McArdle was mad that people thought Citizen Kane was about capitalism?

Imagine watching The White Lotus and not understanding that every guest is an ignorant fool. Why you’d have to be an…

Annual reminder: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-...

i would only give the dems a dollar if they promised to kick james carville directly in the sack and stream it on twitch for it

So two of left academia’s biggest objectors to calling Trumpism fascist have now apparently flipped in anno domini 2025, a year after it’s too late to do any work to stop it from arriving. I’m all for changing your mind, but you’d think a vaguely contrite account of the flip might be warranted.

Somebody please tell me to think of my career

Friends at a house party in March 2009 yelled at me for being a childish hipster when I said he’d never roll back civil rights erosion if he hadn’t started 100 days in, though have since apologized. Wash, rinse, repeat for the experience of being on the left for the past 15 years.

I’ll be on this over and over until I’m senile—the national consciousness moved on from Bush-Cheney and Iraq, but everything bad happening now is downstream from their post-9/11 reorganization of the government, and the possibility of times like today is exactly why a minority argued against it.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

"We're going to have the biggest, most beautiful recession ever. People are saying, I don't know, that there's never been a recession like this."

Beyond the (ample) arrogance, it approaches Elon Musk levels of Randian obliviousness to how the social machinery hangs together to assume that a culture that destroys its university system will somehow still allow the New Yorker to thrive.

I’ll have some words to say at a rally this Friday, as Washington University Graduate Workers Union is hosting the local instances of Stand Up for Science’s national day of action to protest the Trump research funding cuts. 1) locals please come, and 2) please send the image through your networks

Democrats will keep losing as long as they’re utterly unable or unwilling to articulate a vision of society that doesn’t add up to “basically the way things are, but a little better around the edges.”

I think electoral politics have macro and micro scales like economics. Class conflict models macropolitics, but any individual voter won’t totally fit the model. So it’s a problem if macropolitics create fixed conditions where <1% of individuals swing elections www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

[Spends nearly six figures on a state senate race and loses].

Each one of these models requires clear cutting and burning and old growth forest to power its training and the miraculous new thing it can do is exactly the same thing they claimed the last one could do? Seems bad.

McConnell is more single-handedly responsible for the fascist cabaret running our government than any other person, including Trump.

Longlegs is beautifully shot, but the “twist” ending is so obvious at a specific point about 15 minutes into the movie that I wouldn’t trust someone who didn’t see it coming to follow instant ramen instructions.

Imagine that a tedious Ivy+ undergrad confusing Friedman ideas draped in Sorkin rhetoric for profundity gets a job through institutional juice at an outfit with no intellectual quality control and spends 20 years being told his banal ideas are Very Smart, and I think that’s your median NYT reporter.

They’re really getting desperate.

The type of poster these two represent is absolutely not confused about any of this. They know perfectly well who they’re chummy with, but they don’t care for the taint of association now that the masks, flimsy as they were, have begun to slip, so they’re playing dumb.

For me the most emblematic moment of Biden’s term is when Jen Psaki announced new COVID protocols and reporters asked how people would obtain tests and she got all snarky, “OH so we should buy them for people?” and then after a week of news items about how every other country does, we got free tests

Midsommar (2019)

This is roughly the eleven thousandth most important thing about the story, but man is it a good thing that I’m too indecisive to have ever got that Sandman tattoo.