Also! To avoid burst pipes, make sure all outdoor garden hoses/sprinklers etc are disconnected from your outdoor faucets, and then wrap the faucets in anything insulating--Home Depot sells drawstring faucet insulator bags, but bubble wrap will work. You have to do it now before the temp drops.

Good advice for anybody facing down this winter storm:

i find all of this daddy shit immensely distasteful, and it adds insult to injury that trump is, by every account *including his own* an utterly miserable failure of a father

hello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor

I will repeat: It is not obvious, based on the data, that campaigning on the economy in Nov would be significantly more effective than campaigning on immigration. Gov. policy is dramatically out of step with the public on immigration/deportations, and executive overreach is a potent motivator

“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?” sounds like the only thing you’ll accept is more physical blood on the pavement

Also, they should not shoot us in the face. I can’t emphasize that part enough. I would say not being shot in the face is even MORE important to me than affordable healthcare

"This is my country and I believe in her. I'll protect her from all enemies, both foreign and domestic."

ATTENTION WIVES AND GIRLFRIENDS OF MINNESOTA: MOVE YOUR CAR LACROIX INTO THE HOUSE

the scene in the embedded screenshot is such an obvious layup joke for a he-man movie.

that's right

The way so much of bluesky, including and maybe especially Jewish social democrats, has adopted the religious aesthetics of Civil War abolitionist Christianity is absolutely fascinating

this is why i worry we may be stuck in an infinite doom loop of the party out of power promising lower prices, the incumbents getting ejected, incoming party unable to reduce prices either, rinse and repeat

the reason the elite are so desperate to vilify hard-working people coming to this country to build a better life for their families, unleashing wave after wave of gutter racism in the process, is to distract from the fact that their incestuous degeneracy causes most of our actual problems

live your life with boring enough opinions that you are incapable of becoming the main character on the internet.

this might get me yelled at but i think it's a pretty good sign of how wildly off path the court is if they think blocking a recession is part of their remit

Slop candidate. He is running in the slop lane of the 2028 Democratic primary.

Vibes on here are absolutely rancid, either (a) someone needs to do the thing or (b) The Cut needs to release an unhinged essay, preferably from a dumb rich person

Medieval Scribe Keeps Forgetting ‘Whence/Whither’ Rule

I cannot wait to see how much money gets incinerated trying to pull this off. It's going to make the terrestrial cash burn look like a little fart in a bath tub compared to this bunker-buster. *MUSK: SOLAR AI DATA CENTERS IN SPACE IS A `NO BRAINER'

the olympics had the chance to do the funniest thing in the world and they did congrats connor and hudson you will always be famous!!!!

Oh I see they're supposed to be Real Men, but instead they're sucking Trump's dick, because they're faggy faggy queer gay gays who are emasculated, and that's BAD. They should be more heterosexual. Fuck all of you.

One would note that this an administration realizing they're dealing with a dug in situation that they're not winning.

Yes it is crazy!! Attack his strength!! Look at what Rs do. Win the argument! The practical problem is that if half the country-ish is feeling white hot rage over something, and Dems don’t address it, it reinforces the story that Dems are weak idiots who won’t lift a finger to protect people.

And I will say this: liberal activist networks have tended to ignore liberal/progressive/radical legal scholars on these issues. The Federalist Society and the Law and Economics folks tend to be much better about mainstreaming this thought in concrete ideas.

A note about this particular moment: we have done the work in legal scholarship in thinking through what happens when democracy is tested, when law does not work, when institutions fail, how social movements impact the law. So, when you @ us in the comments, you can literally go read the book!

Two things to remember about Jack Smith’s testimony: 1. The only people who question his objectivity are GOP politicians and members of the Trump-obeisant media. 2. No one has as complete a picture of the evidence as does Smith and his team. His critics, in fact, have usually willfully ignored it.

“Let’s stop the fighting by you surrendering” is a very novel approach

I loved OBAA but oscars voters choosing between a narrative of black people fighting real and metaphorical oppression which centers black people and a narrative of black people fighting real and metaphorical oppression that centers white people ineptly along for the ride is a li'l on the nose

The most dangerous place in the world is between a straight liberal and an opportunity to call someone a faggot

And we're gonna get more cisallohet MF romances in sports that are majority white athletes, too. We won't get more actual diverse sports romance stories.

what are thoooooose but for headphones

Before anyone jumps into my mentions recommending Cost Plus or other discount suppliers--they don't carry the stimulant meds used for treating kids' ADHD, because those are classified as controlled substances. Even with "good" insurance, I paid $150 out of pocket for my kid's med this month.

And on top of cost, there's hassle. Because of how ADHD meds are classified, prescriptions can't automatically refill or have more than 30 pills at a time. Which means calling the doc every month for a new prescription when you're down to your last pills and hoping the pharmacy has them in stock.

Ryan Coogler has officially become an Oscar-nominated director. See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

A dad on patrol this morning is showing off his new egregiously expensive ice-fishing boots that he justified “because I’m standing out here all the time.” Dudes are going to continue rocking until morale improves

Donald Trump: I will invade a sovereign nation Bluesky: Donald Trump wants to invade a sovereign nation Donald Trump: I will no longer invade a sovereign nation for now Nate Silver, trying to find his phone under mounds of betting slips: bluesky bad

Tell that to the people violently dragging people from their homes, gassing and pepper spraying protestors, and otherwise behaving violently. We learned the first time around that we don't get to choose if protests stay peaceful - cops do, and they love to riot.

elect a man who once bankrupted a casino and you too can achieve this outcome for the low low price of your civil liberties

If you know me irl, feel free to ask me, too. The refusal of the political class to give a damn about people with AIDS was appalling & infuriating. Same for the American public, tbh. Homophobia, xenophobia, & racism are a hell of a brew. AIDS activists were almost entirely on their own.

My genuine advice to Virginia GOP as they try to rebuild Spend less time on X And go talk to average voters in places that swung away from them in 2025 Most people are trying to make ends meet and not seeing rage posts

I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...

Will Stancil fighting the good fight.

ICE getting harassed in the public bathroom instead of trans people

These people are thieves, plain and simple. They steal, and then they fence what they stole. Remember this when piracy apologists claim this is all being done for the sake of the poor and downtrod who somehow can access this archive but not the internet’s vast supply of legitimately free media.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

“We’ve invented a machine that will save money because we’ll be able to fire millions of people and not have to pay them.” “How much have you spent on it?” “Oh, hundreds of times what we’d have actually saved.”

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”