"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Posting early 90s minivans as a timeline cleanse.

For those who are even granted access to COVID vaccines at any price, thanks to prescription recommendations that prohibit people my age from receiving one.

It's going to be a great future when we get wearable AI-enabled glasses that finally let some of us "remember" people's names but only after we watch two minutes of contextual ads first.

MAHA vs the U.S. corn lobby is going to be a real Let Them Fight situation

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

Karl Rove was practicing politics the right way

No it’s really him it’s not me

Just heard a podcast say the only constant in Hollywood is change, but actually ray-tracing methods for CGI use π and e. Wish they'd clarified that.

Breaking: Eric Trump Driving Trump Economic Policy

I’m sticking with “assassination is bad” and add “if, as these charges suggest, you assassinated someone to fight hate, you absolutely condemned a bunch of other people to die as a natural consequence.”

Charming.

Yes, the First Amendment applies, though in complicated ways, when the government is wearing its "employer" hat rather than its "government" hat. To summarize:

i know it’s kind of a pedantic, meaningless point, but the freeze peach enthusiasts who are now crowing about getting people fired and worse are not hypocrites, they are liars, they never believed any of it to begin with, and it’s a little embarrassing to admit to having believed them

They call it "The NeverEnding Story," yet it ends after only 94 minutes.

I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, its aftermath, and the sort of people we are when we engage the world through our screens. Read @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-...

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

“We can mourn Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family. We can take stock of the gravity of this event. We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

You can't say anything bad about Charlie Kirk anymore. Because of volk.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Part of the asymmetry much commentary doesn't get is how pervasive and one-sided this is down in middle-to-lower tiers (no offense Will) of notability. An equivalent figure on the right is most likely somebody you've never even heard of, and they certainly aren't getting stuff like this routinely.

KIWIFRUT.BMF

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

read theory

the best to ever put the posting jersey on

I know one person who needs to hear this, but the robert duvall character in apocalypse now was meant to be seen as an absolute fucking lunatic

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The Nevada Independent is tracking the status of services after a cyberattack hit the state’s systems last week. Read our breakdown on what’s working and what isn’t: thenevadaindependent.com/article/afte...

Is 56 hours of overtime in a single week a lot? Asking for a friend.

Gov. Joe Lombardo said the state needs to be "slow and methodical" as it recovers from a massive cyberattack that took down state websites and crippled internal internet technology to avoid "further intrusion into the system." Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/as-c...

me: damn, the stress is really getting crazy my body: I got you boss, I have the perfect thing for this, it's called sleeping terribly, you're going to love it

One easy way to tell seals apart from sealions is that the latter have a different number of electrons

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

Dawg look at what they're doing to my public statistical APIs

Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office confirmed Nevada was the target of a cyberattack that took state websites down and resulted in thousands of employees being forced home this week. Personal information is not believed to be affected. thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.

There will always be people who will pay handsomely to have an expert parrot back what they want to hear. That doesn’t mean they or anyone else deserves to get taken advantage of by people who should and do know better. My latest for @thenvindy.com:

Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.

Calling someone an edgelord is incredibly disrespectful because it flattens the massive difference in achievement between a mere edgebaronet and an accomplished edgeking

The Mongol Horde is often stereotyped as being very angry but actually they were nomad

Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you

I swear in 18 months this site has produced all the 15 stupidest thought experiments I have ever seen in my entire life

Happy 30th birthday to MS-DOS 7! 😉🎉🎂🥂

the other wrinkle in all these "we're banning porn for UK users!" and "bluesky isn't available in mississippi" stories that no one seems to be talking about: geo-ip is inaccurate as shit, even before VPNs get involved. you can't just detect where people are with any kind of consistency