Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: 1. Rage Against the Machine 2. Cage the Elephant 3. Flogging Molly 4. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 5. Foo Fighters

Open casket energy

I love my wife, but I do feel like asking me to pick her up from D.C. right before rush hour might be spousal abuse.

Neither rain nor sleet nor ICE

100% true. When I first brought my (southern) wife to my (new yorker) grandmother's Thanksgiving. As a guest at a party, she brought a dish: macaroni and cheese. My grandma was a little snobbish and offended. The macaroni was the first dish emptied, and became a staple over grandma's veto.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

It’s the post 9-11 torture memos redux - except with those unpunished outrages as the baseline from which they now escalate to the next level of bogusly “justified” lawlessness.

I polished off the last of my cheap bourbon, so if someone wants to croak and give me an excuse to open the good stuff, now's the time.

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

Trump's DOJ "reviewing" the Epstein files:

I think NBC should try to get an interview with the President just so they can covertly send Chris Hansen to conduct it.

What, we don't like Fargo anymore?

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

There should be consequences.

It's bullshit that when you buy a videogame, it doesn't come with time to play the videogame.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

The contrast could hardly be sharper. My friends and neighbors, armed only with whistles and voices, spend their weekend fighting off heavily-armed paramilitary goons. Meanwhile, these jagoffs capitulate, but not before securing another $1 billion for their own security.

Does Durbin think his job is to raise awareness?

Do not cave and help the GOP reopen the government for nothing. Be serious. And turn voicemails on at your offices, like come on, man. @kaine.senate.gov

Hold the line, Mark. If you want to cave, do it on your own time out in Luray. @markwarner.bsky.social

Voicemail and email out to Warner.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

We’re doing Woke 2 and we’re not going to ask politely.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Hell yeah VA, let's see if you can do the right thing a couple more times tonight

"strong assurances." good lord. making a pinky swear promise with a bunch of psychopaths isn't going to work out

amazing how the Silicon Valley sales pitch suddenly became “we’re bringing about a bright future where everyone but the ultra-rich will be forced to return to the fields” and they genuinely don’t seem to believe this could eventually end poorly for them

one might wonder about the motivations of the powerful who are highly incentivized to replace humans with cheaper and more tractable labor, and why THEY might feel motivated to argue that LLMs are Intellectually and Morally Equal to Humans, But Conveniently Only In Ways That Make Us Even More Money

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

Rocky better make it to the credits or i will become the punisher

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Love to see the locals in the paper. rvamag.com/community/mc...

Bay of Pigs 2, Caribbean boogaloo www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

So my friends. Do you finally see what is happening? Do you see the fascism on the streets? Do you see the greedy grotesque gargoyle destroying everything, even the White House. Do you finally see these fragile baby men. The Dicktims (be a dick and then act a victim). Do you

The surprise Aesop Rock album rips

“My name is Jennifer Wolff. You killed my father. Prepare to receive my vote.”

Think I'm going to finally quit duolingo. The energy mechanic sucks. If anyone has language learning courses they like (especially German), hmu.

Finished the 'Delicious in Dungeon' manga, and it absolutely ruled. So good.

Area boomer tried to use new slang, thousands dead