It's meaningful that this is Santos. He has no friends. He has no power. He has no influence. This isn't the kind of corruption where Trump gets money or favors. This is a message: no matter how big an asshole you are or how much everyone hates you, the law does not bind you if you are a Republican.

Is there imposter syndrome imposter syndrome, where I think I have imposter syndrome but actually I am genuinely an imposter?

The bane of the contemporary world is men who became unimaginably rich by being good at one thing - or, more often, just being lucky - and then become convinced that financial success is proof positive that they are transformational geniuses who understand everything better than anyone.

I would never blame someone for being, say, a Ravens fan, as horrible as the Ravens are, because you can't help where you are from. But Islanders, or Yankees, or Cubs? Man, there was another option right there.

Why are you all talking about Diane Keaton? Please, please, make it just a Diane Keaton appreciation day. I am not sure if I can take it if she is dead.

Headline writers: please stop granting the Trump administration's bullshit premises. They are not doing this for a rounding error's worth of savings. The way they have gone about it makes it very clear that they don't care at all about savings.

Ah, yes, the deep concern Oliver Cromwell had about Wernher von Braun and the other Nazi scientists of Operation Paperclip.

There is no way to get into the head of guys like this, so it will remain a mystery, but does he really believe that these protests are full of people who are being paid off in some secret way? Or is he just lying?

I don't want to nitpick, but before you build a triumphal arch, aren't you supposed to triumph at something?

It isn't just that they are calling it the department of war, to emphasize bellicosity. It isn't just that they are dedicated to the military being only for killing. It isn't just that they want to send the military to American cities that don't support them. It is all of that together.

Almost a third of the British Navy - by number of hulls, not tonnage - was battleships? Was that normal for the 18th century? Seems like a crazy high number of big ships.

Speaking as a lawyer, you don't need a lawyer for every goddamned thing. Could you get in legal trouble if someone tells you to go do a murder, and then you do the murder? Yes. Of course you can. You can and should go to prison. But you didn't need me to tell you that. You know murder is illegal.

I keep thinking, Jesus, doesn't Texas remember what happened last time it went militarily toe to toe with the likes of Illinois in a morally reprehensible and racist cause? And then I realize, no, they don't remember. So much of the US is so up its own ass with Lost Cause mythos, they truly don't.

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Could a woman Archbishop of Canterbury really have the physical strength to do a royal funeral? Charles should call her bluff.

It has spiders in the eyes. Why does it have spiders in the eyes?

Pritzker is right to condemn this, and it's good to be aspirational about who we, as a nation, can be. But also it was never really *all that* illegal for cops to do racisms.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

I understand this message is for people back home who have never taken a subway and are terrified of cities, not DC people. I would be very interested for those people to explain in detail what they think happens on the Metro if soldiers are not present, and also what difference soldiers make.

Departments violating the Hatch Act by posting partisan political banners about the shutdown on their website landing pages: State HUD Agriculture Justice

There is just no amount of meeting in the middle, the right running off further, then meeting in the new middle that will be enough for ideological centrists. It doesn't even matter what we are meeting in the middle of. It will always be virtuous to be exactly halfway between R and D.

So, it appears that SCOTUS is fine with allowing Trump to do whatever he wants, regardless of the law, right up until the moment he does something that will fuck with their money. Fascist ideology is one thing, but the bag must be forever protected.

This guy's name, the private plane, the Augusta golf club shirt, just the whole "raised to captain the lacrosse team but cut at the first practice" look of him: is there any college student in America who takes this guy seriously and whose dad doesn't own a car dealership?

So, Comey indicted for testifying to Congress that he stands by a set of prior statements generally, one of which may not be true. This just shows again that MAGA expects unilateral adherence to law and norms by its opponents.

I was busy with Rosh Hashanah and then getting caught up with work stuff yesterday, did the Christians all fly away or what? I'd check with the Christian side of the family, but they are all all Catholic, so I don't think they were supposed to be on the list anyway.

It appears that Grape-Nuts was officially Grape Equals Nuts and it was purported to give a man testicular fortitude, I guess by providing grape, which is equivalent to nuts? Specifically, clear brain nuts. Anyway, fin de siècle masculinity was as weird as the masculinity of all eras.

I don't know who this dude is or if he has any kind of coherent politics, but if he does and if they have anything to do with objecting to ICE marauding around our cities kidnapping people and throwing them in camps, it doesn't seem like murdering the victims would help.

Doing an old raddle with my daughter and the clue was "what fools do, as the saying goes." She tried "as Doom commands," which I think indicates I am doing ok.

This person is having a medical emergency! The only way to save them is to determine whether they have a dick, and the only way we can figure that out is to check their passport! Thank god Trump stopped the transes from having their identified gender on official documents!

It is a real adding of insult to injury that Kimmel not only got suspended but they also replaced him with Celebrity Family Feud.

I am tired of the pervasive sexism in the moving stairs community. Down with the escalator. Esculatrix forever.

So nobody said anything about their colleague being thrown off the air for doing the job they all do? Except Greg Guttfield, whose job is to deliver MAGA propaganda and is in late night comedy only in the sense that he has a time slot in that neighborhood on what is arguably a TV station.

This article notably does not say what "comments" Kimmel made or what the context of those comments was. I have no idea. Were they truly offensive? Were they anodyne, like the "comments" of the MSNBC contributor who was fired? NYT won't let us see and exercise judgment. Why? Is this a newspaper?

Repel invaders? William was the invader, and Windsor is upriver from London. W the B built Windsor Castle for a reason, but that reason was not "to repel invaders," unless your definition of "invaders" is "the annoyed people you just conducted a military conquest of."

Wow, it seems like this man, who runs the FBI, may be actually incapable of remembering terrorist acts, if they are committed by people on the right? Maybe they aren't lying about who commits most political violence. They just have a form of brain damage that prevents them from observing the truth.

Sorry for that, man, but you did sell your company to a multinational conglomerate that has the most capitalist/fascist dystopia name imaginable. Unilever sounds like a name Paul Verhoeven rejected for being too on the nose. Really seems like this is the outcome you should have expected.

I get that the MAGA right wants to make Charlie Kirk into a lever to wipe out the left, broadly defined, either politically or otherwise. But a week later, why is anyone else still acting like he mattered? He was literally just a shitposter. He was not a serious person.

According to Mel Brooks, tragedy is when I get a cut on my finger. I go to the hospital, they bandage it up, I lie in bed for a week and everyone comes and tells me how upset they are about the cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall in a manhole and die. That is the right on free speech.

Are these really the two most important facts about this man that you could impart in this headline?

Was there a significant effort to clean up George Wallace's record and pretend that he was a good faith political actor after he was shot? I know he didn't die, so that is different, but I am curious if this is a long-standing impulse in American politics.

Really seems like our quarterback who should be called Darnold. Because he is old. And seems like a guy who would say "Darn." Good old Childkiller Darnold.

Once again, the unspoken assumption of American culture: white, right-wing political violence does not count. Even, for instance, when it bows a huge hole in the middle of Oklahoma City.

You would think that there would be no level of arrogant, confident ignorance from law enforcement that would surprise me at this point, but apparently there is. Why the fuck would they think this was "transgender ideology?" So, so stupid.

This is going to be a rough day for 20-ish Utahans named Tyler Robinson, of whom I assume there are many. Leave Tyler Robinson alone, guys. It's probably not that Tyler Robinson.

I have to say, if you asked me what the MAGA Horst Wessel Leid would be, I don't think I could have come up with a guess as on the nose as this.

I am really glad not to be a politician or otherwise public-facing person, because I am not forced to pretend that I think it is bad for fascists to be shot.

The most bisexual thing known to man is feeling awkward about advocating for yourself because god forbid you take up space

A certain type of American does.

Nothing bad ever comes from a head of state pushing a stab in the back narrative.

What appears to have changed in the last six years is when we had the military go murder a bunch of people on a boat in 2019, we covered it up. Now the President brags about it on television. That is not a positive development.