Not the point, but I sometimes wonder if social media have an effect similar to the one Benedict Anderson (in Imagined Communities) attributes to newspapers for creating identity and community. Because Goldwag is right about differences between the liberals here vs in the Dem party hierarchy.

Genuinely I think it would be a sound strategy to go absolutely all in on calling these people satanic idolators

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

That I guessed who this was about despite having zero context indicates that I have deep and abiding brain problems.

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

a doctor, on the basis of their expertise, gets to tell you whether or not you have arthritis in your knee. whether or not your knee hurts is an entirely different question. nevertheless, Discourse persisted

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

What would the antichrist do differently?

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

“let’s not rush to judgement let’s not repeat the mistake we made with Al Franken” what mistake. say it. was the mistake caring about women? was the mistake having a woman replace a man in the senate? was the mistake keeping your parasocial fav off kimmel for conduct unbefitting of the office?

i think it’s good that Al Franken was forced to resign

I know someone who works at the intersection of federal funding and advanced medical research, and this is absolutely correct. We will never be able to quantify the amount of suffering and death inflicted by these people, but it will be with us for a long time.

Philly stickers stating facts

Yep. In other words, we’re going to need to do politics.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

The real story of this town hall is how humiliating it was for Elissa Slotkin. They rented an entire banquet hall, a platform stage, couldn't fill the room, and had to surround her with an extremely large rope to make the space look bigger. By my count, around 26 staff +her and 45ish attendees.

A Distant Crescent of Home.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

I work out every fucking day for exactly this reason

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

Inshallah. The path away from all of this requires a strong, vigorous Congress. We’ll see what happens, I guess.

Lotta men getting emotional and angry over at the bad place about this post

Oh man I had this one

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

This is the second time I've seen a post about "Nuremberg 2.0" from Wyden so I'm starting to think he's serious about it.

HE LIVES

What a fucking shot holy shit

I genuinely struggle to describe the revulsion I feel for the "tradwife" phenomenon. it is offensive to a woman to expect her to live this way and offensive to me to suggest that I would prefer it

Skill issue

Oh man Suikoden was so good

Sophisticates: it‘s slopulism to say we can’t have healthcare because of war spending Republicans: you can’t have healthcare because of war spending

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

The patagonia moms in question are objectively more radical than the self-styled revolutionaries who like to sneer at these protests.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

I think I’m finally of an age where I can admit Paul Thomas Anderson leaves me cold.

I was thinking about this just last night. It was their first, undeniable act of cultural overreach. The attempt to generate compulsory acts of mourning, not unlike Ezra Klein’s column hailing Kirk, indicated a sincere belief in the reality of the supposed “vibe shift”. But there was nothing there.

My bio isn't going over well on Tinder but I figure honesty is the best policy

i think it's smart that the Wikipedia page for Chips and Dip opens with a "Rationale" section. a lot of people are flabbergasted to find out about this concept and need some grounding before they get into the history

Someone call the pope, the heretics are at it again

During covid, a Black friend of mine was masked up in the grocery store. This white dude walked up to her, yanked her mask down, got in her face and shouted “ALL LIVES MATTER.” They both knew exactly what he meant by that.