My FireTV is unbelievably slow and I'm pretty sure it's because it preferentially loads about 800 advertisements before doing anything I want it to do

The art of folding a winning hand

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

I interviewed Sen. Jacky Rosen 12 days ago. She talked about dignity and protecting people’s healthcare. Then she voted to reopen the government with zero protections. She can still change her vote. @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us—please honor your words. Protect healthcare. youtu.be/zq1V8UOGV-g

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Once you’re talking about a fifty year term, you might as well simply have an indefinite interest-only fixed-rate mortgage, where the borrower’s payment obligations are just interest & escrow, with the principal payment entirely voluntary. It’s not an… insane… idea, but it is a marginal one

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

It’s extremely important — in fact foundational to American society — that the holders of public office are not the Main Characters of American society. They’re the fucking staff

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), calling healthcare the “cause of my life” in a statement issued Monday.” Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Researchers have known for a long time that you can quickly spot when the fix is in by looking for statistically implausible numbers of games ending exactly one point under the spread.

“I’m so relieved that the only problem I cared about - me experiencing mild social discomfort - is now over” my brother in Christ, do you want to bet

Maxwells compliance with Trump also has to be viewed through the lens that Maxwell could reasonably assume that Trump ordered that Jeffrey Epstein be killed while he was in prison.

I have to emphasize ratboy’s commentary: Joyce Carol goddamn Oates roasted him in a tweet — that is, a single microblog post on a website *he owns* so hard that had the site’s algorithm push posts in response to salve his fucking ego.

Jesus christ

its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)

If Ezra is right, this is a bunch of chickenshit cowards who refuse to accept that America voted to touch the stove

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Basically, the putsch ultimately succeeded, which is galling to say but that's what happened.

"The wolf tells us that brick houses will never work and straw is the ultimate building material."

Anyway I think one reason I'm not that mad at these guys is we already knew they were the wrong people for this moment. A party trying to carry on with business as usual in the face of autocracy won't survive. They're sitting in a burning house and commissioning polls on how popular the fire is

They literally gave her a puppy

Friendos in Pennsylvania, I just called my congresswoman, Mary Gay Scanlon, at the district office — (610) 626-2020 — asking her to vote against any capitulation resolution, and asking her to call for Schumer to step down as majority leader. Her staffer said “we are keeping tallies of this”

Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.

Uncomfortable truth about US politics is we’ve been in a constitutional crisis this whole century, and there is no way out short of a revolution. Kind of a midwit thing where the super low-info voters get that and the polisci professors get that and everybody else is like, Dems gotta try harder!!

Happy birthday, Marines

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

The thing that gets me about Democratic senators is the degree to which they treat their base with casual contempt. Say what you want about the Republican party, they actually give a shit about what their voters want

I just left @bluntrochester.senate.gov a really long vm to let her know why she should not vote with Republicans. Encourage all constituents to do the same.

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

THE DUNNING KRUGER TIMES

Please if anyone has room in their lives and homes for two very very sweet kitties. A good friend’s allergies are getting worse and he can’t keep them (and they can’t be separated)

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Can I tell you about someone else whose followers included adult content creators

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates. In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

Somebody at Virgin Media google translated the rugby position 'hooker' into the Welsh for prostitute 😄

Putting this out into the ether but a friend of mine has two cats, a bonded mother daughter pair ~5 years old, that he has to rehome for allergy reasons. They’re extremely cuddly and he’s heartbroken. Mid-Atlantic. Let me know if anyone wants some loveable kitties.

something…annoying…about replies to this that are just like “this is wrath of khan.” first of all, i am aware of the existence of WRATH OF KHAN. second of all, although WRATH is a submarine movie, it is more RUN SILENT RUN DEEP than RED OCTOBER

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