Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

The moment institutions start saying "no" is the moment it crumbles. These people are not serious, they are not hardworking, they are not smart. They are coasting on luck, and institutional cowardice. The moment institutions stop enabling them, they will fold like cheap camp chairs.

I fucking hate writing sometimes. It's like somebody hands you a tree and an axe and says "I need a table by dinner time, and make it pretty." Like, fuck you. Who the fuck does this for a living? It's fucking stupid.

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

for all the flapping about Uncommitted during the primary it has always been the Blue Dog centrist types who are most disloyal to the party

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Noticed this on LinkNYC kiosks last week. So is Adams on the take from Modi too or are we just using city resources to wish other countries’ pogrom-happy fascist leaders happy birthday as a courtesy now? #thanksdeblasio

One pretty costless thing Kathy Hochul could do to get the confidence and support of the party left is to put Jay Jacobs in a wicker man in Times Square.

I was closing up the community garden last night when I heard a very loud squeak, clear as a bell and frankly cute as a bug. I like to think it was the night shift foreman bidding me pleasant dreams. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Sickos dot gif nypost.com/2025/09/18/u...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

This is really good: bidoun.org/articles/hou...

In the Midwest, we wouldn't give them a friendly wave when they make the turn in front of us. They can shovel their own drives and walks. This is a level of ice cold anger that they have never felt.

It's self-serving, of course, because it allows them to pursue success while telling themselves that the success is a product of virtue/intelligence rather than. You know. Being a human LLM that manages to spit out what the elite overall find to be the least objectionable pablum.

NIH Director’s Pulsing Neck Tumor Announces Cancer Research Cuts

one nation, Indivisible, go Birds, fuck ICE, with liberty and justice for all

this tendency within contemporary liberalism is intimately connected with its aversion to acknowledging past or present colonialism

Everything onhere is horrible but yesterday after the requisite doomscrolling/wallowing in Sunday dread I went for a stroll through the urban hellscape, where there is precious little grass to touch and what there is has had rats romping through it and doggos doing their business in it. And yet...

news abyss has me a little down this morning but thankfully i have a work abyss to stare into as a distraction

William the Conqueror was doing nation building the right way, by Ezra Klein.

@espiers.bsky.social cooked.

I was really happy to not feel like I had to talk about racism in the discourse as much over the last couple of years and the backslide -- not from the white supremacists who are doing what they have always done -- from so-called "liberals," "progressives," & yes even "lefties" is so fucking brazen

My takeaway from this past week is that our elites are in the midst of an international dissociative episode, driven by social media, and there's very little we can do about it. They're good and bubbled up and they're just going to keep going until everything breaks down.

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

When Trump won my fear for the FDA was it would become a pay-for-play institution and putting new drug approvals on a medical shadow docket does nothing to assuage that fear

Never forget theonion.com/report-gen-x...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

My kid, who spent a critical couple years growing up in the COVID era watching his peers get brainwashed by the likes of Kirk: “Well at least another generation of boys won’t be brain poisoned by him.” Me: “Oh my sweet summer child, there’s a million more hate hucksters where that one came from”

Oh no, the people who were threatening to deport or murder me yesterday on social media are threatening to deport and murder me today.

New Horst Wessel just dropped

I would say time for a Draft Brad movement in NY10 but we really need him as our left-progressive answer to Randy Mastro

Mamdani doesn’t need the support of Democratic leaders to win. It just shows the disdain that New York based democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer have for all of us.

I like Obasanjo’s posts a lot but reading this is a little chilling given that his dad is name checked in a Fela song (not affectionately)

This post reminds me that the East Village church that was briefly associated with a welter of Dimes Square tradcath types just held its last mass as the Archdiocese is seemingly preparing to sell it off. Go woke, go broke! www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

Open your eyes sheeple. The only reason Big Pharma has extended lifespans so much is so that they'll be able to keep peddling their "medicine" to us for more years. That's why there's no Big Tallow.

Something to be noted that the most race science curious people are journalists/pundits and tech adjacent people; a factor I attribute to a combination of declining status and a belief that they achieved what they did through meritocracy.

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You have to constantly stay vigilant when walking in New York at night. Otherwise when there's a cat in someone's window, you might miss it.

The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.

this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible

You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia

Apropos of nothing i was biking across Chelsea last week and i spent several blocks behind one of those cute lil NYPD Traffic cruisers, fuming as it tootled past car after car double parked in the bike lane. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...

The Chicago way.

Beyond the stirrings of — what, patriotic fervor? — that the Great Khan of the Plains’ words inspire, it warms the cheese-clogged cockles of my Upper Midwestern heart to hear them offered in such a fine, nasally Chicago brogue

If Trump invades Chicago, use of the word "jagoff" is going to increase to levels no Chicagoan thought possible.

August 22, 2030: ThirdWay releases its annual list of phrases serious Democrats should avoid using if they want to seek leadership positions in the labor cadres of their internment camps: “typhus” “mass grave” “summary execution” “human rights” “quicklime”

I want to believe

Love to see a strong blue state governor talking about sovereignty. Maybe @governor.ny.gov could try it on?

Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed