Thank god we can use the R-word again.
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Thank god we can use the R-word again.
I’ll always celebrate the day he kicks, but if it happens on a holiday it does become way easier to remember.
Happy Labor Day to everyone but the police.
Glad it's been declared officially. Journalists, take note that you can now refer to what's happening in Gaza as genocide. There is no higher authority on the subject than the Intl Assoc. of Genocide Scholars.
Look how excited we got at a thin argument that the guy might be dead. Imagine how fucking lit it’s going to be when it really goes down. I’m already pondering the optimal sequence of bars to hit in my town. This shit better not happen on a Monday.
In town for the Penn State game, I discovered my new favorite place in State College: Mr. Wish Bubble Tea and Aone Mart at the rear of the joint. Crazy selection of imported East Asian snacks and groceries. maps.app.goo.gl/Yibg2rZa5CSC...
Oh duh, Fiona Apple.
I love Salt by Angie McMahon. Everything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Paula Cole. Tracy Bonham. I’ll enjoy Jewel again when she disavows RFK Jr.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
I really fucking hate the othering and dehumanizing they’re doing by shortening “trans people” to just “trans” as a noun.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Breakfast buffet at the Nittany Lion Inn in an hour. 😋
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
There’s no version of Trump kicking the bucket that wouldn’t result in the internet exploding with conspiracy talk. He could fall down the AF1 steps in front of cameras and they’d be analyzing the staircase like the steel girders in the World Trade Center.
Trump has turned our troops into an American version of the Buckingham Palace guards.
Yes. We make a mistake if we write all of these goons off as “Nazis.” A good portion of them are doing it for a paycheck and benefits. They feel the insults hurled at them and can be shamed and demoralized. People need to keep it up.
Exactly. Take a lesson from the fascists that much of their power is based on people willingly granting it to them. Don’t buckle at their new “rules” around the vaccines. Go around them.
The guy in the Cracker Barrel logo is a trans man waiting for his girlfriend to arrive after her shift at the co-op so they can design DSA leaflets over a plate of butter pecan sticky buns. That’s canon. Thanks for bringing him back!
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
I can just look at this guy and instantly tell that something his wrong with his mitochondria.
The advisors who told Dems that calling Republicans “weird” and offputting had no political value with voters are now providing directives to Dems to stop using certain words that are weird and offputting to voters. It’s almost like these advisors believe in nothing.
Ashli Babbitt broke into the Capitol and ignored a direct order to stand down while crawling through a broken window and threatening the lives of elected representatives. Let’s be very clear what she did.
Oh, he got more than mean looks. Probably a fair amount of spit.
The marketers in my company call it “taking price” and I roll my eyes every time they say it.
“We don’t know yet." What a great plan! You guys really thought this out. Or did you simply let a narcissistic dotard with an elementary understanding of global economics do whatever he wants based on his feelings?
“I speak a little eye-talian.”
It’s still weird to me and my friends that the guy who “shot” Trump isn’t a household name. The guy had a perfect place to set up his rifle, a firefighter died, Trump’s ear healed miraculously, Secret Service moved press into position to get good photos. It’s all so fishy still.
And what exactly dies Bobby see when he looks in the mirror? He’s one of the freakiest people I’ve ever seen.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
I’ve been burned a lot by bringing my preconceptions into watching films. Luckily i figured out to quickly let go of the strange politics in Civil War and not let it distract me from what was actually on the screen.
“What’s your ideology?" “Mind your own damn business."
It kills me that they say open-minded people are the ones with a “gender ideology.” There’s only one group walking around screaming that genders have strict definitions defined by natural law. The rest of just think people should pee where they want and get to play sports with their friends.
If the pharmacy tech is a woman, I’ll tell her I’m a Charlie Kirk fan so she’s confident I’m high risk.
Why do people think committee and floor votes are the only thing elected officials are expected to do? There’s this messy thing called politics that involves influencing people and demonstrating leadership.
Post a movie gif from the year you were born.
Thanks for getting the joke!
Wait do conservative white people think Cracker Barrel is part of their heritage because “cracker” is in the name?
I wouldn’t be surprised to find a dead whale in the back of Bobby’s car.
I have a hard time believing that the GOP (which I admit continues to surprise me with their depths of their insanity) would go into 2028 without primaries and allow Trump (who cannot hold a 3rd term) to be the presumed nominee.
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
This is so dotarded.
Wait. Is “grill” just a contraction of “griddle”? Because I just heard a British person call grilled vegetables “griddled vegetables.”
I’m honestly surprised she didn’t cut her own finger off. Jeez.
Hahaha he thinks the band runs the magazine what a dipshit
Most people believe their personal positions are where everyone SHOULD be. The centrist position is entirely relative to what each of us consider left or right. I could argue Cuomo is right, just not in the way he thinks.
Gosh, I'm starting to think that country is just deeply evil
ok this is top notch
I have a nice iceberg for her to be set adrift on
Brands change their logos and update their brand positioning all the time. We’re all busy and stressed, and some bad actors insist on weaponizing fake controversies to make us all feel even worse. I’m now wishing for that massive solar flare that disables all electronics. Fuck this place.
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
I still remember the O’Boises jingle. “…So bold with Idaho potato taste! O’Boises are o’boisterous!”
Trump doesn’t have the authority to ban flag burning, issue broad tariffs, fire members of the Federal Reserve Board OR remain president past noon on January 20th 2029. Say it louder and repeat it.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
I still contend the Constitution clearly defines the end of his term. Just cuz he’s physically in the Oval Office, it doesn’t mean he runs the executive branch. He’s just a trespasser if we say so. Tho I expect the media to cave to his framing.
Start tracking the frequency with which he does his media hits while seated.
Cuz we fucking fixed it, dotard.
Yes we deliberately kill journalists and aid workers and yes we deliberately bomb hospitals and yes we recently bombed a hospital specifically TO kill a journalist but this time we bombed the hospital and killed journalists and aid workers it was a mishap, both the first bomb and then the follow-up
"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
WTF is your problem?
First, Israel bombs the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis - a war crime. Then, to remove any doubt of what kind of pariah state Israel is, Israel bombs the ambulance workers and crews who are trying to rescue the victims of Israel's previous war crime.
Always fun to start the week in a rage with tears in my eyes. Look at what they’ve done to our govt in just half a year.
Can we please fast forward to the part where Jeffries stops being the supposed voice of the opposition? He’s not up to the task example #3,217.
It’s very important that the narrative that “Trump can cancel the election and stay President” be shut down any time you hear it. The end of his final term is defined in the Constitution. Noon on 1/20/29. Controlling the White House or DC doesn’t make him President. It makes him a trespasser.
Trump could build a wall around DC, put soldiers on every street corner, and prevent John Roberts from swearing in the winner of the 2028 election. It still wouldn’t make him President because his (and Vance’s) term ends at noon on Jan 20, 2029. He’d be no more than a treasonous trespasser.
HOT MIC: Georgia Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R) tells a constituent that President Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and calls to release them.
Resistance sounds easy until you’re stopped on a train platform on your way to an appointment, you tell a goon you don’t have to show ID, and they tell you you’re being cuffed and taken somewhere until your identity can be verified.
I agree and probably would comply too in most situations because I’m on my way to work or dinner and don’t need the hassle of being thrown in a van for a trip to the precinct.
Firstly, I hesitate to dehumanize anyone. Second, writing them all off is defeatist. They’re not all sociopaths. They follow orders for the paycheck and health insurance. And they can be made to feel terrible about their actions. Calling them Nazis is a good thing to do.
Somehow I mostly avoided those 2 things. Neither sounded good. Though I’ve had them as an adult. Chipped beef on toast was my regional jam. Or “shit on a shingle” as my mom taught me.
You may not be able to stop them, but you can FUCK. WITH. THEIR. HEADS. They’re still human beings and, for most of them, their heads will hit the pillow at night pondering the morality and value of what they’re doing.
Ghislaine Maxwell raped children. None of her opinions are relevant.
I feel like I manifested not hearing the weekly opinions of Megan McCain, and I feel inspired to do the same for Matt Walsh, Riley Gaines, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters, Charlie Kirk, and Ben Shapiro. Let’s do this.
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
My argument entirely. Of course he’s more intelligent. But Trump’s success is built on his inexplicable aura. That “one special boy” status that makes media whitewash his high crimes. Vance is in a different universe.
What exactly happens when someone doesn’t have ID (or says they don’t)? I imagine anyone with a non-American accent gets more scrutiny.
I grew up a sauce guy from the Reading area, and I feel like it was pretty standard. It’s still my preference. No joke, once at a diner in central PA, I ordered a steak sandwich, and got an actual steak on 2 pieces of toasted sliced bread.
“But they came here illegally” ON GOD i don’t care
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Just build it. SCOTUS says regulation is not permitted by the Executive branch. And they’ve laid off anyone who would follow up on it.
My instant reaction is that this is sort of the inverse of a Bill of Attainder. Like, if the govt passed a law that punished the semiconductor industry, they’d be damaging the interests of the govt itself.
Folks, there doesn’t need to be visible authoritarianism on every sidewalk in America for it to be an authoritarian state. The authoritarianism is here. Right now.
Here’s that tic again where he increases numbers each time he talks about something. Last week it was 6 wars. Suddenly it’s 7. And within seconds it’s “actually” 10. And they’ve hand selected the press corps so no one will ask about the cognitive decline.
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
The only serious 2028 contender right now. Good dude.
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
I hate that this is needed, but we need to start sharing the fact that Trump cannot refuse to give up the Presidency. His and Vance’s 4-year terms end in January 2029. His occupying the White House beyond that point is trespassing, not control of the Executive Branch.
Another banger. Dude gives me hope and consistently reminds us of the goodness in people. The bastards won’t grind us down.
Jesus Christ would show this man grace, but he would do it reluctantly. Fucking antichrist shit from Egg Boy.
Textbook coup maneuvers. Seize the ports/ points of entry, capture the broadcasters, take the palace. The legacy / public media in the capital city has been captured/severely damaged. Our most seasoned journalists and trusted voices in DC being bought out, pushed out, or leaving the profession.
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
WOW! Israeli intelligence data shows that 83% of those Israel has killed in Gaza were CIVILIANS! 83%! Such a grotesque rate of civilian casualties was only made possible due to the morally perverse support and protection Western govs provide Israel! www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
I think about the fact that there are tens of thousands of Americans, minimally, who heard about Trump’s big idea to paint the border fence black and earnestly thought “Wow this man is a genius!” Like, these people are among us and somehow survive daily life. Some even thrive! What a country.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
The Three Fashketeers
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Make it illegal to be a billionaire. Also, calling something “crab” flavored after merely dousing it in Old Bay.
One of the more insane claims made by this administration. And Fox News will repeat it until it’s a fact in their viewers’ minds.
Oh I think there are plenty of liberals who are waiting for an excuse to go back there.