USE YOUR MIND, NOT A.I. TO IMAGINE THIS: Trump and King Charles comparing their funky cold edemas.
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USE YOUR MIND, NOT A.I. TO IMAGINE THIS: Trump and King Charles comparing their funky cold edemas.
You're likely correct. At the time and in my memory he deserved much, much worse. That catastrophic failure should have relegated the conservative project to the dustbin of history. Twenty years later and, well, fuck me.
"Heck of a job, Brownie" comes to mind. . .
Douchebag. www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...
Well this explains his several-day absence from public view. He had important things to deal with!
i need everyone to focus because when it happens we need to immediately end the vance presidency in the crib by starting a rumor he and peter thiel did it
I hate that you wrote this because it's been running through my head, especially after my son excitedly told me about the Simpsons prediction. It'll be like Butler PA on meth for Magamericans.
Muskie weather . . .
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
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It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective
Something something death panels . . .
Biden's WH aided and abetted Stage 1 of Gaza genocide: siege, displacement, killing of at least 50k people (over 80% of them civilians), and obliteration of infrastructure. The Trump WH has aided and abetted Stage 2: starvation, mass destruction of Palestinian cities, preparation for expulsion.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
One factor I absolutely believe has led us here is that a Black man got elected president. There are very valid criticisms of Obama -- drone-killing, not closing Gitmo & not holding anyone to account for the invasion of Iraq or the financial crash top my list -- but in comparison he wasn't terrible.
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
Can we shoot it when it's in the barrel?
I dunno, if a small bookstore like ours can sustainably operate by not simply catering to what people are conditioned by marketing to want, surely a major opposition political party can do the same re: “what polls show.”
The White House account is again showing that it's all-in on white supremacy. Got it.
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Fox News Morons Will line up to give him their money
should it feel concerning how quickly the latest epstein hype seems to have died down?
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.
Why didn't anyone punch him?
the thing about Trump and Putin meeting is that Russiagate was basically entirely correct and the fact that the media bought Bill Barr's Mueller Report cover letter saying "he didn't do it" hook line and sinker remains a national disgrace
Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.
A global blockade against the US until Trump resigns and tariff rates are returned to their January 2025 levels is an option whose outcome I would be curious to know.
Blood Tribe decided to march in Concord, N.H. It was a bad decision.
Same thing happened in Buffalo with Byron Brown after India Walton won the primary. He went on to win the general election and then resigned office to take a position with OTB.
"Alone" is a very high bar, but I've bought books based on conversations and recommendations on here. But if your sole reason for being on bsky is shifting units, well maybe you ought to go elsewhere.
"Please don't do the illegal thing - I'm begging you."
I wish Gabe weren't correct, but we've seen this play out exactly as he says time and again.
Republicans are installing conspiracy theorists while Senate Democrats are planning to surrender to the right. And people say we shouldn’t criticize the party. apnews.com/article/joe-...
from @cinemarxism.bsky.social "TERRIFIED HSI AGENTS FLEE FROM RAPID RESPONDERS Today in Kansas ICE & HSI simultaneously raided 2 restaurants, both of the same chain. Instantly community members mobilized to the locations. They chased HSI out of the restaurant in the middle of their raid."
Trump has a point: the underage girls at the Mar-a-Lago spa were meant to serve the pedophilia of Trump and his guests, and only the pedophilia of Trump and his guests, so for Epstein to poach them on behalf of his own pedophilia was absolutely unethical.
there's a tendency to grant all of trump's premises and then be like "even if what he's saying is true about the epstein files it makes no sense not to release them" like catching him in a lie or inconsistency is important when instead what we should be doing is relentlessly calling him a pedo
No support for trans kids, no vote. It's that simple.
There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”
The DC police department should take a page from ICE and station a bunch of sex crimes detectives outside the Republican National Committee offices, just waiting for perps to arrest
Establishment Dems have more energy to condemn CBS for firing Colbert than for Netanyahu for committing genocide More energy to condemn Mamdani for seeking economic justice than for Cuomo’s 13 credible sexual abuse cases Establishment Dems: grow a spine & actually be an opposition party—for once
Fuck this
Something like this is in most university press contracts, and likely those issues by other publishing houses. There are a lot of authors of academic books who get zero royalties on ebooks, despite that format now being the primary revenue source for monographs.
I worked on your book :) I have to believe that Bob Brugger would have fought this policy tooth & nail.
This is a VERY good question. The grant of rights clause(s) tend to be extremely loose and have in the past been used by many a publisher to be, ahem, creative in licensing content.
I would encourage authors with this press to check your contracts. My contract with Arcadia Press doesn't allow me to take back my rights or stop them from eventually selling my books off as data, but yours with Johns Hopkins Press might.
Authors won't get a share of this additional revenue. Will the list price of books come down? Will staff be better compensated? I'm pretty certain the answer to both of those questions is no. So who benefits?
Wondering now how much money the publisher gets for the license. I have to assume it's more than $100 per book. And there are almost certainly elements within the license that will generate additional revenue for the press and/or reduce their costs.
I started my 20+ year publishing career at JHUP. I'm clear-eyed about how university presses work. Giving authors a paltry $100 so an LLM can scrape their work is incredibly odious.
Let them fight!
It's almost like they're all connected or something . . .
One day there'll be an obituary. Until then, nothing but excuses for the demented rapist who never faced consequences.
Do they have binders of women though?
Underappreciated post.
You calling my man Josh unhinged?
Trump's DOJ declares emphatically that Black lives don't matter. Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Going to see Cold Play on purpose is indeed an absurd thing to do.
Dunno, could be from the IV he uses to transfer blood from small children to himself.
Honestly, that's the only way to get through this life.
“I'm calling for a full investigation into the actions of ICE & other agencies involved in this operation. I want the agents who ignored protocol & used force against me to be held accountable. And I want the public to know the truth: this raid didn't just target immigrants. It hurt Americans too.”
THIS is exactly correct. Leonard was an incredible writer, one whose style many have attempted to emulate. Precious few actually managed to do so in effective, readable ways.
It's completely pedestrian unless one's vocabulary is stunted.
Maybe next time they shouldn't let their 5 year old watch 30 Rock.
Also, this specific guy? Someone ought to keep an eye on him.
Sounds awesome! They should put those plans into action immediately.
I'd honestly be surprised if there isn't a folk punk band with this name already.
Quite the leap, but you do you.
Not really trying to pile on, but how is it that your takeaway from this was that they weren't paying? There's literally nothing that says or even suggests that.
Anyone shocked by the national yawn in the face of open torture camps on US soil, needs to grapple with the fact that this is what we’ve ordered soldiers to do abroad, or funded other govs to do, or have allowed to happen “over there” and it became normalized and now it’s just coming home.
Become Luigi instead?
Kind of like what State-owned media would do . . .
They should perhaps look into a personal final solution.
This makes my brain hurt.
Hand-waving away substantive critique by quoting Nate fucking Silver is a choice.
We didn’t kill enough Confederates.
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they are legally entitled to visit detention facilities so if they risk getting shot doing that they should be spending time addressing that instead of complaining to reporters about their nasty base
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
So you're into dehumanizing people with words, huh? Does that make you feel tough?
With ICE poised to receive a massive infusion of cash courtesy the Republican spending bill, I figured it was worth documenting what they've been doing with the money they've currently got. Gift link: wapo.st/4lv53Wh
Congratulations America, you’ve been harpooned
And I guaranfuckingtee you that unless this news is on the county sheriff's fucking Facebook page most of that 75 percent will assume the hospital closed because of "Obamacare."
No idea what this is supposed to mean. This trolling attempt gets an "F."
Firstly you could stop calling people (and thinking about them as) "illegals." Secondly, we have a whole big criminal justice system that deals with people who commit crimes. It's a shitty system that brutalizes people who aren't white and those of lesser financial means, sure, but it exists.
When you tell a centrist democrat that maybe we should learn from Mamdani’s commanding victory.
Mutual aid in action in the city of my birth.
The Supreme court is really making it clear that those of us on the academic and research side of countering fascism who’ve been saying that rule of law law alone won’t stop fascism we’re always correct and everyone’s screaming at us that we were doomers and conspiracy theorists were just wrong.
if Zohran could turn NYC from a rat infested hellhole to a great city in one night in the eyes of Republicans, think what he'll do in 4 years
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Not Boston, this happened in my old hometown, Buffalo NY.
Meanwhile there's zero concerted effort by national Democrats to turn Porn Alert Dad Mike Johnson into a national specter of ire and ridicule.
If he hated John McCain so much why did he steal his bit?
See, he's just like everyone else. Addicted to these super computers we carry with us everywhere. It's a true Faustian bargain.
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Your enemies are people in actual power not some random person on the internet.
What the absolute fuck.
Tbf, 413% sounds made-up.
Absolutely genius comic strip.