Pollster: Does hard work lead to success in America? Republican: Yes. But no one wants to work anymore. Pollster: Are the Americans who work hardest thriving? Republican: ...
Pollster: Does hard work lead to success in America? Republican: Yes. But no one wants to work anymore. Pollster: Are the Americans who work hardest thriving? Republican: ...
Best #chorus take:
you’re 100% right on the ubiquity of it all same as when Photoshop or Illustrator debuts a new tool, it shows up everywhere (not unlike like AI slop rn) once you see the “here’s my assemble/disassemble in 3D trick” it’s hard to unsee, from ESPN bumpers to prestige TV youtu.be/yJdrrrIT8hQ?...
if you spend a lot of time in mograph circles you know the correct answer is “motion design that looks cool using Cinema 4D” you’re seeing the heavy hand of an overused tool, not necessarily a conceptual trend, per se
It’s not even Labor Day. This is the dumb money.
Cooking risotto taught me patience. Toast the rice, stir constantly, add broth slowly or it all falls apart. Timing is everything — one slip and the whole dish fails. Kind of like in 2025, when a pimp crashed his car into Rudy Giuliani.
same way you skipped the “LBJ is your only example” part of mine 🧐 show us ONE senate minority leader who set the world on fire WHILE doing the job. Reid? Dirksen? ffs
I’m reading a book that critiques the aesthetics of #modernism. But I can’t take these people seriously.
LBJ ascended to the presidency by assassination and was so famously bad on television that Lady Bird had to gingerly give him report card grades on every appearance. And you walked right into that one because LBJ was the only example you could pull from.
These takes are so unserious. Churchill lead in a parliamentary system. US legislative caucus leaders don’t spearhead national movements. They’re always shit communicators. Always. Their expertise is sausage.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
per Hemingway, Slowly and then All At Once
And that’s how you do it.
To underline the obvious: Biden may outlive Trump.
Trevor Noah jokes that today he can’t find any South African whites who supported apartheid, even among the most right-wing.
Strikes me as a vestige of the Bush era. Brings to mind this 2017 Curb bit. Whatever gestures we indulged during the Aughts, it's weird to keep doing them. youtu.be/LPquarz16wQ?...
My favorite so far. The vibe between the two brands is so simpatico.
I love how someone called the new White House gold aesthetic as "Saddamcore".
the most billionaire shit I’ve read about Swift is that she retains attorneys who do nothing else for her but monitor what her other, primary attorneys are doing
I’d only add that dudes who practice karate or whatever are always looking for excuses to do karate.
notably characterized herself as an English teacher, not a music teacher
Downhill since they let it Irish.
Former smokers unite!
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I feel like "Democracy Dems" is mugwump progressive procedural stuff; campaign finance, anti-gerrymandering, etc. I want bloodthirsty prosecutors. I want pensions revoked. I want lengthy prison sentences. I want Javert 2028.
We need a snappy name that pundits can use for shorthand. Justice Dem is taken. Democracy Dems is redundant. Vengeance voter? IDK, I want these people in prison, but I'm not a copywriter.
Dickerson always feels like a fresh breath from a bygone era. Hell of a quality.
I'm sorry your honor, but the caselaw here is a foot long
let’s start saying “if the sandwich is shit, you must acquit”
sorry soldier, we got bad news about them malaria vaccines
here is an image of all the countries who have walked on things that are not Earth not saying we didn’t peak in the 60s, but by god, Apollo 11 was safer than a Tesla
truth be told, she can haul more than you got
hear, hear
A+ sartorial choices, 10/10, no notes
"We never thought the Leopard Branch would eat OUR faces," says Kangaroo Branch after ruling Leopard Branch can eat anyone's face without recrimination.
Calvinball, per Justice Jackson
8/24/25💡Independence Day, Kharkiv, ignoring constant danger for one evening of singing🙏🇺🇦🙏
IN YOUR DEFENSE, I was really surprised when it happened. He reliably sucks 99% of the time!
lol fair
I'd distinguish between those arguing on the merits vs. bad-faith faux-centrists who can point to what's about to happen in Chicago. Me, I don't give a shit. I want Senate seats. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
I'll never forget my confusion during a Trump rally. The campaign played Cats, and Phantom of the Opera.
The country needs to return to Gangs of New York type corruption where the corrupt pols understood that they still needed to better peoples' lives in order to keep power so in addition to enriching themselves they also built a welfare state.
I thought he did? www.warner.senate.gov/public/index...
The critics would point to MA or VA retrocession, I think.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
I’d imagine it’s in context of the field of mathematics being dominated by men.
everyone says West Wing broke a generation of progressive brains but real ones know the ur-text
Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.
Summer of 1889: Inspired by the match girl's strike in the previous year, London's tailors and dockworkers join together in a general strike. The tailors demanded better pay, a 12 hour work day, a limit on overtime, and a 1 hour break for dinner and tea. They eventually won.
You have my attention
I found this information extremely reassuring.
These fascists unironically love it when protesters fly the Mexican flag.
A half dozen armed goons brutally attacked a man FOR EATING IN PUBLIC?
Those are not federal agents. Or even cops.
"Be at least as progressive as Joe Biden on trans rights" isn't too much to ask.
Christ, I miss him.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
"shave & haircut, five cents"
I feel like, increasingly the Muslims are kinda right on this one. www.apa.org/monitor/2023...
Walter Goggins shilling for Walmart is not entirely orthogonal to the oeuvre of Walter Goggins
parTICularly this specific governor, a former two-term mayor of San Francisco, who came to national prominence as a champion of LGBT rights
100%. Lorenz really was a good tech reporter, once upon a time. Her stuff on the digital landscape was legit, as late as 2018. All her post-Covid nuttiness kind of overshadows the massive amounts harassment she received at the hands of Elon, Tucker Carlson et al.
Surprised Yglesias isn't on that list.
Some of these people should literally be tarred & feathered. www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/u...
Yeah, Klain and Zients. A lot of... staff.
you're not wrong, but that thirst for iron-fisted mayors (Richard J. Daley, et al) is the mythos Cuomo is banking on
It is mind blowing to hear Democratic politicians talking about the president sending the military into American cities as a “distraction.” Actually you are all now one degree away from being violently removed from power. The fact that this may not happen does not erase the fact that it may happen.
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
He'd been toying with a larger tech critique book for at least a decade.
Wow, he finally, actually wrote it.
while Kenny Powers is the ne plus ultra, I consider Nuke LaLoosh the platonic template
It's not a technological achievement to land a solar-powered vehicle on another planet so it can drive around and shoot high-resolution photography.
I went in expecting heavy-handed Gaza/Zionism and was struck by the Slavic (cough, Russian) undertones
Call me a gringo but flour tortillas have never, ever disappointed. They never overwhelm. They get out of the way.
We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.
ICE GOONS in South Norwalk, Connecticut, brutally kidnapped Ricardo Chavez and his brothers. Notably, the goons never presented a warrant, and all the arrested individuals possess legal status to reside and work within the United States.
"It meant sod-all in the end, 'cause you gotta make a choice: when to do something, and when to let it go. When it matters, and when it don't. Bide your time. That's what prison teaches you, if nothing else. Bide your time, and everything becomes clear, and you can act accordingly." #TheLimey
You fucking rubes saying “Newsom is taking a leading role in battling Trump” would support every single social climber who seized power in a vacuum. If you could stop taking individual opportunism for heroism at least once in your lives we might be able to vote for better options with actual views.
Gee. I wonder why tourism to the U.S. is down. I can’t figure it out.
Also:
Every time I exit the shower still steaming, I do a Gavin Rossdale, "That's better. Au naturel."
![The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New York Historical. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea. The valley is identifiable in each of the paintings, in part because of a distinct landmark: a large boulder is situated atop a crag overlooking the valley. Some critics believe this is meant to contrast the immutability of the earth with the transience of man. The action is the sack and destruction of the city, in the course of a tempest seen in the distance. It seems that a fleet of enemy warriors has overthrown the city's defenses, sailed up the river, and is busy ransacking the city, killing its inhabitants. The bridge across which the triumphant procession had crossed is broken; a makeshift crossing strains under the weight of soldiers and refugees. Columns are broken, and fire breaks from the upper floors of a palace on the river bank. In the foreground a statue of some venerable hero (posed like the Borghese Gladiator) stands headless, still striding forward into the uncertain future.[a] In the waning light of late afternoon, the dead lie where they fell, in fountains and atop the monuments built to celebrate the affluence of the now fallen civilization. The scene is perhaps suggested by the Vandal sack of Rome in 455. On the other hand, internal strife and civil war seem also implicated. A catapult positioned on the left bank faces the structural damage on the right bank, exemplified by the contrasting states of the pharoi and suggestive of a prolonged split in the city. The most interesting, however, seem the two fighting over a dill-flavored Cup Noodles. This may also show the still ongoing war between traditionalism and modernism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c5dwz6tcf5tqulz6tqrpmhtt/bafkreien4bamgtw3eg7l44mfgqoympfhxqjjpgmls37snjceqythyb5bkm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Eh. RM up double-digits before Labor Day and climbing, against a *sharply* divided field. The long-shot contingency has already happened.
Right. "Belief" is not a useful predictor of Newsom's politics when personal advantage is at play. He doesn't believe in maximizing Dems' electoral advantage, except when he does. He doesn't believe in LGBT equality, except when he does.
No, really. The median income of #NY08 is $60k. It's the one of the most majority-minority districts in Congress, with a partisan lean of D+24. Mamdani is gonna put up Aladeen margins in that district, and become a leading nat'l figure. You have to question Jeffries' political acumen here.
Really giving it away that this isn't about pragmatism or savvy politics at all, the guy who won the party's own primary is smoking the competition by double digits
I’d argue that—in the context of California housing—property developers are no longer bad guys. Quite the opposite, in a plurality of cases. (am also not trying to cape for Gavin)
Gavin's a big reason the GOP holds the House. CA's frontline congressional Dems got massacred 2024 in large part because the top of the ticket didn't spend his campaign cash on the reelect. He sent it to high-profile nat'l races, hoarded the rest for a presidential run. Gavin cares about Gavin.
