Pelosi wanting Harris off the ticket, but having no plan for achieving this (dubious) goal beyond "We should have an impromptu primary" was such an embarrassing postscript to her formidable career
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Pelosi wanting Harris off the ticket, but having no plan for achieving this (dubious) goal beyond "We should have an impromptu primary" was such an embarrassing postscript to her formidable career
i am going to be like one of those catatonic alzheimers patients you just set in front of a piano and they just start playing. 89 years old and essentially catatonic until someone hands me a smartphone and i start typing everything i know about twitter beefs from 2014.
Holy shit
They are abetting his usurpation and imposing on us an utterly alien regime, one far more oppressive and unbound than the one the founders of our republic rebelled against under the banner of natural law. They have robbed us of our power to govern ourselves under a rule of laws. This must end.
The Supreme Court for a year and a half has been conspiring to install Donald Trump as a dictator. They have been his willing accomplice in abrogating not only every clause of our legitimate constitution, but also even the English constitutional settlement of the 17th century.
El perro tiene hambre GRANDE. Los ojos parece gritar "¿Señor simpatico, tiene usted la bondad de darme un poquito de su cena sabrosa?"
Yeah. I watched about half of the LEGO Movie in Spanish during a recent flight, & was pleasantly surprised by how much I understood
El Chapulín Colorado es muy gracioso
Hmmm, well, if that's the case, you'll probably want some manner of advanced textbook, & apps won't be much help
I have been autodidacting my way through McGraw-Hill's "Complete Spanish Step by Step" textbook, & taking copious notes, & it has brought me to the point where I follow @elpais.com on here, & understand much of it
They knew what they were doing in selecting such an ominous & sinister animal for a mascot
See, I used to think that the "Hitler" and "Hyperborean" parts of her username & handle were a play on "Feminazi", & that she was "just" a transphobe & a misandrist
not being even a little bit facetious when i say autism is often the most beautiful thing i encounter on a daily basis
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I hate the "What are we a bunch of Asians?!" dunk so damn much. Yes we are, and they're a bunch of Americans. I've seen 500 stories about racist Chinese grandparents and they're the exact same kind of stories I could tell about relatives in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. It's OK to compare like things.
Jesse Singal is to transphobia what Scott Alexander is to Neoreaction
That most conspiracy theories entail too much coordination to be credible has a corollary: Those who can collude far more easily than most people understand (e.g. police departments and the justice system) will probably do so
"Donald J. Trump likes authoritarians, seeks to emulate them, and establishes ties with them" is a self-censoring fact at this point
Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Good morning and welcome to equinox flower appreciation week over here at this account. As it has always been and so it will always be.
"I had pleaded with Joe [...] to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians" "But he couldn't do it: While he could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."
Making cities less car-centric so people get outdoors more & see more babies seems like an underrated intervention
The idea that an effective political speaker should never introduce new words to their audience is silly
Spun discs at the beautifully preserved Elgar's birthplace this morning, then called in on Bad King John and Prince Arthur 'Shoulda Woulda Coulda Kinged If He Hadn't Died Of Sweating Sickness in Ludlow' Tudor, at Worcester Cathedral. (Controversial take: Worcs ⛪ Café streets ahead of NT ones)
No disrespect to the talented Karin Glenmark or to her performance, but them turning something so spirited into a dirge was not the way to go
Society if Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus had released "Just Like That" in its original ABBA-form
NEW ROLL for COLOR FILM and i'm starting with the best one solely to draw people in
We love the Discourse Ouroboros, don't we folks?
"Penelope stringing the suitors along, sleeping with the cute ones, playing them off against each other, lying, cajoling, promising, poisoning, bargaining, weaving and unweaving her web."
This video not only encapsulates Magical Mystery Tour in three minutes, it makes Magical Mystery Tour look more entertaining than it actually is. youtu.be/BlMXKz1DImA?...
Now this is news
Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine. My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
right, this is the basic problem. ezra is a guy with a lot of virtues who has been forced into a situation where none of his virtues are actual virtues. i am biased because i'm a stranger whom ezra klein helped for no reason, to such an extent that i would not be here (anywhere) without him.
A polydactylic cat walks into a bar. It says, "I would like, in pursuance of my desire to have a drink, to buy a drink." The barman asks, "Why the unnecessary extra clause?"
Milquetoast Popularist centrist but in her early 20s, from what I've seen of her
AND I SAID TO MICTLĀNTĒCUTLI, THE OBSIDIAN MIRROR IS BEAUTIFUL BUT I CAN’T SEE MY SOUL IN IT. ISN’T THAT WEIRD? A MIRROR IN MICTLAN? ANYWAY, I TOLD THAT STINKING MUTT XOLOTL TO GET AWAY FROM ME AND THEY SAID I WOULD REGRET THAT COME THE BLOOD AND JAGUARS BUT I DONT THINK SO, NO I DONT THINK SO.
It's funny (read "vexing") how Bluesky converged on its own version of Twitter's anxiety-inducing "Blocker or Locked?" conundrum ("Blocked, Quote-Poster blocked, or blocking?")
As well she should be!
The man has long had a fetish for causing outrage
this was summer ‘24… MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE SOME HEADLINES ABOUT THIS IN THE FUCKING FALL OF 2024, MERICK. MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL.
if neither you nor anyone you know is on a visa it is impossible to appreciate how badly greencard holders take being directly targeted
Granted American religiosity has ebbed and flowed over time, with various revivals and such
Yes, but the English colonies were a receptacle for religious separatists, & the US had a reputation for being unusually churchy even in the time of Napoleon
"It may seem like he's breeding suspicion & internecine acrimony, but he's just holding out for the optimal time to endorse... Trust the plan!"
Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...
walking around in a suspiciously Kirk-like outfit & wearing a placard that reads "DEATH IS THE ULTIMATE MIND-CHANGER"
It looks kind of Chimpish, but I assume that's just conflation on the part of whichever image-model generated it; Koko was very definitely a gorilla
A) It has a gorilla. This is always a plus B) It doesn't look like something you find in a thrift-store in amongst a bunch of penny-dreadfuls & political biographies
Apparently this guy's a Warren supporter, FWIW
Interesting... FWIW it's a play on this classic English folk song, a snatch of which was played by a famous numbers-station en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lin...
Man is pretty straightforward, I think, but all the same I'm curious how it reads
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago
The Khazar Khaganate is such a cool historical topic, too bad 96 percent of the time it's brought up it's by stupid antisemites
A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.
Turns out that life isn't a cocktail-party!
I recently watched the superb BBC Television Shakespeare production of "Henry V", and I really love how it presents the opening and closing choruses
"My advisors... Very smart men... High-IQ guys! They came up to me & they said 'Mr. Trump, it's incredible! No other president in the history of presidents has ever summoned the shade of Alexander Graham Bell & made him cry!' Wow... Can you believe it folks?"
Cartilaginous fish are MAJESTIC Lobe-finned fish are ADAPTIVE Ray-finned fish Jawless-fish are ENIGMATIC
Same, but I'm a much smaller account who's never been great on that front (turns out esoteric jokes about fish taxonomy & opera don't do big numbers!)
They are 100% lying to him or letting him draw his own conclusions
One episode called My Dinner With Android where a memory wiped C-3PO has a long free-ranging philosophical conversation with R2-D2 about if robots have free will and by the end he remembers everything so they wipe his memory again
I do not think that turnout-effects explain a 7% overperformance
Harris was preferable to Biden by dint of age, Gaza, & term-limits, but that doesn't change the fact that the candidate-switch was a massive Gettier Problem
Plausibly true of Slotkin, but how the dickens is that the case for Gallego? He outperformed Harris something fierce, against a candidate who had already flopped in '22 (in a race many thought she would win!)
The actual answer to "how Dems dont lose in 2024" is "dont win in 2020," but thats not a satisfying answer for the commetariat bc it concedes there was a serious of structural issues that dragged down incumbents globally & no One Weird Trick™️to winning while ppl are pissed about inflation.
This is the obvious takeaway, especially in light of the global pattern of incumbent wallopings, but I guess admitting that sometimes all is vanity is less agreeable to the spleen
And not only that, but Trump suffered exactly the sort of debate that, by their own hypothesis, should have been fatal, & yet he won! And most commentators won't even acknowledge this: I had someone tell me that "everyone already knew who Trump was", which is obviously untrue! It drives me bonkers
I'm not saying they're smart, just that 2020 was an election with a very clear "Murder more minorities" candidate, & he lost; so it follows that his victory 4 years later hinged on voters who neither prioritized brutalizing innocents nor not brutalizing them. They can & will defect again
Some doubtless are! But they don't comprise a decisive chunk of the electorate, thank goodness
Trump is very much not Erdogan, though. The Justicialist Party in Argentina paid a sizeable penalty, & that in spite of bribing its citizens!
You can just look up the Red Scare, you don’t need to take history lessons from a man who quite literally believes the Middle Ages are a hoax
It might not, of course: International commerce has proved remarkably resilient in the face of recent supply-shocks & trade-disruptions, but it's worth noting that essentially everyone was trying to surmount those; Trump wants to take a spanner to the works!
I'm certainly no economy-knower, I'm probably not even a politics-knower, but I don't think it takes a leap of the imagination to think that playing the merry deuce with the global economy for months straight could cause something worse than stagflation
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
the only thing that can get us out of this is kimmel situation is to do Comedian Expendables. i'm talking all-out geezer war: mel brooks throwing knives into foreheads. dick smothers firing an M-60 out of a huey. carol burnett somersaulting around a guy's neck and strangling him with a garotte
The Diorama Museum down the street keeps adding dioramas.
They're just jealous they'll never get to be guest-artists for Achewood
Okay, assuming I'm looking at the right spot (I grabbed coordinates from Wikipedia), & assuming the imagery is relatively up to date, I'd say "Maybe", but I'm not remotely qualified to assess satellite photos maps.app.goo.gl/45GfuqAF3gV3...
Good question...
It's much harder to have a "Come to Jesus" moment if you've never acknowledged you were of the Devil's faction
archive.is/MXYXZ A relevant article
I've been thinking about how, about 15 years ago, Erdogan justified repression of his critics by saying something to the effect of "If an American criticized their President like this, they'd be punished"; an absurd misapprehension at the time, but now...
these ads drive me nuts. why is jimmy fallon trying to get me hooked on a shitty mobile game? why is lebron james? why the entire cast of modern family?????
Now, some might see pushing India into China's sphere-of-influence as a bit of a sticky-wicket, RE: Defending Taiwan, but then... Heh... I don't expect lesser minds to comprehend the manifold intricacies of realist foreign policy
Right, I think Politico is being disingenuous, & the excerpts I've seen, strikingly frank as they are, do not come across as a full-throated attack on Biden, & obviously it's unlikely the book is all about her relationship with Biden & his staff (but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a running thread)
People didn't cast their vote for Biden under the assumption he'd be fighting against resurgent Trumpism. Many (myself, alas, included) naively thought Trump would be a spent force once he lost an election
"I would like a hat like that!"
There were always going to be wrinkles in a campaign that no one anticipated until weeks before it happened
I think the discourse inconsequential & that the book seems interesting, but the "Biden petulantly undermined Harris" narrative that's glomed onto it strikes me as questionable: My takeaway is more that he was negligent in the face of resentment against her in his inner-circle, but...
The nominee for an election that, given normal conditions, he'd be the underdog in
Yeah, I recall reporting to that effect not long after he was chosen: Shapiro wanted a guarantee he'd have some kind of meaningful influence, whereas Walz was humble & made it clear he didn't expecting to be her successor
www.politico.eu/article/ben-...
