His car was going the other direction on the other side of the highway. He was not hit merging onto the road. His official statement contradicts what you wrote here. Go read it.
His car was going the other direction on the other side of the highway. He was not hit merging onto the road. His official statement contradicts what you wrote here. Go read it.
people want to portray conservatism as inherently anti-intellectual, anti-art, but historically that's obviously not categorically true. contemporary american conservatism really sort of is uniquely dumb and tacky.
Media incentives. Fox news and the NYT were basically aligned in supporting trump, the latter just more subtly.
For the love of god someone tell me the popular position so i can properly hate the other side!
Cling to their bibles? If only. They never comprehended their bibles. They cling to marketing: Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben and the Barrel Cracker etc. Their praxis is waiting in line for Chik Fil A. Their heritage is green bean casserole made with Campbell's cream of whatever soup. Embarrassing.
We will learn the Zulu translation for “Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango” meaning we can then translate into english for the first time.
White House staffers lining up to use the autopen to sign their pardons.
Obviously applies to university presidents, ceos, etc. as well
Normalize govt officials ignoring trump, especially where he has no actual power but their fear
People really just need to laugh in their faces when they say nonsense like this.
The NYT editors were concerned that an accurate description of reality would reflect poorly on the president in some reader’s minds. So they intentionally made the headline inaccurate. Prove me wrong @nytimes.com
Could a sick man go skydiving? Bungee jumping? Base humping? I think not!
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Yeah, def the bigger story but it’s more complicated to explain, and most media like trump, so this will be the focus instead.
He’s posting yelp reviews now.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
The bronze age collapse lead to the greek dark ages. I believe this is an accepted/common term.
Abundance, without focus on distribution, just means the bag is bigger.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I hope Musk throttles the Twitter account of the DC sandwich guy so that he can start a podcast entitled "They Tried to Shadow Banh Mi!"
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
Google search has gone way downhill. Back in 2003, I could Google "How to feel good" and each result showed that my life was full of youthful potential. Now "How to feel good" gets me a bunch of useless crap where I am old and brittle, doors have closed and life has passed me by.
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
Everyone thinks that they are the reasonable ones.
"oh that's just trump being trump. he hates freedom and democracy, everyone already knows that so we don't need to write about it"
agree
agree, but also I share the other poster's frustration about this being issue ten million and one where there is an asymmetry benefiting republicans. shameless nihilism is like a political superpower if you are willing to wield it.
well, most democratic leaders are stupid cowards, but that is not the primary reason this issue benefits republicans, which mostly relates to media incentives.
she has not been charged with anything, let alone convicted. What, precisely, do you think a "clean record" is?
Trump’s politics of personal intimidation creates a coordination problem for the country’s elites that I do not see the media meaningfully grappling with.
If the economy continues to get worse I think that just makes Trumps grip on power stronger. I think there’s the notion that he will face economic pushback and that undermines him, but I think he’ll say “they” are tanking the economy so he needs to crack down harder.
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?
Writing “says he is” should really make the headline writers stop cold and reflect on what theyre doing.
Theyre not “distractions”; it’s just a whole bunch of crazy stuff all happening at once, which is itself quite noteworthy.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
So ludicrously unconstitutional, and ”not at all how any of this works”, they’re essentially just trolling anyone who still believes in the law or rights or really anything.
He’s going to declare lese majesté as soon as someone explains it to him.
One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.
If the Atlantic thought their readers could bear it, they would do literally nothing but stories about annoying liberals and college campus “controversies”. They’re monomaniacal freaks who dont understand their parochial grievances are not shared by 99% of americans.
Half the shit that constitutes the Discourse these days, my primary response is just “I’m embarrassed for us collectively that this is a thing we’re even talking about.”
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
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We could do that. It’s a very wealthy country. We can have all the ice cream and puppies we want.
Which words?? This is one of my favorite things to do!
incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses
It is objectively not worse on Bluesky. You don't get yelled at on Twitter because you are saying things the Nazis agree with.
No surer sign the internet has cooked your brain than unironically using NPCs this way. “But but everyone on the website optimized for sociopaths does it!!”
Who has standing to sue over this? My flip assumption is that roberts et al will say “no one”, but i havent looked into it.
Nobody really wants to face this part of the whole situation, because it's extremely depressing, but yeah the absolute comprehensive elite failure can't really be disentangled (in either direction!) from the popular failure
I'm slowly realizing that it's because of the high quality of the asshole dunks that these people hate Bluesky. On Twitter there's no pushback because it's bots and nitwits, but there are smart dickheads here that can cut to your soul and make your day worse and they hate that shit
I dunno, is it? Most of the cash theyre getting was already part of the biden chips act. Credit markets are fine, unlike 2009. They didnt ask for this “deal”? They have a hundred billion dollar market cap so markets werent pricing in imminent failure.
Can they just give away 10% of the company without a shareholder vote?
The balkanized "future" of the internet has long been here--for decades the internet in Spain has looked very different from the internet in Canada. But I think this is one of the first times we're seeing a platform geo-blocking by *US State* and this way lies madness. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Those were emergency loans to avert bankruptcies during a global financial crisis. Seems pretty different from “the president has decided to strong arm you”.
Sounds exhausting.
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
I still dont understand what all of this is about. They just hate minimalist logos?
He was always so self effacing and humble!
Are there cultures for other medications? What if i have a headache but dont want to do a whole rite of passage?
Trump: "They gave me $600 billion. And that’s a gift... That’s not a loan... There’s nothing to pay back. They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want.” European Union: Me: “He didn’t get a penny” White House spox: ”Pointless nitpicking” www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...
I don’t understand the cracker barrel thing. The old logo was somehow an integral part of conservative culture? I get that these people are mostly nihilistic trolls, but is there even a purported grievance here?
Why is this woke? Is any change of any kind to literally anything “woke” now? I don’t understand.
gavin newsom is mitt romney's tyler durden
Damn it feels good to be a patron.
Liberalism will never create a similar system because you will never get money for it.
We were regularly hit by cars or had to bail horribly to avoid them.
We used to do “races” down a big hill in my neighborhood sitting on skateboards. It was called “butt races” and the point was ostensibly to get to the bottom first but it was really about ramming into each other. No idea how we survived.
If having to "testify under oath" before some useless committee hearing is all that happens to them, there will not have been a reckoning in any sense that matters.
Lol “Mayor Adams…has always demanded the highest ethical and legal standards, and his sole focus remains on serving the people of New York City with integrity.”
Just cartoonishly corrupt.
My assumption whenever these dipshits cite a stat is that it’s completely made up. Not bad methodology or reasoning, just total bs.
Pretty sure this is why Columbia was at top of trump’s list and how they specifically landed on the specific number www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...
This was literally a month ago. www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
I miss the past events, like medium term past. Those were the best. The new ones are shit.
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If you want to get real mad like me, check out the dc subreddit. It’s just post after post of threatening, incompetent, violent behavior by fed agents. Really dangerous shit making everyone here less safe.
Their hope is that a bunch of kyle rittenhouses come here and start shooting “criminals”
New York Times and Washington Post: Trump's Executive Order Reinstating Slavery Has Invigorated His Supporters. But Some Question Whether It's Legal.
The right weaponized the presumption of good faith. Now we don't trust each other and we suspect ulterior motives. It's smart to be cautious at this point. But we lost something in the process. It's sad.
*Goose honking meme* Why did they want to join nato!?!
If you didnt want me to hit you, you shouldnt have tried to defend yourself.
He admires that he can simply kill ppl he doesnt like. It’s the purest expression of power.
I’m concerned that people won’t appreciate how big a line is being crossed here. Texas is suspending basic Constitutional freedoms for opposition lawmakers. This isn’t dipping your toe in the authoritarian waters, it’s diving head first into the deep end. This is big league authoritarianism.
Melbourne Australia was established by a guy named John Batman, who wanted to call it Batmania but was overruled
I think this kind of lands because unlike other attempts to troll Trump it doesn’t try to be clever, it’s just naked derision
Ai will fix/ruin it.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Well, the fascists are pushing that. The rest of us arent really interested in “debating” direct military rule. If you think both-sidesing this issue is part of your job then please quit.
i think there is something about the way in which he is so obviously a depraved moron that makes the cult work, in the same way that extremely austere cults with extraordinary social control outlast more normal ones
This can’t be something we get used to in America.
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
164 years later, South Carolina finally occupies Washington.
“Liberals already ruined it” really gives away the game here. He understands perfectly well that his mandate is to inflict politically motivated violence.
The guy who’s been in a decade long online flame war with rosie odonnel may not be the steely-eyed master negotiator we had assumed.
hold on, are you saying the most easily manipulated man on the planet got played by the kgb agent? no…no that cant be right