Happy Labor Day m.youtube.com/watch?v=kq85...
Happy Labor Day m.youtube.com/watch?v=kq85...
Didn't OP skip a step here? Iirc they issued some family photo that was assembled via photoshop first, which was immediately recognized as such by everyone. Only then did they disclose what was going on
Robot refs now!
Favorite example, from Horace Porter's Campaigning with Grant
Good news: the President wasn't sick or dead, he was obsessively reviewing security footage to see who scuffed the stonework added in his ugly Rose Garden reno
His successors at NR, unfortunately, have retained none of his charm & wit, but all of his snide
As much as I renounce the Big Ten and all its works, I would never wish Gus Johnson on even my worst enemy
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A sort of low-stakes version of this is the proliferation of YouTube videos that are foreigners, usually Brits, touring America & trying cuisines or seeing our professional sports For The First Time These are all really geared at US viewers; it's modern day Fanny Trollope, but relentlessly positive
If there's two things the Navy knows how to do, they're corruption and failing to hit shipbuilding targets
Even ignoring the unlikely particulars of this specific announcement, he says something pro-immigration (we should do more H-1Bs, we shouldn't deport service & ag workers, etc) every couple months And none of them are ultimately realized, bc it seems like Miller has viceregal authority on this
Greatest crossover event of all time was finding out her English dub & Spike Spiegel's English dub were married
By 2015ish, there was a high chance anyone with CR or tpusa on the resume was a psycho, but I didn't think it was already that bad back then
I wonder how much of this was your college vs micro-generations, split by the changes of 2008-09 Because I passed on joining College Reps bc ours were more "sending me 5x as many emails & giving slightly cultish vibes" than "We're asking the real questions: Is Evil actually Good?"
Ok?
Dems really need to figure out a way to win and keep winning, because I don't think this problem is confined to Trump; I worry that this is now the default GOP governing philosophy, and will be for a while going forward
This is low priority in the scheme of things, but when Dems retake the executive, they should order its agencies to Log Off Upload news releases to heir websites & hold official press conferences, but Do Not Poast.
But I've always been able to sleep through most mid-length flights, so anything that requires my eyes puts me off my game
In its own way, that is crushing tape
Buy a couple magazines at the newstand so I have something to keep my hands & eyes occupied while listening to a Russillo travelogue
One weird aspect about the GOP's crusade against foreign pollution of our body politic is how little it has to say about foreigners using our lobbyists as meat puppets A Chinese crypto firm or UK "kids charity" now has greater rights than a law-abiding mom w/ a green card, w/out comparable vetting
“He said, ‘We’ll notify next of kin if she dies.’ And at that moment, I knew that I was no longer dealing with humans.” www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
Under 24-hour "curfew" with electronic monitoring Not exactly a sign the charges are about to get dropped
In this alternate setting, RIM stays in business because its physical keyboard models provide superior wpm for Offensive Texting
transmissions across the electromagnetic spectrum Elferfred The Pure-Soul tries to cast Cleansing Flame Me, texting: lol. lmao
Perfect crab salad: 1 lb jumbo lump Rounded 1/4C yuzu mayo Celery salt & old bay to taste (usually do 3-4 dashes each) Juice from quarter lemon (add another quarter to taste/texture) optional: finely-diced celery Gently combine with a spatula to preserve lumps Serve on *salty* crackers of choice
Fair winds & following seas
Yea, it started in Tennessee,and the cuisine skews Southern Aside from being a popular road trip stop (I guess for the kid-friendly table games & knick knack store), a fairly common small town Southern thing you hear about is going there after church
Dems have been lucky that the GOP is becoming more & more openly racist/nativist, because "Catholics who have experienced the effects of drug gangs and/or socialist police states and moved to the US for a better life" reads pretty conservative in the abstract
"They call me *Mister* Morpheus!"
Destroying government records is illegal and the people doing it should face grievous consequences. The attorneys overseeing it should be disbarred.
"Algo" is short for "Al Gore" who invented the algorithm
I think unfortunately the political & social dynamics of today's South will provide great material for a future series of works similar to William Freehling's The Road to Disunion
The funny thing is that so many of the conservative outrage merchants are not themselves Southerners. You could call it carpetbagging, except this time the Southern audience is getting angered by it, rather than at it
How do you take on the postliberal right though? Isn't the core problem that they have legitimately won two presidential elections now? Having won fairly, they keep trying to win forever unfairly, but theyre in power bc of Dem bag-fumbling
...more a factor of how easy it is for carpetbagging outrage merchants to manipulate contemporary Southerners, CB's core customers which makes me think that someone should write a political/social study of today's South & its nat'l influence, in the style of William Freehling's Road to Disunion
Thinking about l'affaire Cracker: the redesign strategy (in the abstract) seemed to ignore its particular audience-- bc its food has always been mid, the appeal to its customer base was vibes So to some extent, its customers have a legit reason to be upset BUT the *scale* of the anger seems... 1/2
I also don't think folks in the U.S. realize how dangerously close we are to UK style restrictions online. The Supreme Court greenlit age verification this summer. The minute a KOSA type law passes (and it will), that's it for us. It's here.
The Europeans could do something; this is their backyard & most popular sport. UEFA is the most important confederation, and it is equally corrupt. How are they not embarrassed that the only action against FIFA came from Obama's DoJ?
Not seeing a lot of coverage of what is obviously the biggest story of the AM: New Russillo travelogue dropped m.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRi...
"Labu-BUUUUUU!" *steel pan notes*
Everything Bagel Conservatism (not on the menu at Cracker Barrel)
Seize all sports teams and give them to their municipalities
The demand would be something like no taxes on social security or bailed-out state pension funds
Right, and so there is no way for the government to bail them out really. The loss is in expected future earnings, and other than the government just giving them that value in cash, you cant restore investor confidence, in the way you could with financial institution solvency issues
I don't think it would even work, as they don't have a problem with outsize liabilities The crash would come in the collapse of spending by the companies, so the only government bailout that would work is the government directly spending hundreds of billions a year in their stead
I hope the post-Iger & Kennedy successor regime at Disney demotes the sequel trilogy to Legends Their motive would obviously be a cynical reboot cash grab, but the only reasonable takeaway from the ST now is nature over nurture, as Luke & Leia fucked up the galaxy as badly as their parents
How would this work in practice? Under this new formulation, let's say the President doesn't want to ban tiktok. He tells his AG, still an at-will appointee, not to enforce it, and she declares that that is DoJ policy How is tiktok banned?
No it clearly doesn't. But since it's clear you're operating in bad faith, do it somewhere else
He's going to do the Obama meme irl, with the Medal of Honor
Yea man, I didn't modify rittenhouse with the "murderer" You should probably work on your reading comprehension
There has to be a middle ground between "being mean on the internet to me personally is literally violence" and "death threats should be legal as long as they're written in tweets", both discourses I've witnessed recently.
It's real bad that Kyle Rittenhouse & the Ahmed Arbery murderers are basically ICE's ideal for new hires www.thebulwark.com/p/prepare-yo...
If you upped the action a bit, Benioff's best work, City of Thieves, could fit for Raid at Stalingrad www.amazon.com/City-Thieves...
In a previous era, the revelation that Donald Trump believes in salvation through works would have destroyed his presidency.
The authoritarian shit is bad on its own, but let's not lose sight of the fact that this Texas law enforcement officer couldn't keep up with a 61-year-old out for her morning walk. Like the Nazis, these people are evil and pathetic at the same time. Don't miss any chance to mock them as losers.
I dont not admire Gavin Newsom as a person; he seems to have a quality too common in this generation of pol: little political purpose besides fulfilling personal ambition That is why I'd like to see more Dems step up now, when the moment requires it
I think what he's done is identity an issue where there is a demand-supply imbalance-- Trump is trying to become a dictator and we need to do everything possible to stop him *now*-- and filling it. As an added bonus, his position on it is correct
The race is always going; your record doesnt start or blank slate when you announce One of the major things that helped Obama edge out Clinton was his stance against the Iraq War 5-6 years earlier
Is Newsom the only Dem running for President? Where is every/anybody else?
Also the people who seem to say this the most are in the fdrlst-NRO nexus, and their version of events is just not credible
Smh, any long-form journalism about 9/11 inevitably wrecks me Since we've been doing Bush fils reappraisal recently: His greatest failure was not insisting on half of Aramco as diya from the Saudis
After Bertolt Brecht's "Die Lösung"
Lib version of the Federalist Society that focuses on a reinterpretation of the Take Care Clause
One of Ganesh's best articles, during the Truss interregnum, was calling out the UK's terminally American-brained politicians Soon enough their army will be so amalgamated that each soldier will inherit the honors of a Napoleonic regiment, but sure, they can do a bit of revanchism too
America gets unfairly targeted for being uniquely hyper-capitalist
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
If Iraq ended as a perceived success but much worse for the Iraqis, if Katrina blame had landed all on the Dem mayor & governors, if the Abramoff scandals had been minimized by concurrent Dem stuff, & if GFC had happened a year later, the Bush era GOP wouldn't have been thanos-snapped by its voters
The Colbert Report only half-worked though. There was a lot of (yeah he got us there/ his caricatured Conservativism is Good Actually) mental gymnastics going on among right-leaning audiences And what got Bush was ultimately all his failures to deliver...
Ain't no such thing as halfway crooks
And on the other side, a narrow escape. He almost certainly would have been convicted on some of those federal charges, and it's not like he's been operating strictly within the four corners of his authority this time around
Corollary: fewer federal agencies should have police powers, much less tactical units The US Mint, NASA, Amtrak, NIH, National Park Service, etc do not need swat teams www.twz.com/36343/from-n...
Party of crooks & thieves (predator handshake edition)
The list of things that are federal crimes needs to be drastically reduced States are perfectly capable of investigating most "violent crime" What they can't do well is investigate espionage, foreign-sponsored terrorism, etc Don't give the feds these powers, and they can't be used against you
Wait obv pro-rel is the way to go 12-team super league w/ last year's top two from six regional first divisions (SEC, BIG10, BIG12, PAC, ACC, East), and relegation to the MAC, Sunbelt, etc for bottom two finishers
Preseason rankings determine seeding, playoffs start week one
This is the ideal MAGA LEO body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like, to them
Not the major thing wrong here, but I'm guessing whoever filmed this has a lower BMI than any of those cops
You could say the ideological break with the Eisenhower-HW Bush GOP was the end of the transition of Solid South from Blue to Red in the last years of Bush fils
A tricky issue is the conflation with conservative & Republican Consistently, the most conservative political group in the US has been white Southerners, but they have not been consistent Republicans.
Excerpts from: scholars-stage.org/did-taiwan-l...
So now that the warning shot has been fired, here is Colby's framing -You cannot conduct personalist diplomacy with Trump like other partners -Most of MAGA doesn't really care about Taiwan, but we do -You embarrassed us in the 2023 Ukraine funding debates -Obeisance must be performed
This is far from the most important takeaway, but he sounds so damn senile We have to impose age limits on elected figures
bsky.app/profile/pwis...
I discovered a lot more empathy for Barry Bonds when I showed up to college & all these kids were flaunting their study drugs, and suddenly I'm competing against them in classes with curved grades
A lot going on here; but it seems like they're skirting around the issue with true crime entertainment that I find deeply repulsive, bc this is a rare case where *one* of the victims is both alive and producing it
"Bohunk"
"When you're a star, they let you do it"
www.amazon.com/Peak-Human-H...
Literally Nero
That's why the analogy to Churchill is operative
THE BISMARCK WAS SUNK! BY BIPLANES! THEY MADE A MOVIE ABOUT IT. YOU IGNORANT, SERVILE SCUM WHY DO YOU ALL KEEP SIMPING FOR LOSER REGIMES!
He's trying to win votes in the South, though, and the swoop plays there
People really want things to be black or white, but even assuming Ukraine pulls through this, Zelensky is probably going to go down as a Churchillian figure, in the sense of being a serial bumbler with bad tactical sense, who nevertheless was right about the one big thing
