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Sooooooo not really the anti-war party, then.
Music Bleg: I need to come up with some songs that are loosely related to wrath. Think anger, betrayal, revenge, justice. But they also need to be songs that most people know, and with a copy of the lyrics might be able to sing along with a crowd of people. Any ideas?
And most decades prior.
"born to be criminals"
I'm not sure Biden deserves a Nobel, but it would be funny as s**t if they gave him one this year.
I'm probably forgetting someone who isn't, but every single reporter or pundit I can think of that was cast out into exile from actual journalism for plagiarism, taking money under the table from its subjects, or getting caught just making s**t up is now a fixture in the right-wing media sphere.
One of the most under-appreciated factors in right-wing media becoming what it is today is its decision back in the 00s that it would take in and promote any well-known reporters, pundits or broadcast media figures that had been drummed out of traditional journalism for extreme ethical lapses.
Here's one really big headline and one really little headline from this morning's WSJ homepage
I generally don't care about mayoral races in cities other than my own, so I don't follow NYC politics like most people do and because of this I don't know anything non-superficial about Zohran. But with the bits I do see here and there, he's kind of hard not to root for?
jesus
I am genuinely confused about when Castle Doctrine does and does not come into play in Texas.
jesus www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/u...
This is a really perceptive point.
RFK is about eugenicism and culling whomever he deems week based on his superficial, personal inspection, but he's also about ritual purity -- "clean" and "unclean" under a ritual meaning, not a scientific meaning.
Sooooooo not really the anti-war party, then.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
The kicker, of course, was that they honesty believed the fact that all these new foods terrified them made them look very alpha. Like I said, super weird. And probably my first experience of what would eventually become known as culture-war s**t.
Same with espresso, mustards that weren't French's, and non-s**ty ice cream. Almost all of them were men. There was just a ton of them that found people liking these new-to-them food and beverage items an affront to their personal masculinity. It was super weird.
Being one of the olds, I remember how upset people got when supermarkets in America started offering whole wheat bread. They didn't even have to buy it, but just seeing it sitting there on the shelf reminding them that someone might made so many people *so* angry.
Yeah, but I think deporting people who looked like the people they're deporting *is* something they wanted. They may not have thought it al the way through, but they voted Trump because the concept sounded great to them. I don't think they ever wanted to pay 20-40% more for most of their s**t.
Sinners exploring the revolution of Black music is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.
when i think “guy who really gets ‘normal people’” i think nate silver
Need to pay better attention when scrolling. Came thiiiiiis close to retweeting Richard Hanania just now.
Isn't it enough that right wing podcasters have told him what Bluesky is like?
“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao
It’s also partly the fault of Democrats who have generally given up on even trying to educate the electorate. Harris would SAY that tariffs are a tax that would cost $n to voters, but never even tried to explain how tariffs work. If the electorate cannot be educated, Democratism itself is hopeless.
This dumb twat assured me that he was “the most influential President ever” and that he was “remaking society” and people would “like it or lump it” on tariffs.
This is my fourth 2 in the past week, partly because my opening word has been unusually lucky during this period and partly because the most obvious guess after the first one ended up being the answer each time. Wordle 1,535 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Someone please kill me right now.
And yeah, that blame is partly on the voters. But it's also on places like CNN, who regularly invited "experts" to tell their viewers things CNN staff understood perfectly well were lies in a "he said/she said," "who knows what the facts really are about how tariffs work" kind of way.
To be (sort of) fair, I think you'll find that before voters were in favor of taxing foreign countries and corporations for the privilege of selling good here, because that's what they were explicitly told we were going to do. I don't think they've ever been for paying tariffs on goods they buy.
The emergence of conservative talk radio. The late 80s marked the first time where a large percentage of men listened to someone who sounded authoritative reflexively s**t on the government in a purposefully tribal way 5 days a week every week of the year.
this is literally just racism
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Ive said it before and I'll say it again. If you could show the founders the American government of today one of the first things they'd be upset about is "Why are there papists on SCOTUS?"
A probably unkind thing I have long believed is that the entirely of Originalism has always simply been a way to dress the Founder's probable intent about that exact thing in pretty, legalese language.
One of the complexities of America is that this guy is a f**king loser who should be publicly shamed for posting this, but that he's also correct in that the Founders probably would indeed have been horrified to learn they were creating a nation where black women would someday be judges.
A perennial favorite of Caitlin-Flanagan-esque clickbait is the sexual-more moral-panic story about a "new popular trend" that is meant to feed both middle-aged men's sexual fantasies and a certain type of middle-class woman's cattiness about other women, but is also entirely made up.
Head Pioneer To His Fellow Pioneers: Okay, so we're in agreement that this long island is where we're going to settle and build our new town. Now the question is, what should we name it? Pioneers: ... Pioneers: ... Pioneers: ... Some Guy: oh wait hold on
From now on, that map is what I will think about every time I am told that the Europeans who settled here were simply naturally more creative than everyone else who proceeded or followed them.
The map I was presented with when I asked Google to show me the locations all of the towns and cities named Long Island in North America.
This will probably by especially damaging long-term for a brand like Jack Daniels, which has relied for years on simply being much more of a cultural brand name than many, many far better bourbons at the same price point. Guessing a lot of JD drinkers don't go back when the trade stuff is fixed.
The really troubling thing here is that I don't think he's faking it. Like, this does not seem like a Ben Shapiro or Jesse Watters playing dumb to win a performative argument. I think this guy - *who is a sitting Lt Governor* - honestly has no idea what the phrase "due process" means.
The really troubling thing here is that I don't think he's faking it. Like, this does not seem like a Ben Shapiro or Jesse Watters playing dumb to win a performative argument. I think this guy - *who is a sitting Lt Governor* - honestly has no idea what the phrase "due process" means.
"But if the government gets out of disaster relief, then the market is wide open, the disasters aren't going away, it's a gold mine."
Sign O' The Times: Watching the Ducks game, and just saw an ad for a national natural-disaster reconstruction contractor aimed at private homeowners.
Sitting up all night with fingers crossed hoping he'd kicked it is just the latest version of all of us knowing exactly what's coming but choosing to just sit around hoping someone else fixes it for us.
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Bonus: you don't have to sit around in a wait room for half an hour or forty minutes to make sure you're sober enough to be released and then wait around for a wheelchair. You just go put your pants on, thank the nurse and walk out.
So basically the reason I initially went without was so I could eat a bowl of Ramen when I knew I would be famished.
For anyone curious, it's because you don't eat for a day before, and when I said I wanted to go get Ramen as soon as it was done a nurse said "most people get nauseous if they eat after because of the anesthesia," and my doc said, "or you could just ask to go without; every doc I know does."
FWIW, I've never had anesthesia for one. It's actually fine - like fine to the point where I'm a little confused as to why sedation ever became a thing.
when you don't know what 'dynastic' means
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”
BTW, if you've never seen a Liberty home game on tv, Ellie the Elephant is maybe the best mascot in all of sports, because whoever is inside the costume if a legit dancer. During timeouts instead of just nodding goofily like every other mascot, Ellie busts out *moves*. www.tiktok.com/@billboard/v...
And then Ellie started dancing LITERALLY ON THE CHAIR RIGHT NET TO HIM and I was watching him wondering if he was going to lose it.
Watching the New York Liberty game last night, there was a moment during a timeout where Ellie the Elephant was dancing near a middle-aged guy who was sitting front-court, and it was clear that Ellie dancing was making him SO ANGRY.
Celebrating Labor Day as New Englander in exile, with Cape Codder, staycation is officially on. And you may now begin your cocktailing.
The "adjust their morals" part is surprisingly honest.
i honestly don’t understand what they’re doing with this vampire rules shit
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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"If you really believed in tolerance and diversity you'd be tolerant or diversity of thought and support our movement to deport of all the Jews." f all the way off with that s**t
Look, if you're LGBTQ or a POC or an immigrant of a Jew or a Muslim or something else MAGAs like to shit on and push public policies to punish you or erase you or even disappear you, you officially have my permission to say "f**k" off to anyone saying you're intolerant for not hanging our with them.
OFFS for the love of God please stop.
"I just want to see the old Cracker Barrel logo whenever I drive by one on my way to eat somewhere else."
Remember when conservative pundits decided to make Chick-Fil-A their cause célèbre, and they made a point of eating there all the time? It was hard not to notice none of them was willing to do the same thing with Cracker Barrel.
Brooke Rollins: "Thank you for saving college football, by the way. We're very grateful."
[in my best angry Roy Kent voice]: Oi! Tart! #blueskysupperclub
Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that. The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom." Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
This is why most back robbers are found sitting around in the vault waiting for the police.
He would like them if they paid him a lot of money and told him he was the best.
In fairness, that was never the real reason they had a problem with him.
Going to assume that since ICE will be trying to kidnap people of a certain persuasion and look, the age old American rules of who historically is and is not allowed to shoot people because they felt nervous will continue largely unchanged.
So what happens when someone shoots and kills an ICE person not wearing a uniform in a stand your ground state? Are you supposed to be able to intuit who is kidnapping you and why?
Picked a mess of tomatoes from the yard today, and in about an hour I'm going to put them in a pie crust with some assorted stuff and make me a Tomato Tart. #blueskysupperclub
Like, 99% of the times I've seen a Free Speech Warrior™ accused of hypocrisy over the past four or five years, that Warrior is actually being *very* consistent in both directions.
I would argue that a lot of it isn't exactly hypocrisy so much as it is an unwillingness to admit to others or yourself what it was you were aiming to accomplish in the first place.
Here's a thing I honestly believe is true about my side of the fence: we will do better in elections when we decide to hold people accountable for stuff like this.
It’s spreading.
Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!
There’s an essay to be written about how the “conservative” movement that’s spent the past 90 years trying to undo the New Deal has embraced the New Deal’a aesthetic as its propaganda genre of choice for promoting its regressive, anti-worker policies.
This is a pretty good example of why you should not mask law enforcement and federal ICE agents.
The Right To Transition As A Retirement Benefit
DeSantis directing that memorial to be painted over is yet another reminder that everything they said about the need to keep confederate monuments to remind us of history was bulls**t.
The thing I keep thinking about w/ Cracker Barrel is last month when @janecoaston.bsky.social warned that August was always a slow news month, and that the stuff political influencers and outrage peddlers were going to have to serve up for clicks this month would be... well, like Cracker Barrel.
In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.
To some extent, this is an area the modern right has always had over everyone else. All they've ever really cared about is passing along a good story, the truth of it be damned.
Good advice from Richard Power's The Overstory, for people wanting to grow movements in the real world.
I enjoyed it.
Further down the road of Generals who only give you good news
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
