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America, 2025
Shoutout to the SAVE SEPTA sign in the crowd at Dynamite
THE WORD IS "AUTHENTICITY"?!?!?! JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESUS
GRANDIA
Confronted Rep. Randy Fine about why he doesn’t support fully releasing the Epstein files. Also spoke to several Epstein survivors and Rep. Thomas Massie — who said his Republican colleagues (like Fine) are trying to pull the wool over the public's eyes by passing a bill that actually does nothing:
Randomly watched a video where CM Punk says his Lou Malnati's order is a thin crust pizza and tbh I truly didn't think I could dislike the man more...
The great tragedy is that dumb people will use this, the reactions of smart people on Bluesky, as sufficient evidence that she's the right pick (because she "upsets" liberals). Which is by no means a reasonable or even necessary qualification to be in the media.
Feeling vindicated as a 5+ year Gladwell hater today.
Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
trump actively trying to elect Cuomo, while jeffries/schumer/gillibrand/hochul refuse to endorse. "trump's a fascist dictator, but free public transit is worse" is I guess the message from NY ds. they should all be primaried.
Sitting on the couch with a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, guzzling a Hulk Hogan Beer on my day off work from Verizon Wireless, watching UFC and thinking about my bloodline destiny of the US as my personal "birthright, heritage, and destiny." Just before I rip a fart and post a nazi meme on Twitter.
also they never fuckin shut up about it of course people do not want to hang out with them
Spend a non-zero amount of time thinking MAGA dorks see this kind of style as something they aspire to return to, but are completely unaware of the socioeconomic conditions (let alone cultural) that make this completely impossible based on their policy preferences.
The Atlantic is journalism for people addicted to putting "KICK ME" signs on their own backs and then getting mad when people kick them in the pants.
Xi-Putin-Modi backslapping, along with easing global condemnation for Russia's aggressive war of territorial conquest, gives a sense of what the post-American world looks like. Not some sort of peaceful utopia, but a playground for authoritarians, with aggression abroad and repression at home.
You know what this is, someone trying to mentally prep a society to commit genocide.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
GUESS WHAT? IT NEVER ENDS!
Not immediately clear - wrung his arm in apparent pain after a pitch, refused throwback from catcher. Commentators indicated a history of elbow issues his body language seemed to corroborate.
Obviously want Phillies to go all the way but don't want anyone to get hurt. Hope Shelby Miller gets good news and there's no injury, or worst case an easily recoverable diagnosis. Brewers are a solid team - performance and coaching - even when I want them to lose.
The entirety of anti-Bluesky sentiment is anti-Democracy, anti-empirical, anti-human Trump-sanewashing forces are reasonable and worth engaging with, even when they wish for people like you to be locked up and killed merely for existing. Excluding those people from serious discourse is honorable.
The political foresight/predictions market should treat talking heads like we do pro athletes, and loudly/externally recognize when they have become a shell of their former* selves, encouraging retirement. *Not sure what NS ever achieved analytically, other than a slim shot of Trump winning 2016.
Media bias asymmetry is so lopsided that not only is there zero coverage of Trump's disappearance from the one space he loves so much (yammering like an asshole to the public), but it's considered full proof of life that he can stand and smile simultaneously.
Happy Labor Day!
Dunno if it's controversial but Walz played the best Blofeld, second place not remotely close.
If you played this for me and said it was a Ministry demo track from the Wax Trax! era, I'd 100% believe you.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Women's basketball comes to us from the good alternate universe.
And, it shouldn't go unnoted that Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who has done her job at all hours today over a holiday weekend, was one of the final Biden appointees confirmed to the bench. Each one of those lame-duck confirmations very much matter.
Lying to courts so far has led to zero consequences for the Trump Administration. What the fuck will it take for that to change?
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
(interrupting small child singing) Yeah, i know what a teapot looks like, thanks
Dang even his hat is death themed
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The Constitution doesn't give the president explicit authority over Space Pirate law. The Constitution doesn't give the president explicit authority over Bird law. The Constitution doesn't give the president explicit authority over Gravity. The framing is patently absurd and embarrassing.
Ohmygod
I get that he's slowly morphing into Pizza the Hutt but goddamn one of you get a quality camera around the man, c'mon.
Why does every photo of him today look like it was taken on a 2009 Motorola Razr?
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Worth remembering that any time I refer to “it happening,” I’m talking about a new game set in the style of Sierra's classic "Rise of the Dragon."
Trump supporters are very angry this morning about people making jokes on social media after many years of telling the rest of us to have a sense of humor and don't take everything so seriously.
oh wow so sometimes people "detransition"? so you agree that gender is fluid and we should support social and medical structures that allow for its malleability to be fully explored
Not sure I follow "this is what happens." Modi seems fine - he's realigning global powers by courting China perhaps, but India doesn't seem to be suffering. "This is what happens" seems more relevant to US; this is what happens when you elect One Special Boy and a nation declines to agree.
ROH put up Death Before Dishonor for free (they had streaming issues?). Bandido/Hechicero was possibly one of the single best matches I've *ever* seen live. Click and live:
I don’t care what Bill Maher thinks about literally anything, whether I agree with it or not, because it has been decades since he did anything except get attention for saying uninteresting things. People go after Kardashians and so on for “being famous for being famous.” Maher is the same.
Hallmark of an authoritarian regime that friends of the authoritarian do what they want, while enemies (Lisa Cook) experience the justice system as a targeted threat.
2300 Arena is not IATSE contracted, never has been to my knowledge. Their beef is with the venue, not AEW. It's pitiful political opportunism b/c they're beefing by leveraging a high profile participant, not a minor league boxing org.
Alive with Pleasure(?)
"We are all going to die" was self-referential to her career. Good fucking riddance. Hope Iowans are smarter than electing another MAGA dipshit to run in her stead.
Someday we will deeply interrogate the weaponized expectation of gratitude for authority figures who believe you owe them for not killing you YET. It’s like the person holding a blade to your throat being annoyed that you’re complaining about bleeding instead of thanking them for not cutting deeper.
How to control for institutional support via research funds, course loads/preps (time to *do* research), assistants? Probably none. So Doctorate Apples to Doctorate Oranges, obliviously compared by administrative buffoonery. *Cool*
JFC. I left academia bc I ended up in a low salary 4/4 teaching college with poverty level research/publication/conference support. The institution understood what they were, but woof, the fear of being compared against scholars with institutional support (time, finances, assistants)? Garbage.
It's infuriating to see the coward Johnson only giving interview time to compliant lapdog media. It's more infuriating knowing the media he's too afraid to engage is frankly too cowardly to ask him pointed questions either. Frozen in fear.
Americans voted for disease. Some badly wanted it, having spent the last few years fuming that there weren't more COVID deaths. Many others weren't actively pro-disease, but didn't care about it, prioritizing things like seeing immigrants hurt on TV, or making Joe Biden and Kamala Harris feel bad.
Reminder about where inflation was when Joe Biden left office, contra everything you heard about how he & Jay Powell had handled it:
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
This the bravery and solidarity we need right now.
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
ya i mean the harris coalition is the one that includes the demographics for which the "opposing political view" is "people like you should be killed" so
"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
the Phillies lost and everyone is miserable but did you consider
Fond memories of when Embiid and the Sixers were good. Time long since past.
Again, maybe today is the day the national press wants to stop giving the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader total free passes about why they’re violating their oaths and not doing their damn jobs while the entire federal government is being dismantled 🤔🤷♂️
Dumbass country, these United States.
This is an important story, and another insight into an America that’s going off the deep end, by @jessebunch.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/crime/villan...
BRB, buying a carton of Camels so I don't die of COVID this fall
When you've spent more time in Budapest than Baton Rouge, yet still think the left are the elitists.
THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BEAR (CHICKEN P)ARMS WINS AGAIN
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
I'm staying logged on tonight to see how many dollar dogs end up getting sold in this Blue Jays game.
I'll never be as rich as these shitheads but on the upside, I'll never have to spend every day groveling in the dirt like them either.
From the "government shouldn't be picking winners and losers" party
The main problem with humiliation is the GOP's willingness to accept it as a tradeoff for accomplishing its policy goals. See Marco Rubio for example.
Langoliers come to take us all. We deserve it.
impeach the motherfucker already
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
2/3 The Supreme Court’s attempt to draw a line between the Fed and every other independent agency is transparent bullshit designed to simultaneously serve the conservative legal movement’s interest in deregulation via the “unitary executive” and corporate interests in not crashing the economy.
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
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.
This is in no possible way remotely, plausibly legal. How do I know? The New York Times went to great trouble to call it "legally dubious" in their breaking news story.
There's no guarantee that hospitals that have chickened out will resume care once a Dem enters office. The threat of a future GOP administration will always hang over them. That's why the next Democratic admin needs to also find a way to punish the cowards. Or at least reward those who held strong.
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
You may be an ass man, but you’re not The Ass Man
Vin has it now!
I simply took a VHS tape Dustin once left behind titled WRESTLING INJURIES. First match on it was Mass Transit. Woof.
A what through what what the actual fuck
Was talking with folks earlier today about how it seems the biggest (individual) fear people in the world seem to have today is a willingness to ever admit being wrong - and so much misery comes out of that insecurity. Much, much respect to you for being confident enough to admit being wrong. <3
Florida, here are your tax dollars at work. Law enforcement are being tasked with monitoring a crosswalk to ensure it's not restored with rainbow colors after the state government painted it over a second time over the objections of the local government and community.
Jesus Christ I hate myself that I can’t wait.
