trey, a brooding omnipotence in the sky

At some point people need to recognize that whatever peril we're all in is a *choice* made by our elected officials. Trump openly attempted a violent armed coup, and *four years later* isn't dead or in jail, he's basically even odds to be president

whats he going to do that would make them do that, pivot to twitch streaming about wealth redistribution? attend a student protest where somebody said ~from the river to the sea~?

The thing that's kind of grimly funny is that islamophobia is so normalized amongst this country's political class that nobody is even asking *why* he should disavow the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, the simple concept of an organization of Muslims is taken as self-evidently menacing enough

many are asking and id like to clarify, no, I do NOT give a damn about the whole state of alabama

so we crossed the line twice but they didn't give us points and then *didn't* cross the line because of an egregious and dangerous penalty, which we *will* get points for (but NOT because of the penalty), refs already in playoff form

Just calmly noting the o/u on Tenn/GT was 55.5 lmao

At the risk of stating the obvious, Dem politicians and consultants aren't fixating on Hasan *despite* the fact most ppl have no idea who he is, it's *because* of that. They think they can Sister Souljah him, and this will be a political masterstroke, because their brains atrophied in like 1994

"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

*two* tulane philosophy department professors on here hahaha

tbf we were due for a french work stoppage

frauditos unidos

appreciate the shots of de bruyne brooding in his powerade fortress of solitude

my mayor muslim/my bagel jewish/is the president still alive/knicks in five

Ok so I admit I did not foresee Helena as the leader of a breakaway republic but you play with the team you got

are y'all actually going to make me have to read this silly Rockhill book

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

Don't particularly blame anybody (like what is the ✌️productive✌️ response to ~unto dust shalt thou return~?) but gotta say a lot of the reactions I'm seeing to the long-term projections for the city are hovering somewhere between denial and cope

tapping the sign

really cannot emphasize enough how good of an idea this is lol

Uhhhhhhhh

Trust me, you'll want to give this a read:

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are you interested in "macro data" or are you interested in authoritative-looking charts that you can wave around to confirm your priors and justify your capitulation to a shitty system

You might think liberalism is trapped at the End of History, intellectually and morally bankrupt, completely bereft of ideas and incapable of meeting the challenges of the 21st century. but have you considered... ✨ Cold War 2 ✨ ???

[me, to the pack of rabid dogs devouring my legs]: it would only take One of you to make the Right Choice for Our Nation 😢

you know, I was on here the other day arguing that Israel and the US were acting with a certain *type* of rationality- one within a fundamentally irrational system- but I think this is a very cogent and much more precise argument www.patreon.com/posts/illusi...

so just realized helen lewis is apparently NOT helen andrews, like exactly how many fascist helens we got running around out here

woke up to no water, so that's exciting

it's so funny to me all these people in the year two thousand and twenty six are like "... now I'm NOT worried every channel being a right-wing slop factory will turn people right-wing" dawg look around, what do you think has happened, who do you think is the president right now

made the mistake of turning on the SOTU for a couple mins and my big takeaways are 1) I overestimated the degree to which describing people as "waxy ghouls" is always hyperbole and 2) it is shocking and should be an absolute scandal that half of that chamber is not completely empty

is it just me or did "RIP to [person]" used to be sort of cavalier and mostly used ironically? It seems like in the last few years I've been seeing it used earnestly a lot more often and it throws me a little every time