Dance, Skellingtons!

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

This is how you treat crime families.

A protip as we look to the future: unless you do it the MILISECOND he breathes his last, you will he the billionth person to repost what Trump said about Robert Mueller. Find another angle.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

@eoinhiggins.bsky.social sounds up your alley

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Cults of personality are rarely polytheistic.

i'm gonna be mean for a second and say if you're trusting kalshi or polymarket for your political analysis you're a fucking dipshit

Dear every non-profit that takes recurring donations: I am begging you to make it easier to update my payment info. It is 2026. The backend you’re using has the option. And using it as a tactic to get me to talk to someone who will pressure me to increase my donation sucks.

In a few traditions master craftspeople add a deliberate flaw to their otherwise perfect works, in order to show humility. I assume that’s why they still haven’t done anything about Hugo Weaving’s “American” accent on Slow Horses.

Not autistic, but I have a special hat I wear indoors and out in fall and winter and I get upset when the weather doesn’t change on schedule so I can wear it

I’ll object to one of these: ‘butt naked’ for ‘buck naked’ has lasted long enough to be a colloquialism, if not just straight up drift.

Turning Point UK now has documented terrorist connections. This raises questions about Kirk’s assassination, and whether we should continue to celebrate it as one of ours.

I don’t watch vids people make in their cars on purpose. That is not a thing I am going to support. “It’s the only quiet place-“ stop. Shh. I don’t care.

The Dan Sullivans thing remains hilarious, and I can’t wait for the DOJ to eat shit trying to counter-game it.

I mark my drift away from NPR at the point when they started broadcasting those “Intelligence Squared” debates. Deeply off-putting entertainment programming masking as something serious. (Don’t care if it was PRI/APM/whatev. It’s all NPR to me)

The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.

I frequently have dreams where I’ve started smoking again, but last night was the first time I took up comically large cigars. Felt like Flip from Little Nemo.

My support of trans rights is absolutely idealistic, but it is simultaneously fully pragmatic. Conservatives will not stop at trans people: setting back the clock does not have a stop point.

Damn, but 93 is a hell of a run

I’ve been a Chet fan since the Old Man Murray days, and this fire is part of the reason.

Nebraska: the “Oh, that’s the one I forgot!” state

Zuck, I already voted for it, I don't need more convincing.

I watched George W Bush stand in the skulls of Americans killed on 9/11 and the Iraqis he slaughtered and use it as a campaign backdrop. I watched McCain mock women who need abortion. I watched Romney pal around with a birther and then that birther led the GOP. Fuck all of them. They’re not good.

Woofy-doofy, I was in a baaaaaaaad place this morning. Loneliness and whatever the fuck is going on with my brain is a toxic combo.

Yesteryear was pretty well written, which is not always the case with buzzy books. I’m curious to see what Burke does next.

I applaud stuff like this happening in the “ritziest neighborhoods.” These fuckers demonstrably don’t care about us, why should I care if they get anxiety from being adjacent to poors? I genuinely don’t give a fuck about a rich person’s stolen Vespa, other than hoping the thief got a good price.

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

I was raised with the value that illness is weakness and weakness is illness and both are the worst things you can be. In consequence I’ve spent most of my life papering over mental illness and being disgusted with myself for weakness. If you’re somehow young and reading this: don’t do that.