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Washington state voters "why do all of our politicians cater to Boomers" Also Washington state voters:

A quick Sunday morning rant on the borderline hysterical reaction from some quarters to basic adult advice. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/dont-panic...

I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with Biden not taking bribes for pardons, or dangling pardons as an incentive for Executive branch employees to break the law.

Jon Ossoff could make a Senate hearing on agricultural subsidies feel like the season finale of The West Wing.

"I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, I'm looking at the data." —Jim Cramer, CNBC Marx began sounding like Marx after looking at the data too.

Kristi Noem endorses Amy Acton's mom for governor of Ohio.

🔥 @charlesmblow.bsky.social : “The media is getting this wrong… The Muslim Brotherhood is ~100 years old, Trump just classified them as terrorists this year. 0 terrorist attacks on 🇺🇸 soil — Trump’s dad was arrested at a Klan rally, is he responsible for his dad’s actions?”

The midterm elections are going so poorly for the president that some conservative commentators have said they may become Never Trump again.

The American mind cannot process a vehicle that is not designed to kill as many pedestrian children as possible

We've had transcripts of Thiel's secret lectures on the Antichrist for a minute -- he's been publishing relevant parts of them, so we had David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, pull them apart for us. Gift link! www.theverge.com/tech/1014252...

MAGA: “You had me at “pedophile.”

Here's an important essay by the guy who used to be in charge of pursuing international crime on what needs to change if Trump is going to interfere in prosecutions. These issues are already playing out, esp in Jim Comey 2 and the Broadview 6. www.justsecurity.org/159847/serva...

Man Experiencing First Real Moment Of Peace In Years Resuscitated — theonion.com/man-experien...

Girlie went to Stanford and conned James Mattis out of money. She ain't dumb.

Breaking: Department of Justice lawyers argue in East Potomac golf course case that course tree removal was necessary because the trees were within two weeks of obtaining a nuclear weapon.

when the CIA attempted to recruit me, they said I could suck any cock on earth. Any I desire. I turned down their offer because i am not Gay

The explosive new film reveals how fossil fuel billionaires concealed the truth, bought political protection, and then blamed ordinary Americans for the destruction they helped create… hartmannreport.com/p/tom-cruise...

"Throw an insult on the ground and the owner will pick it up"

this is a first: "don't build a protected bike lane/pedestrian crossing because a drunk driver will hit it"

I highly encourage people read this 2011 article about how San Jose almost went bankrupt due to police and fire pay. At one point, the police suggested the city close its libraries entirely to pay for police. www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/11...

First Amendment only applies vis-a-vis the government. Private entities are allowed to say "you can't say that on my property." Even if what they're rejecting is valuable speech.

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

Can you name a time when you voted against trump and it changed the outcome? Can we talk about roadsalt?

A little gem, Prof, ICYMI!

A criminal president with the power to appoint a corrupt Attorney General is a true weakness of our system. It immediately creates the largest criminal cartel on Earth.

Max Dubler gets called a marxist for saying property rights are good. Then, in the same thread, he gets called a developer shill by someone else truly amazing

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: I give my take on the new "Nobel" prize winners. What it means, why they won and why I hope that this award for a "counterrevolution" is a death rattle. www.crisesnotes.com/on-the-ersat...

Ruin a book by adding a word Fellowship of the Ring Camera

3 y/o: no, we can do that in the morning me: it is the morning, buddy! 3 y/o: ....no. the sky is still asleep I feel you, little guy.

A 29% approval rating is what happens when you promise you'll fix everything and, instead, you make everything worse.

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I died in the shipwreck of a whaling vessel in 1798, but a few days later, clinging to an old rum barrel. Now I can only haunt this one specific patch of desolate ocean. I thought I saw a cruise liner once, in the distance. Had a scare ready to go and everything. Not much going on outside of that

The Disturbing New Christian Nationalist Argument for Subjugating Women www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-distur...

Car won't start. Frustrated, I yell, "Stupid car!" Moments later I am dragged from the scene by compliance officers for mandatory major appliance attitude adjustment.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

This is not about any one corporation. This is all about this administration’s desire to end all legal immigration and cut off the ability of hard working immigrants to stay here and contribute to our country. This administration has pardoned grifters and is stealing money from the American people.

Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

On Jay McInerney, accidental horror writer: "There is a perverse thrill in knowing that McInerney’s socialites will face terrorists and collapse and a pandemic. There is deep horror in knowing that these are not plot points he invented for the books." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bright-lig...

My partner's Trump voter parents are apparently mad at how much gas costs and wonder why Trump won't "stop the war" so they'll go back down. Must be neat to go through life with a Bugs Bunny cartoon understanding of the world.

Sorry the very idea that anything Donald Trump says requires a close reading to interpret his real meaning instead of observing how his poorly considered remarks were well received by his supporters for the initial meaning we all obviously saw and heard is such a massive waste of energy.

Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...