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According to a study published in The Journal of Really? I'm Shocked

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Catholic schools in greater Cincinnati are some of the most conservative places imaginable. You've got to be a world-class asshat to get on the wrong side of these people as a Republican.

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Dan Campbell gonna Dan Campbell.

Broken Clock adage.

Me at my performance review

Indiana 13, Michigan 6

lol the "liberals are the new racists" ad I just saw was the most unhinged shit I've ever seen, new lows every day, baby

As awful as this stuff is from Trump, there are clear signs the media are losing their fear of him; and as his numbers decline further, they are getting more comfortable with poking at him ... which of course only makes him lash out more. These are going to be a long 12 days.

Minimizing the rape of children is right up there with tariffs and commenting on the asses of GOP senators as a true fixation for an otherwise mercurial president.

My friend group in college was not, to put it mildly, a major consumer of country, but the campiness of "Swingin'" caught on with us as a party song.

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

Least shocking Vance quote ever.

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Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

Manchin's various endorsements remind me a lot of when I was in high school and would dutifully release my own personal Top 20 college football poll right after the AP poll came out. Literally nobody is asking you, gramps.

These posts are only three hours apart

Kyle McCord got run out of Columbus for less than this.

The "I will hire only the best people, none of that DEI crap" president has now had 2 different press secretaries last less than 12 days on the job.

Bauers and Ernie Clement (last October's hero) were both on the 2021 Guardians, and they were probably the two worst players on the team.

extremely bold choice to announce that you're ending your campaign at the Alamo www.ksat.com/news/texas/2...

I saw a Levy bumper sticker out in the wild this morning, so it's not like he has no genuine support at all. But the purpose of the flyer -- which came in our mail today -- is pretty clearly to publicize a left alternative in an attempt to get Husted to return to the Senate with 49% of the vote.

This maroon may be less of an Ohioan than J.D. Vance.

oh man 😂

"The smoke alarm blaring from my hallway raises serious questions about whether I should get the hell out of my house."

The Karenization of Kelly Clarkson is something I didn't see coming...

There are a few Browns left from the game where Minkah Fitzpatrick essentially ended the productive part of Nick Chubb 's career. Hopefully they will get some inspiration from his latest bullshit.

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

The Georgia secondary getting away with some bullshit in a big game definitely doesn't look familiar to those of us in Columbus, oh no sir.

Literally the most petty jackass who ever walked the earth.

Come 2028, remember that Gavin Newsom helped Trump's oligarch friends buy CNN. prospect.org/2026/10/08/d...

Nothing about these ads has ever passed the smell test.

Because their last Big Idea for the campaign is to just keep repeating "I am going to give you money" and hope enough morons buy it.

OK, I did not realize Aaron Sorkin directed The Social Reckoning as well as having written it. Not necessarily saying that's ominous -- The Trial of the Chicago 7 was fine -- but I suspect Fincher is going to be missed, not to mention my misgivings about spending any more time with Zuck.

Whenever I visit, always struck by the disjunction between "Washington" the synecdoche for US empire and "Washington" the beautiful city for the people, just packed with public good and beauty, a promise to be something better. It's good to be upset about the latter's destruction.

If that's going too far for some Dems -- and knowing Senate Dems I am certain it will be -- they can at least insist on getting someone in there who isn't a 35 year-old Federalist Society robot.

The eternal double standard of American politics: conservatives can insult, and even welcome the annihilation of, left-leaning parts of the USA with little commentary; while "basket of deplorables" was the biggest scandal in the 2016 campaign.

Go away and count your money, dipshit.

The illustrations in "The Biggest Bear." In my defense, I was really young, and the bear was really big.

Damn. A good guy.

"What we believe is so unpopular we can't have it as part of an election campaign" goes hand in hand with the certainty that the federal courts will be bringing these policies to us anyway.

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

The best part of this is Schmitt's sputtering attempt to cut Klobuchar off once he becomes aware that he royally screwed up. Being schooled about sports nicknames by a female Democrat makes the humiliation even worse.