Michael Powell

Good framing!

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

Did we change the meaning of the word muscular? Is this like when Starbucks made “tall” the smallest order?

I know there's a long list of things he should go to prison for, but this one is on the list

So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December?

they really think we are all idiots

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

Impeaching Hegseth is of course an unquestionably correct step, however it's a little absurd to impeach the Secretary of Defense over illegally pursuing war against Iran when you don't also go after the one who gave the order in the first place.

Thanks to Matt who emailed the Bombcast back in February to suggest I try to make it onto the show! I applied that day and auditioned that weekend.

I was just watching football and now this is happening

oh my god

If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.

If Sega doesn't sue for trademark and copyright infringement they have no balls.

The federal law that makes this illegal basically says “it’s illegal” and nothing else. Congress should amend it to say that any U.S. currency featuring living people isn’t legal tender.

Found part two

Watch all the way to the end for the least shocking plot twist of all time bc this is just so emblematic of how all these people are.

This is downstream of America's oligarchy problem. The GOP is the party of the top 1% of the wealth distribution, but also the ~25th-80th percentile. Meanwhile, media is the provenance of the 90th-99th%ile where you'll encounter dumb campus leftism, but not Nazism or Christian nationalism.

Just a reminder: Photos of Donald and Epstein are REAL. Photos of Donald and Dolly are FAKE.

I've bracing for this for years and welp. There it goes, one of the few celebrities I give a shit about Losing Dolly and Tim is a one-two punch for the queers, goddamnit that's not cool

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: DHS legal opinion justifying ICE entering homes without a judicial warrant is nothing more than an email written by ICE Deputy Principal Legal Advisor Adam Loiacono, and DHS refuses to release it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

The culture of drag has suffered two great losses this week

federal law *used to* ban sports betting throughout much of the country but in 2018, the Supreme Court struck that law down, freeing states to partner with the gambling industry to profit off their vulnerable residents Americans are now paying the price ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

it only takes a little exposure to realize that being an expert witness is an incredible grift, and as a result it attracts some of the laziest, most financially-motivated cynics imaginable

Trump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.

Trump just dismantled this so his blatant corruption and his cronies overseas can operate without consequences or detection. Organized crime is now legal and the US is open for exploitation by foreign and domestic criminals. Don’t expect Rubio to say a word.

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Don't want to shock you or nothin, but a guy who married Megan Fox started with being attracted to her. I know, fucking wild what's the odds.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

just getting it out of the way