Tintin au Pays des Soviets

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Lula got the exact same % of the vote as Brexit got. Did the FT ever say that Brexit was a "knife edge"? I'm not going to check but I think we all know the answer.

Bill Maher had lunch with Donald Trump again. It’s beyond belief that someone would so willingly sit down for a meal with such a reprehensible piece of shit. But I’m sure Trump had his reasons.

i've been told that packing the court would be "the end of the republic" but "the president literally pardons everyone for everything and then tells them to commit more crimes" would actually be that

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

I’m guessing that the Orange Felon has had many ahem, “encounters” with men over the years & now that dementia has disinhibited him, he talks about his same-sex attraction.

They kept warning the younger Gen X and Millennials to be careful on the Internet because "you never know who you can trust on the web" which ended up raising an internet-literate generation all while somehow completely ignoring their own advice.

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Anyway props to Vivek for showing that he swims in shit just as much as the rest of his party, I suppose, after the brief moments of relative decency that the GOP becoming racist against Indians granted him.

Trump's increasingly severe dementia raises new questions about Joe Biden's advanced age.

Me coming home from kindergarten

Still tying to wrap my head around the fact that Jalen Hurts couldn’t sleep because it could kill him and the Eagles then played him in a NFL game and put him on a transatlantic flight. That’s a clean house from the very top to the very bottom situation.

*placing a stack of papers on the table* Alright honey I think we can get through this in under an hour. Going alphabetically, do you disavow the Abdullah Azzam Brigades?

Trump has done everything in his power to cause this to happen. He’s just so gleeful every time he talks about a new bribe he’s received and the only time people in the administration are punished are when a woman gets caught not cutting Trump in on the bribes they’re receiving.

regular people shaking out their couch cushions for gas money and seeing odious insider kleptocrats swapping millions in bribe money like pocket change is not a good place for a political party to be

fuck i just realized my wife has never disavowed the muslim brotherhood

The ass handing was so thorough I was beginning to think Tommy must be a plant for a viral clip. Good to know he was an organic dipshit

Really like that Abdul El-Sayed is totally willing to put smarmy little dumbshit wrecker wannabes on blast to his campaign's entire social media following

Dems offering College Republicans $400 to heckle Al-Sayed

Holy moly did Aaron Sorkin write this or is this real life?? Treat yourself and watch the whole thing. I want to watch these kinds of interactions for the next 6 years on the national stage. We've got to do our part to help get Abdul to the Senate.

Trump on Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"

It’s gonna be so funny when everyone who left California for Texas suddenly finds themselves living in a blue state again

She restricted replies so no wise-ass would drop in the comments and point out that Natalie tried to run around Susie Wiles - and her choice for Communications Director lasted 5 days.

"Evolved". Another NYTimes classic.

“I’m a lawyer… I practiced corporate law… I was a corporate lawyer…” 17 seconds of Trump’s new Secretary of Lying lying about her resume 🤥 (she just admitted to @seanhannity it isn’t true)

MSCI finally noticed that the Jakarta SE is a family-controlled casino:

"no sean, i'm not a lawyer, or an attorney, but i am a judge (of men's outfits)"

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

Democrats aren't allowed to misremeber the dates of a trip they took 27 years ago, but republicans can straight up lie about being allowed to practice law

The media was so obsessed with Tim Walz saying he went to China in June 1989 when actually he went in August 1989 that they asked him *in the only VP debate* how americans can trust him because of that discrepancy

if they're going to try to deport ilhan omar i expect chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries to be the last men standing between her and the boat telling her what a shame it is

Since IPO, not one insider has ever purchased a single share of Coreweave in an open market transaction. They have, however, collectively sold over 90 million shares for just a hair less than $10 billion.

CoreWeave CDS has more than doubled since August to 1100bp That implies > 60% probability of a debt default S&P indicates the CDS is trading "upfront" - a typical sign of distress

A person with a JD is a person with a JD. A person with a license to practice law is a lawyer/attorney. I don’t know where the NYT got this idea. Perhaps another century, or a different country. Or maybe there is some jurisdiction in the US where a lawyer is someone with a JD? But where. WHERE.

If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.

Trump on cognitive tests: They give you 5 words. Five words. Hat, Hair, Logo, White, Black. Please repeat them. Hat, Hair, Logo, White, Black. You got it right They go, holy shit. Nobody can do that. When I told the fake news about it, they said: ‘Oh that’s so easy’ Very few people could do that

The maximum allowable sulfur in US diesel is 15 parts per million. In Russia it's 350ppm.