Dave

Optimism is paying for game you didn’t see because it didn’t need to be played.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

lots of post on this website lately are a game of madlbs, fill in the blanks with random crap Why the boat to Mongolian elephants was plowed by Diego Maradona and the Pussycats.

my comment on the national DSA trying to torpedo nithya at the last minute: fuck off, be a serious political organization, what the hell are you doing this choice is not close

The fact they are making the WNBA finals game the middle of a fucking weekday afternoon to accommodate early season nba hoops is so disgraceful. I love love love sports but being a woman in this community is thankless and disappointing most of the time. We deserve so much better.

honestly prosecute merrick garland too

Slightly darker version of the full moon

I get it. Ideals and integrity matter. This system forces us into “bad or worse” choices. Bad is cowardly, stupid pandering with anti-trans rhetoric. Worse is ICE operating w/ impunity, higher prices for everything, fewer jobs, less housing, more preventable deaths, & shitty healthcare for all.

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

My timeline is a mix of (1) Brazilians saying to avoid amplifying trolls, fascist supporters, and bad faith actors, along with Americans praising that advice, and (2) Americans screenshotting an attention-seeking US pundit who says it's bad to care about elections in other countries.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

Small sample size be damned! This is ridiculous. And if it continues like this, it’s gonna result in MVP votes for JT. #Celtics

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

Be a Shran, not a Weyoun or (ugh) Brunt. And never be an AGIMUS.

An excuse to post this. Thank you!

“I don’t see it.” - Rutherford #Treksky

I mean, Jeffrey Combs in everything, but especially in THE FRIGHTENERS.

Eric Bauza’s final film performance, as of right now, is Coyote VS ACME. Roadrunner’s testimony is one of his final character performances in the film. He says “Beep” around 46 times, that’s all he says. Yet it says everything about his strengths and passion as a voice actor, with just one word.

Commissioned art has always lacked that ‘je ne sais quoi’. All of these beloved “IPs” started as independent, un-funded art. Almost every band’s best album is their first. Art and money…think they go good together but it’s most often a messy mess.

George Carlin said it best. "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now realize that half of them are dumber than that."

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Not even joking.

you're goddamn right you guys did

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

I’m not saying any of *this* is good, right now. But (read below) I have great hope for the future. *This* is greatly influencing that future. The yutes are inheriting a flaming dumpster of feces. But they’ve got a lifetime to fix it and these lessons set a foundation.

Check out how easy this is.

This is why I think we have to like, quadruple, the house - much fewer safe seats

We don’t know if the early vote will be predictive because all Republicans could just be waiting to vote until Election Day. But what this means in practice is that to win, Trump/GOP will have to have the most successful EDay mobilization operation in modern history— and that it’s completely stealth

“You almost died!” is something I have to yell far too often at donor cycle riders.

This tracks with my very small sample. The percentage of rock-stupids buying “it’s Biden’s fault” is dwindling by the day. The larger cohort of “own the libs” trend followers have BILLS, and fear gas stations now. Those People have regrets, as well they should. Let them go hide in the hedges.