PJ Westin

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Computer! Think of something nice to say about my useless chud kid

This is good but I once again have to point out how ridiculous it is that Congress holds the power of the purse, and now Democrats are using it, and this is treated as "novel" and "aggressive", rather than something that should have happened 2 years ago at least

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Trump today on Abdul El-Sayed: "He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate." House Republicans ripped the metal detectors out in January 2023, after their own members were fined for walking around them.

i come from Cheesecake Factory people and let me assure you, people who LIKE the Cheesecake Factory do not consider it "fancy"

Our blessed cornball prophet

My toddler is just starting to understand the concept of foriegn languages, but he thinks speaking them means making different gibberish sounds. Listening to him, "speak," French is adorable. Spanish is a little uncomfortable. Japanese is extremely problematic.

This is what winning looks like. Eventually, the stigma will get so big that it will be like Germany in the 1950s where everyone's dad "was forced into the army and just had some support role."

This looks like the instant one of the Nazis looks at the Ark of the Covenant

federal agents took a daycare teacher from a room of screaming toddlers in Chicago last fall during drop-off and it radicalized a bunch of yoga pants moms who started buying anti-ICE shirts.

its also pretty wild how the article concludes Remember: this is a description of a man fleeing the scene after ramming two cyclists and seriously injuring one

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

friction doesn't just make art great, it makes art period. and there are always, always trade-offs for reducing friction.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

JD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol

It really knocks you on your ass when you realize the problem is that the fascists are largely made up of a bunch of grown men in arrested development who spend their adult lives playing pretend and making everyone miserable as they LARP through the world.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Jance Dance Vance has plenty of shit to say all the time, about all kinds of stuff that’s none of his business. Suddenly he’s a bashful flower loathe to give an opinion. What an obnoxious dork.

hey remember that study that said $50 billion would end global poverty

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

In the 2010s people would talk about the, "Great Wealth Transfer," that was coming between Millennials and Boomers. Life expectancy going up, coupled with the fact that Medicare doesn't cover long term care, has fed most of that wealth to the insurance industry.

The thing about guys like Axelrod and Carville and the whole army of dillrod consultants like them is that if a real-life, genuinely effective leader shows up, their business model is shot

Once again, an American has been viciously assaulted by Trump’s ICE thugs. We can’t keep funding this terror. Abolish ICE now.

🎵 Tommy can you hear me? Can you feel me crush you? Tommy can you see me? Guess it’s time to flush you Ooooh Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy 🎵

Anyway, what was that you were saying about Tom Morello leaving his ballot blank in a safe blue state?

The thing about Jan Crawford’s “diatribe” and CNN’s “heated” is, we all could see the whole exchange with our own eyes, but it suggests they’ve fucked up a lot of coverage of things we couldn’t see.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

you can in fact limit the horizons of possibility in your own mind so severely that you are no longer able to "think" in a useful way

some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Marjorie Taylor Greene comes out with a statement opposing the raid on Ilhan Omar before Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Party

Actual footage of Elon fanboys right now

3 of the best videos I’ve found about that stupid non flying car 2 are informative & 1 is funny

"Bill, we want to bring you back for a part in our new blockbuster, Raiders of the Lost Ark." "You're not gonna call me 'Porkins' again, are you?" "No." "What's my character's name?" "Major Eaton." "Fuck you, George"