Randie Melton

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

The citizen who yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" is, in this hard time, a patriot. Honestly, what is left to say about this level of misrule? What careful critique hasn't been already offered? What reasoned response to this full-on run at fascism and kleptocracy remained unspoken?

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

Excellent dissection of focus group politics.

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title Whipping Post In My Pants

They want you so worried about men transitioning to women that you won’t notice the USA transitioning to the USSR.

Wow. No penalty on 4th down? Amazing.

Unfortunately, they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. A lot of this is simply the manifestation of the deeply ugly conservative id.

it’s kinda amazing to sit in a downtown corner coffee shop and watch all the women walk by. office workers in stylish combos, hotties jogging in athletic wear, beautiful frumpy retirees in casual jeans. even the women a complete mess and clearly struggling are still gorgeous to behold

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

"If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership?" This is very much in the Platnerian mode that presumes all men are only attracted to content by, for, and possibly about Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor. jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

I wish we could have an honest conversation about this shit. Are there males out there starving for male role models? Absolutely, but even though there is no shortage of male role models in all of fiction, let alone literature, a lot of males today are looking for entitlement, not role models.

Millie treats grocery day like her favorite job, carrying bags in with the gentle "soft mouth" grip bred into helper dogs for generations.

Beyond horrific. No words. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

We have a cultural blanket assumption of "parenting = selfless" that lets parents get away with so many selfish things

How are you feeling these days? God’s just watching in Heaven and wondering why you don’t rise up and put them all in prison and stuff? Think about how good that would feel.

This is the real closing of the American mind. We will pay through the nose for it.

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI https://theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-she-hooked-up-with-10-years-ago-now-head-of-fbi/

Between 29 and 35 percent of the American citizenry is too fucking ignorant to operate a republic. As Churchill noted, democracy is the worst form of government there is -- until you consider every alternative. It's hard, quotidian labor to self-govern, so the worst of us are exploring alternatives.

911? I’d like to report a murder.

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This regime will put @theonion.com out of business.

So that's the thing. I grew up Mormon. And there are ~progressive poly folks~ who insist "Oh but haha we're not doing it BAD like those crazy Mormons did, we're GOOD people!" and then merrily describe doing shit that "oppressed Mormon sister wives in the 1860s" 100% would not have put up with.

Many years ago, when millennials treated the Harry Potter books with a weirdly religious reverence, people used to say, “Read another book.” The freakout about Greta Gerwig’s casting of Meryl Streep as the voice of the still-a-male-lion Aslan in the upcoming Narnia adaptation... 🧵

Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. They want us gone, but will they let us escape? trib.al/S5fGeof

It seems like this is a good time to tell you all why LLMs are never, and can never be, conscious.

“The problem, as French sees it, is clearly the mere existence of Texans with South Asian heritage. That’s it. That’s the entire message.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-future-o...

The Manning moment is small, in the scheme of all the things happening in this god forsaken time. But let's be clear -- this is not a product of this time. The AI aspect, yes. But men in sports, especially football, being shitty about and to women? Male journalists joining in? Old shit.

How a particular candidate can motivate their base while also reaching out to other voters is specific to the candidate and the race. But it's silly to act like the only task the candidate has is to reach out to low-info swing voters and the base should motivate themselves or be blamed for the loss.

I tried here to explain why anti-trans activists are targeting Portland, the struggle I have with covering some of these issues as a reporter and how transgender athletes belong in sports. Exclusion is incompatible with equity.

This week in @anniempeterson.bsky.social's Soccer Insider for The IX Sports she explains why anti-trans activists have chosen to target the Portland Thorns FC and women's sports bar the Sports Bra. Read: www.theixsports.com/newsletter/inclusion-is-the-path-to-equity-in-womens-sports/

Elsewhere on Bluesky folks are noting that The Kids These Days aren't much into Douglas Adams. As someone who is much into Douglas Adams (and in fact wrote an intro to new edition of his works) allow me to remind folks that it's not actually surprising when The Kids aren't into decades-old stuff.

HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

Gawd, I love dogs.

Meanwhile, at the flicks.....

"For those of us who lived it, it feels like everything that has happened since still lingers in the shadow of those burning towers, those plumes of smoke stretching across the skyline, the silence before the second strike. "But history rolls on." www.liberalcurrents.com/after-septem...

Being a transphobe is so fucking embarrassing. What do you mean your special interests are Ray Blanchard and trading pics of surgery? You gonna bully some kids at a softball game? You gonna wear your suffragette colors? Should we invite glinner? Fucking losers.

*Boom* Righteous rant here.

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."