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FFS, Obama did not make a “Cheesecake Factory joke.” He made a SADDAM HUSSEIN joke, and it was a good one.

I suspect that Donald is holding rallies in deep red states like Mississippi not just because polls hint at a blue wave, but so that his handlers will be able to pat his head next week and tell him “There there, you went to Mississippi and we won! See? You’re still a very special boy!”

No no no — if you REALLY want to show that Obama’s mockery of the gaudily gilded Oval Office was elitist, then what you, the red-blooded, white-skinned, Real American common folk need to do is start gluing “golden” gewgaws to every wall of your homes too. THAT would prove your point.

Not yet convinced there’s a good-faith objection to Obama’s Saddam Hussein joke. Haven’t seen one yet.

Maybe I just missed seeing it -- has anyone resigned from Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign after that ad came out? I mean, I'm not expecting Republican campaign staff to have moral/ethical boundaries, but you'd think there'd at least be someone indignant about the foolish tactical choices being made.

Keep seeing yard signs for local candidate "Joe Lewis" and thinking it's spelled wrong. Think I may rewatch "Coming to America" this weekend.

@slacktivistfred.bsky.social After all this time, we finally found the elusive Pro-Kitten-Burning League, and it includes Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Vivek Ramaswamy

Everyone needs a thneed said the Once-ler.

Ramsay Bolton

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

A “Willow Creek” Christmas tree sounds like it’s going to grow to massive size and then start to wither from various leadership scandals a few decades later. But at least it’s not as tacky and plastic-seeming as the “Lakewood” tree.

Hey NY, Chicago here. I made you some graphics cause we're all on the same team. Fuck ICE.

Emily Litella voice: Red-dyed weasel? What about him?

Jim Bakker, Dennis Hastert ... Never believed in rule of 3s superstitions, but still.

Kalhöun!

Theory: Trump resembles a movie/TV villain because generations of writers based villainous characters on him (at least in part). Elon et. al. resemble movie/TV villains because they do not understand stories and thus have deliberately chosen to emulate those villainous characters.

Always wear a helmet when skateboarding.

Trades. crafts, apprenticeships all gaining in respect as alternatives to absurdly expensive college ... unless the trade in question is perceived as women's work. Cosmetology doesn't pay as a craft/trade because it is licensed & regulated in a way that ensures it doesn't.

Bluesky's "trending" blurbs seem written in a desperate attempt to counter criticism of the platform as some kind of progressive bubble, but it winds up giving us bland pudding like "Fans react to baseball game." Who talks like that?

More evidence from Sen. Eric Schmitt that conspirators were conspiring at a Hawks game in Atlanta.

The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!

It smells a bit like if the big banks had gotten together in early 2008 to call for a “slowdown” in subprime derivatives. Smells a bit bubblicious.

I don't think you get to just decide to call yourselves "Rationalists" and say you're advocating "Rationalism" and expect that everybody else is supposed to just swallow that uncritically and defer to your superior rationality. That's not how that works, even apart from the orgies and whatnot.

If Boston Dynamics had set tens of thousands of its robot dogs loose, just to see what happens, I would think they'd be in some kind of legal and/or financial trouble.

Great reporting and honest language here from Bob Smietana. No "racially tinged" mush mouth talk. No caviling with "critics say" hedging. Self-evident evils are discussed as such, not as "controversies." He gives words and sinners the dignity of meaning what they mean.

It's both their birthdays this week, so we must share this classic from our archives... buff.ly/F7QhXVL

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

I knocked on doors for Susan Crawford, the progressive Wisconsin Supreme Court justice candidate. Every time I mentioned that Musk supported her opponent, they said, “I’ll support her.” It’s an absolute gimme.

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

I haven’t read the book or the “my faith isn’t a cancer” Washington Post essay, but, based on the coverage in this Friendly Atheist essay, it’s exactly what I would have guessed based on the title: www.friendlyatheist.com?utm_source=n...

I still recite the names of that trade like I'm Arya Stark.

And the Stephilim were on the Earth in those days

Go Birds.