Tyler Blake

The silver lining of having a dog who does not care that you were up past midnight is that you get to see the first sunrise of 2025 over Ocean Beach

One of the only *actual* values the GOP sticks by is that no straight white man should be held accountable for anything, ever.

once again: they are flailing, they are desperate, they have no plan, and they are panic-throwing shit against the wall to see if anything sticks that this stuff is scary doesn’t mean we need to grant them the presumption that it will work

Trump used an antisemitic slur in defending GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, after an article said he sued hundreds of patients over unpaid debts when he was a practicing physician. Speaking at a campaign rally in Kansas, Trump said the reporting made Marshall out to be “some kind of a shylock-type guy.”

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

the important thing to know about every republican candidate who is pretending they will be an independent voice and not a rubber stamp for trump is that they're all lying

Spent one week as an intern for an insurance company that rhymes with Schmorthwestern Schmutual. Was pitched as a “finance internship”; was actually just you cold calling all your friends and family to get them to sit down with an insurance salesman. Started on a Monday and quit on a Friday.

a confused Enes Kanter Freedom shows up to the White House Briefing Room in a blonde wig. his demands are unclear and he will not stop posting tiktoks.

Free couples costume idea: Zacharia and Scaramucci

Grand opening/grand closing Not even half a Scaramucci www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Elon didn't run from California's restrictive regulatory environment, he ran towards the ability to buy people like Ken Paxton wholesale

It would obviously be ridiculous and bigoted even if she did live a more socially conservative lifestyle but it’s just absolutely insane when Republicans try to act like Muslims in the United States are an authoritarian religious movement, which is what conservatives explicitly want to be!

Republicans are never beating the “socialism is anything I don’t like” charges

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him

Especially hypocritical coming from soi-disant originalists, since the Founding Era discourse around the Fourth Amendment is pretty clearly predicated on the opposite idea—that these agents are apt to run amok & behave abusively, requiring their discretion to be constrained by a neutral magistrate.

The New York Times has now run two prominently placed stories about Zohran Mamdani's comms department coordinating with unpaid influencers as if it is a huge scandal. Will they cover Trump using our tax dollars to buy literal campaign ads as if it is equivalent scandalous? If not why not?

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:

yes more of this please ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Like I’ve always said you gotta consentmaxx or else you’re gonna get justicemogged

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

2024: we’ll fix it all on day 1 2026: pweese just give us one more chance

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

A little over 10 years ago. It's astonishing how far the culture has moved in the wrong direction on trans rights since, and the continued capitulation of centrist dems has aided a dangerous and unjust situation: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

"Only Charlie Kirk is a father. Only Charlie Kirk is a husband. Only Charlie Kirk's death is a tragedy and totally unacceptable. The rest of us are potentially, if we are unlucky enough, simply the sacrifice the second amendment demands and Charlie Kirk demanded." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Ducking a meeting with a bunch of desperately ill children from the state you represent to record a video praising Mr. Trump >>>>

do any of you know what words mean or do you think "backfire" is when the expected and intended result occurs?

Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views

The news media instead told us that "it's not clear what Elon Musk's politics are" right before he became the #1 Republican donor in history then told us "Elon Musk is leaving politics" right before he was going to become the #1 Republican donor for a second consecutive cycle.

Yep. Trumpism's main pillars have all crumbled: *Mass deportations widely hated/haven't created jobs for native born *America First foreign policy (unchecked militarism/contempt for int'l alliances) is disaster *Trade wars aren't restoring manufacturing/are hurting countless ordinary people

The same story repeats itself everywhere in the culture: dumb rich guys who don't know what anything is or does, who are too lazy/smug to learn and ideologically committed to the idea that everything they don't control is Woke Bullshit, wrecking stuff on principle. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...

Enes Kanter stepped onto a WNBA baseline during a game. In that moment, he presented a larger threat to the league than any transgender athlete ever has: clutchpoints.com/wnba/indiana...

Trump admires Kim Jong Un because he has successfully enslaved the North Korean population the same way Trump wants to do to us

"we love our brave troops don't we folks we always support the troops stand and salute them why aren't you standing do you not support the men and women in uniform the troops the beloved troops" it was bullshit the whole time, they never cared even a little.

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

"Firms that kept their DEI policies or voted down anti-DEI shareholder resolutions did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as firms that didn’t." Important research @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.

Show this to Joe Lacob and maybe he’ll actually try to put a team around Steph