Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan
“how much shit can you deny yourself? cheese, gender, the fuck’s next?” truly humanity is a rich text
Krinn DNZ@krinndnz.bsky.social · 3w agoimages that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"
I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.
@cherylrofer.bsky.social Hegseth is an Army veteran, but not a retiree AFAICT.
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
if you're looking for the cause of declining good union manufacturing jobs over the last 50 years, domestic competition from right-to-work sunbelt states is a much bigger deal than foreign competition from free trade.
THREAD: A timeline for you of facts. I'm just sharing facts, so no need to get yelly or upset. 1. DoJ opened two investigations into Trump and the coup in January 2021 within two weeks of the attack on the Capitol 1/
I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)
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Adrian@adrianwashere.bsky.social · 4mo ago@skylight.social @buildwithtori.com What's up? Won't stay logged in btw sessions, so I tried clearing app data, but then it always crashes upon opening & can no longer even attempt to log in. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling, no joy. At the bug report on your link in bio, it says company not found.
The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...
Trump Has Made the National Mall a Tribute to His Squalid Corruption - emptywheel
Event Strategies, which put on the disastrous Great American State Fair, knows how to put on professional presentations. But since they started getting no-bid contract after no-bid contract, they simp...
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SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
@skylight.social @buildwithtori.com What's up? Won't stay logged in btw sessions, so I tried clearing app data, but then it always crashes upon opening & can no longer even attempt to log in. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling, no joy. At the bug report on your link in bio, it says company not found.
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
i now live in fear of the Brain Damage That Makes You Republican
much ado about muffin@muffindoin.bsky.social · 5mo agogood lord
1. I'd reply directly, but you disabled replies, @ryanlcooper.com I'll add, short of summary execution, everything else durable/structural unavoidably required some combination of a: -willing electorate; -willing Congress elected by voters;
Adrian@adrianwashere.bsky.social · 6mo agoI don't think there was much that could've survived one-term Biden being succeeded by a GOP trifecta, which really means the failure was the electorate's. I think Biden wanted to be a modern FDR, but voters didn't deliver supermajorities to make it possible, nor for durable reforms to be enacted.
i don't understand how Old Spice's marketing team landed on this ad for their Super Mario Galaxy Movie tie-in where an astronaut smells a stick of deodorant, thinks about Mario, and then kills himself. i don't understand how that's not a joke, it's exactly what happens in the ad
I'd go further. This SCOTUS isn't democratically legitimate, but there are other sources of legitimacy: legal/rational legitimacy is also available to courts that abide by the rule of law. But the Roberts Court doesn't even have that. It is *categorically illegitimate.*
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 6mo ago5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...
Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out
SPRINGFIELD, IL—As the landmark bipartisan legislation passed into law Thursday, Illinois became the first state in the union to mandate paid haircut leave while an employee’s new bob grows out. “Effe...
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NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago“.. I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs .. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social · 7mo agoFox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox
Lis Power@lispower.bsky.social · 7mo agoFox News doc on lower fertility rate: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%, and it's down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation"
Just saw a high school friend post "I stand with Iran" on Facebook and do you have any idea how bad you have to fuck up as president of the United States to get middle American normies on Facebook to type out "I stand with Iran"