I am President. My fee-fees are what matter. Not your evidence. Thank you for your attention to this moron.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is truly a sick individual.
David Simon
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d agoKash Patel better watch his ass. There's another gamer who's ready and available to run the FBI.
The Needling@theneedling.com · 5d agoToday Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’s already fired Seattle’s next police chief after he somehow teargassed Capitol Hill, deleted public records, hired someone to have an affair on the job with, and threatened to fight a reporter all before 9 a.m.
The post-fact era of American governance allows for anything to said, thought and done by anyone with impunity. Anything.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
A true sportsman, when presented with the tableau of a slow, injured or otherwise disoriented beast, lowers his rifle and goes in pursuit of more challenging game. Ergo, I shall not explain to this fellow that his mother's place of employ is not in fact her primary domicile. It would be unsporting.
Guy Gavriel Kay@guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 7d agoI wince to imagine what @audacityofdespair.bsky.social could do with this gratuitous deployment of a mother.
Best video outlet in Baltimore and maybe the whole Middle Atlantic. Also, when I returned my videos late they let me slide. Good people: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8L...
The Wire Creator David Simon Investigates Video Library | BEYOND BROWSING
YouTube video by Beyond Video
m.youtube.com
One and done. The second is of course the block.
Water was wonderful and the waves were big out here on Long Island today. Body-surfed a perfect one straight down into the sand. Hope to ride more waves once this abrasion on my forehead heals and the CT scan comes back negative. News flash: I am not 15 anymore. I am, it would seem, much older.
The republic? Not so much. But yes, American journalism got to have its show. So there's that.
The Virginian-Pilot@pilotonline.com · 2w ago‘The show must go on,’ Trump says at White House correspondents’ dinner rescheduled after shooting: https://mrf.lu/2t7h1
If the Baltimore Orioles were to win a World Series -- a moment I've waited on for four decades now -- and showed up as a team to grip and grin with a corrupt, racist, pedophilic narcissist who debases our republic at every turn, I would never be seen at Camden Yards again. Fuck the L.A. Dodgers.
Public health experts estimate that only to this present moment, a half a million humans are now dead who would otherwise be alive because this shitpiece "got carried away, frankly" and cut aid from the world's richest nation to many of the poorest. Glad to see him take pause and be so reflective.
Suddenly, as His Empire Crumbles, Elon Musk Admits He Made a Huge Mistake With DOGE
Musk lamented that he "got a little too involved in politics" and "got carried away, frankly," after helming DOGE last year.
futurism.com
"We can't even think of a word that rhymes..."
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f... This nails it. And note his first in a list of motivations. We can marry it to better impulses -- even some of the best -- but any writer who won't admit they're trying to bring the best tale to the campfire just to show they fucking can is full of shit.
Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation
"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
orwellfoundation.com
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2w agoI suspect most writers have that one authority figure who was snide about their writing, allowing that writer to be fueled by spite for years if not decades. My version was the creative writing prof who was dismissive about science fiction. I sent him a copy of Old Man's War when it was published.
He's right. One-hundred percent of the Republican primaries concluded with Republicans emerging victorious. And using Mr. Trump's math, the percentage is actually far higher than that.
Damn right. When the Iranians bomb Pearl Harbor, my kids will definitely enlist and I'll take the midnight shift pumping rivets into the sides of Liberty Ships down at Beth Steel.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBLITZER: How do you explain the disconnect between what the president says and how Americans feel according to almost all of these most recent polls? REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: Prior to World War 2, 85% of Americans were not in favor of entering that war, and then it all changes
I tried this once as a writing exercise with a few editions of the magazine. Too many Upper East Side matrons and Wall Street magnates standing in front of sales charts urging others to eat a bag of stale, unsalted dicks. Hard, ugly times. And my comedy was never pretty.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w agoThe comedians try their hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. www.newyorker.com/humor/celebr...
Gotta go with Taco Bell for dinner at some point this week. Next week, too. Whistleblowing on a corrupt bribefest between Donald Trump and the corporate shitworms at Taylor Farms inspires a certain amount of loyalty.
Either they cast an actual cyclops or they get a SAG waiver and gouge out a willing actor's eye. Anything less and I'm with Elon Musk in calling bullshit on this Nolan flick.
It's one thing to honor the sacrifice of fallen service members. And it's common rhetoric to declare that they died for a worthy cause. It's the Platonic ideal of malignant narcissism to just stand there shamelessly and put words into their dead mouths.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
Heartbreaker for the Orioles tonight. But that one-run, down-to-the-last-swing game involved two teams that had won their last 21 combined games and are -- wait for it -- currently in third and fourth place in their division. The American League East is only for Vikings and Samurai.
This is deeply reminiscent of a photo of my grandfather amid a gathering of fellow residents of a nursing home in Silver Spring, Md. circa 1971. At the time, though, Max Simon was certain that he was Kaiser Wilhelm II and had been assured by Hindenburg that Paris was very much within his grasp.
Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · 2w agoDonald Trump makes Drake look pathetic.
It's a testament to the either the restraint -- or the liberal wimpery -- of Capitol Hill police that they didn't just gun down several hundred shitheels who were not complying with law enforcement. Because that video -- unlike for those murdered by ICE -- is quite unequivocal. Fuck this fascist.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
Fellow Americans, behold the United States President, opining with all the maturity, dignity and splendor of his high office:
Boy, oh boy are the Iranians screwed. It's a well-known diplomatic certitude that the 67th threat a head of state publicly posts against an adversary is the one that they ought to fear. I mean, if their civilization hasn't already been leveled and their military obliterated, as promised previously.
Not a note in my heart for this bit of perfection:
NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3w agoI lost my job, my kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, and I'm infected with a parasite that the CDC stopped monitoring. But at least now there will be ball-tanning stations on America's military bases.
Not to rewrite Mere Smith, but words when employed in the context of other words have meaning. These are called sentences: All sexual activity by adults with children is by any definition -- moral and legal -- rape. All of it. Context is king.
Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.
It's pleasant to assume an afterlife, and moreso, an indulgent diety that permits even wayward and debased creatures to tred upon its better acreage. By doing so, we can right now imagine Lindsey Graham meeting John McCain and with one look from his old friend knowing he had covered himself in shit.