cannot wait for the gop midterm convention on national tv where every republican in a competitive race is forced to pledge an oath of loyalty to a demented sex criminal polling at 30% approval

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Study: Elephants Only Other Species Capable Of Leveraging Synergies In Brand Portfolio https://theonion.com/study-elephants-only-other-species-capable-of-leveraging-synergies-in-brand-portfolio/

I cross-referenced my database of candidates against credible voter fraud cases. GOP politicians are implicated at 50x–38,000x the general public's rate. Yet even if every American voted with the integrity of a GOP candidate, it still wouldn't come close to justifying making voting one iota harder.

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Showed this to the cowboys from the Pace Salsa commercial and they’re screaming, crying, shitting themselves.

I've seen a lot of "subject matter experts" in industry who explain things in Byzantine ways, and once they start having to field questions it becomes clear that they don't understand the subject well enough to make it clear and concrete.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Some authors seem to deploy their words defensively, wielding impenetrable jargon as a shield.

✈️ A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it "detached" mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside, witnesses and officials said Friday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SKRV

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

“In conclusion, Libya is a land of contrasts.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "The roadside bomb is a bomb that goes on when you're driving your little around, and it goes on and you have no legs, no arms, and no face"

Pausa de hidratación

Just bus them in like Jan 6.

This is some world class trolling, the internet remains undefeated, Trump not so much.

This is so disappointing. Some of you may not be surprised, but I had no idea. Dammit. At this point, with what we *all* know, anybody hobnobbing with these sociopaths are the same as the people that were hobnobbing with those other sociopaths in Germany in the late ‘30s. I said what I said.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A top stand-up comic has been busted rubbing shoulders with MAGA royalty at Donald Trump’s 80th birthday bash UFC fight.

There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Elon Musk’s net worth of $1.1 trillion is five million times as large as that of the typical family. The median American household had a net worth of just under $200,000 in 2022, the year with the most recent data available from the Federal Reserve. nyti.ms/4aL8sNH

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

The truly funny part is the biggest dot for a "blue influencer" is some guy named Brian Allen who's so "influential" that I had to Google him

Vikram Bath@vikrambath.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can’t afford gas or steak. But at least now Achilles won’t be played by a trans actor in a movie I’m not going to see based on a book that I’ve never read.

republicans love to put children in concentration camps and then act irreparably violated when a democrat says “fuck”

I wrote about Sonny Rollins - a huge influence on me as a saxophonist, and a man whose creative philosophies I'll forever be trying to understand and emulate.

Sonny The Colossus

On the passing of a legend, and one of my musical heroes

kirksnotes.com

This is the best hot sauce on the planet and it’s not even particularly close.

Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" whose hard-charging yet flowingly meditative works made him the last in a golden era of jazz greats, died Monday. He was 95 u.afp.com/SDoo

My novel is 95% done. All that remains is nailing down the plot and for me to write it.

Tim Byrne@tbyrne75.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LOL at the idea that those two things comprise ‘5%’ of the problem.

When "homeless working adults with minor-aged children" becomes a distinct administrative category—not an anomaly, but a recognized population requiring its own eligibility framework—you know something is very, very broken in our society.