Hey rich people, you are for sure going to be mildly inconvenienced
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2h agoRising temperatures could keep more flights from taking off on time
Jeff McMahon
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Los Angeles-based writer/editor/filmmaker. Movie watcher, book reader, politics obsesser. Denver native, NYC visitor. Fuck Elon/Trump/Putin/Bibi/etc.
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The modern Republican Party has completed its transformation into antebellum Democrats. A party of insane white supremacist aristocrats supported by broke rubes who can feel superior about the circumstances of their birth and nothing more. No merit top to bottom
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
Absolutely bonkers. A drone view shows people swimming near a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube River levels caused by drought and extreme heat, in Prahovo, Serbia, on July 30, 2026. Photo by Djordje Kojadinovic/ Reuters
Perhaps I’m not understanding how this works. But these are unimaginable sums. Let’s say Iran wants a 5% fee, the low end of the demand Trump is accepting. Approx. 20% of global oil production goes through the strait. So 5%, 20% … this means Iran takes a 1% cut off the top of the export …
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
This is known as “touching the stove”
Matt Sebastian@mattsebastian.com · 8h agoCDC says at least 345 people in 27 states came down with salmonella from jalapeños served at Chipotle and Qdoba restaurants. Colorado and Minnesota each have recorded 110 infections, together accounting for more than 60% of the cases nationwide
You have to remember, like comic books themselves, the people making these are barely paying attention to the previous ones
Jason@jason1749.bsky.social · 19h agoDefinitely says something about how far the surveillance state has come since THE DARK KNIGHT that Spider-Man builds Batman’s “no one man should have this power” system and it barely even merits a mention in BRAND NEW DAY.
My college has determined that, demographically, I am now in the categories “could die at any time” and “has significant assets”, so, half right?
In my experience this guy has a 50-50 chance of killing himself or somebody else in the next few days.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
i think contemporary american slang—absolutely saturated with rationalist, economicist, biologistic, and computeristic buzzwords, and all with a smattering of direct quotations of donald trump—is very plausibly the worst slang of all time
A hospital patient racistly refusing to be treated, is honestly an ideal problem in that it that takes care of itself in the long run.
Eduardo Suárez@eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 2d ago"NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found" news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Claire’s Knee (‘70, Rohmer): When the adult French man touches the knee of an actress who couldn’t have been older than 15:
I can’t imagine any past president telling everyone that he fumed about an underling for days on end. Nixon or Johnson would have done it but not told anyone about it.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d ago“.. The president is ‘furious’ with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
You can’t say the Russian government doesn’t have a sense of humor
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d agoThe Russian Embassy in Rome has blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at a Moscow restaurant, describing it as an attempt to intimidate the Italian community in Russia.
This Chicago Tribune piece uses “tenant” where it means to say “tenet” so it’s looking like we have to abandon that one.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3d agoIllinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces run for Chicago mayor
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
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They both suck but at least in this country we don’t have to see MBS’ fuckin perma-smirk on a daily basis
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoBREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.
In this photo, Carville looks like Lex Luthor shopping at the same store where Bert & Ernie buy their clothes.
David Moore@davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 4d agoCarville has been soaking up appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, and Beltway media by attacking the left and arguing Dems shouldn't seat democratic socialists. He hasn't mentioned he was senior adviser to a corporate lobbying firm that was paid at least half a million dollars by the crypto industry.
There’s a podcast hosted by Joe Dante and Josh “I adapted A History of Violence” Olson, and it seems to follow the standard format of one guy who knows what he’s talking about and one amiable moron.
It’s nice to see that Rubio and Hegseth, both world-class ass-lickers, have contempt for Bessent as even more unctuous and phony.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoBessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."
There are three kids in my neighborhood who look like Hanson traveled in time from right before they got famous and the process turned them half-Hobbit