Why the fuck is this irreverent bench warmer getting covered on ESPN

Finally saw The Odyssey last night and enjoyed it a lot. Not perfect but it was quite good and several sequences like the final storm and the sack of Troy really stand out as phenomenal filmmaking

This is a great way to win over hundreds of opinion columnists and zero actual voters

Reading The Idea of History as the author intended

One of the reasons that it’s basically illegal to ask a Republican a follow up question is because their talking points crumble immediately at the slightest pushback. Very hard to create a both sides narrative when one side is completely incoherent

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

RAJU: Sen. Moreno is calling for Max Miller to resign. Do you side w/Moreno? THUNE: It's a family matter &, um, I don't have any observations beyond that Q: If a member of Congress is facing domestic abuse allegations, should they continue to serve? T: It's a House matter. It's a family issue too

To a conservative, fascism is not death squads marching in the streets or an unaccountable leader committing war crimes around the globe but actually when they can’t go to Applebee’s and have to pick up their food instead

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

Genghis Khan didn’t become the ancestor of .5% of the human race by accident. He was the original steppe father

Gorilla Channel is real

The only growth industry left in America is in White House staffers making increasingly bespoke AI slop specifically to maintain Donald Trump’s airtight information bubble

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

everything about this is fake except what i have to pay

We need to appeal more to the 20% of the population that wants to murder our users in order to be successful.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Well congrats on capitalizing on your large growth by alienating your main core of fans for a group of people who will never watch your product and probably think your athletes shouldn’t be able to vote

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

Democrats will react to El-Sayed’s win not by distancing themselves from AIPAC but by working with Republicans to reduce transparency in campaign finance.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 4d ago

BUT BUDDY, BRO! “Democratic Primary candidate Haley Stevens left her rally in Traverse City Friday after social media influencer and political activist Walter Masterson loudly questioned her association with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, also known as AIPAC.”

DSA is going to cause a particular kind of psychosis among the chattering classes as we get bigger and more influential because none of us will play the bad faith games and media respectability politics bullshit

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 4d ago

they are just going to reset every expectation when a Democrat takes office and I for one think these self-obsessed quislings should be subject to endless vitriol both off and online until they fear us the way they fear the right

"anti-imperialism" in defense of israel, now i've seen everything

The Local Crank@thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

So in other words, the correct answer is that the US is an imperialist power that gets to decide how other countries govern themselves?

Their new social media person is worse than the one who hooked up with Clavicular.

Gaius (from Tribunate)@gaius.bsky.social · last wk.

Official State of Israel account attempting to dunk on Ms Rachel on threads because she said genocide is bad

If you watch this all the way through she isn’t doing the Bobby Hill voice when she says “I’m Haley Stevens and I approve this message” presumably because that bit was recorded well before consultants told her to do a fake accent

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 5d ago

honestly, had to check that this was a real campaign ad by Haley Stevens and not a spoof ad, but, nope, right from her campaign.

i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say

Official State of Israel account attempting to dunk on Ms Rachel on threads because she said genocide is bad

It would be political malpractice for a Democrat to not mention their opponent being supported by the PAC that donates to so many Jan. 6 supporters! The base hates this Trump-aligned PAC and rightfully so

Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop

Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

reuters.com

If a Democrat so much as hints that a single Republican voter is acting irrationally we are treated to centrist hand wringing about how disrespectful Dems are to “half the country” and hole Republicans regularly demean entire blue states and openly state that all Democrats are traitors

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

ChatGPT-occupied government

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

etc etc

Just amazing how this headline gets worse with every line

Dr fauci, you are accused of the highest crime in our land: asking conservatives to go to applebees slightly less frequently for two weeks. How do you plead

Pretty sure part of why James Carville has been showing his ass about DSA so much lately is that he understands how embarrassing it is to have insisted the play was to roll over and play dead for *this*

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last wk.

CNN Approval of Trump 34% approve 66% disapprove On immigration: 39% approve 61% disapprove On Iran 28% approve 72% disapprove www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Chicharito to the USL was not on my bingo card!

I was telling someone last Friday about how fucking cool she is Quick as Hell to call out Obama on his bullshit post dehumanizing Palestinians And against ICE Very Very Few doing it like her

Gaius (from Tribunate)@gaius.bsky.social · last wk.

Official State of Israel account attempting to dunk on Ms Rachel on threads because she said genocide is bad