We must bless Ken Jennings and cast a circle of protection. They just don't make 'em like him.

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

I saw yesterday that some right-wing outlets were running stories about me, which I’m used to. But this time I’m going to say something about it, because these were framed to imply that I was aligned with their own transphobia. ⬇️

What the fuck John Dean's on here

John W Dean@johnwdean.bsky.social · last mo.

Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon - The Washington Post. Vance seems remarkably ignorant of history. Republicans ended Nixon’s presidency and they have never before been called the “deep state.”

"You're being manipulated by two teams, and you have to pick a team." I have loved the Carolina Panthers through 7 awful years but if the GOP passed Medicare for All, I'd switch instantly. What you are being "manipulated by" is moral sentiments. It's only uncomfortable because you don't have any.

Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Joe Rogan, regretful MAGA dunce, is back saying he's "politically homeless" and seeking a "logical centrist" government.

Don't make fun of my governor. He also saved our transit system by making SEPTA employees wax their moustaches and take paper tickets with an old-timey hole punch.

Governor Josh Shapiro@governor.pa.gov · 4mo ago

Letting our kids be kids also means getting back to the basics. That’s why, earlier this year, I signed into law a bipartisan bill that requires cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania schools.

Jafar Panahi is the real Mr. Wonderful, we should give him all of Kevin O'Leary's money.

lucas kin@kin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

e lá vamos nós de novo

I'm glad he's pushing back but this by Murphy is weak. If you give them money, they escalate. If they escalate, they may one day try to put boots on the ground, and thousands will be killed. The way to "support the troops" isn't to enable a future ground invasion, it's to send them home.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

When I was planning to go to USMA (during Iraq) - JROTC leadership and letter from my Congressman in hand - I fancied myself a little citizen soldier but I thought the job was to make the world safe for democracy. The officer class is a product of dissonance like that. The enlisteds want hazard pay.

Horse of Course@horsecourser.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I cannot stop blinking at the number of people in your replies who believe that everyone signed up to the military to murder children, and/or who appear to believe that it is simple to 'just disobey' an order once you're in there. Wow. Not to mention the ones who think YOU are at fault for all that

Sometimes, to some people. Often out of reflexive or when paid to be biting. And also deeply humane to, and curious about, others. I'd counter the meanness in this essay with "Authority and American Usage" from the same collection perhaps.

Christopher Farnsworth@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is a great piece by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, and it nails what bothers me about David Foster Wallace to this day: he was brilliant but he was cruel, in his essays and his fiction. I gave too much respect to the brilliance and too little notice to the cruelty.

She's probably not even at long odds to win the nomination. She is a tentpole of the party! Intraparty debates often center on what she is doing or saying. Her messaging is careful but bold. After 8 years, she's established: almost 50% of the party has known AOC since they were young voters.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6mo ago

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

An early poem by Larry Levis

there is no hell hot enough

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

Girl you don't get out because you committed fraud. You get out because you cut him in on it.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 7mo ago

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked President Donald Trump to release her from prison early, with nearly six years left in her 11-year sentence. Holmes was convicted of defrauding the people who invested in her blood-testing startup.

Goodell needs to fucking fire Brad Allen and his crew tonight, call up Bowles and Canales and tell them to come back in a week and try again. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.

Another Coen comedy, if pitch black compared to Lebowski: A Serious Man. Dr. Strangelove has to be pretty close to the top of this list, too. I am also one of the world's biggest champions of the horribly funny Me and You and Everyone We Know. "Back and forth forever" has set up shop in my head.

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · 8mo ago

was recently asked my favorite comedies, which is a good question, and I'm not sure the answer. I think Big Lebowski is probably number 1, but after that, idk? Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Best in Show were the other two that came to mind. So let's hear your faves

Usually a few lines of Berryman's Dream Songs knocking around in there, along with the "Grass" stanzas of "Leaves of Grass" and, thanks to rhyme, basically the entirety of Kublai Khan and Ozymandias.

Achilles Micawber@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

I mean look at this point being a Representative is basically a no-show job anyway

Gravity's Rainbow. Jonathan Lethem once put it very well: "For Joyce, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake. For Pynchon, history is a nightmare within which we must become lucid dreamers." You can see the great curve in Pynchon and then, after that, you see it everywhere.

Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO! tell me about a book that changed you for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"

@fetterman.senate.gov I'd love to call you privately and let you know what I think you're made of - not much - but since you're such a chickenshit you can't hear from your constituents, I guess I'll just tell you that here in public.

Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It is so scummy that Fetterman turned off his voicemail months ago

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Motherfucker stop sending your caucus out to these rallies to drum your world historically tone-deaf healthcare messaging can you even read these signs we wrote for you.

Okay fine I'll say it: Bliowa.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 10mo ago

The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested by ICE, which alleged he was in the country illegally and without a work authorization.

I really hate to tell you this but based on the Facebook activity of the normies I know, that funeral accomplished exactly what they want it to. Everybody is thinking about the widow. Nobody is thinking about the subtext.

I will never miss a chance to rep for @mikeduncan.bsky.social and the Revolutions podcast. Hundreds up on hundreds of episodes about every major revolt that made our present world, from England to America to France to Haiti to Mexico to Russia. Things will snap into focus, I promise.

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Something the man @mikeduncan.bsky.social will tell you at great and entertaining length is how long it takes for revolts to get off the ground, how often they fail, and how hard it is to predict exactly when they’ll pop off. Slowly and then all at once is a good rule.

The last WGA strike was not only 67% favorable, it was one of the most VISIBLE strike actions of Biden's presidency. By the end, 83% of voters had heard about it, >30% higher than the Starbucks, Amazon or UPS strikes before. If you want people to take notice of something, turn off their shows.

Writers Guild of America West@wgawest.bsky.social · 11mo ago

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

At some point this definitely changed underneath our feet. The first few were nerve-wracking because nobody knew what kind of regime this would be. I spoofed my GPS then turned my phone off. I didn't take photos. But when you've got six million people out the vibe obviously changes.

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

There was a bunch of posting about how No Kings had terrible opsec because people were posting pictures of themselves at the protest. And like, guys, if you're doing things that are not illegal and 90% of people would not find antisocial, then getting arrested is like, the best protest outcome

Critical support. One person died in Utah and my friend's MAGA neighbor in the Philly burbs left his truck in the street all night with his floodlights on. Every second thread on FB is currently a call for civil war. They want to start shooting because it's the next step to the world they want.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We cannot move forward or escape this nightmare until mainstream figures finally admit that there are many, many people on the right - including some of its most powerful voices - who are openly seeking violence and tyranny and exploit every situation to move it closer.

i think my take on this is: it is good that people to the left of center care about the well-being of people who aren't in our coalition. but it is not our job to do things we can't do because those people kneecapped us

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 11mo ago

the demand is always expressed in terms of blue state governments step in and keep rural hospitals open. but why can't red rural county governments step in and keep rural hospitals open?

Unthinkable to disappear now, when we as a nation most need leather koozies engraved with a date.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 11mo ago

Etsy's silence speaks VOLUMES

Larry if you want me to swing on an ICE goon for you just say the word

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Oh when y'all said Elmo was going on antisemitic screeds over on the old place, I thought we were just starting to call Elon by nicknames again and it read like a normal headline.