If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
Of course the dude behind the worst company on earth is some “we have Sam Bankman-Fried at home” looking motherfucker.
youtubers' constant mangling of idioms is both charming and the absolute proof that we are entering an era of secondary orality
I'm so glad she wrote this. The portrayal of her in this series is, to me, indefensible. She deserves an apology from the filmmakers and FX.
And if you hear yourself saying you portrayed a real person (who's alive!) in a particular way to manipulate your audience, please go improve.
Finally, more daylight is on the way to allow us to read outside more. ☀️📚
"You see those 'slow charity runners' at six hours, eight hours, ten hours, sometimes longer. They’re not runners by trade. They’re just average people doing something extraordinary." A great response to that bad post about running being solely about talent and the grind.
She can’t write off all the filler anymore 😞
Hall Pass Beer Hall and Sports Bar will be temporarily opening (starting with March Madness, guessing thru World Cup) in former Penn Quarter eatbrgz and Legal Sea Foods. Vacant for 3 years.
From Sauf Haus and Clarendon Ballroom folks. Non-basement alternative for area
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
not everything needs to come back! some things should only be remembered through a thick layer of nostalgia!!!
Gonna have to fumigate all those DHS luxury jets.
There it is: Noem out, Mullin in
1. thanks for clarifying what "ID" means
2. non-citizens voting actually isn't a problem
3. trump himself uses mail-in ballots
4. wait what
5. is this still about voting
For a regime that insisted on renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, and a new and cocky Secretary of War who can’t stop lecturing about lethality and maintaining a warrior ethos, these guys are surprisingly afraid to call a war a war.
love to pick up my phone and see 5 - 10 different things each of which successively makes me angrier than I’ve ever been in my entire fucking life
Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.
Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.
This keeps happening
this is so unhinged on so many levels
there were hundreds of veterans on the hill today for a joint hearing this morning and some other things going on...Sheehy should probably stay inside tonight
This turns out exactly how everyone except the dummy who decided to do something idiotic and then agree to an interview with Chotiner knows it will turn out
I would just quit after this.
Too bad there aren't any rich people who could run ads with this information on every social media and regular media channel.
Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?
Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.
One of my favorite parts of last night’s election results.
The only Democratic talking point should be: we don’t abandon anyone.
Call your senators. Text No War to 30403 to be connected. Urgent Action. The Senate will soon vote on whether to block Trump from waging war in Iran. Tell them to vote YES to block Trump's illegal military actions.
Urgent action: Text NO WAR to 30403.
The Senate is voting today whether to block Trump's illegal military action in Iran. Call your Senator and tell them to vote YES. See script in thread.
Calling AI slop "slop" is locking in with calling right wingers weird. Don't let up off the gas
