In 2018, she might’ve scratched out a niche with middle class folks who were struggling to articulate and find outlets for their anger. In 2026, she’s going to get up in front of SAHMs and retirees who have been volunteering to get tear gassed and tell them “vote for me, I said ‘sucks’ in court.”
“Creeg”?
Tim Robinson-ass national security apparatus
“We’re not going to talk about anything other than the high prices caused by the dumb policies of this administration. Also, we’re going to make sure voters don’t experience those high prices. The voters will definitely reward us instead of believing we were wrong about the policies.”
Hi Joe, would like to plan a program to run a 5K this year? No? Just different versions of the ‘democracy manifest’ meme again?”
Love how AI is being sold as a way for all of us to make bougie aspirational lifestyle choices, when 30 years of evidence shows that people use search engines to ask things like, “how is babby formed?”
How is Jake Lang organizing anything? Isn’t he out on bail for vandalizing property in Minnesota?
First time, long time Jeff! How do you “deal with [a country] once and for all”? I’ll take my answer off the air, rocking back and forth while holding my head in my hands and making a high pitched whining noise.
They’re all completely unqualified for the jobs they have, and they’re ostentatiously trying to pretend otherwise.
Works with bees and financial markets.
Yeah. It’s purely about narcissistic supply.
Wow. His entire taxonomy of evangelical engagement with the world is driven by his (flawed) classification of how positively the general public views evangelical. It’s a pseudo-intellectual “look what you made me do.”
I think he fired her for doing a $200M ad campaign that featured *her* prominently, instead of him. We've seen it before with Musk.
It really seems like that was what Kennedy was unsubtly pushing.
People are missing the point by thinking that this is about accountability, or even the bad PR from ICE operations. Noem got fired because GOP senators and reps repeatedly pointed out that she was spending a fortune on an ad campaign that featured *her*, instead of Trump.
Chavez isn't the only progressive elected official who has been out on the streets during Operation Metro Surge and beyond — but he is possibly the most personally affected by the operation. Two of his uncles have been deported in the past few months.
Headline of a Q&A in New Yorker formatting Headline: A panicked middle-aged man refuses to tell me directions to the bathroom. Subhed: Please, I just have to pee. I'm in a hurry. By Isaac Chotiner March 4, 2026
Excuse me. Oh, God. Oh, no. Holy shit. Get away from me. I was wondering if you knew where the bathrooms are. Look, I'm ... it's not a crime to scroll through your high school girlfriend's Instagram account. We remained friends after high school! I was at her wedding! It's only natural to see how she's doing.
I'm in a bit of a hurry, and I'm afraid that if I choose the wrong corridor, I'll be late for my train. I think they're down that way, but I'm actually from out of town. Please stop talking to me.
Real quick, though. I agree that it's natural to be interested in an old friend, but aren't you afraid about the message you might be sending by liking a picture of her at the beach from 2015? If that did happen, and I'm only going off your word, it was probably an accident. They put the ... scroll bars or whatever ... close to the thumbs up button. People have been complaining about that for years. I've been complaining about that for years.
Everything is war, except war, which is a kinetic action.
![Screenshot of a Slate interview with Marco Rubio, where he describes “Chang [sic] [as] a mythical conservative warrior” created by Jeb Bush.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nqqlf4zimt4zlr7yzv7eg67c/bafkreihfspdun4t6fo6xw75rh77mzohv2szoyubmf3oildc4vzeoxcefvu)
Screenshot of a Slate interview with Marco Rubio, where he describes “Chang [sic] [as] a mythical conservative warrior” created by Jeb Bush.
You’re really overestimating him. i think he believes “Chang” [sic] was some kind of mythical king.
The navigator’s main concern on joining a new ship is that he be allowed to have a soda at his station on the bridge, because his last captain let him have soda on the bridge. He gets permission, as long as he uses a lid and doesn’t set it on the computer.
It’s *that* kind of show (affectionate).
The Seth Macfarlane-ness of it all is grating at first, until it flips over into being charming. A pro-trans rights, “Measure of a Man” style speech that quotes heavily from Dolly Parton is corny; but it’s also going to age a lot better than mentioning Elon Musk in a list with the Wright Bros.
Uncle Les, my grandma’s BiL. He bet a little kid a quarter on the outcome of every Brewers-White Sox game. Every time the Brewers were up in the season series, he’d mock-argue with me about it and then mock-grudgingly pay out. Every time the Sox were up, he’d magically forget to ask for payment.
Billy Corgan says: Rock was the greatest social changing force of the 20th century. And here we are 25 years into the 21st century and rock couldn’t be any less of an influence on the social political order. Does anybody think that’s kind of stave that somebody decided to push a button somewhere and make sure people like myself don’t say certain things anymore?
Guys, who wants to hear Billy’s thoughts on family court?
The thing is, it never would have been sent to Harvard. This is not a “both sides” problem, and also Harvard, unlike Liberty, is not politically homogeneous.
This was always the purpose behind creating explicitly Christian law schools over the past 3-4 decades. They always wanted to create this qualification-agnostic pipeline into prestige federal jobs, and then the judiciary. The Trumpists are just so dumb and arrogant that they say the quiet out loud.
This sounds like a shitpost but I am being serious for once. What are the best IR/FPA works on stupidity? Because from a theoretical standpoint, the ability to signal clearly and interpret the signals being sent correctly is nontrivially important in the bargaining process.
Oldie: The Psychology of Military Incompetence by Dixon
Critique: Pois and Langer’s Command Failure in War.
Carl was already there. The primary fault of the commander is Eigensinn — lit. “own sense,” aka unresponsive to the actuality of the world; “authoritarianism” (D) or ”inflexibility“ (P&L)
If they fire all the ones they have now and build more, he is technically correct
Homemade riot shields — plastic barrels cut in thirds or quarters. I haven’t seen them before, but they make a lot of sense; they’d stop or slow down plastic bullets, beanbag rounds, pepper balls, etc.
Between him, Ian Fleming, and Roy Lichtenstein, stolen Low Country valor is all around us. Did any of these guys fight even one Spanish tercio?
In celebration, the chocolate ration will be raised to 20 grams.
