Bad news

Whole generation got their brains pickled by the idea that politics is a process of patient triangulation and consensus-building instead of a knife fight that decides how pain, suffering, and resources are distributed throughout society

I think it's prudent to show up to the airport on time.

I'm glad that Historic Seattle is going apeshit over this. With any luck it'll kill any goodwill people harbor towards them.

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"

IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

lol

Something very stupid is about to happen.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

it's easy to reconcile "gerrymandering generally is bad, but countering aggressively partisan gerrymanders in one state with aggressively partisan gerrymanders in another state is good" by understanding that the countervailing gerrymanders will happen regardless. Fight or surrender, there is no ref.

Suspicion and outright rejection of the germ theory of disease is a major pillar of "anti-Cathedral" thinking (to use a largely discarded term). Manosphere stoicism, MAHA quackery, and seed oil panic pseudo-nutrition all ideologically require ill health to be the result of moral inferiority.

the troops are just gonna have to touch the stove i guess

American school shootings and Israeli school shootings are different in the ways you might expect; reflecting the unique pathologies of both countries.

dumber than dogshit

Which tells you how deep this really goes! Lorne Michaels is behind it.

He is also in the 1985-1986 SNL photo

Well it was very smart of them to get the same guy for the 1985 SNL staff photo.

So the Swartzwelder in staff photos is a ringer?

The shunned for being a pedophile to Republican pipeline. Many such cases.

I know one person who has missed a flight, by his own fault, more than once. He's intolerable.

It would be kind of funny if the Trump DOT did a monkeys paw with congestion and this is how we get mass transit for all.

one wonders if the bishop got the green light from his boss the pope on this one.

The very fun bit is when they say "a few agitators" when what they mean is "the whole fucking room."

Top two primaries are a real hazard to the ruling party in one party states where there's substantial factionalism and infighting.

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

WR & DB scuffling 40yds away from the football.

The framing on this is weird.

"Democratic voters turned against Israel," carries this suggestion that a bunch of people betrayed a stalwart friend for no apparent reason.

Hell yeah he's doin it

I guess it makes sense that the company that spies on everyone has a wild case of poster's madness

'these big industrial projects supporting newfangled technology emit invisible rays that ruin your health' is just a structurally crank argument, repeated continuously since at least the development of rail. it actively harms the public's ability to make sense of real externalities (emissions etc)