Stupid troll.

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new toon!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

But you grew into 'em, right?

The guys from The Car Show used to say, if you don't stall the engine every once in a while, you're slipping the clutch too much.

Political speeches with live piano accompaniment: coming within the next year, wanna bet?

Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary Democracy wins big

What really happened in Hungary?

The things you remember 40 years later …

Still speaking the English I was born with …

Instant fandom gonna get you

Same act, same venue in 1982 was about $15. I sold an extra ticket at face value outside ... the guy was pleased.

Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

I unfollow whoever posts food pictures – might as well apply that to the AP too.

Politico: past tense.

well in los angeles, people carry their passports with them. i don't go there without mine, and i'm 3rd gen californian/angelino. and my friends and i don't go out at night anymore.

"agreement"

Between oil futures, prediction markets, and the new “joint venture” with Iran, someone needs to find out exactly how much money the Trump family might be making off of this war while American soldiers take casualties.

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

It's moments like the one we are in when I have to say: liberals were right. We were always right. Yet we will never get credit for being right, because being right is not valued in America.

HRC was right. They called her a bitch.

Tell you what: start a cult, take over the world, and maybe *you* can be in charge of distributing the scarce oxygen resources.

Micah! Calm down and think a little about the "waste of oxygen" language.

The mistake people are making who advocate "hurting anyone not like them" is thinking there is anyone not like them.

Heute, am 4. April kenterte ein Holzboot und der Notruf wurde gemeldet. Menschen befanden sich im Wasser und waren unmittelbar vom Ertrinken bedroht. Als wir mit unserem Flugzeug #Seabird2 eintreffen, sind zwei Handelsschiffe vor Ort: die IEVOLI GREY und die SAAVEDRA TIDE.

Spot on from @doctorow.pluralistic.net - European leaders need to stop trying to "build a relationship" with the orange buffoon - that planet *does not exist*. There is no quid pro quo with this loser - only screwing-over. Factor THAT into your analysis, EU, UK, Canada, Japan.

Sasha Issenberg @sissenberg.4h Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for? A8 EG Attack on Iran THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2026 NEWS ANALYSIS By STEVEN ERLANGER A North American Treaty Organization Without America?

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing?

Shameful.

It feels like four or five years ago, but everything's much longer ago than I think.

Die Klima- und Sozialpolitik der 🇩🇪 Bundesregierung ist der reinste Fiebertraum. Litauen verbilligt Bahntickets, Merz verbilligt Flugtickets und die bis zu 300 Mio. €, die uns das jährlich kosten wird, werden natürlich beim Deutschlandticket eingespart. Der absolute Wahnsinn, der hier abgeht!

"Strongman" Trump | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

This bite echoes the point made by Neil Postman in the 1980s that television, no matter how fictional, is now to many people *more real* than reality. (Eco too had at least one essay back then on "real" in US culture …) If only that were just academics' imaginative theories!

Critical Theory After Habermas (feat. Philipp Felsch) Podcast Episode · Emancipations Podcast · March 13 · 1h 23m

Podcast with Philipp Felsch on "Habermas and Us"

Ca. 500 Leute demonstrieren gerade für die Rettung des Wals. Also ungefähr 500 mehr als für die Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.