every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

The Supreme Court found that a school acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people was such a violation of freedom of religion that they had to allow opt outs but now the 5th circuit says kids being exposed to the ten commandments isn't. The law is such a joke.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Tucker Carlson apologizes for 'misleading' people on Trump: 'We're implicated in this for sure' The former Fox News host, once a prominent supporter of the president, has been vocally opposed to how the president has handled Iran.

Do not let these people pretend they're any different now than what they've always been. They just wanted a more competent fascist. They're still fucking fascists.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Man shot in North Alamitos Beach, police say. The man was in the 1000 block of East Fourth Street early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Police are investigating a shooting in North Alamitos Beach that left a man hospitalized early Tuesday morning.

Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-shot-in-...

Sensing a pattern

lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker

I hate him so much.

Indiana Jones was an abusive creep (but he was almost much worse)

It’s strongly hinted in Raiders of the Lost Ark that Indy had taken advantage of Marion when she was young. In fact, George Lucas thought it would be “interesting” if the backstory was that Indy had seduced her when she was between 11 and 15. www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/908...

There's “a long history of paleontology being viewed as a very kind of masculine and powerful scientific discipline, that you were a real-life Indiana Jones," paleontologist Riley Black says in the story.

I grew up in the ‘80s, so Indy was a big hero of mine, but that character was problematic AF.

Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...

Nothing to see here — just the fact that the entire paleontology field is lousy with sex pests and predators www.cbc.ca/radio/epstei...

Good Lord can we please stop catering to religious weirdos

For example, the landscape of Epstein Island

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

If he meant any of this he'd just retire from commentary because that's the only rational response to getting it this wrong, but instead he's just gonna endorse Vance next year because of under-the-hood articles about how he opposed the war

More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

Trump, looking at his disastrous war advised by his strong-jawed and hollow-skulled crusader Secretary, is looking for how to turn things around and settling on firing another woman in his cabinet.

A clear blue and green race car rounds a corner against a blurry urban background.

A blurry yellow race car speeds along a track in front of a crowd of people and a Ferris Wheel.

A yellow and orange truck drives on two wheels on a race track.

A man holds up his index finger as he is showered with colorful confetti.

If you’ve ever been to the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach, you know it's pure chaos — well orchestrated chaos that runs smoother than the IndyCars themselves.

Read more, and see great photos, of this weekend’s race from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/photos-the-w...

bring back shame

I just assume this is a feature of the school shooter type, of which these guys are all extremely vivid examples

THIS

Contrast to how civilians put themselves in true danger for each other within minutes during the ICE raids these past couple months.

"I'm Robert Moses, and I approved this message."

A simple drug test can clear all of this up