Academia: where the only way to get any work done is to take a day off work.

How many days before Swalwell has a podcast in which he bitches about “wokeness” and pitches sketchy bodybuilding supplements?

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

So uh, how the hell exactly do they plan to get the Strait of Hormuz open for business again?

Voting is simple. Vote for the best candidate in the primary. Not the most “electable” one. The one most capable of carrying out the most progressive change. Then vote for the least bad candidate in the general election. That’s it. Sometimes they’re the same person. Yay! Sometimes they’re not. Fine.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Every once in a while something happens to remind me that Henry Cuellar is somehow still a member of the House. And every time, it’s because he did yet another incomprehensibly awful thing.

Somebody please explain why the US won’t have to reposition the Pacific Fleet near the Strait of Hormuz in order to reopen it, and/or why that repositioning won’t cause China to take Taiwan, and/or why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan doesn’t trigger WWIII.

So uh, how the hell exactly do they plan to get the Strait of Hormuz open for business again?

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

All expression and no persuasion makes Jack a dull boy.

“Abysmal” seems an especially apt descriptor of this moment.

This really feels like a fundamental shift. But does it just feel that way? Or is it really a shift? And how would we even know the difference?

No one even wants to bother responding to bullshit anymore because it’s obviously bullshit and responding to it just looks like either stating the obvious or engaging in breathless hyperbole. It can only backfire.

Like, am I getting more cynical? Or is the world getting more nihilistic? Is it an epistemic problem or an ontological one?

Is it just me or does almost everything just seem like a giant load of fucking bullshit?

Everything that MAGA is saying right now about "retribution" for Kirk is basically a scam. It's all about creating justification for the full-scale targeting of *innocents* on the liberal-left. It's not payback or retribution in any real sense.

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I try not to do media criticism because we all make mistakes and there but for the grace of god go I. But it was really irresponsible for mainstream outlets to run with the "trans slogans engraved on the bullet" narrative, which seemed implausible from the jump.

The PRECISE moment the Governor of Utah saw the suspect:

You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate.

It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

What Is 21st-Century Truth? | Essay Propaganda Has Trapped Us in Plato’s Cave—the Shadows Aren't Real but the Sun Is Blinding

And really by "teaching" Plato I mean I'm troubling Plato. Why did we trust him that the escaped prisoner actually saw the real truth and wasn't just a conspiracy clown pretending he knew the truth? Mistakes were made.
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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

This is more or less like the Lincoln Douglas debates?

Gravity always wins.

Way to snag that low-hanging fruit Chuckie.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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Moving. A friend complained about resistance focusing around this 1 person, instead of the hundreds who deserve the same solidarity. But people think in stories. Rosa Parks is a story. So is Kilmar, and Daniel Berulis, the hero from the NLRB. Honor heroes. Be one, if you get the chance, and can.