Every single action and policy must be measured against "How much power does this take away from the Republicans?"

The stated goal for Republicans for over a decade has been to achieve one party rule. That should also be the goal of the Democrats.

Funny how despite all the breathless takes about the economic anxiety underpinning MAGA it was in fact a decadent ideology affordable only because of their material prosperity.

notably he understands religious leaders to be a kind of mafia boss, and in American conservatism they might as well be

Family business annihilation

In the national divorce liberals get monogamy

O'Reilly naming his main opening segment the Talking Points Memo really illuminates the project of RW media: to equip their audience with the arguments they need to defend the Right and attack their enemies.

A USPS truck that's actually a cake

My kid loved the USPS truck so much he wanted it to be his birthday theme

AI's ability to be a subject matter expert (apparently the default casual use??) remains really bad.
But there are now a myriad of professional use cases where as long as the professional is the subject matter expert it's powerful.

Where does mother go when she holds up the dishtowel?

A USPS truck that's actually a cake

My kid loved the USPS truck so much he wanted it to be his birthday theme

Is he listing books from his library online somewhere?

Also, importantly, no news, no podcasts, only shows and movies released after 2008

Kash Patel will be remembered as the noblest FBI Director of Trump's second Administration.

"clubbing baby seals" is now the enviromentalist position

by mail, address handwritten, personalized note, wax seal, postage selected because you knew I didn't have it in my collection

Today is the day Bluesky became president

They covered it in RCIA, too bad Vance skipped class

Animorphs famously lures kids in with a picture of a girl turning into a horse and then tells an unrelenting story about how war is hell and you have to fight to protect your community and there are no happy endings and anyone lucky enough to survive will bear those scars forever

I think Costco tried self-checkout and backtracked.

Interesting how Aldi has made a number of smart innovations to cut costs and actually lower prices on groceries, and self-checkout is not one of them.

This would also apply to the American South from ~1789 until 1965, excepting a brief period from 1865-1877?

Median age and range of attendees?

The US isn't even the country with the most Catholics in North America, let alone every other continent

When the E33 creators say "neither ending is the good ending" I don't interpret that as an artistic death of the author you can choose thing, I interpret it as "we had an actual good ending planned and ran out of time to develop it"

Might have to break my strict No Contract rule for this special occasion

Cannot believe my good luck that Orban lost his first election in 16 years, a crushing supermajority defeat that promises to hold the corrupt accountable and reignite liberalism, a week before my Christian Nationalist BIL's trip to Hungary that he's been planning for years.

Starting to think politics is mainly about the vibes and material conditions are just one of the inputs that partially shape the vibes

Spy Kids

If you're a big fan of the book then the tv/film adaptation isn't For You.