Correction: *Republicans in Congress

Agree but at the same time I am struck by how in some distant way, if you squint real hard, this posture kind of resembles the jealous guarding of constitutional powers the founders intended and that we wish Congress would take seriously

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

Paging Thomas Kuhn!

I am finding it so hard to believe how fucking stupid everything is right now.

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All our smartest people, hopelessly pundit-brained from top to bottom

It's easy enough to imagine another version of this article framed exactly the opposite way: "They Pay $34 for Burgers. Why Shouldn't Their Child Care Be Free?"

Actually my main kink is conservatives not liking how I express myself

Can't help but think this is another of his gambits that he thinks will play tough but will only backfire in his face when at least two of the GOP justices (and possibly more) are completely pissed at him for doing this and blowing their cover to make it more difficult to rule in his favor

Guys, we're better than kink shaming....

Just kidding, fucking roast this turd

Usage of this phrase in 2026 is one of the best tells that someone has MAGA sympathies, even if they are otherwise trying to keep it under wraps

If these numbers of Republican voters turned out in the streets, we would literally have wall-to-wall coverage of it from every legacy outlet, for months probably

At this point, I have to consider that he's not even lying, he's confabulating. I think he literally believes the events and conversations he describes have happened. Not that it ultimately makes a difference.

I think Marxism basically predicts this, the late stage when a ruling class becomes parasitic, extracting surplus without contributing. And the Frankfurt School described capitalist decadence, when the system can't expand productively & turns to financialization, imperialism, and cultural regression

Perhaps, but in the context of a historically unprecedented technological moment in which info very rapidly became universally accessible to almost everyone. Far less clarity about everything would probably be a reversion to the historical mean (which is not to say I think it would be a good thing)

Thanks for the context; I hadn't seen the video myself so that wasn't clear to me.

I'm not defending this idiot at all, but there are definitely $1,000+ pens, and among the types of dudes Trump probably spends most of his time around, collecting and using "fine writing instruments" is probably a Thing

tired: denying disaster relief to blue states

wired: denying disaster relief to blue counties

Those states should consider being equally brazen about withholding federal tax remittances

In 2026 I'm literally far more likely to see an article on Joe Biden's physical deterioration in the media than anything about this motherfucker's drooping ass half-asleep stroke-face

It will be hilarious when this results in the GOP amending the bill to add a provision that President Donald J. Trump is exempted from any restrictions on voting by mail, expiring upon his vacating the presidency

How the absolute fuck am I living in a country that went from a 250 year tradition of bucking overly grabby executives to one that barely registers direct transfers of taxpayer money into the executive's pockets - within the space of a few years???

here you go:

As soon as Trump discovers this guy's ears, dude is toast

About time Dr. McCoy got a damn coin

But they did, didn't they? They literally warned Japan that unless they surrendered they were going to use an extraordinarily powerful and destructive new weapon

"slams", huh? at least one benefit of the complete collapse of legacy media's legitimacy is that amongst the work I do read these days I encounter far fewer examples of tired & meaningless euphemisms