I can say one thing: I hope Canada kicks the USA’s shit in tomorrow night. 🤙

I’m going to take a break from Bluesky (first one!) so I can be more present and not dread every waking moment. I’m marrying my dream girl in less than 3 months, that’s pretty cool! I’ll be back sometime soon. When? I don’t know. What the hell will have happened by then? I don’t know.

It’s something important about all this: they want you to live in misery and fear in every facet of your life. If you feel this way, you’ll be paranoid. If you’re paranoid you’re less likely to be rational. If you’re less likely to be rational you’ll blame a conspiracy. Elon will fill that gap.

I can’t speak for NYC but whenever I’m on a turnpike, I love how fast it is, how nice the rest stops are, and the flawless road conditions. I don’t know what funds that? Must be all private donations from billionaires who love our Beautiful Commuters.

Of course it doesn't matter that congestion pricing was working, as this is part of the broader program of theatrically wrecking shit as part of the broader campaign against any new thing. But it was working incredibly well.

The balance in politics is Republicans acting mad when there's nothing to be mad about and Democrats acting calm when they should be screaming their heads off.

OVERNIGHT: Donald Trump’s media company, citing President Donald Trump’s executive order, sues a Brazilian judge who is involved in the potential prosecution of Donald Trump’s political ally Jair Bolsonaro.

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

Kristi Noem a few years ago, looking remarkably like Maggie Gyllenhaal, which I understand if you rely on this to know an image isn't helpful, but she's a brunette woman with a heart of gold.

This is Kristi Noem last week on CNN, or ALLEGEDLY Kristi Noem, who now looks like Christina Applegate, which again I acknowledge is not particularly helpful if you are vision disabled, but just trust me that Maggie Gyllenhaal and Christina Applegate are wildly different looking people. They are, in fact two different people! And it's now my conspiracy theory belief that Christina Applegate Noem is not the same as Maggie Gyllenhaal Noem.

while we were all consumed with fake melania i think we have a much better case for fake kristi noem

Because they'll miss their shift at the meat packing factory

Guy who has only watched the run-up to the Iraq War, watching the run-up to a war with Canada: Canadians, especially Albertans, will greet us as liberators and they can use the oil from the tar sands to fund their own reconstruction.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I strongly agree with Donald Trump," said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Canada is largely left of center, and making it the 5lst state means more Democrats in Congress and Electoral College votes, not to mention providing universal health care and combating climate change."

These barely-sentient people who believe deranged stuff like “we should make Canada the 51st state so they can vote for us” must be purged from the Democrat party.

Image of the number 23 Toyota Camry with Columbia livery for this weekends Atlanta race.

Bubba’s Columbia paint scheme for this weekend goes so hard it’s ridiculous.

I did something personally unthinkable and cheered for Canada on Saturday and will Thursday. I know for a fact many of the American players proudly support Trump. They support his bullying of Canada. They can play dumb all they want regarding the booing, but they know why, and fuck them.

REYES: [The order] calls an entire category of people dishonest, dishonorable, undisciplined, immodest, who lack integrity, people who have taken an oath to defend this country, people who have been under fire, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country. I want to know from the government whether that language expresses 'animus.' Does that express animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: Not in any constitutional- REYES: In a commonsense way. This is a policy from the President of the United States affecting thousands of people ... to call an entire group of people, lying dishonest people who are undisciplined, immodest and have no integrity. How is that anything other than showing animus? DOJ ATTORNEY: I don't have an answer for you. REYES: You do have an answer, you just don't want to give it... People can make solid arguments as to why some or even most transgender people shouldn't be in the military We're dealing with unadulterated animus. We are dealing with the president of the United States dealing with a group of people serving their country... calling them liars. (Reyes then said she changed her courtroom orders to bar people who graduated from UVA law school from appearing before her because "they're all liars and lack integrity and are undisciplined and can't possibly meet the high rigors of benign a lawyer for the government" She made the DOJ lawyer sit down on that basis, then after he did, she called him back up and asked whether that was a display of animus.)

This is fucking incredible.

whenever my cat complains about me not feeding him more than three times a day I have developed a habit of showing him great works of art that depict suffering (The Pieta, The Rape of Lucretia, The Fall of Nineveh) and explain in detail how his own pain greatly exceeds that depicted

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I strongly agree with Donald Trump,” said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Canada is largely left of center, and making it the 51st state means more Democrats”. STOP THIS.

Probably you noticed this if you remain on X, but the site's algorithm was adjusted in July to make Musk's voice the dominant feature of the entire ecosystem. It changed the 2024 race.

A lot of extremely credulous people denied this was happening for years. Journalists sticking up for fox when Obama criticized them. So many useful idiots for the fascist takeover

Gotta love going to a 'Dem Strategist' that's 68 years old and hasn't worked in politics in 20 years

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet