Newspaper featuring a cartoon photo of fictional film critic Jay Sherman and President George HW Bush. Headlines: “BUSH LOSES! FAT LECHEROUS HILLBILLY ELECTED”

I’m rewatching The Critic, which I love, but can someone who wasn’t around in the 90s make heads or tails of this nonsense?

Appropriately, whether you swallow this horseshit is an intelligence test.

Went on a short walk through my neighborhood and was greeted by two devices to tell me that I was currently being recorded. Did Ring push an update or something?

Ultimately, the incoherent whining about relativism comes from Peter Thiel's inability to actually accept that the post-WWII world did actually judge regressive cultures harshly, and that is why Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, and Nazi Germany went into history's dustbin.

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Counterpoint: That's exactly what he was doing. Bigotry is bigotry.

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Soaring Gas Prices Forcing More Americans To Drink Less Gas

AI painting of a bearded man with unreadable text on his hat. It’s from the Trump-as-Christ pic.

I don’t know man I just love AI text.

HEINZ BIG BEAN!

you scientists were so focused on whether or not you could you didn't stop to ask if you should

I have never met a "logical centrist." There is nothing logical about "centrism," at all: It's just finding the "moderate" position and claiming it *bc it's centrist/moderate.*

What's logical about that? In what way does that forward best practices in policy or do the most for people's lives?

Amazing. His dumbest week ever. So far.

Sometimes I feel like other people aren’t real when they’re not interacting with me. You ever feel that way? Probably not.

To say that i 'know how to use the toilet' implies that I theres nothing more I can learn, which I reject

What's so funny 'bout Hague, love, and understanding?

Land of contrasts baby

I said Haaaague, Haaaaague
I said Hague, what's going on?

Hague ho, let’s go!

Love to live in a country where the leader just sundowns into increasingly violent fantasies and we have to wonder if he “means it.”

Finally we can say what we REALLY think about the Artemis astronauts.

IF YOUR TRUCK WAS MADE WITHOUT NUTS AND YOU PUT NUTS ON IT THAT TRUCK IS TRANS I DON'T MAKE THE RULES SNOWFLAKE IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM TAKE IT UP WITH GOD

it also has this one

Why Brooke Shields went undercover at Casa Bonita The actress and Actors' Equity president visited the iconic Colorado restaurant to support the entertainment workers' union.

Members of the Casa Bonita United union met up at the iconic restaurant last Friday to eat lunch and chat with their fellow entertainment workers before delivering a letter to management.

Only they didn’t deliver the letter: Brooke Shields, actress and president of Actors’ Equity Association, did.

Dude fuck this guy

All love to Eugene Mirman!

screenshot of a three-paragraph excerpt from the end of the linked article, with the second paragraph highlighted in green. excerpt reads as follows: Sotomayor also pressed Sauer about the implications of the administration’s theory, and if ruling for Trump in this case would replicate the harms of U.S. v. Singh Thind, a 1923 decision involving an Indian immigrant who served in the U.S. Army and later became a naturalized citizen. There, the Court ruled that only “free white persons” were eligible for naturalization, and revoked Thind’s citizenship. The federal government then embarked on a denaturalization campaign, and dozens of Indian Americans lost their U.S. citizenship. “There would be nothing limiting that, according to your theory,” said Sotomayor. Sauer insisted that the Trump administration is only asking for prospective relief, as the executive order is not retroactive. But that answers a different question than the one that Sotomayor asked: Whether the administration is seeking to strip people of their citizenship right now is distinct from whether its theory would empower it to do so in the future. The possible harm Sotomayor was wary of gets to the heart of why the birthright citizenship provision exists, and why Trump’s executive order is both legally and morally repugnant. Congress adopted the Fourteenth Amendment to ensure that the Constitution would no longer tolerate a racial caste system, and that bigoted politicians could not arbitrarily exclude people born in America from equal membership in American society. Accepting Trump’s view of birthright citizenship would shatter both multiracial democracy and the constitutional tool used to forge it.

while I think folks generally understand how Trump's birthright citizenship order threatens a ton of newborns now, I don't think it's fully appreciated how it also threatens everyone

bc if he can arbitrarily revoke citizenship from them, why not from you?

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