Brendan McPhillips

Just gonna put this out in the world – did anyone purchase a large or XL in this Notre Dame jacket by @mitchellandness.bsky.social, and would you be willing to sell it? I was on campus recently and they only had a small, and I NEED this like I need air to breathe. cc: @notredame.bsky.social

Oh, you dumb bastards. Just light them on fire now and get ahead of yourselves.

By the way, that statement is 100000% complementary of Philly, to be clear.

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the superintendent of la unified has directed the lausd police department to establish perimeters around and intervene against federal agents attempting to enter schools and graduation sites

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

the big conceptual problem with AI right now is that its pitch is "we'll take care of busywork and give you time for your interests and passions" but the people most visibly directing its development have no perceptible interests or passions beyond an abstract desire for efficiency

She 100% knows exactly what she's doing with a stunt like this.

I will say that it is funny that three positions that were the core of my youth: the current neoliberal trade regime is bad, the Iraq War is a monstrous mistake and George W Bush sucks, have now become right-wing canon.

What’s less funny is that all the people who used to hold the opposite views, basically all conservatives haven’t even stopped for a second think “hmmm what might be the lefties be right about this time?” The answer of course is Trump is a historical menace. And at some point that will be consensus

All the many people who’ve made their entire careers lying about his obvious nature will just abandon it, and slink away and find some new project where the left is wrong.

I watched this whole thing happen w Bush! Hard to overstate the cult of personality around him! How brilliant and tough and wise he was! He turned out to be an incompetent disaster. But there was no moment of epiphany,no “wow we got that wrong” just a hard pivot (for most) into Donald Trump God King

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

Conservative Catholic melting down that the first American Pope actually follows Jesus is a beautiful sight.

One way to read stories based on leaked docs: look at time from being circulated to docs getting published — bc that’s the amount of time it took to a) get someone pissed enough to agree to leak and b) get enough also-pissed people to confirm.

These are slides dated April 29-30, published May 1.

Laura Loomer called 9/11 an inside job, is banned from Uber for her bigoted views, and describes herself as being "pro-white nationalist.” Not exactly the kind of person you want advising the president on matters of national security. Where is the mainstream press coverage on this?

The 40-year story behind the flyer that brought the 'Furnace Party' to life Those closest to Milton 'ABBA' Jackson respond to rumors and myths about the famous 'Do Attend' screed

Anyway, here’s some investigative journalism related to the flyer. www.phillyvoice.com/furnace-part...

Furnace Party. 4/27/19. 27th and Girard. Did attend.

Can’t believe it’s been just over six years since the greatest party the world has ever seen.

I have… High Hopes, for this event *ducks*

Good. Bryson's a dipshit. The biggest thing that caused the world to fall apart is we started to talk to the dipshits.

Only six career Grand Slam winners, two since 1966.

No one else thought you were, Dave.

Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme—it’s a promise. Yet Trump and Musk want to use unvetted AI to gut it to bankroll tax cuts for Billionaires. Slashing staff, closing offices, delaying payments, and declaring living recipients dead to end benefits isn’t reform, it’s sabotage.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law Firms Four or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president’s crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire.

Fools and cowards, every one.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

We finally got newly painted crosswalks around Columbus square a couple weeks ago. And today, the city ripped out the new crosswalks they just painted to re-mill a couple streets that really didn’t need it. Excellent work everyone! Top notch project management.

just a reminder that Tommy Tuberville couldn't score a single touchdown for two weeks with four first-rounders on his offense and also lost to Vanderbilt. he's also a deeply stupid fascist.

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”

lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”