Exploded Bunbury

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

RFK Jr. snorted cocaine off the toilet seat the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

My new hero is @tinabrownlm.bsky.social

Never change, Wikipedia.

Remember when saying something like “deplorable” was bad for a political career?

I will not vote for any candidate who runs with "we need to move forward" and refuses to prosecute this administration for every single one of their crimes. Accountability is all.

Opinion Editorial Board The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

Opinion Editorial Board Wes Moore embarrasses Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.

Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

This is my new favorite thread. I read it to my wife and she is baffled because she isn’t terminally online like I am.

Also, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

“Critical race theory”?

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

As a centrist, free speech advocate, I’m forced to admit that ICE murdering protesters and jailing journalists in Minnesota is almost as bad as the Oberlin student council doing land acknowledgments.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

There is a tiny bulldozer shoveling out our sidewalks. Godspeed little bulldozer!

This dude cannot stop falling up.

We are in a world in which every single person in the administration, from the President to the Vice President on down, said the same exact thing: that ICE was authorized to murder US citizens just because they were annoying.

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

On Tuesday, James O’Keefe, a self-styled undercover journalist known for his group’s deceptive stings and edited videos, claimed that he’d been chased out of a Minneapolis suburb. “I’m shaken,” O’Keefe told podcaster Megyn Kelly, describing an encounter with five white women who he claimed demanded his press credentials.

He’s shaken because 5 women asked for his credentials…imagine ICE asking you for your papers…

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

Two democratic members of congress being assaulted reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

For at least a decade the stupidest, most frivolous columnist in America.

Viola Liuzzo. Jim Reeb. Andrew Goodman. Mickey Schwerner. William Lewis Moore. American white supremacists have a long history of murdering white people who break ranks.

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?

Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?