Stephen Malloy

Clifford Clinton - 1937

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.

No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

I've read some stuff (The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms) which argues persuasively that consciousness is the distinction between prediction and perception, and that our brains have evolved to minimise the difference between the two and optimise for a predictable environment.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

YouTube video by the jenningses The Americans 6x10 - Train scene

"The Americans" not only holds up, but also continues to be the greatest television series produced in the last 25 years.

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The Americans
Deadwood
The Expanse
Better Call Saul
Arrested Development

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump

“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”

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1. Graham Platner is an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran who’s running for the United States Senate in Maine. He’s trying to knock off Susan Collins. He’s presented himself as a common-man candidate who stands against oligarchy, genocide and the oppression of the little guy.

"A Rose for JJ"

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

look I do corruptions 12 hours a day every day you can’t expect me to answer a question about one of them

I didn't realize until much later that you thought our analogies were "the exact same" because they both mention damage to a car.

Honestly, the funniest thing I've come across in months.

Thank you.

What precipitates this motion now is a digital messaging exchange that occurred after the government brought charges, between purported interim U.S. Attorney Halligan and Anna Bower, a senior journalist for Lawfare, published on Monday, October 20, 2025.4 The article and the texts between the two are attached as Exhibits A and B, respectively. As reported and as confirmed by the Signal messages exchanged between Ms. Halligan and Ms. Bower, it was Ms. Halligan who initiated contact with the journalist—an unusual and improper occurrence. The exchange was a stunning disclosure of internal government information. On October 111, 2025- two days after charging Attorney General James with Bank Fraud and False Statements to a Financial Institution—Ms. Halligan reached out to Ms. Bower to claim she was "reporting

NEW: Letitia James's attorneys ask the court to limit further govt disclosures in the wake of Signal messages sent by "purported interim U.S. Attorney Halligan" to @annabower.bsky.social. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

I don't think that most of the people wearing these costumes are doing it to protect themselves, or put on a show for clicks, they're doing it to mock and goad the people they're protesting, who happen to be notoriously thin-skinned.

I think the "silly inflatable bodies" are, literally, "comically unprotected bodies", and it's only a matter of time before they piss off an anonymous ICE thug enough to become "a target for real violence".

And I also think that's tactical.

Zohran kneeling in a big group photo of parents and babies.

Next year, we'll welcome 125,000 new New Yorkers to our city. But many families don't have what they need to give their babies a healthy start.

Building on @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social's pilot, we'll launch citywide Baby Baskets, providing new parents with essential items and resources.

Someone's in my mentions arguing that this ad isn't particularly newsworthy, but the former Democratic governor of New York leaning in to both AI and racism as a rear-guard action against an insurgent progressive feels like an important milestone in the fight for the Democratic Party's future.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

You are the losers of this era, the organizations that will — if you remain in existence at all after this is done — forever need to explain why, in the moment when your institutional stature both provided you the most protection and gave you the clearest reasons to push back, you failed to do so.

I don't know, maybe I'm misinformed, but was the totenkopf tattoo he had for almost two decades a henna tattoo?

Lol in your analogy, the car's issues could be fixed in a few minutes, with a hose.

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

So, I guess first, I'll critique your analogy: a Nazi tattoo is more significant than a little superficial mud, it's more like a sheared-off taillight.

Second, if there's also a large dent in the driver's side door? I'm going to have to drill down pretty hard before I invest in it.

You said "the existence of the tattoo is not enough to base a decision on".

I was pointing out that the existence of the tattoo was, in fact, the SECOND data point.

That seems relevant to your point quoted above, no?

Didn't he also go on the podcast to defend himself against the recent uncovering of a bunch of ignorant edgelord reddit posts?

Pretending the tattoo thing happened in a vacuum seems pretty naive, if not wilfully ignorant