Ben Novack

I just went to a Pirates-Reds game and the Reds won, as you'd expect, but the Pirates kept them honest and for most of the game it felt like they miiiiight get lucky and pull it off and it was a really fun game - despite the Bucs being tied or behind for the entire game. Baseball! It's good!

without getting too into it, republicans and the administration love to say they dont really pay attention to what is said about them, especially from the left of center media.

i can tell you - from very very very recent personal experience -- they do in fact pay attention and it bothers them.

Event Horizon comes closer than most but doesn’t qualify…. Hmmm…

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

This is absolutely right.

The Epstein Files have largely been kept afloat by Trump's own inability to shut up about it, but Democrats should do whatever they can to make sure it doesn't fade away over the summer like they're hoping.

Bring it up on TV, promote victims' stories. Press the attack.

We're holding a celebration of public transit/benefit show & looking for SEPTA employees who also have a fun skill they'd like to show off. Do you know a bus driver who can play a musical instrument? Do you know a rail machinist who can juggle? Send em my way! gettingbare.eventbrite.com

Seems like a pretty clear case of employees enduring sexual harassment at work, right?

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Pritzker: Neither Texas nor the FBI at the federal level has the authority to arrest these Texas Democrats

They’re welcome to visit to take in the great views and enjoy the incredible restaurants we have. But they won’t be taking anyone home with them, or out of the state.

Absolutely no clue. If *forced* to guess I'd try "blood" but it doesn't even ring a bell.

If you’ve ever heard that

- The F-Word is an acronym for “Fornication Under Consent of the King”
- The Sh-Word is an acronym for “Ship High in Transit”
- Any other older word being an acronym

It’s untrue.

Acronyms are, by and large, a 20th-century phenomenon.

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I think the central premise that young men searching for information on how to have a sex life will invariably encounter just an absolute avalanche of right wing misogyny peddlers and very little actual helpful advice is a genuine problem.

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

It is true that when you look at the odds stacked against them the performance of the Dems is pretty incredible considering, but that’s also sort of cold comfort when they’re your sole hope. It’s like if a dog that could talk cogently but kept getting references mixed up was also your only lawyer.

Repetition is the most important factor in message retention. The most important factor. Repetition is the most important factor in retention.

Posting this here now so the next time someone goes "we already knew this" or "and you're surprised?" I can drop it in the reply before I block them

Most politicians from North Carolina are going to reference their faith and if that's something you -- someone who is not from North Carolina -- do not like, you are perfectly welcome to shut the fuck up.

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the ol bait and switch

Trump has actually been remarkably successful in implementing his agenda and at the six month mark he's hit a low point in Gallup approval ratings. That's because the agenda is fundamentally unpopular! Something we tried desperately hard to communicate in 2024.

You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.

Neil stop stalking people

As a long-term MAGA person I can excuse narcissism, mediocrity, childishness, dishonesty, racism, sexism, lawbreaking, dementia, incoherence, and blatant hostility to the constitution and American values, but I draw the line when I decide to stop ignoring that he’s also always clearly been a pedo

If you have not read Rich Hill’s personal essay about losing his son Brooks please do so now. But I warn you that you will become a lifelong fan and maybe even cry sometimes when you watch him keep chasing his dream at 45: www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/ric...

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

If Donald Trump is found to have sexually abused young girls, would it be politically disqualifying? This youth pastor says no.

@samreich.bsky.social you should auction the doll shoes off for charity

The Philadelphia street sign is incredibly informative while also being legible, extensible, clean, and iconic. Top 10 best graphic design in my book

I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.

A photo of the Phillies board, which is showing the Phanatic rolling on the ground after being caught with another Phanatic in a blond wig. She is hiding her face from the camera.

THEY DID A COLDPLAY KISS CAM AND THE PHANATIC PARODIED THE CEO THING

And it's not like multiple people haven't pointed out the connection for years. It remains pretty weird that it's only now that this is (partially) piercing the bubble of nonsense they've surrounded themselves with.