David L

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.

But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political Realignment American conservatism is a home for unlikeable people who’ve turned their unlinkability into a political project.

The moms of Montgomery County don't like Bethany Mandel because she's a jerk to trans kids, and that tells a lot about America's political realignment.

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

re: Glasnow

Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.

John Fetterman Brags That Brain Damage Made Him Abandon Progressives The Pennyslvania senator sat down with Bill Maher of all people to chat about leaving progressives behind.

This was a real headline.

Yeah, there's a much bigger meta story about replacing community bonds with commerce, which is sad in its own way. Though the Christmas lights story can go deeper, too; while it can be dangerous to put up lights, there are plenty of safe decorations. If you're paying, it's for appearances sake

Mar Awa III, in red cassock, smiles as he gives the jersey to Leo, who looks as though he's been given a bomb to hold

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Honestly, at least hanging lights is difficult and potentially dangerous. I can't imagine a world where either of those words applies to putting out pumpkins

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Spending $1000 on decorative gourds to signal "your" creativity and whimsy to your rich neighbors, while SNAP ending is about to make millions go hungry, is a metaphor that a book editor would make you delete for being too on the nose

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Guys, there's no evidence ICE is buying guided warheads. The contract in question is for normal distraction devices, the kind they've been using for years.

Remember, the New York Times wrote that the AI video of Trump dumping shit on Americans was “apparently” AI generated. As if they had some difficulty confirming President Trump flew a plane to dump shit on people.

The press cannot call a spade a spade because of this phenomenon.

As someone whose best case scenario is his team facing these Dodgers in the World Series, I too am having a hard time getting excited about running into a buzzsaw

Boiler the fuck up

I (and perhaps you) get confused because we think intellect has to be connected with wisdom or thoughtfulness, but it just doesn’t. Intelligence is values-neutral and amplifies whatever it is pointed at.

Trump and Musk share a commonality of somehow being both quite clever and extremely dumb which I (and others) have found confusing.

I have a model that has been working.

I think they’re both clever guys with extremely narrow worldviews.

Note that Vance is also a giant coward, so he puts this on bluesky to do some juvenile trolling that is also a betrayal of his oath but doesn't dare put it on Twitter, where it might make some of his supporters do the 'are we the baddies' routine.

Bend reporting in

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

Someone referred to it as Cocomelon for adults, and that feels like the most succinct description to me

War is hell, Portland style