I. B. Cole

Not breaking any unfair vegan stereotypes

I think an unintended consequence of touting the birthday card and pervy quotes is it gives the impression that indirect innuendo is the best we've got, maybe because it's in the public record, whereas the accusers' accounts have fewer witnesses, but those accounts are explicit and far more damning

Kate Manne has really done a public service here

Agree in the longer term. But would take a constitutional amendment, a heavy lift. Comparatively lighter lift: defund SCOTUS (you need staff & electricity??), re-institute circuit riding, narrow its jurisdiction over what cases it can adjudicate,ethics legislation, + seats to SCOTUS to rebalance.

This is delightful

Fiona Apple is my Gen X tribune. She never chased musical trends, never hired surgeons to give her a fake face & body, never co-hosted dumb reality shows, never became a social media "personality," never appeared in cheeseball advertisements.

She never sold out. All hail a queen. 🫅

Nonsense it’s a savory galette

Trump has eliminated tips…and the taxes thereupon

No such thing as “a little rule of law”

And the reason why Black people were hypervigilant about it all is because Jim Crow is very much within living memory and the end of chattel slavery's only two long human lifetimes away for us.

My mom is older than Ms. Ruby Bridges. She had me just 12 years after the Civil Rights act was passed.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The efforts to save PBS & NPR are lovely and I fully support them. I hope they succeed. However, I’m also very angry that we all *already* support them, with our tax dollars, and now people have to give extra because that asshat decided to steal the money and destroy what we’re already paying for.

I love how much of early Industrial Revolution industry is a mixture of genius and brute force

Tallest structure in the U.S. when it was completed!

Crazy in the year 2025, the same people are back in power with the same agenda and the same rhetoric.

Got a feeling we’re going to see a return of MechaHitler any minute now

Sydney Sweeney is this month’s beef tallow.

Best recommendation since xcancel.com

“But I didn’t see it in my Bluesky feed!”

This is unironically a perfect description of the rationalist subculture

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Dear god, there’s an entire Reddit forum dedicated to roasting the man—I wonder if Vermeule has one! www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/...

Most guys just buy a corvette when their wife kicks them to the curb, Rod on the other hand…

www.theamericanconservative.com/goodbye-loui... Goodbye, Louisiana. I Tried

Quite the hero’s journey…

Is he the one that moved to Hungary or is that the other one?

The Rod Dreher retweet is <chef’s-kiss>.

Vetoed by the Opus Dei weirdos

I feel like “being conservative” isn’t Brooks’ issue as much as being a disingenuous, multi-decade launderer of the very things killing our country today.

Me taking a smiling selfie as an excuse to get a picture of the man behind me at the bar, despondently counting out beer money.

Two men seated at a table, slumped forward, possibly asleep, possibly dead, heads in arms. In the background, a man with a thousand yard stare drinks alone.

A standing woman addresses three people, two women and a man, all seated, oddly, in a row. They all have expressions of hopelessness on their faces.

A pint glass of a mysterious green drink stands alone on a bar of pale, office furniture wood. I never found out what this was, it looked like washing up liquid. When I asked the lady behind the bar, she just said "You probably wouldn't like it"

9 years ago today I was in Luxembourg and found The Bar of Ultimate Despair, a place so bleak I probably wouldn't believe my memory if I hadn't taken pictures. Brightly lit, pale wood officey furniture, one single beer on draught and a clientele whose common mood could not be described as convivial.

We need a fund to support rural & marginal public broadcasters, that will direct money to where it’s needed most