Hard to underestimate the societal damage we've done establishing computers as essentially an infallible productivity device for the better part of a century, and then flipping the switch on them to "Notorious lying machine."

Damn when even Abundabro thinks you fucked up, you really fucked up

It's annoying that I'd love to return to fun, baroque design and I firmly believe esthetic minimalism is death... but then this fucking guy is putting Live, Laugh, Love balloon letters in the Lincoln Bedroom and ruining it for everyone.

Popping the trunk for collecting the hide

I 100 percent believe he sexually humiliated himself early and often. Ross is nothing if not honest about the origins of his pathetic revanchism

Keep on Abunding bro

Props to Zohran, whose upcoming election victory was so traumatizing it made Dick Cheney's baboon heart valves explode

"In recent weeks"

"Tinged"

lol great New York Times impression.

Imagine spending all this money, both in propganda production and the equipment and training, on sanitation departments and the post office; government agencies that are 1,000x more important to our daily lives

I think, generously, the idea is that here's the single day that enabled every moment after.

No pundit on earth has ever examined the remarkable coincidence that the path to winning elections aligns perfectly with their own preferred ideological positions. The Matt Yglesias effect. Incredibly tedious.

Bug says what?

This is so funny "A correction: The discussion about Batman villains was between two men, Stavros Halkias and Nick Mullen, not three. Adam Friedland was not involved in that episode."

Very odd framing of this problem, where the antisemitism is very much adjacent to why these guys love Nazism. There's quite a bit to that ideology that isn't "Jews are bad" that's attractive to the rightwing, and if you can't reckon with that at all you can't begin to solve any of this.

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

I wonder if there's another, more accurate, succinct, or even singular word one could use instead of "almost won."

While Democrats are mostly feckless and worthless as politicians, I do sympathize with the threatening paradox of their position. The more aggressively they act in promising legal retribution for the administration's crimes, the more incentive the administration has never to allow elections at all.

The original zombie movie ends with a white posse shooting a black, non-zombied man and hanging him on a meathook!

It's so unbelievably tedious that these people can never examine the remarkable coincidence that their perfect politics is somehow never to blame. They've never lost an election on their ideas. Perfect centrism has simply never been tried.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491 Quote Corey Walker @CoreyWriting · 16h The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

I'd pay good streaming subscription money for an Armando Iannucci Bari Newsroom series with Matt Christman's Jeff Newsroom theme song opening credits.

"This is not how you help your cause"

- Man who hates you and your cause

These guys are so used to talking to the hogs, they don't want to reckon that the military officer class is all college-educated "elites" and (most) hold themselves to an incredibly high professional standard.

There's not going to be any applause lines or laughter or hooting for this shit.

Our best hope is a young American Gaddafi is sitting in this audience, making side-eyes at his best, most tactical friends in silent agreement on what has to be done.

Dog, look what they did to our empire.

I can't believe I'm going to be put in a camp by the Cringestapo.