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Listen to Brendel. This is going to make for extraordinary Content.

Remember that period after the 2020 election when his official schedule was like "he's making many important phone calls and taking many important meetings," but he was actually just fucking off to Bedminster everyday? Honestly the besr part of his presidency.

I don't know if this hurts or helps your argument, but "professors" like Summers (or any prominent academic) only lecture maybe once a week. The bulk of interactions with students is all done by TAs.

I know this is asking a lot, but I'd hope that an editor would ask the author who is pretending it doesn't exist?

I love that his whole schtick is that he's merely dispassionately recommending that progressives do what polls tell them to do. Except when the polling suggests something he personally disagrees with, in which case progressives shouldn't follow polling. For reasons.

Star Trek V: a self-indulgent vanity project for William Shatner, but Star Trek. Wait...

Same goes for Star Trek. Star Trek II: A submarine movie, but also Star Trek.

See, also, 2004 U.S Senate election in Illinois

Also, the thrust of this "mistake" was the odds that the case would end up in front of a clearly biased and incompetent judge. Which kinda seems like the real problem?

Newsroom-ass line

Incredible. Thank you!

Genuine question, was there a recent example of someone showing their ass in a Chotiner interview, or is this trend just general appreciation for the genre?

I know my formula is simplistic, but I feel fairly confident positing that it would be cheaper to literally give homeless people cash for rent, and we'd still have money left over to build more housing.

The cost to incarcerate someone varies widely by state, but looks like the lowest is in AR at $23K annually, or ~$1900/mo. Average rent in AR is $1400/mo. You see where I'm going with this.

William F. Buckley wrote Of God and Man at Yale in 1951, exposing the atheist communism that had taken over the Ivy League, and conservatives were so appalled that they had no choice but to continue sending their kids there for the next 70 years.

I'm sorry, but the poop bags just makes this art. This guy will never live it down.

Ha thought this was a guillotine at first glance. This is also good!

I feel like a statement like this should be accompanied by even one citation. Maybe it's true, I don't know! But if the newspaper wants to not look like it's passing off conservative dogma as just accepted truth, maybe substantiate it?

Citation on "almost put him over the top again" please?

Hey remember when there was a bunch of protesting in 2020 and reactionary centrists like you thought it would help Trump and then he lost?

Huh. No joke, this is how I learned Scott Bessent is gay.

Gotta love this coming from the party who thinks it's impossible to explain to their child that a man can love another man.

Opinion | How Four Democrats Who Saved the Party Before Would Do It Again

Still steaming about this column from yesterday where all four of these ghouls said the smart thing is for Dems to capitulate on pretty much every one of these issues
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...

Ah good call. If I say that I ran out of characters to mention that the 1947 date included the loan payments would you buy it? 😂

Worth detailing that France made loans to Haiti at usurious rates to pay the indemnity, which further crippled their economy. By one estimate, the final "payment" was made in 1947 (120 years after it was first imposed). Shout to @mikeduncan.bsky.social for his excellent series on the revolution.

Is it possible to keep my relationships but get like a little bit of the money?

Ah.

Two More Women Accuse Sen. Al Franken Of Inappropriate Touching One woman told HuffPost that Franken had grabbed her backside at an event honoring women.

www.huffpost.com/entry/al-fra...

www.nydailynews.com/2017/11/30/a...

www.politico.com/story/2017/1...

www.politico.com/story/2017/1...

www.thecut.com/2019/09/anot...

At least nine separate women have accused Franken of groping them without consent, and the best he's ever mustered is the non-apology "I'm sorry if they felt..." I promise there are lots of people with great politics other than yet another mediocre white man.

I mean, it's kinda both?