Aaron Denney

Speaker Johnson & Others Remember Christian-Right Leader at Memorial Service Children and former associates of James Dobson honored the “pro-family” leader at an Oct. 4 memorial service in Denver that highlighted his roles as a father and man of deep...

Can't help but laugh at all the conservatives fawning over James Dobson, who described marriage as a form of sex work, in which women provide services to their husband in exchange for living expenses and security.

Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

I wasnt aware of this, and got really confused when I googled “Olivia reingold John Oliver” great job AI as always

The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary.

The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.

Unfortunately the commenters aren’t. Nor is Josh Blackman.

Doesn’t Trump claim to be an expert at The Art of the Deal?

Fixing the hallucinations isn’t a simple thing. It’s deeply built in to how the current systems work, and will require some fundamental architectural changes that no one knows how to do yet.

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

I have and will spend for games I do expect to like: Control, Breath of the Wild, Bloodstained, Outer Wilds, and Hades for more recent examples, but even BotW was cheaper than the prices being thrown around.

It’s not all because, but I stand by the thrust of such statements. You do know that all of the tools to create games have plunged in cost during this time?

AAA games are bad games generally. SMB3 was a banger. Why would I spend even $20 for something I don’t expect to like?

Thank you for saying media as well as continuing your usual beating on the social-media drum.

AAA games seem to be picking neither quality (except graphics), nor (quick) time, nor (low) cost. They’re bad products that take forever to produce, causing the high prices that I am not willing to risk.

The good games are indeed wonderful, and even at high prices are good values. But that’s rare.

Dude, that’s not what “well-paid” means. That’s just “adequately paid”.

The review sites have gotten pretty good at filtering out review bombs though.

Sure, costs have risen insanely—but they shouldn’t need to be that insanely expensive. The AAA game industry makes bad games and does so in a bad expensive way.

Incredible what a great Rorschach test the Platner tattoo is. Almost no one I have respect for is defending it and almost everyone I think is a dishonest hack is coming up with excuses. Like, cutting across ideology even!

Rocket docket, order only, no opinion

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Me 10 years ago: You know people are always calling political opponents Nazis even if they aren’t anything like Nazis, I wish that would stop

Monkey‘s paw:

Well, (a) some laws are bad, actually. Ideally they would be repealed or fixed, but that's often not possible. (b) sometimes even good laws are enforced badly. (c) sometimes focusing enforcement on some laws takes resources away from other laws that are more important to enforce.

No Kings and the Laws of Power Understanding the Republican will to power and what Democrats must do to counter it.

“Normal people in the pro-democracy space seem to understand what time it is. Most elected Democrats do not.

And these elected Democrats also do not seem to understand that weakness is a provocation.”

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RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him: ...l ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew -- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Maybe they don’t want their reporters to have expertise on these topics

No other president has acted as …

Not so rare

False dichotomy. You don’t have to lose at everything forever to be bad. Sometimes you can be bad in the sense of mediocre-but-not-good-enough. The actual facts on the ground vary a lot state-to-state or even district-to-district.

Producing meat optimized for profit above all else is disgusting and unethical. The scale isn’t directly the problem, but if production optimized for profit happens at large scale, than any large scale production can only survive by cutting similar corners.