Will Stancil

Death penalty

It’s worse and more humiliating than you could imagine but I can’t say because then you can find the news stories

The worst was the man who regularly left his urine in bottles around the house, WITH KIDS AROUND, AND THAT’S NOT EVEN WHY THEY DIVORCED

This is also the experience of dating in your 30s, where you regularly encounter recent divorcees whose stories will make you question your faith in humanity

I think it’s a huge problem for the general electorate too! Fox News, talk radio, social media, all of it just serve up these choose-your-own-adventure versions of reality where every problem in the world reflects your biases and the people you hate are to blame for everything.

The more detached your ideology is from reality, the more you benefit from being able to construct your own. So naturally the extremes are getting the biggest boost: the far left and, especially, the far right.

And that’s just the explanation for everything that’s happening

The defining feature of modern politics is that everyone gets to live in a totally fictionalized universe that justifies all their beliefs, bigotries, and resentments 100% of the time.

I graduated with a master's and literally got rejected for minimum-wage jobs scooping ice cream and bagging groceries. eventually I got a big windfall ($1k as a field organizer for Obama for a month). I went to law school because the school subsidized it and when I graduated there STILL WEREN'T JOBS

My zoomer cousin told me it’s good if Trump crashes the economy. He will make less money but that’s ok, we need a crash to sort things out because houses cost too much.

There will be so much finding out.

It is going to live forever under his name! The horror

I can say with some confidence that I have never written a sentence even one-half that bad in my entire life. Not in legal writing, not under deadline, not in an exam bluebook, not racing to finish a paper in college at 3AM after a rager. This is in a BOOK!

He dead

The ginger dude running in and absolutely annihilating a completely unaware Nazi is pure art

It’s incredible how much the collapse of civil society has been engineered by this one single newspaper, constantly trying to highlight everyone else caving as some kind of savvy move by adults

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Hello

illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

The Red Wedding isn’t some gleeful moment for him, where he dunks on readers for cheering for the good guys. He was apparently devastated even writing it. It’s meant to be an awful, awful thing

People always take the lesson as being that Ned Stark was a fool for having principles, but that’s because they can’t read tone and don’t realize you’re supposed to be gutted when the schemers win.

Martin isn’t a cynic, he’s just writing a tragedy

Frankly, it’s crazy to me that the news isn’t making a bigger deal about Trump’s “antisemitism” crackdown ignoring the massive community of open Nazis in his base. I mean, I’ve long since abandoned the notion that political media has values, but this is HYPOCRISY and safe even for them to criticize

Musk buying Twitter was such an enormously important event that the commentariat still don't grapple with enough

Something really sick is happening on Twitter and there’s no indication that the ownership or any of the elite or institutional users care

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man you are never gonna believe what this is in response to

The White House landscape now matches our national political one.

god “glonzo mourning” is such a good username, well done