Bobby V

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Wilcomply

“a sensation” — get a fucking grip. Glad I cancelled my subscription

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

This hits on the real danger of generative AI: not that it can ever equal a truly competent and creative human's work but that its output can be middling enough to meet the frequently already dialed in expectations for mediocrity that are typical of so many sectors of modern life

Grow up, Matt.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

plus, it’s a hard job! Be knowledgeable in public policy, economics, law, political strategy, and rhetoric; be willing to work crazy hours under crazy conditions; be responsible for important decisions, a massive budget, and huge bureaucracy. Any other job with those reqs pays $$$$

I understand the sound-bite appeals of unpaid or low-paid politicians, but it should be pretty obvious that this would lead to political positions occupied by the independently wealth, insane, or corrupt.

This shouldn't be that difficult.

"Advocating for norms doesn't mean we have to let them be used against us. Wanting a functional democracy doesn't mean unilateral disarmament."

But for Dems who want to harness No Kings energy, without falling into (what they see as) the trap of uncut anti-Trumpism, there are many things they can promise to do with power in 2027-2028, then in 2029 and beyond. Some even overlap with kitchen-table issues! www.offmessage.net/p/a-no-kings...

Trump vs. George III: A No Kings Comparison Our own mad king is repeating many of his predecessors' greatest hits

Since I'm about to head out to DC's No Kings protest, here's a quick look at America's ORIGINAL No Kings movement, and a review of how many of George III's crimes outlined in the Declaration have been repeated by Trump. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/trump-vs-g...

Very clear that Helen spends all day observing and arguing with figments of her imagination. Every female lawyer I know is a tough-as-nails, not to be fucked with, successful attorney.

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't

California license plate with text "BOOOOBY".

Customer: MY NAME IS BOBBY AND THIS IS MY NICK NAME.
DMV: BOOBY, SEXUAL

Verdict: DENIED

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

As the man who made All the President’s Men, how did you feel when Nixon died? I had no remorse. I did not think he deserved the kudos he got in death — there was this weird revisionism that went on. You feel for the family. There’s some sympathy for that. But for me it was not the passing of a great man. He was a man who dealt us some pretty undignified blows. He did not symbolize the better part of ourselves at all.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”

Infinite Meh

a man in a suit and tie is saying i 'm sorry did someone say my name ? Alt: Max Fischer, from the Wes Anderson film Rushmore, sits at a desk and says “i’m sorry did someone say my name?”

Gotta be Rushmore

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

There is something strangely fascinating about the fact that right-wing mental model of major US cities has not changed in a half century despite the fact that those cities have basically the opposite set of problems from those they had back then.