my dad (who just celebrated his 80th birthday) is a retired banker and decorated US army veteran who saw combat in vietnam and I have to be like 'pls don't keep saying stuff like that in earshot of other people'

i wouldnt recommend asking why. best not to think too deeply about mike lombardi traveling to saudi arabia for four star recruits

RIP to the man who wrote the best New York song. Frank Sinatra kiss my ass.

If you're capable of returning the shopping cart and don't, you should be put in the stocks so everyone can throw used Zyn pouches and expired milk at you

this woman's not going to become a democrat or anything, but demoralizing the base so that, say, one in ten stay home is a landslide win

lots of little hairline cracks starting to show

it's *wildly* ahistorical and defeatist

the idea something like No Kings could evolve into something more than occasional marches is beyond their understanding, revolutions must burst forth fully formed, all contradictions resolved

you know this attitude is a truly a perfect illustration of how the modern left can't duplicate the Civil Rights Struggle, only cargo cult it

For what it’s worth, it feels like both liberal and leftist protests have a little cargo cult mentality to them. Everyone understands marching the streets, but liberals seem to forget that it’s more than that, and leftists seem to think if you’re not smashing stuff it’s not a real protest

The breakdown of the utterly useless alcoholic Nazi bitch KegsBreath's day...

And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT.

GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.

i should revise slightly, best value in higher ed almost certainly state flagships. For particular students, a teaching focused lib arts college or a private school with a strong science program like Hopkins probably adds value.

Partly that's social connections and signaling, but also - you get what you pay for!

The Illinois GOP’s transition from being a center right, economically neoliberal party with social liberals in it when I was a kid to being indistinguishable from the Alabama GOP has been wild to watch.

They’re never winning another statewide election

good news football on

yeah it was probably a good idea for Texas to presume that all of their gains with Hispanics were permanent and to gerrymander themselves on that basis

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

roberts thinks it is an affront that a community of upstanding citizens can not do as it chooses when it comes to voting. if that means that they might discriminate against a racial minority, he has no problem with that either as long as it is facially neutral.

In my lived experience, and from many observations, women don’t usually care all that much about the vehicle.

If there’s an issue it’s usually something else. But in this case I’m betting it’s the vehicle *and* something else.

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

i am just saying, maybe don’t attribute any kind of supervillain strategic insight to these people, they’re scared fucking morons, and they *should* be scared

if you have been to any of the big NO KINGS rallies, you understand what a hilarious mistake it is to tell people to tune in for coverage of scary black clad anarchists tearing everything apart

Excellent thread explaining the technical details of a profoundly illegal action. If I were a financial manager I’d really notice that ADA violations carry a 5 year statute of limitations.

White House Budget Chief Sees Federal Layoffs Exceeding 10,000 A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pause plans to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, just moments after White House Budget Director Russell Vought said…

A US judge ordered the Trump administration to pause plans to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, shortly after White House Budget Director Russell Vought said he expects 10K+ layoffs.

“It’s a human cost that cannot be tolerated,” the judge said of the firings.
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

This has been passed around a lot today. EVERYONE needs to read the terrifying ugliness spawned by our dictator/president &we can all be proud to say we are “woke.” Especially when so many young people now believe this is the viable alternative!! God help the world! www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

You can blame a lot of what's happening today on Alex Jones

Long before Sandy Hook, he peddled the vile conspiracy theory that "9/11 was an inside job"

Still, in 2016 Trump appeared on his show and praised his "amazing reputation"

Now those peddling conspiracy theories are running the government

So like… can I call them Nazis now?

In general, Democrats simply do not hate Republicans enough and I don't know how we fix that problem if there's still an electoral penalty for it

I don't live in VA but those texts were funny and would make me want to vote for him more, not less