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my "women are bitches for reporting me to HR" interview in the New York Times is raising a lot of questions already answered by my interview.

This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart.

In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Does he name any of these critics, besides JD Vance? Seems like he's just laundering his own opinions by attributing them to "critics".

Very excited for a Sapiens episode! Read it for a book club, hated it. Toward the end of the book he ponders why so many societies are patriarchal. Is it for the very simple reason that most men can physically dominate most women? He doesn't like that idea so just gives up and moves on.

Already seen a few in this vein, Sandwich Guy in DC (not ICE but still), and the biking food delivery guy in NYC. Funny every time.

Imposing taxes raises money for the government, cutting taxes means they don't get that money. How is he spending money the government DIDN'T get, make it make sense

One of my few celebrity sightings was Keri Russell riding a bike in Brooklyn about 15 years ago when I was visiting there. She's for real!

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Whichcraft in Mueller is one of these places!

Disney execs hastily assembling Andor S3 about a group of charismatic Coruscant businessmen who just keep their head down and work with the Empire until the Battle of Endor and then say they were actually against the Empire all along and everyone cheers

Daisy has a commercial where people are at a party dipping strawberries into sour cream, a thing that definitely has happened in real life

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

"Older" despite how he looks, Bove is only like 45 lol

Remember when Newt Gingrich had an affair with a staffer while impeaching Bill Clinton and then Republicans replaced him with Bob Livingston, who... also had an affair. And then they replaced him with Dennis Hastert, a child molester?

Pretty sure I remember one from a few years back that was about "micro vacations' or something like that, the trend of millennials taking long breaks at work and scrolling their phones in the office bathroom.

Opinion | Now Is Not the Time for Surrender

And let's say it, @jamellebouie.net was there at the beginning saying this. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

two men are talking to each other and one of them is wearing a costume that says thor Alt: two men are talking to each other and one of them is wearing a costume that says thor

"Americans are fretting over" are they though?

The Tea Party was covered in the press like it was a spontaneous eruption of populist anger, but those protests drew far fewer people than the recent protests against Trump's administration. The "Tea Party" was just a well-funded organized, right wing movement promoted by friendly media outlets.

when you're deciding which couch to fuck

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.