Tony

“Grok: Who has the most fragile ego in human history?”

I’m howling.

I don't know when or how the final collapse will come, but this isn't a regime that's sustainable until January 20, 2029.

Ok. Done assuming Schumer is just misguided. Fuck that guy.

it's something about the shear vulgarity and banality of it, i think. like… how petty and small it is paradoxically makes it bigger. he doesn't need to call her that. he gains nothing from it. there's no point to it. it's the basest, meanest, dumbest, pettiest bullying, just because he can.

It feels like it’s from the faulty premise that the GOP are the Real Americans, and what’s right should follow their mood and how it impacts them rather than any principle affecting everyone.

An annoying trait of American politics we’re seeing is you get more credit for changing (or appearing to change) your mind from a very wrong idea to the obviously right idea than if you advocated the obviously right idea all along.

"maybe marjorie taylor greene has experienced a genuine change and wants to do good things now" give me your bank account information and number immediately there's no time to waste

norman rockwell “freedom of speech” (1943)

3.5mm headphone jacks sucked and it’s good that they’re gone

i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia and current de-facto ruler of that kingdom, whose word is law and power is unquestioned, is visibly like “whoah dude, dial down the authoritarian thing a bit”

When we’ve won and this era is finished, we’ll need to bulldoze the entire White House and build a new structure unsullied by this monster.

We’re going to win in the long-term, and probably the medium-term, but I’m with you. I have zero faith in the institutions as constructed to behave legitimately. We will win by overwhelming the fascists, not by convincing them.

Fair is fair.

My initial comment on Ken Burns’ THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: it’s great to have Peter Coyote’s narration back. One, he’s excellent at it. Two, it’s nostalgia for THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN.

Not my money! I’m skeptical, but if he gets us back to 9 win seasons, I can live with it.

I miss driving a manual. My knees, on the other hand…

A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene

The party can burn in hell

Map showing successive dispersals of humans, homo erectus and Neanderthals from 200,000 to 700 years ago

Overview map of the peopling of the world by early humans during the Upper Paleolithic, following the Southern Dispersal paradigm.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.

Every single human in the world is the product of migration.

It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.

That’s never going to change.

Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

I can work with that. I need to go there. Because here it’s always, “A ‘Goes’? Why would you drink that?”.

Umm, because it’s perfect?

My experience matches yours. “We have to be corrupt/scammy/etc because the Democrats are.” This is the insight people talking about hypocrisy of the right wing miss. Their behaviors are evil, but they don’t view their actions as unique.

And their racism is always, “come on, I know you think that…”

a man in a baseball uniform is talking to another man in a field . Alt: John Kinsella from FIELD OF DREAMS in a baseball uniform asking his son Ray if the baseball field in the corn is heaven.

An entire section of Goses?!?!

dog shit NYT headlined epstein emails reveal a lost new york

Rodney King Riot Videos Reveal a Lost Los Angeles

The fact is there must be permanent, immutable consequences for thousands of people.

We know for a fact from the failure to enact such consequences after the civil war upended most of the so called Second Republic.

We cannot allow this in the Third Republic.

They can never re-enter society.

100% said this and feel free to quote me on it. Also @jackiekashian.bsky.social is a fantastic comedian and you should see her when she comes to your town.

I don’t worry about its ratification at the moment, but this is another example of the GOP’s effort to cement the “children as possessions” idea. Generic enough to be inoffensive if you don’t think about it, but insidious in its intended use against the truth that children are humans with rights.

Text from a proposed Constitutional amendment: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to parental rights. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States: "ARTICLE - "SECTION 1. The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right. " SECTION 2. The parental right to direct education includes the right to choose, as an alternative to public education, private, religious, or home schools, and the right to make reasonable choices within public schools for one's child.

When people state, as I do, that America operates with the belief that parents own their children rather than serve as stewards of their rights and growth as separate individuals, this country kitchen sign decor slop masquerading as a “right” is how that operates.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Props to this guy.

Surely all of the people who, just yesterday, were defending the NYT not doing journalism about Trump’s Epstein connections over the last decade are feeling good about themselves now that the NYT is doing this instead of journalism.