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I’m your favorite artist’s “always skip”, making inaccessible prog-grunge and jokes that concern people.
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The stage of capitalism where companies advertise on a Nazi porn site for fear of government reprisal. gizmodo.com/it-sure-look...

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

My fellow potatoes, don’t limit yourself to the couch. Be a bath potato. A hammock potato. A faking your own death and disappearing to an island somewhere because this is all a *lot* potato.

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

Ok, handful of weirdos who follow me! I’m all caught up with yesterday’s horrors. Now I can go back to trying to enjoy my hobbies while I can, before I’m starved to death in a prison camp, for disloyalty. I recommend you do the same!

Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

how many controversial salutes are there. i can only think of the one but admittedly i'm not a salute scholar

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

Right-wing comedy today isn’t grassroots—it’s a billionaire-funded algorithmic push, making mid-tier hacks seem like cultural icons. The Nazis did the same: erase leftist humour, fund state-approved ridicule, and call it rebellion. Funny how that works. proconsul.ghost.io/the-algorith...

Nazi salutes are having a moment. Our critic weighs in. Steve Bannon’s offered precise form worthy of 1930s Germany, but Elon Musk’s honored the drug-fueled mania of the original Nazis.

the most notable part about elon musks deranged appearence at CPAC was that even in front of sociopathic supporting crowd his “i am become meme” joke only got tepid, forced laughter. he can’t even come off as funny in front of those support him the most

logging on

One thing about elder millennials growing up playing Wolfenstein 3D and watching Indiana Jones repeatedly is you don't need to teach us that Nazis are the bad guys

How many more MAGA-ites will go on TV to defend this? Note that even open neo-Nazis, such as avowed antisemite and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, said Bannon’s salute was “getting a little uncomfortable" and "a little excessive" even for them apnews.com/article/stev...

How it started. How it’s going

Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms theonion.com/trump-u...

Nice piece here from @crampell.bsky.social on Trump's appeal to Gen Z men, with some great commentary from @richardreeves.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The gap in Trump's net approval ratings among 18-29yo men vs. women is enormous (+8 for young men, vs -24 for young women) wapo.st/4bcNFBQ

Trump Claims Ukraine Started War theonion.com/trump-c...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks in 10 companies earlier this month including DoD contractor Palantir and the newly anti-woke Meta, per new filing. disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/...

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the *offer* of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

I just don’t see how an Executive Order saying Mike Love was the real genius in the Beach Boys could be legally binding

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

More CFPB news: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's employees have been told that the bureau's Washington HQ lease is cancelled and the agency has 30 days to vacate the building www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

(whispers) butts

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

Trump claims to only care about the undocumented. Instead he is de-documenting those here legally.

Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok)

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is going to issue an executive order that says he's putting USPS under the control of the Commerce Department and dissolving its governing board (!). "Trump’s order to place the Commerce Department in charge of the Postal Service likely violates federal law, according to postal experts."

I kept warning that sepsis wards are going to comeback as a thing and sadly I appear to be right. If you don’t know what sepsis wards are and why they went away, go look it up. There is a good documentary called “The Janes,” about what we are being forced back to.

If you de-zoot the toots here, he’s saying he spent $44b on twitter as part of his right wing political project—which is both obvious and something you can’t say in the newspaper.

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

in other news, an armed man used an AR-15 in a provocative manner at a local grocery store

Everything about this situation is perfect on-brand grotesquery down to the screen name of the detective

1980s-90s sci-fi: in the future we will have hoverboards, flying cars and domestic robots 2025: best i can do is bullets that let you commit two war crimes at once

So we spent a ton of money to move 170+ Venezuelans from inside the United States to #GTMO, where we spent a ton of money to hold them for less than a month, before we spent a ton of money to bring one of them back stateside and repatriate the rest. Talk about wasteful government spending…

look, who wouldn't prefer playing with a chainsaw to dealing with their child's life-threatening medical issues

As of noon on Thursday, Trump was president for 31 full days. He spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. from @pbump.com: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...