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You don't need to pretend Kamala Harris wasn't a monster just because Trump is a disaster. Harris would certainly have been less of a disaster than Trump, because she was at least a NORMAL kind of evil. But let's not pretend she was a good candidate or anything but a power-seeking sociopath.

If you want to increase the national population, you know what costs a lot less than paying people to have babies with tax dollars? Immigration.

"the most reviled, lowbrow forms of popular entertainment were instrumental in creating many things we enjoy today"

It’s fucked up that in all the time we’ve had dogs, we can’t just replace their spines with new ones made of steel and carbon fiber, or whatever. They can still just get hurt and deteriorate.

Van Hollen doing the Full Ginsburg

Jesus on Good Friday:

Same, Toad

Imagine for a moment the Republican reaction if a Democratic president had bragged that imposing sky-high taxes on American businesses and consumers was “making us rich.”

“Donald Trump will bring back the rule of law. Also, if your name has punctuation over any of the letters, he may ship you to a Central American prison just for fun.” reason.com/2025/04/17/t...

Upon reentry, the spacecraft is bombarded with radiation. Suddenly, Gayle King can stretch her appendages to frightening lengths. Katy Perry’s skin turns to rock. Jeff Bezos’ wife turns invisible.

How is it a “drinking problem” if Judge Jeanine starts chugging wine at 9:17 in the morning but doesn’t go on air until 5pm??

Gotta say, at some point you’d think the White Lotus as a brand would see a drop-off in business. ‘Cause of all the murders.

He’s talking as if it’s a tariff *on fentanyl.* He’s all over the place on rationalizations. Sometimes drugs or migrants, sometimes he makes mouth noises about reciprocity. But the real thing is he thinks tariffs are good, he has for decades, but has zero understanding of how they actually work.

Worth noting that Mike Waltz’s brother-in-law is the lead singer of Creed.

Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

Freddie Mercury feat. David Bowie voice:

If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive. Get vaccinated.

lmao I get it now, Candace Owens is the most gullible person alive

TOWN BULLY (NOTICING REACHER): Who’s this, your boyfriend? REACHER (BLOTTING OUT SUN): No,

I’m convinced that Parker Posey isn’t a real person, she’s just @mariabamford.bsky.social’s best character work yet

I know the groyper chuds think this sounds badass but to me it just looks like a Master Shake quote

I feel kind of naive about it but I really assumed that putting an obviously insane dilettante shithead and sex creep into this particular office would be a bridge too far for the Senate. In retrospect I underrated how much more important it was to them to prove that such a concept no longer exists.

“Justice Thomas, reached for comment aboard a private jet owned by the inventor of microplastics, replied, ‘Giddyup.’”

Appreciate @reason.com calling out FCC chair Brendan Carr for his extremely censorial ways (and how hypocritical he is about it as well).

I know it seems boring, and there’s plenty of other shit competing for your eyeballs, but it’s worth paying attention to what’s going on at the FCC.

Fuck. RIP to a (sur)real one.

Every time I think about the fact that Severance didn’t win every single Emmy award, and in fact only won two out of 14 nominations, I feel a fury like the crashing of a thousand waves

missed a spare at bowling and the scoreboard played an animation of me eating a log of shit with a knife and fork

cool birds listen to vinyl on a tern-table no you shut up

I’ve never done heroin, but I have driven over a hill, spotted a cop car, and looked down to see I was going 66 in a 65, so…I feel like I get it