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REPORTER Your Holiness, what's your favourite Wilco album? POPE FRANCIS: What kind of question is -- [Pope Leo grabs podium] POPE LEO: A GHOST IS BORN

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This was my One Neat Trick in college: 1-2 weeks before a paper was due I’d ask my prof if I could submit a rough draft. They always said yes. I think my biggest leaps in thinking/learning happened while revising and I graduated convinced this is how essay writing should be assigned.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's final paper season.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

When fourth meal was French toast >>>

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

submitted 8 days ago • 223 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 127 comments

The NYT editorial board swooping in to correct the organic uprising against Trump is especially appalling because Trump’s re-election was due partly to the NYT itself. Just fuck off!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The 75-year old Connolly is stepping aside due to his cancer. In his place? An 87-year old. But does she have cancer?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, it would be refreshing if the party were resolutely anti-Trump.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

That’s right

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

To put a bold, underlined point on it: Football fans can tell the obvious falsehood here because they follow football and know a lot about it. But if you don't know a lot about how governance works, this is how incompetent and dishonest they are at and about everything

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Honestly, I love this for Gen Z

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The actual subject of this headline should be JB Pritzker

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Shit like this makes voting for Democrats less appealing, not more appealing. It is tough enough when the right makes voting for Democrats seem unappealing.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I realize Justices are not bound by rules of professional ethics but you’d hope the norms of human decency would prevent them from doing things like lying about children’s books.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It was political malpractice that Harris (and every other Dem) didn’t repeatedly and persistently call Trump a rapist throughout 2024. It’s political malpractice they’re not doing it right now.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It's so funny the media has difficulty on the question of whether Trump is racist when practically every day he says something that's flatly racist. It's been a decade of this. He'll be dead soon. Historians will have no issue calling him racist and it won't be due to the distance of time.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Among everything else, this isn't even a struggle. He's a Democrat! To the extent there's a struggle (which there isn't) it's over what flavor of Democrat he is, but that's what happens when you have only two political parties.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

There's an alt-goth couple I sometimes see at the gym. They're lifting newbies. But they keep showing up and they're my favorite people now.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

It turns out millionaire substack writers who live in Georgetown or Adams Morgan don’t have the pulse of the electorate.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What a shocker

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is great.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The Heat were the No. 9 defense in the NBA this season, and the Cavs lit them up for a 142.4 offensive rating — about 20 points higher than Cleveland's league-leading offensive mark — before pulling their starters. Awfully impressive start to the postseason for the Cavs.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Yes.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about “we can’t treat everything likes it’s a big deal because then nothing will be a big deal” is that the mainstream media never treats anything like a big deal. Keeping the powder dry for a war they never intend to fight. Support local journalism.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

That first weekday 3-game day when you get overlapping games (shootout NBA TV) and it feels a little like march madness is awesome too.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Do Something caucus has always been right.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We can get this number higher. I believe in us.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 23 days ago • 296 comments

We need someone with better aim to next time and we need next time to be soon

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Higher education is the industry with the highest trade surplus. International students subsidize the tuition for domestic students. It's really easy to see how this should be a win in Trump's addled brain.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

gavin newsome: this take is a distraction...from the money you could be saving by using promo code 1488 on mypillow dot com. you like those pillows don't you, charlie? charlie kirk: sure do boss. newsome: alright, let's get back to our conversation about brain pans

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We're scheduled to host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Cowardice and immorality very often come wrapped in a pretense of faux sophistication, I'm just too smart to do the right thing.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Congressional Democrats, learn how to raise mountains of cash with this ONE SIMPLE TRICK (don't suck)

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If the Roberts court doesn't clarify its decision to make it explicit that Garcia must be returned: 1) We're fucked for at least the next 4 years 2) The first item on President Pritzker's agenda should be the kidnapping and rendition of basically every surviving member of the Trump administration

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

We a massive trade surplus with the rest of the world in higher education.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished The Pitt. Perfect time for a rewatch.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Netflix would never release National Anthem I am damn sure.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

There’s probably an audience for this garbage but it’s not on BlueSky.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Insanity. People like this should be allowed to vote. They should not be allowed to be in Congress.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Media says tariffs are paused, even though many are not and the US has much higher tariffs now than a few months ago. A lot of media calls the tariffs “reciprocal,” even though that is a combo of a lie and nonsensical. More of the long-running media failure with Trump, treating truth as secondary.

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

I appreciate all these Governors and Senators clearing the field for JB.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments