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Ahead of the Oscars, I once again wrote about my favorite movies of the year. If you were as pleasantly surprised as I was by 2024, just wait. 2025 is going to be a doozy. amixedreview.com/2025/03/01/t...

The face of a man who doesn't have to live in Texas anymore.

I wrote about my favorite TV shows from 2024, a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for television. amixedreview.com/2025/02/25/t...

many of those who work forces are the very same as the ones that burn crosses

I hate how I'm not sure if I have any politics except hating the Republican Party now. "How much do they hate the GOP and want it to lose?" is pretty much the only thing I have left because it took away state capacity and the ability to commit to anything longer than the 2 years before midterms.

Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow

This man is 91 years old and still not brave enough to risk what's left of his life for this country. Coward.

the reason to systematically primary safe seat Dems in 2026 and 2028 is because they don't have the guts to do what needs to be done in 2029 even if they get the spine to do what needs to be done when under crushing pressure in 2025

The constitutional order is totally inoperable & the president is delegating powers he does not have to people who have no business even being in these buildings Federal law enforcement needs to start deciding whether they have sworn oaths to the Constitution or a Mad King bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The Pringles people must've been fuming after seeing the Little Caesars commercial earlier.

This feels over.

they just lied they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this

If Republican politicians believe they’ll be killed by their own voters or coworkers if they honor their oaths to the country and Constitution, then the only moral response is to (wo)man up and die. I know it sounds callous, but I’m sorry, it’s true.

we’ve seen this movie before the big worry is obviously that these people never surrender power again, but even in a scenario where they do they’re almost certainly going to leave this country in such a state of crisis that it cannot be fixed before thermostatic backlash returns them to power

A little heavy-handed from the white-collar criminal/immigrant scapegoat adminstration.

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

“Elon Musk is the president now” was underselling it Elon now has significantly more power over this country and everyone in it than any president ever has

That's exactly who I thought they'd go after, Jeffrey.

"guy who had and then tried to hide a phone call with Vladimir Putin tried to access a SCIF at a federal building" is usually 'they shoot you' kind of shit but the traitors are running the country now so

If you're in this position, force them to call the Marshals. It's an idle threat.

What the fuck? Why would the Mavs ever trade Doncic? For anyone outside of, like, Wemby?

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Starting Neon Genesis Evangelion for the first time. Pray for me.

As competent as a a dog driving a car.

I was a big proponent of Biden's domestic policies, but it's inarguable that we'd be far better off with a neoliberal who would've properly dealt with it.

some of those that trump pardoned / also have pedo charges

the depressing thing about what's happening and to come is how fucking unnecessary all of it was. no war forced us into this, no massive recession. bunch of bored morons pushed the "break everything" button because of the man on the tv and the people on their phone told them, and people will die.

this is gonna be the way things work over the next few years- the admin getting like 1% of what it wants and losing almost every negotiation while the lapdog press spins every loss as a huge historic win, it's literally the modi model

The countless small choices made every day inside newsrooms to do things like describe clear violations of the black-letter text of the law as "legally murky" add up to a very meaningful part of what's happened since 2017 and will continue to happen for the next four years.

The last real existential threat to the republic, from about 160 years ago, also came from inside the house and you can draw a direct line from one to the other

If you think the right does anything in good faith in 2025, you're a moron.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

MAGA's religion isn't Christianity, it's Trump. If God says something different than Trump, they believe Trump

Project 2025 is here. Trump is implementing all of it. His denials were typical Trump lies, repeated by his allies in the media who wanted him to win.

This is illegitimate and illegal. I don’t care how many people support it, and how many judges shrug at it. It is a crime against the post-Civil War constitutional order, a constitutional order that was paid for in the blood of Union soldiers.

also maintain the best strategy for dems is to get mcconnellpilled. "no" to everything and run on how much he sucks in the midterms

How often can you put the arsonists in charge of the tinderbox before they burn it all down?

Lamar's gonna win MVP again and 😬

The Democrats are about to get taught a lesson about Power Vs Laws and they are gonna try their very best not to learn it because the lesson would make everything they've done for the last 25 years seem ridiculous if it were internalized

They are going to write a very large check with the President's name on it. He will put it in his pocket. And the app will be back on. That's how business is getting done now. We've already seen it from several corporations publicly, I'm sure more is happening privately.

I can't believe we have to listen to Tom Brady commentate the Super Bowl. Fox replacing Greg Olsen with Brady is an all-time bag fumble.

The "Keep Calm and Carry On" pillow is a great touch for people who haven't experienced a single hour of hardship.

A true one of one. He'll be missed.