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FMK: JD Vance edition.

In all fairness to Pete Hegseth, you'd make mistakes too if your daily walk to work looked like this:

"...and what that French horn was doing walking the dog I'll never know."

I stopped attending Mass regularly in 1995 however I have never formally left the Church nor been excommunicated. the college of cardinals therefore has an opportunity to do something extremely funny. holler at yr boy, Rome

he killed more people in three months than IDF, Hamas, and the Russian Army combined did in eighteen

I like the way the newscaster sets up the interview without giving you the slightest inkling of what you're about to see. It reminded me of the conjoined twins chopping vegetables in City of Lost Children, though of course without the knives.

You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

America tried to trade for another ochre or maybe a hides but somehow wound up with all the calamities at once

Maybe that Teamsters endorsement will go our way in 2028!

Thomas Henry Huxley spoke of the great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

It's quite possible that Tesla is not the only manufacturer who's doing this.

I know that in the storm of shit that is upon is it's hard to take it all in, but the CVE database losing its government funding seems to me to be something worth worrying about. There's no way this is in the national interest of the US. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

This is like Peter Navarro's "Ron Varo." A simple thing the guy did that you can remember him for, so that you don't have to have all of the vile shit he's done cluttering up your mind. "Should I pay attention to this guy? Oh yeah, no, I shouldn't." It's a real timesaver.

I am 100% certain that someone in the Trump White House has uttered the phrase "final solution to the Negro problem."

Oh, look who doesn't want to be a premature anti-fascist.

It should concern people more that it does that the Trump administration came into office with a plan to have the federal government seize people and traffic them to slave labor camps that they were able to implement immediately. That's a capability they plan to use.

Man, "US Out Of El Salvador" used to mean something completely different.

This picture of Whitmer is a legitimately stunningly perfect depiction of the Democratic Party right now. A bunch of fucking cowards capitulating and complying. Secretly totally on board with fascism while hiding behind their labels and “lesser of two evils you have no choice but to vote for me”.

If I were Christopher Rufo, I'd put some effort into not looking like John Cusack in The Grifters.

I do wonder what Congressional districts in 2026 might choose anti-Trump Republican candidates during the primary. Surely there are more than one or two at this point.

[youth pastor voice] you know who else fell and rose dramatically in the span of three business days?

In case you were wondering, yes, this was posted by the official ICE account on Twitter. x.com/ICEgov/statu...

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

There’s an alt-rightish weirdo sociopath who goes by Vox Day who caught heat like 15 years ago for saying “we could logistically deport all the foreigners, look what the Nazis achieved with the Jews.” It was seen as transgressive even for performative online assholes. Now it’s policy.

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

There can be no more unnecessary title in a trailer than "From director Wes Anderson." You don't even need to see the trailer, just this one shot of Benicio del Toro tells you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuM...

It's really nice to read a post that begins "With the Thomas Pynchon news..." and then find out that the Thomas Pynchon news isn't that he died. (New novel on the way.)

This is a kind of visual humor that you wouldn't even attempt in a movie because the audience has to watch it 10 or 20 times to see it all. First you see the sofa. Then the mirror. Then the lamp and the pictures. Then you're all, "What _doesn't_ move? Why?"

If there's one thing Thomas Chatterton Williams doesn't have, it's shame.

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

The money is going to what now

Some good news: A judge in Brazil was just revealed to have been living under a false identity for decades, pretending to be British, and the fake name he came up with for himself was Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield.

I heard from John Darnielle that Dave Allen has died, and it’s hard to believe but that’s probably not even in the top five bad things I’m going to learn today.