The Almighty Tallest

My most cancelable take is that The West Wing was a perfectly cromulent show that people blame for absolutely everything that goes wrong in politics. It's like blaming ER for making people think emergency rooms are a good place to get healthcare.

Honestly I'm sick of hearing about "West Wing brain". That show ended EIGHTEEN YEARS ago. People born after it ended can vote now. Maybe it's time to let it fucking gooooo

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Malaclypse the Middle

On the bright side he could check out books from the library and keep them for DECADES now

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mattie lubchansky

Hey however you want to paint the picture I'll take it

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Maladroithe

We rent two storage units and the idiots managed to charge us twice this month for one unit and zero times for the other one. When I pointed this out, they charged the first unit a third time.

They swear they'll fix it but asked if in the meantime I could just pay for the second unit now. No, guys. You have entirely drained my bank account this week.

The real lesson here is that when liberals and leftists can finally stop knifing each other and cooperate, the fascists get their faces pushed in

easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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jjjk7

You need a chief executive who knows how to get things done and Lily is just not experienced enough yet

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer

Even worse, they're pretending to be Mr Brown and Mr Blue

Rumors that Dottie is too old to effectively govern this house were handily disproven when she won her post-dinner debate with Lily over who gets the last piece of cheese

Battlestar Galactica Exodus pt 2, come at me haters this was dope as fuck

What's the best episode of TV you've ever watched i’ve talked plenty before about The Constant from season 4 of LOST, but my other favorite is Kiksuya from season 2 of Westworld

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This delicious little bit of schadenfreude can be ours too if we work our asses off between now and November to bury Donald Trump and his fascist political party

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Today reminds us that fascists aren’t just not inevitable winners, they are, as Woody Guthrie perfectly put it, bound to lose.

My contribution to barf bowl discourse is that it's just a bowl and you wash it, it does not matter a bit what was in it before you washed it but people are so weird about that stuff.

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Clouds on Mars are a mixture of dry ice and water. Mars' cloudy sky as seen by Perseverance rover in 2023

I only vote for candidates who deplane using a Batman style grapple gun to swing to the terminal

Political reporting, 2024

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Genocide, depopulation, forced move. Quibble over legal terminology if you like. But it's a damn heinous travesty regardless of the euphemism you chose.

Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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Skylar

Their Boghammars were all made in and by Sweden!

Whoopsie doodle! news.sky.com/story/irania...

Iranian naval destroyer 'capsizes and sinks' in port as several people treated in hospitalnews.sky.com The incident happened in the southern port of Bandar Abbas after water got into the ship's tanks, said the IRNA news agency.

Third ship of this class to capsize, run around, or catch fire and sink in the last 6 years. At some point you probably have to ask yourself if having a navy is worth the trouble.

What few conservative friends I have left are also pro-choice and very not cool with the current SCOTUS and many other rightwing things. Guess what? They still vote Republican. Policy preferences move votes far less reliability than we like to believe.

I had a chat with the conservative mom of a friend today. We talked about a bunch of stuff and I learned several interesting things, among them, that religious conservatives are often PRO-CHOICE AND THINK THE SUPREME COURT IS INSANE. Run on Dobbs. Run on justices and court reform. Do it.

*reliably damn you

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Ed Zitron

Good morning Pingis! (Also is it just me or does Pingis look like he is going to either teach me kung fu or pluck my eye out?)

"We the people" is such an irritating turn of phrase. Everyone is the people! Even the bad people! The plutocrats and theocrats and authoritarians are all "the people" too!

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acerbic otter is HOT (NO not like THAT)

I like cargo shorts so much that I secretly resent all other kinds of clothes that aren't full of pockets