The thing about Gandalf telling Frodo “tough, these are shitty times, the Ring is your burden to bear” is that he fought alongside too.

This is Leif Erikson erasure (yeah, I know, “discovery” in this sense really means the onset of the Columbian exchange and European exploration, colonization, and conquest of the Americas).

big uptick in annoying fucking eeyore ass responses all over the website today, grow up, get a helmet

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

Not pissed, quite pleased.

I don't really believe in an afterlife, but I do believe that living is basically preparation for a good death, and that a life spent beneath the yoke of your own rapacious hungers prepares you to die scared and alone.

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

The press is writing about Bari Weiss because they hope to keep their employment prospects open.

Donald Trump imagining himself as Christian in The Pilgrim’s Progress when he is actually Beelzebub.

"I voted for Trump. I didn't expect [him to cut health care.]"

But seriously, this cements that he raped kids, right?

He’s not going to last three more years, folks.

“Have you had a valediction, boyo?”

Chat, is it normal to obsess about the afterlife a few days after your second "yearly checkup" of the year?

This is not something a patient with a good prognosis would say.

The Group Chat™️

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that Jenkins was fondly waxing about Charlie Kirk on here?

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

Famous or not, too. I see local headlines like this while he still draws breath. But you know what, his time will come too.