Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Seems most (certainly not all) country music fans have decided that it is “patriotic” to go to the dark side by being MAGA. I assure you, it never used to be that way. It’s very sad that this big change has happened over the past three decades. Very sad. Fascism is un-American country folk!

“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.”

Their biggest fantasy is also my biggest fantasy.

Greatest / all-time fave: Andy Partridge
Current fave: Liz Stokes
Honorable mention: Elvis Costello

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

So were our lives.

History! Psychology! Anthropology! Philosophy! What do they have in common? Hilarity!!!

New comic: What does not belong? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I nearly missed this. Happy birthday to one of the greatest minds to ever emerge from the species.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

Just laying a little prediction down: No matter what happens in the midterm elections, these people are not going to let go of power willingly. We are going to have to go in and physically kick them out. With everything that that entails.

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

Thank you, this is the correct headline.

Over the past century and a half, the US military has developed an entire body of law relating to the legitimate use of force that Hegseth completely erases here. To most in the armed forces, it is important to have a code of ethics (no matter how imperfect). Otherwise they are just hired killers.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up

90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant

“'... well, you know what people call men who wear wigs and gowns, don't you?'

'Yes, miss.'

'You do?'

'Yes, miss. Lawyers, miss.’”

I really hate these people