If things keep moving in this direction, 2026 could be an extinction-level event for congressional R’s
Pretty sure a D+16 election would result in something like a 374-59 D majority lol
Pretty sure a D+16 election would result in something like a 374-59 D majority lol
AtlasIntel poll | 12/15-12/19
Generic congressional ballot 2026
🟦Democratic 54.4%
🟥Republican 38.4%
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President Trump approval
Disapprove 59.6%
Approve 39.3%
atlasintel.org/polls/genera...
Generic congressional ballot 2026
🟦Democratic 54.4%
🟥Republican 38.4%
—
President Trump approval
Disapprove 59.6%
Approve 39.3%
atlasintel.org/polls/genera...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If things keep moving in this direction, 2026 could be an extinction-level event for congressional R’s
Pretty sure a D+16 election would result in something like a 374-59 D majority lol
Pretty sure a D+16 election would result in something like a 374-59 D majority lol
A potpourri of horror stories.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A potpourri of horror stories.
Trump take Christmas
December 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump take Christmas
Man this is what it felt like arguing about the end of the Bears-Eagles game with that guy who kept ranting about his weird misunderstandings about game theory
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Man this is what it felt like arguing about the end of the Bears-Eagles game with that guy who kept ranting about his weird misunderstandings about game theory
lol I just opened bluesky after looking at some raw unexplained test results in MyChart and this is the first post I see
My favorite social app is still MyChart. Love messaging with my care team and seeing raw test results before they’ve been explained to me.
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
lol I just opened bluesky after looking at some raw unexplained test results in MyChart and this is the first post I see
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
#LetterboxdFriday: Hallie Meyers-Shyer double feature, undersung Murray, Casablanca: Port of Call Martinique
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
#LetterboxdFriday: Hallie Meyers-Shyer double feature, undersung Murray, Casablanca: Port of Call Martinique
thinking about the Harvey Fierstein exploding slacks monologue from Safe Men again
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
thinking about the Harvey Fierstein exploding slacks monologue from Safe Men again
I have a huge sweet tooth but I’ve always found the mere sight of these “cookies” nauseating.
The author of this sent a delivery of Crumbl cookies to the office yesterday, and I had 1/6 of the most benign-looking one and got so overstimulated that my nose immediately stuffed up. Gift link! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Cracks in Crumbl’s Cookie Empire Are Showing
The trendy chain has Instagrammy treats and private equity backing. But layoffs, chaotic operations and paper-thin margins may be leading it down a familiar path.
www.bloomberg.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I have a huge sweet tooth but I’ve always found the mere sight of these “cookies” nauseating.
I have no interest in defending Bill Clinton and I think Monica Lewinsky got mistreated horribly, but the problem was never that people “didn’t believe” her.
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have no interest in defending Bill Clinton and I think Monica Lewinsky got mistreated horribly, but the problem was never that people “didn’t believe” her.
people are desperate for anti-AI leadership from any public official or any big company. it’s the easiest win in the world, why is no one willing to just grab it??
BREAKING: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul gutted an AI regulation bill awaiting her signature and replaced it wholesale with a weaker version sought by Big Tech firms. At least two of the groups lobbying on the bill held fundraisers for Hochul in recent weeks.
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
prospect.org/2025/12/11/h...
Hochul Caves to Big Tech on AI Safety Bill - The American Prospect
A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.
prospect.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
people are desperate for anti-AI leadership from any public official or any big company. it’s the easiest win in the world, why is no one willing to just grab it??
Seriously, Netflix can foster a lot of goodwill by reviving a number of projects Zaslav nixed
Look, it’s very simple:
If Netflix decides to release part 2 of The Nevers, then the Warner Bros/Discovery acquisition is good.
If it doesn’t, then the acquisition is bad.
If Netflix decides to release part 2 of The Nevers, then the Warner Bros/Discovery acquisition is good.
If it doesn’t, then the acquisition is bad.
December 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Seriously, Netflix can foster a lot of goodwill by reviving a number of projects Zaslav nixed
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it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
Trump: "There's a big event on Friday at the Trump-Kennedy Center-- op -- excuse me, at the Kennedy Center"
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.
What will he have to say about the situation when companies “hiring whomever they want” when most of them end up only hiring single, childless people because they can pay them less and demand longer hours?
I am sorry for bringing this imbecile's ravings to your attention but I just think this is perfect. Rufo has no idea that private companies take their goods to market on roads and waterways and airports maintained by taxes. it has never occurred to him that the united states prints money
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What will he have to say about the situation when companies “hiring whomever they want” when most of them end up only hiring single, childless people because they can pay them less and demand longer hours?
of potential interest to mattmcclure.bsky.social: today I have eaten Pita Inn for the first time in my life
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
of potential interest to mattmcclure.bsky.social: today I have eaten Pita Inn for the first time in my life
tbh this is more legitimate than the usual Argentine “claims” to the islands, like “we acknowledge they’re culturally British, we just think we should govern them instead”
Guy who thinks The Falklands belong to Argentina, but thinks the name used by the people who live there should be respected
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
tbh this is more legitimate than the usual Argentine “claims” to the islands, like “we acknowledge they’re culturally British, we just think we should govern them instead”
I do not know exactly what this passage is supposed to mean but “mumblecore Shakespeare” and “conceived for the TikTok generation” feel like ideas in tension with each other
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
The new film “Hamnet” offers up a vision of William Shakespeare as “Marlon Brando in Elizabethan drag,” writes Drew Lichtenberg. While this character may appeal to some, it “played to me like mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation.”
Opinion | ‘Hamnet’ Reimagines Shakespeare for the TikTok Generation
Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I do not know exactly what this passage is supposed to mean but “mumblecore Shakespeare” and “conceived for the TikTok generation” feel like ideas in tension with each other
Impossible not tell to yell “I’m back in the pants!” when Charlie Brown shows up at the Thanksgiving parade now
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Impossible not tell to yell “I’m back in the pants!” when Charlie Brown shows up at the Thanksgiving parade now
chocolate twizzlers is good though
Reese’s does a good job with the product line where even if they aren’t as good as the Classic they still have a place, Twizzlers is smarter though because they made a mid candy and then came up with a dozen variations that taste like complete shit and make the original seem incredible by comparison
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 AM
chocolate twizzlers is good though
An additional wrinkle is the further you push a gerrymander, the more you necessarily push down your margins in your own safe districts, and if you’re on the wrong end of a particularly large backlash, you’re likely to end up losing more seats than you would’ve if you’d left the districts alone…
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
An additional wrinkle is the further you push a gerrymander, the more you necessarily push down your margins in your own safe districts, and if you’re on the wrong end of a particularly large backlash, you’re likely to end up losing more seats than you would’ve if you’d left the districts alone…
Changes in my ratings of Coen brothers movies based on current rewatch:
The Man Who Wasn’t There ↔️
Blood Simple ↔️
The Hudsucker Proxy ⬆️
Burn After Reading ⬆️
Raising Arizona ⬆️
Barton Fink ⬆️⬆️
Fargo ⬆️
O Brother Where Art Thou ↔️
No Country for Old Men ↔️
True Grit ⬆️⬆️⬆️
The Man Who Wasn’t There ↔️
Blood Simple ↔️
The Hudsucker Proxy ⬆️
Burn After Reading ⬆️
Raising Arizona ⬆️
Barton Fink ⬆️⬆️
Fargo ⬆️
O Brother Where Art Thou ↔️
No Country for Old Men ↔️
True Grit ⬆️⬆️⬆️
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Changes in my ratings of Coen brothers movies based on current rewatch:
The Man Who Wasn’t There ↔️
Blood Simple ↔️
The Hudsucker Proxy ⬆️
Burn After Reading ⬆️
Raising Arizona ⬆️
Barton Fink ⬆️⬆️
Fargo ⬆️
O Brother Where Art Thou ↔️
No Country for Old Men ↔️
True Grit ⬆️⬆️⬆️
The Man Who Wasn’t There ↔️
Blood Simple ↔️
The Hudsucker Proxy ⬆️
Burn After Reading ⬆️
Raising Arizona ⬆️
Barton Fink ⬆️⬆️
Fargo ⬆️
O Brother Where Art Thou ↔️
No Country for Old Men ↔️
True Grit ⬆️⬆️⬆️
dear all movie & tv producers: hire me so your subtitles can stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of god’s creation. (seriously)
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
dear all movie & tv producers: hire me so your subtitles can stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of god’s creation. (seriously)
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To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
I genuinely do not think it is possible for non marginalized people to uplift marginalized voices at least through something as crude as social media shares. I Basically never see someone share a marginalized perspective they disagree with, so then all you are doing is amplifying your own view.
But people like MRO are doing the whole "Listen 👏 to 👏 Palestinians" and presenting their most deranged poasters, kinda like the weird Hasbarah accounts who do the same thing with Jews, and the Jewish Voice you should Listen to ends up being Meir freaking Kahane ימ"ש
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To be blunt, most people's lesson from "listen to marginalized voices" was "find the first person who claims to be marginalized and agrees with my priors and use it as a permission structure to call the ones who disagree with me uncle toms"
All pies are good if you make them good; all pies are bad if you make them bad
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
All pies are good if you make them good; all pies are bad if you make them bad