the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

Here’s a gift link for this piece, which hits on so many themes I have been struggling with recently. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.

I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive

AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."

long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

Why do people reading books on public transit not hold their books so I can see the title?

Today, in Russian propaganda:

I'm rereading a bunch of T. Kingfisher and still happily noodling through Inventing the Renaissance, which is just so brilliantly engaging. What are you all reading these days?

How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

Okay, maybe I'm being a bit facetious with the WATCHMEN comparison. But I've been thinking about Marvel "graphic novels" vs. DC ones, and I have a hard time thinking of any that meet this criteria I lay out in the post (especially the "in print" part):

the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it

I’ve been convinced for some time that that social media is the taproot of the madness that has slowly consumed our politics. Traditional media was full of gates - some editorial, some practical, some economic - that prevented ideas from spreading freely. Social media has few, close to none.

This kind of take made a Rolling Stone writer so mad they wrote a whole piece about it.

Here is the opinion: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Breaking News: The Kennedy Center had delayed a plan to repair leaks that officials now cite as a serious safety risk, whistle-blowers say.

After a break from the campaign trail to host China’s president in D.C., President Trump is planning to get back to the rally stage next week. He’s set to visit Oklahoma and Alabama.

Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war. On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.

Hanania has gone out of his way to try and persuade the mainstream media types and readers he wants to woo that he is no longer a racist. I don’t buy that, but he is at least putting on *the act.* So it’s extremely telling that this is how he continues to talk about women, rape, and even Epstein.

So in the last week in MAGA, we got a newfound acceptance for people who have sex with actual animals, and a weird new moral panic about people who dress up as animals to have sex with each other. newrepublic.com/post/215838/...

We have decades of SCOTUS justices, especially but not always conservatives, operating from an evident assumption that police, immigration agents, and legislators will always act reasonably and colorblind. Kavanaugh’s opinion is just a continuation of this kayfabe.

There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.

don't like the idea of siding with the oil industry on this. but this is at a minimum stupid and I think there's a decent chance it would raise prices, even in the very short-term.

Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈

3/ Under Fifth Amendment due process, standards applied can't be arbitrary. Want an example of arbitrary? White House: "Politico highlighted a 'source' claiming the operations in Iran had exhausted US stockpiles of long-range missiles." The 'source' highlighted: Bari Weiss's CBS News! ⤵️

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

Trump likes tarrifs because he thinks it's free money, and because people react to it, and because - we might as well believe him - he just randomly likes the word. There's never any hint that economic analysis has anything to do with it.

Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is.

“I am the code.” Sure, why not. If POTUS is the law for the purposes of boat strikes or attacking Iran, I guess he’s the building safety code as well. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I somehow never saw Dead Poets Society before & it is way weirder than I realized. Also, I am skeptical of the central theme that wealthy private school boys should be encouraged to be *more* smirky, self-expressive and aggressive, I can see some downsides to that theory