I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Guillotine yes, hanging no

Sorry, but “hanging [is] really the most actually humane method of execution” is just straight-up factually untrue. Hanging is such an infamously-bad way to die that a large part of the history of capital punishment is “find execution methods that suck even slightly less than hanging”

Beware anyone who won't stop relitigating the 2016 election

I just do not understand going to the mattresses for a Senate candidate who has more Nazi tattoos than electoral victories, an entire year before the election

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.

A cursory glance at the reading level required for her work would indicate it was children’s literature

Always thought it was sad that Ayn Rand—one of the most successful authors of children's fantasy books of all time—had little enough saved in the bank in her old age that she had to rely on public assistance until her death, but I'm glad it was there for her.

If I could Being John Malkovich my way into Trump’s brain for an hour, I’d announce that shit sandwiches are America’s new national dish, just so we could all watch toadies like Ken Paxton loyally scarf down poop hoagies on the Fox and Friends couch.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/h...

I don’t think the Republicans have fully gamed out what it will mean for the current administration down the road if presidential pardons can be invalidated www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

If I were the type of person who constantly said natural events are signs from God, I’d be a hell of a hypocrite if I ignored this one.

Open racism is the appeal of MAGA. What the fuck are you talking about?

From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.

"grand theft wemby" = "grandiose vol wembý"

This guy sure takes a lot of cognitive tests and MRIs for someone whose doctors think he's doing great

It used to be White House press seemed weirdly tolerant toward Trump's fantasy world rantings because they were terrified of looking biased against him, but now they are obviously biased because they work for propaganda outlets that were formed specifically to promote his fantasies.

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

for one thing she appears to be trying to (badly) imitate a posh British person while John Oliver is the most middle-class (British sense) man who even lived. he has a pleasant light midlands accent.

The president's brain fluids were imaged magnetically, in a routine manner, and his fluids were without fault

The best fluids. At levels we’ve never seen before

All the replies about how the corporations that govern media don’t want you to know blah blah blah are chasing a conspiracy when the truth is way scarier: the news media are STRUCTURALLY incapable of communicating how serious things are.

You’re not trying that hard