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Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."
Cookies: soft or crispy?
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Cookies: soft or crispy?
Dessert must have been bad before refrigeration and cheap sugar.
"Here is a medlar for your one treat of the year. Throw it in a corner and wait a month for it to rot before you eat it."
"Here is a medlar for your one treat of the year. Throw it in a corner and wait a month for it to rot before you eat it."
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Dessert must have been bad before refrigeration and cheap sugar.
"Here is a medlar for your one treat of the year. Throw it in a corner and wait a month for it to rot before you eat it."
"Here is a medlar for your one treat of the year. Throw it in a corner and wait a month for it to rot before you eat it."
Red velvet cake is just bad chocolate cake.
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Red velvet cake is just bad chocolate cake.
Steve Witkoff should smile more.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Steve Witkoff should smile more.
What apparently everyone except Senate Democrats understands is that the survival of Democrats, perhaps literally, depends on Trump hitting Ceaușescu levels of unpopularity.
This goal is not helped if Senate Democrats do anything at all to reduce the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.
This goal is not helped if Senate Democrats do anything at all to reduce the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What apparently everyone except Senate Democrats understands is that the survival of Democrats, perhaps literally, depends on Trump hitting Ceaușescu levels of unpopularity.
This goal is not helped if Senate Democrats do anything at all to reduce the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.
This goal is not helped if Senate Democrats do anything at all to reduce the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.
I don't want aliens to be real unless I know they aren't as dangerous as we are.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I don't want aliens to be real unless I know they aren't as dangerous as we are.
"Is Donald Trump's net approval -14.6 or -17.1? Over the next three hours, our Nates will trade gratuitous insults as we try to distill the truth."
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Is Donald Trump's net approval -14.6 or -17.1? Over the next three hours, our Nates will trade gratuitous insults as we try to distill the truth."
He looks someone tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver. He sounds like it, too.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
He looks someone tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver. He sounds like it, too.
They should challenge him to a duel. With swords.
Breaking: The six Democrats now confirmed they've been contacted by the FBI.
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
They should challenge him to a duel. With swords.
Government of the rapists, by the rapists, for the rapists.
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Government of the rapists, by the rapists, for the rapists.
Wishing a happy 71st birthday to Bari Weiss!
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wishing a happy 71st birthday to Bari Weiss!
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The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.
Pete Hegseth needs to be charged with a hundred counts of murder, tried, convicted, and hanged until dead.
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Pete Hegseth needs to be charged with a hundred counts of murder, tried, convicted, and hanged until dead.
Plotting and waging wars of aggression got men hanged at Nuremberg.
I wash my hands of those who haven't resigned yet here.
I wash my hands of those who haven't resigned yet here.
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Plotting and waging wars of aggression got men hanged at Nuremberg.
I wash my hands of those who haven't resigned yet here.
I wash my hands of those who haven't resigned yet here.
One of these guys should challenge Trump to a duel, and declare him craven when he refuses.
Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of these guys should challenge Trump to a duel, and declare him craven when he refuses.
What they said about Harris never was about being opposed to wars.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
What they said about Harris never was about being opposed to wars.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
It was about being opposed to a woman commanding them and defending our allies and classical liberal values.
They never opposed following Donald Trump to commit plunder, rape, and murder for fun.
Nearly everything you like about Japanese cuisine is from the mid-19th century or later.
The exception is tempura, which came from the Portuguese in the 16th century and has the same origin as fish and chips.
The exception is tempura, which came from the Portuguese in the 16th century and has the same origin as fish and chips.
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Nearly everything you like about Japanese cuisine is from the mid-19th century or later.
The exception is tempura, which came from the Portuguese in the 16th century and has the same origin as fish and chips.
The exception is tempura, which came from the Portuguese in the 16th century and has the same origin as fish and chips.
Which of you special people is following the TN-07 early vote?
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Which of you special people is following the TN-07 early vote?
The trick with gyoza is cooking them the gyoza way, with your squirt bottle of water and your lid on the griddle.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The trick with gyoza is cooking them the gyoza way, with your squirt bottle of water and your lid on the griddle.
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Postapocalyptic tech billionaire: “My private security is well paid, and only I have the passwords to access the goods!”
Postapocalyptic private security team: “It will take us maybe eight seconds to extract all of his passwords, just make sure we don’t accidentally kill him before he coughs up.”
Postapocalyptic private security team: “It will take us maybe eight seconds to extract all of his passwords, just make sure we don’t accidentally kill him before he coughs up.”
In which @philipchristman.bsky.social makes a compelling aesthetic objection to libertarianism
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Postapocalyptic tech billionaire: “My private security is well paid, and only I have the passwords to access the goods!”
Postapocalyptic private security team: “It will take us maybe eight seconds to extract all of his passwords, just make sure we don’t accidentally kill him before he coughs up.”
Postapocalyptic private security team: “It will take us maybe eight seconds to extract all of his passwords, just make sure we don’t accidentally kill him before he coughs up.”
How much oil did the Nazis get out of the Maikop fields?
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
How much oil did the Nazis get out of the Maikop fields?
I'm in favor of regime change for countries that nationalized US oil interests.
When are we overthrowing the House of Saud?
When are we overthrowing the House of Saud?
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm in favor of regime change for countries that nationalized US oil interests.
When are we overthrowing the House of Saud?
When are we overthrowing the House of Saud?
James Carville hasn't won an election in 30 years.
The rage we need is to extirpate Trump's minions and Trumpism from the body politic by any means necessary, not about health care or whatever.
The rage we need is to extirpate Trump's minions and Trumpism from the body politic by any means necessary, not about health care or whatever.
November 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
James Carville hasn't won an election in 30 years.
The rage we need is to extirpate Trump's minions and Trumpism from the body politic by any means necessary, not about health care or whatever.
The rage we need is to extirpate Trump's minions and Trumpism from the body politic by any means necessary, not about health care or whatever.
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pUrE eCoNoMiC rAgE
The GOP hammered home inflation hysteria to beat the band and barely won the 2024 election.
The winning message is the true message: bring back the rule of law and constitutional rights.
The GOP hammered home inflation hysteria to beat the band and barely won the 2024 election.
The winning message is the true message: bring back the rule of law and constitutional rights.
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
pUrE eCoNoMiC rAgE
The GOP hammered home inflation hysteria to beat the band and barely won the 2024 election.
The winning message is the true message: bring back the rule of law and constitutional rights.
The GOP hammered home inflation hysteria to beat the band and barely won the 2024 election.
The winning message is the true message: bring back the rule of law and constitutional rights.