In the Trump era, the basis of rightism is, increasingly, that the good things about Western civilization—well-funded public goods, free markets, trade, rule of law, civil rights, etc.—are gay fem-coded bullshit and need to be replaced with Third World-style patronage networks

the person who invented bowling: “oh and we’ll make them wear different shoes for no reason. clown shoes”

Before Obamacare prohibited the practice, health insurers would routinely cancel newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients’ coverage to get out of paying for their care.

Creationists have a higher Darwinian fitness than evolutionists. Discuss.

What a crew

The Democratic Party is a fundamentally conservative institution

Advocates trying to figure out how landlord greed would allow for double digit decreases in rent

If a Democratic press secretary did this it would be a weeks long, presidency-destroying scandal but a Republican press secretary can proudly share it and suffer no political repercussions. I legitimately have no solutions for this imbalance; it's incredibly difficult to overcome

Adults having breakfast at a friend's apartment before heading off to work is the biggest lie television ever told me.

huh

The 4th plane on 9-11 was supposed to do this

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images

there is one very good tool for teaching adolescents encyclopedic global geography unfortunately the side effects of broad based exposure to Paradox Interactive games are a bigger social danger than kids not knowing geography

AVERAGE CONVO IN SOCIAL WORK SCHOOL: “Excessive screen time is bad for kids. We should try to lower screen time!” *class learns that kids in marginalized groups have highest screen time* “Wait, this is a moral panic. Why are we stigmatizing a valid response to oppression?”

I am a single issue voter actually and my issue is whether a candidate can run a mile in under thirty minutes

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

Without hyperbole, this is the single most ominous statement Donald Trump has uttered this year.

You wanna do a ride-along in the backseat of a big plane and cosplay being a pilot? Of course you do, you’re twelve.

It's even funnier because Herzog speaks perfect, fluent English

Is there a functional definition for indigenous that encompasses and excludes the folks people intend to when they invoke that word (white Europeans, Israelis, the Māori people, etc.)?