George Orwell didn't consider the possibility of Big Brother also being an absolute bungling moron too stupid to even be properly cruel.
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Bill Shea
Профиль VivelyEx-journalist writing a shitty novel. Key West literary beach bum. Anti-fascist Leftist. Cleveland guy in Detroit. Filled with japery, rage, soup. Libertine degenerate descended from Welsh coal miners. Unhinged. No gods, no kings. Essays: Billshea.com
I lost my sister to a drunk driver. I will live out my days being an angry puritanical scold about drunk driving. Fuck Tony Romo.
DefectorTony Romo on leave from CBS after drunk driving arrest:
Weirdly, they did a duet of her "Gloria"
Rich RahoPope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.
These are bailouts more than Chairman Trump going full state capitalism. And there probably are personal kickbacks for Trump and regime officials.
The Lincoln ProjectOh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies. Brought to you by the people fighting "communism." https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/
Much of America hasn't grasped that Iran has defeated the U.S. militarily by surviving and dictating oil price trends globally, and also showing our rivals the humiliating limits of American military power despite all our bellicosity and spending. Trump made us more vulnerable to attacks.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸“The war, which Mr. Trump has been trying to bring to a diplomatic conclusion since April, is now threatening to grow bigger at the very moment the United States wants to move past it.” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
After retirement, Cunningham is going to replace Riley Gaines as a conservative media darling for anti-trans bigotry and concern trolling
Seerat SohiIf a tripod is set up on a sidewalk and nobody stops to yell at it, does it even make a sound? On Sophie Cunningham and a league that's finally learning to turning down the temperature: www.theringer.com/2026/07/29/w...
Nuke was always gonna be anti-woke
Jesse HawkenFeeling vindicated for not liking BOB ROBERTS in 1992 www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...
I was born into Cleveland Browns fandom -- a curse, really -- a decade after their last championship, and every season is me with a thousand-yard stare on the couch as they plumb fresh new depths of humiliation. Browns fans are somehow Sisphyus, the hill, *and* the fucking boulder.
DefectorNot even Deshaun Watson is excited to see Deshaun Watson grace an NFL field one last (fingers crossed) time. The Browns suck:
Cannot wait for the giant NY Post headline in six months over a photo of a disheveled, unshaven, and newly divorced Mr. Met entering a rehab center for degenerate gamblers
The Wall Street JournalThe New York Mets are making the startup Novig their official prediction-market partner, marking a first for Major League Baseball as the prediction-markets industry looks for a foothold in professional sports. on.wsj.com/4wqyNJO
This is more Caligulia and Nero shit. The humiliation of imperial hubris and vanity is a warning tale as old as humanity.
Christopher WebbThe guy who campaigned on grocery prices is gold-plating horse statues on our dime. It’s going to be hard to tell the difference between Washington, DC and the Las Vegas Strip in a minute.
I never put my seat back on planes.
Zach WeinersmithDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
If or when this bubble explodes, people are going to die. This would be global catastrophe beyond what most people understand. Humanity already is angry, so there would be intense public pressure on already feeble institutions to try then execute people for some level of justice over this tragedy.
Timnit Gebru"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Guttenberg has been jacked for years, BTW. Elder Mahoney isn't a frail little guy.
The Hollywood ReporterAmerican Summer is heading to theaters at just the right time.
This is the sinister stuff Orwell was talking about. Johnson is up there insisting 2+2 = 5. This is the destruction of democracy, society, and reason in real time, at the hands of ignorant, frightened, and cruel bigots.
Aaron Rupar"It works" -- Ron Johnson is using his questioning time to tout hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin 🙃 (I guess we should've put lightbulbs up our assess too 🥴)
Grifting charlatan dipshit angry that authorities stopped him from selling snake oil
Aaron RuparPeter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
Graham was pissy that Trump wasn't violent enough on Iran. He was cranky that it's not enough death and destruction. The world is a better place without this weird sociopath in high office.
The Daily BeastLindsey Graham was skeptical of Trump’s handling of the Iran war in the weeks before he died. https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-grahams-last-words-on-donald-trump-are-raising-eyebrows/?utm_source=bsky_owned_snd&utm_medium=bsky&utm_campaign=owned_social
This was inevitable and will be howlingly stupid now that he's untethered from professional editors.
Oliver DarcyScoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.
And now we know the Some Rich Asshole is Ross Douthat
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo"entire career is based on says things that old men like to hear" bsky.app/profile/orig... "same appeal as Bari Weiss: As a member of traditionally liberal demographic let me explain to you why all these right wing talking points are the actual truth liberals are afraid of" bsky.app/profile/proa...