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Just found out I can’t get replacement LED lights for my office because they are custom-made. Our building has bespoke lightbulbs. Fuck you too, Cooper Carry.

06.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thermal runaway of Republican policy choices is back, baby!

06.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On the plus side, Cantor Fitzgerald is now holding piles and piles of worthless obligations from shorting the tariff decision. Gonna be an awkward Thanksgiving for the Lutnick household.

06.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Conservatives either love or hate that Trump is the apotheosis of their ideological and intellectual project, but none can deny that he is their policies made flesh.

06.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

05.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 480 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Wait till this guy hears about Stephen Miller, it’s gonna blow his mind.

05.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you guys get paid the same for transcribing this guy’s PR flacks’ emails as you do for actual journalism?

05.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦ I doubt six months.”

04.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Each of them looks like he or she has been stung by bees in a different place

04.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Americans would’ve supported anyone who consistently made this type of response & we wouldn’t be here if they had.

03.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Bruh

03.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s Cheryl Mills, and to my knowledge she has never been interviewed by Isaac Chotiner but I would drop some coin to see that happen

03.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
Notable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy Joe Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

β€œI might call it nostalgie de la bouche, if I were precisely the type of pretentious asshole that I am.”

A line so good it reminds me of my favorite MST3K line: β€œif you’re like me, and I know *I* am…”

02.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re reinstating EV subsidies! J/k whose milkshake are we gonna drink?

02.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you voted to confirm Trump’s appointees in the United States Senate, tag urself in this photo

02.03.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*our* sandwich, comrade

02.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we skip forward to the revelation that this was deliberately engineered by sock-puppet accounts with comically poor opsec? That’s my favorite lazzo but it never gets the spotlight until everyone has already moved on.

02.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In this house we believe

02.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Inevitable? AYFKM

02.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just one question, Mr Secretary: when the time comes, are you a gallows man or would you rather be blue-juiced like a rabid raccoon?

02.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

these fucking people

02.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems fair to mention that these are some of the dumbest people alive, absolute paragons of failing upwards, fencepost turtles all the way down.

02.03.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TFW when you’re close enough to @markwarner.bsky.social to conspire to lie to your constituents about trading votes on budget bills but not close enough to get a quick heads up about starting an illegal war:

02.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bacon/egg/grilled cheese in a cast iron pan, lookin good enough to eat, baybaaay

Bacon/egg/grilled cheese in a cast iron pan, lookin good enough to eat, baybaaay

sir yes sir

02.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is he trying to subtweet Donald Trump or is he just bedbuggin’ again?

02.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does it hurt to be so full of shit or is the sort of thing you kind of get used to, like an earring?

02.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Guys this is not a real Democratic Party official, it’s just a parody account doing the same old bit.

02.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: no it doesn’t.

28.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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28.02.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 15604 πŸ” 4745 πŸ’¬ 378 πŸ“Œ 348

WHO’S THAT?

28.02.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0