One reason left wing activists are so annoying is that there’re will some boring academic discussion—like here, about the taxonomy of biological sex—and then they’ll be like “oh so you want to kill intersex people?” And it’s like what? when did we start talking about killing

Finished Lanterns. Really rubbish. But there's a certain poetic irony with a character that is about imagination and creativity, adapted into a TV show completely devoid of both. And yet requires a massive amount of will power to make it to the end.

The Trump Gang is so corrupt.

Not only that, these constructs actually say something about the character... and.......... frankly, they're precisely why Guy's milquetoast reaction to John Stewart telling him that he's just gonna keep Hal's ring is insanely bad writing. Guy's actual response -- IN THIS VERY UNIVERSE -- would have been, "Sure ya are, buddy", followed by, well... this. Hal's ring gets pulled out of John's hand and secured in an unbreakable container. John gets slapped into space by a giant middle finger. Guy flies up there to put John's half-frozen body in a green jail and hauls him off to Oa, where he tells the Guardians that John was going to steal the ring and use it with some unauthorized shit made by one of their greatest enemies... all while saying "GFY, junior". Job done.

I'm not sure I've read a story over the past decade that better captures the grifter culture of TrumpWorld better than this one. Detail after amazing detail. Jaw-dropping, and yet none of it is really surprising.

interesting that these two posts were stacked on one another. there are two worldviews on offer here. you decide

SCOOP: While Trump was doing midterm rallies last week, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska helping its pro-Russian government. @JamesBlairUSA & @ChrisLaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for election advice. nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/po…

You also need to remember — and this is coming from whose last journalism job was assigning and editing true crime for a major network — moms killing kids is *hot* right now. It’s awful, yes, but it’s what people want to read, whether it’s to confirm audience priors or, as with much true crime, to titillate (and anger is as much an arousal as anything). It’s not an accident you’re seeing these stories. People want them, editors assign them, and a trend emerges — real or manufactured — that more of these types of crimes are happening. Crime is way down. Parents killing kids is comparatively rare to, say, gun homicides. Perception is easy to modify, especially when it runs up against preference.

oh my fucking god bro

This guy is drunk … on power and absolutely despises the Constitution. He is the antithesis of George Washington.

Well, aside from the ones who settled wars by winning them, might wanna read up on Teddy Roosevelt

I warned the Trump/MAGA people that their stupid tariff war with Canada was going to hurt a bunch of important states, including Ohio, Minnesota...and Michigan. Here is proof. Trump has caused real damage on the ground here.

Trump openly funnels federal money directly into his own pockets, while Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid even the *appearance* of person financial benefit from the presidency.

No one should ever get used to these images of a sycophantic WH staff and Cabinet sitting around a deranged president as he fantasizes about being a dictator of America.

This is utter and complete nonsense and is incredibly dangerous and stupid rhetoric from the president.

Unimaginable levels of corruption

3 days after the “Lanterns” finale, yes, I’m still not sure what the showrunners wanted me to think of these characters.

Hal literally says her son is in danger and they can keep him safe.

Lanterns is a good example of creatives needing to talk less about their creations. I think part of the reason I enjoyed it was that I actively ignored what the writers and directors were saying in interviews. Reading some of it back now, I swear they don't get their own work.

Sure, there's no potential downside to keeping a woman who panics and shoots unarmed men in the head in place as the town sheriff.