Big day for choices. Prevost chosen as the new pope and Ed Martin chosen as the new Saturday midafternoon anchor on OANN.
I haven’t been Catholic for a very long time and try to stay out of the church’s internal politics but my rule of thumb is that if fanatical converts like Vermeule, Vance, or Ahmari are upset it’s a good sign.
I think we get used to stuff, like the proverbial frog in the pot, and lose track of how absolutely humiliating it is to have a belligerent, altered buffoon representing our nation and spewing gibberish on the world stage. But sitting him next to a normal person brings it home.
Mid trial and looking at how I would summarize all the litigation against the Trump administration over the last week for the podcast and holy shit it’s overwhelming.
Every divorced dad would like to be able to flash this to the three-margarita divorcee at the bar at TGI Friday’s on a Tuesday night RE:
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We have reached levels of cringe previously thought unattainable
If You Think The Democrats Should Mention Trump Deporting A Two-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Without Process, Just Remember The Last Time You Sat Next To A Two-Year-Old On A Flight To D.C., By Matthew Yglesias
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Genie: So, three wishes Me: only need one Genie: ? Me: I want nobody from Thompson-Reuters or Westlaw to ever call or text or email me again Genie: so if.. Me: If you do that I will cut off my left nut with a spork and give it to you Genie: That’s not how wishes … you don’t have to do that
CEO: I think I did a harassment GC: You what CEO: Like one of those harassment sex things you do the really long power points about GC: Okay. Okay. Let’s talk about it CEO: But I think it’s okay GC: I have to ask you why you think that CEO: I did it against an AI GC: you the what CEO: the hot AI
Jesus Christ. These people are as incompetent as they are evil. [www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...](
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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