Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

In my day, never was longer.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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Every great city is, eventually, Terry Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork…

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  4. 4.

    Nicole

    Oh my gosh, I know exactly which street vendor her dad is! What a wonderful Twitter thread.

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the naked cowboy is not wearing his mask properly

    also…

    John Whitehouse @existentialfish· 36m

    Trump tells Hannity that he “very recently” “aced” a cognitive test: “I took it at Walter Reed, a medical center, in front of doctors, and they were very surprised”

    Again, these are the tests when they ask you tell a chicken from a camel from a dog from a fish, and draw the hands on a clock that indicate “6:20” or “9:45”. My father took them after a series of mini-strokes in his late 80s

    also, the President of These United States apparently saw multiple doctors at that mystery trip to Walter Reed, who wanted to test his cognitive abilitie

    ETA: my dad also ‘aced’ the test, but never drove again and we had to get care-givers in not long after

  8. 8.

    Nicole

    @Martin:  I realized this is the longest  I have not taken mass transit since I came to NYC 30 years ago. I am sure NY Transit is doing a good job keeping the trains and buses clean, but I’m still anxious. So it’s been a lot of walking, in-line skating and Citibikes.

  9. 9.

    Anya

    @Nicole: I know all of them. My mom’s office is near Times Square and I am there a lot. I hate HATE Times Square. It’s a tacky hellscapes and a crime against the environment but that twitter thread makes me think about the people who’s livelihood depends on that hellscape.

  11. 11.

    Ohio Mom

    Tiffany Jackson’s thread is so sweet!

    On my trips home, if I find myself having to traverse Times Square, I consider it the equivalent of running a gauntlet. But Jackson gives me a different perspective on the hustlers being quintessential New Yorkers.

    Yes, they are. Her dad is the family man who has worked hard so his daughter could do better.

    Glad to have read her story. Her childhood sounds magical, really.

  16. 16.

    Ohio Mom

    If I were a doctor examining Trump, I would in fact be surprised if he aced a cognitive functioning test (I’m sure he didn’t).

    He’s not some unknown quantity appearing before the doctors, they have a not-so rough idea of what’s in front of them. They weren’t surprised by his vitals or his blood work either.

  17. 17.

    different-church-lady

    If, ten years ago, you had told me that “Naked Cowboy” was going to be the only shred of hope we had left to cling to in our society, I would have… well, actually I probably would have said, “Yeah, that’s not really improbable…”

  19. 19.

    Anya

    Twitter all day today: Trump won.

    My man Neal Katyal: the fucker lost. He lost big. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

  20. 20.

    Ohio Mom

    You all are making me homesick for NY. I was already sad that Covid has denied me a trip there this summer.

  23. 23.

    Matt McIrvin

    As Carlos Yu said about the “worst places in New York” thread: Nobody even mentioned a jail!

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    @HumboldtBlue: We are exceptionally lucky to have the best deli I ever found just 4 miles away. Go there every week. But I never missed an opportunity when in Philadelphia to get a soft pretzel and a cheesesteak. Heaven!

  27. 27.

    Yutsano

    @different-church-lady: Now you’re speaking my language. Every time I hear tuba on here I also think of our beloved departed E.F. Goldman. So a hearty fuck ’em to Dolt45, the entire administration, and the Republican enablers in the Senate.

  34. 34.

    eddie blake

    @Nicole:

    late to the party, but i have to take the f tomorrow to get to my jobsite for the second time since the middle of march. it will be weird.

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