If you are wondering what your parents are going to be watching on Fox News tonight, I just saw a tiktok of a drag queen jesus towing a giant cross complete with rhinestone stigmata.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
In my day, never was longer.
The revolution will be supervised.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.
I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.
Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.
Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.
I really should read my own blog.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Everything is totally normal and fine!!!
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…
We still have time to mess this up!
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
“I was told there would be no fact checking.”
raven
I’m as old as those parents and I ain’t watching no fox nuttin!
SiubhanDuinne
Cubic zirconia or go home.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Hey Raven, I loved seeing the sidebar picture of The Bohdi the other day!
Gin & Tonic
My parents are dead, you insensitive clod!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Gin & Tonic: Mine too, and they would NEVER f’ing watch Fox “News”.
rk
How long are conservatives going to ride the drag queen train?
sab
@Gin & Tonic: So are mine.
My parents used to argue about Faux News. Mom would nap on the sunroom sofa every afternoon. Dad, to be companioniable, would come in and sit by her, and then switch the channel to Faux and crank up the sound because he was deaf. Mom would wake up, be outraged that it was Faux, and stomp off to the kitchen with her walker to have a cigarette in peace.
Every afternoon this would happen, until we convinced her to nap with Univision on. Prettier women with less annoying content. And he couldn’t really hear the language anyway.
She was physically disabled but mentally sharp. He was physically okay but with dementia.
dexwood
@raven:
I’m older than my parents were when they died. Fuck Fox.
Elizabelle
So Hegseth is about to get booted?
Look! Over there! Drag queen!
NotMax
What, no wheels?
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mrmoshpotato
My parents don’t watch that Kremlin-humping, fascistic, pile of shit channel.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
And Jesus was WHITE!, kids! So is Santa!
Elizabelle
@mrmoshpotato: I sorta think Megyn Kelly dissed the late Pope Francis the other day, but not gonna go back and look.
Boy, did NBC ever get taken there.
mrmoshpotato
@rk:
Until all the Trump trash dies. And the GOP is now all Trump trash.
Baud
I’m just glad the Dems admre are finally fighting back.
NotMax
Sometimes music can be a real drag.
(How many hours were spent rehearsing the acrobatic portion?)
;)
Professor Bigfoot
FlyingToaster
Heaven help us if FoxNoise ever films at AnimeBoston.
Professor Bigfoot
open thread so, I’m still in the hospital, and there’s still some hope that I’ll get out of here today but mostly I just want to thank everyone for their well wishes. 🙏🏾
also, I screwed up a comment, which is now awaiting moderation, but anyone who can can just delete it.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: Oh yeah! But how could NBC be so stupid?
Booger
I saw Rhinestone Stigmata at the 9:30 Club back in the day, I think they opened for Fugazi.
Professor Bigfoot
yeesh. somehow I keep screwing up my own email address. Oy. Love y’all.
Booger
@Gin & Tonic: Lucky for them!
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
::cough:: Supertrain ::cough:: Pink Lady and Jeff ::cough::
:)
Omnes Omnibus
My parents don’t watch Fox.
Elizabelle
@Professor Bigfoot: How you feeling? You still on post-op drugs? Has the big event happened?
Trollhattan
Cole, that’s an outtake from Righteous Gemstones.
Suzanne
SuzMom is an old hippie, well into her old-enough-to-not-give-a-damn phase. She doesn’t watch Fox, oh hell no. (She voted for Bernie in 2016 and Biden in 2020.) She would, if allowed, watch waaaaaay too much MSNBC. During FFOTUS Round 1, she would “greet” me almost every day when I came home by screaming, “Did you see what Trump did?!?!”. While I agree….. I legit could not take it. I had to have a talk with her about how I could not come home after a day of work bullshit and instantly dive into rehashing the latest crisis. I just did not have the bandwidth. I convinced her with this go-round to stop watching so much news. She is less elevated and that makes for a saner household. Sorry not sorry.
SuzBioDad — who is a gigantic MAGA asshole and for that among myriad other reasons, we have not spoken in over twenty years — probably lives in front of Fox News. I assure you that he makes time for frequent Facebook quizzes.
Gin & Tonic
@Professor Bigfoot: Glad you’re OK, Prof. Here’s hoping for an early release.
Suzanne
@Professor Bigfoot: So glad your procedure went well! Yay!
narya
I assume everyone has seen that Durbin isn’t going to run again? Which leads me to believe that the Ds who voted for the CR were carefully chosen (not an original thought; I’ve seen it here and elsewhere). Interested to see what the field turns out to be
ETA: glad to see Prof. BF here and hale!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
As the Romans said “et clavus es eam”
JiveTurkin
So the Treasury Secretary gave a PRIVATE CLOSED DOOR meeting with investors to brief them on a major policy announcement that had a significant impact on the stock market. In other words, he committed a fucking crime. If a CEO provided insider information in that fashion he/she would be facing jail time and certainly would be fired. Did attendees personally trade based on this info?
Delicate Butterfly
Presumably from the Hunky Jesus contest here in SF.
That is always a great time.
AM in NC
Visiting the FOX website today (to drop some actual news in the comments) I am just continually astounded at what they just don’t cover.
It’s a barfstream of every police-blotter crime committed by an immigrant anywhere in the US; trans people just existing and somehow that being something to be deathly scared of; how Trump is a manly man winning everything he encounters; and strange stories speculating about why Democrats did or didn’t do something.
NO actual news about tariffs, DODGE cuts to services, The Stock Market or Bond Market, Court cases that don’t go Trump’s way, or foreign policy.
I mean, I know this is FOX, but to see it laid out so baldly is just gross. Rupert and Lachlan need to be some of the first people dealt with when the glorious revolution comes.
Cheryl from Maryland
Hegseth proves he is into drag by setting up a makeup studio at the Pentagon. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/
Elizabelle
@AM in NC:
Further, once Democrats regain the Executive Branch: Fox News Channel comes OFF of US military programming options. It is Channel 1 on one US base in Germany. Ridiculous.
Fox News is poison. Its purpose is to polarize and radicalize our country, with disinformation, and it is succeeding wildly. Should not be hiding behind the First Amendment.
NaijaGal
@Professor Bigfoot: Hope you feel better and are out soon!
Doc Sardonic
@JiveTurkin: This was a rhetorical question?
NaijaGal
I don’t know how I missed this in March, but the Atlantic created a search tool that lists the pirated work from LibGen used by Meta to train its generative AI tool, Llama.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
I found my book published by Amistad, four of my published short stories and poems from literary journals, and seven of my biomedical informatics papers published in different informatics journals. Also found several of Tom Levenson’s books.
If you have any published work (papers, books, etc.), check for your work
JiveTurkin
@Doc Sardonic: I wouldn’t want to say anything that could get me in trouble. The billionaire class is chock full of people who have a very strong moral compass. Of course, Charles Manson probably as a very strong moral compass.
zhena gogolia
@Professor Bigfoot: Hope you get sprung!
Professor Bigfoot
@Elizabelle: Procedure was at 11:30, and they let me go at about 6:30– I’m home!!
The Audacity of Krope
Until everyone is fully satisfied, less likely, or sore, more likely.
N ain’t nothing conservative about those word-appropriating frauds.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Kudos to the hairdressers for keeping all those wigs on.
prostratedragon
@Professor Bigfoot: Yay@
sab
@Professor Bigfoot: Yay!
lowtechcyclist
@Professor Bigfoot:
Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!!!
PatrickG
@Professor Bigfoot: glad you’re back to posting already!
really enjoying Twice as Dead, hits that sweet spot of silly but serious. Perfect for me right now while work and the world consume all higher brain function. Only 50% through so no spoilers!!!
cain
@Elizabelle:
heh – don’t hold you breath. That fool is not going anywhere. Neither is Navarro.
cain
@Professor Bigfoot: oh no.. what happened?
kalakal
@Professor Bigfoot: Yay!
Professor Bigfoot
@cain: I had a frickin’ heart attack last Monday.
This after a LIFETIME of good cholesterol numbers— but arteries got clogged anyway.
Anyway, today I had a second stent installed today; and TBH, I feel pretty damn good. My wrist aches, it’ll be bruised out the wazoo tomorrow, but… my lifelong streak of good luck continues. 😁
Danielx
@Professor Bigfoot:
I feel you. Have one stent, good numbers, work out 3x a week…but I feel another one coming.
dr. luba
My 92 year old mother watches MSNBC, loves Rachel, and rants about evil trump every time I see her.
Soprano2
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: Mine too, and my mother definitely would have watched that.
Elizabelle
@Professor Bigfoot: Home is best!!
funlady75
Glad you are doing OK…..prayers…I enjoy our comments on BJ.
frosty
@NaijaGal:
I have one ASCE published paper and one monograph (with a dozen other authors) in my whole career. Both are there. Bastards!
Jackie
Hegseth did say “more fake news” was forthcoming…
YY_Sima Qian
@Professor Bigfoot: Good to hear!
trollhattan
@Professor Bigfoot:
Damn fine news. Fight the good fight and show the fuckers you have another thirty or so year fight in ya!
My neighbor had the widowmaker on Christmas. Yelp review -5.
Glidwrith
@NaijaGal: Yep, all of my publications are in there.
NaijaGal
@frosty:
@Glidwrith:
You too! I don’t know why I’m stunned – so many people I know had their work used. I knew that Meta briefly discussed licensing copyrighted work and quickly made the decision to just go ahead and steal people’s work, but I never stopped to think about whether they stole my work.
I actually don’t mind my informatics work being freely available – I try to pay for journals to make an accepted article open access when there are grant funds for that, and my NIH funded work is freely available through PubMedCentral. I understand that researchers in developing countries often have no way to pay hefty journal subscription fees, so I support their being able to access a variety of scientific articles.
I do mind my fiction and poetry being stolen in this way. And I mind a multi-billion dollar plus company monetizing that theft. The really big authors (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, et al) have sued. Under Biden, I’d be hopeful that something would come of it. Not with this administration.
Ruckus
I don’t recall what news my parents watched but I don’t ever remember seeing fox on the TV.
Now it’s only been 13 and 21 years since they could watch TV but still. This getting old shit can get old. I was the youngest in my immediate family. Now I’m the only one. 2004 till 2017 it was one every so often – gone, parents and siblings. Now the oldest in the extended family and one cousin, the middle of 3 kids in his family is gone. Everyone else lives somewhat to rather far away. It’s life, it must be, shitforbrains is still here.
Ruckus
@Professor Bigfoot:
Sounds like it went well.