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@az_cactusflower @JeremyDBoreing That opening reminds me of the old Michael Knowles show.

It’s back, I can’t believe it! This is gonna be awesome 🔥 looking forward to watching @JeremyDBoreing, congrats!!!

Ben Domenech pushes back on arguments against voter ID laws @bdomenech

@MattWalshBlog Also the fake history videos on YT my dad used to watch

The number of people who clearly use AI to craft basic posts on this site, and replies to posts, is pretty shocking. Once you learn how to spot AI writing, you see it absolutely everywhere on here. It’s unmistakable. The tech has existed for 10 seconds and already huge swaths of people have completely given up on even the simplest forms of creative writing.

It is, of course, correct that the Iran war won't help electorally. At best it'll be a null for the Trump Administration (if everything goes well). But this immediately filtering of everything through "what will be the political consequences" is why we're in the mess we are in.

@sunnyright @EWErickson This has “make Donald Trump VP so he can be president for a third term” energy

“Majority Leader” didn’t exist when Adams was Vice President. He was President of the Senate, but that’s not Majority Leader. Grassley serves there. Just like if you have a Democratic Veep, he might be President of the Senate but wouldn’t be the leader of a Republican majority.

@AmandaCarey1 @EWErickson The screen shot is real, the content isn’t

@EWErickson @asclepius89 is that for real??

In Northwest Georgia, someone is texting Republican voters claiming the Trump-endorsed front-runner, Clay Fuller, is married to a man and is, himself, actually gay. It'd be nice to be able to track down the sources of this stuff and send people to jail. Clay Fuller is the former District Attorney and is also a Lt Col and a Deputy Staff Judge Advocate in the Air National Guard. He has a wife and two kids. Seventeen candidates are running in that special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene.

@yashar @EWErickson lol we’re waaay beyond negotiations at this point

I keep seeing people say things like this about Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic: “You killed his wife, his kid, his mom — you think he’s going to negotiate with you now?” He was never going to negotiate, or at least not in any meaningful way. I think many people in the West have a hard time wrapping their minds around what it means to be a true hardliner. They assume that an autocrat like Khamenei or his father is guided by personal self-interest and will eventually yield if the pressure becomes great enough — that at some point survival, comfort, or family will override ideology. But for people like this, ideology is the point. Compromise is seen as weakness, yielding will lead the way to collapse. In their worldview, enduring pressure — even catastrophic pressure — is preferable to surrendering what they see as a mission. None of this is to praise him, of course. This mentality has taken the nation of Iran into the depths of hell.

@libsoftiktok You can’t even say the name of the act on broadcast television or radio without getting in trouble with the FCC

BREAKING: NJ State Rep. Katie Brennan (D) is sponsoring a bill called the "FUCK ICE" Act, which would allow individuals to "sue the hell" out of ICE for enforcing immigration law.

@MattWalshBlog You lose all credibility making reference to the fourth movie.

Watching Toy Story 3 with my kids. In the landfill, the toys are apparently the only conscious beings amid all the random plastic objects. And yet in the fourth installment we’re introduced to a self-aware spork that Bonnie, a young child, has named Forky. This suggests that consciousness in the Toy Story universe is imbued into objects only once they are named and loved by a human being. This would explain why the toys in Sid’s room in the first film apparently have a more rudimentary and savage form of consciousness, reflecting the conscious state of the child who owns them. I need to develop this theory more. I’ll let you know what I come up with.

@AlexThomp @bdomenech @Nate_Cohn Ms Crockett fares better among conservatives because she’s nutty and a Republican candidate stands a better chance of beating her

.@Nate_Cohn: “in a lot of ways, Crockett vs. Talarico is not an ideological fight like Sanders vs. Biden in 2020…several polls showMr. Talarico fares best among liberals, while Ms. Crockett fares better among moderates and conservatives.” nytimes.com/2026/03/03/ups…

@TheLaurenChen Wait until someone tells her about Big Rock Candy Mountain

My 3 year-old has an imaginary place called "Babyland" where everything is tailored to babies & toddlers There's unlimited candy & ice cream & the indoor playground never closes But my favorite part is that, according to her, Babyland is still in Tennessee 🇺🇸😂

@NickFondacaro @blueseasahead43 Potato/po-tah-to

@blueseasahead43 This is the Washington Post

How the Washington Post remembers Khamenei: "With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s 'Les Misérables.' ... Some Iranians who knew Ayatollah Khamenei before he became supreme leader described him as a 'closet moderate'' ..." washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

@EWErickson He may be on to something

My kid thinks that if we can hack Iran's TV and radio networks to play Baby Shark, they'll surrender rapidly.

@RachelCDailey_ @MZHemingway Any coat in the morning and no coat in the afternoon

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

@mkraju @EWErickson lol Gonzales 100% needs to go but Boebert calling anybody a disgusting pig is rich after she got kicked out of a movie theater for being a trashy person

Burchett on Tony Gonzales: “A male harassing a female employee, I just can’t stomach it dude. I’ve got a wife and a daughter. He needs to go.” Luna says she’s prepared to file a censure resolution. Boebert: “He’s a disgusting pig. The speaker should do something about it.”

@3YearLetterman @WhiteHouse Welcome, Canadians and Englishmen, and feast your eyes on the glory of @3YearLetterman

@WhiteHouse The oldest and greatest country on earth whips Canada’s ass again (after single handedly bailing them out of two world wars)

@MattWalshBlog Brawling is encouraged, so there’s that

The sense I get from watching my first ever hockey game is that the championship games are incredibly exciting in a way that Super Bowls often aren’t, but some random regular season hockey game would be excruciatingly boring in a way that random regular season football games rarely are. True or false?

@EFischberger @EWErickson @OliLondonTV I have a hard time imagining he’s got many fans in Israel

Breaking via @OliLondonTV, who obtained exclusive footage of Tucker Carlson's "detainment" at Israel's airport. And by "detained," I mean smiling and posing with a fan. Thoughts and prayers.

@chiproytx @EWErickson @conservmillen @tedcruz Trump needs to be ready to announce a pick the day after Thomas or Alito announce their retirement.

“Who should President Trump nominate to SCOTUS if a vacancy opens?” @conservmillen Each seat matters - why I led push for Sam Alito in 2005 “That’s the President’s call… but there’s a deep Fifth Circuit bench: Jim Ho, Reed O’Connor, Brantley Starr… even my friends @tedcruz (though he’d never take it) or @BasedMikeLee .”