Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE

Fuck ICE.

Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

I don’t know how evangelicals do Ash Wednesday, but Catholics and Episcopals always bust out Matthew 6 as the gospel reading, and I think it’s something we should all take to heart

there are college sophomores in Intro to Middle Eastern Studies classes who could’ve foreseen that Iran would do that

in case anyone was wondering whether pollen szn has started in georgia, here’s a clue: my car is black

kinda like how clay travis hammered away at “stick to sports” for years, only to found a website that’s basically MAGA deadspin

I’d spent years thinking Ryan Day was one of the least objectionable parts of Ohio State, and it turns out Ohio State might be one of the least objectionable things about Ryan Day

A top sign of car brain is refusing to let a 14-year-old ride transit alone but allowing a 16-year-old to drive a car. The perception of risk is completely misaligned with actual data.

Two undeniable truths: 1) violent crime on transit is very rare and 2) teenagers are horrible drivers.

we’ve already taken her to legoland for 4–5 days. and that was while her mom was deployed to the middle east for like 8 months. so parental separation isn’t the issue, and i really can’t figure out what is

i am absolutely not a Disney Adult but disneyworld is still fun as shit. and our niece is exactly the kind of fun, well-behaved kid i would be happy to schlep around there for a few days

so my wife and i want to take our almost 6y/o niece to Disneyworld, but her mom says she can’t go until she’s 10, and I need y’all to tell me whether this is an insane restriction or not

take all those DPRK-ass banners of himself he hung up on buildings in DC and recycle them into Trader Joe’s bags

the venn diagram of “devours cbs police procedurals” and “switches to fox for news” isn’t quite a perfect circle, but it’s close

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

less risk of hop-ons than you’d have with a conventional stair car, at least

i don't have the answers to those questions, but i've been thinking a lot about them over the past few years. maybe y'all have been, too. please keep pondering that and wrestling with that in your heads, and with any luck, maybe we can come up with something. (7/7)

beneath the raids, the tear gas, the inflamed rhetoric, minneapolis showed the kind of community spirit we haven't seen since at least covid, and probably a lot longer. how do you replicate that? and how do you get right-wingers to stop self-medicating with maga nihilism and believe in it? (6/7)

i think it's unrealistic to think that can happen from the top down. it has to happen in our communities, our neighborhoods, between individuals. basically we have to turn the whole usa into minneapolis—not the ice raids obvs, but the way people banded together to protect each other from them. (5/7)

for anything to really get better, for this country to truly reverse its decline, that leader is going to have to inspire americans to aim for something higher than "i just want someone to feel worse than i do." that's not a policy change—that's going to require a full spiritual reorientation. (4/7)

there's been a lot of talk about the monumental job that will face whoever succeeds trump as president. it'll be hard enough for that person to dismantle trump's regressive policies and clean out the legions of people installed specifically to make the government worse. but... (3/7)

& I think deep down the right-wingers pushing all the anti-trans crap know that. they know it's not going to put any more money in their pocket or make their kids any safer. but by gawd, they'll be able to ensure that someone's life is worse than theirs are. and apparently that's enough. (2/7)

the anti-trans panic that's taken over the US (& UK) is perhaps the purest manifestation yet of the nihilism that's taken over this country. all this shit with bathrooms, driver's licenses, etc, isn't going to make anyone's life materially better, it'll just make *some* people's lives worse. (1/7)

waiting with bated breath for the day a ProPublica reporter stumbles upon an unexplored munition in Gaza or Kyiv with “this blow for freedom courtesy of k4k” etched into the nosecone

this year I realized that Georgia summer isn't memorial day to labor day, it's DST beginning to DST ending

my hand-eye is terrible and i suck at almost every sport i've ever tried, but when that kars 4 kids jingle starts up on the radio i'm like a fucking ninja slapping that on/off button

They truly want you to believe this shit is inevitable and actually better than human endeavor but the one surefire thing that can stop it is not agreeing to the first two things. That’s all! That also means not willingly feeding it. It’s not difficult to avoid using it!

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

which celebrity death hurt you the most?

Irony was seen getting a noose ready and saying, “Fuck it. This is the peak, man. You don’t need me around after this.”