You can stop the 21st century now, we’ve already made its most important discovery.

“The popsicles—which are now sold in shops in Kanazawa, Tokyo, and Osaka—can reportedly retain a solid shape even when blasted with a hair dryer for five minutes, and will still taste cool to boot.”

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It wasn’t the kiss so much, it was the points in the video when you can see Trump moving in twice before he actually kissed her. At first, I didn’t think he was aiming for her cheek. George Takei

At first I was horrified that Trump appears to be receiving National Security for Dummies, but then I remembered that he never showed capacity for retaining any information whatsoever. Exclusive: classified memo tells intelligence analysts to keep Trump’s daily brief short

A few parts of the Trump transcripts I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, like the bit where we threaten to invade Mexico.

Some mostly unnoticed things in the Trump call transcripts | The Vast Jeff Wing Conspiracy

“This is going to kill me,” he said to Turnbull. “I am the world’s greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people.” Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals

“It’s no wonder people worry what would happen were these guys to face a real crisis. But that’s just the problem. The crises are here. And the fact that neither the president nor the American people seem to know it may be the greatest crisis of them all.” How Trump’s White House is making global crises even worse

Tell me again how all Wharton grads are experts at macroeconomics. A Small Yet Soul-Crushing Illustration of Donald Trump’s Utter Economic Illiteracy

BREAKING: After 18 hours in office, Chief of Staff Kelly is publicly announced as a Trump enemy. Donald J. Trump on Twitter

If this is true, it’s actually rather disturbing. It means: 1) Life is literally everywhere we look. 2) Either intelligent life is so rare as to be nearly impossible, or the Great Filter isn’t a sieve, it’s a brick wall.

Life Is Inevitable Consequence Of Physics, According To New Research

GOP: The healing potion is 5,000 gold pieces.
PC: But we don’t have that much gold.
GOP: No, but you have ACCESS to health potions.#GOPDnD www.distractify.com

“The point is not necessarily that wealth is intrinsically and everywhere evil, but that it is dangerous — that it should be eyed with caution and suspicion, and definitely not pursued as an end in itself; that great riches pose great risks to their owners; and that societies are right to stigmatize the storing up of untold wealth.” Perspective | Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that.

This story discusses how Scaramucci is bringing sociopathic behavior from Wall Street to the White House. Which makes me wonder: if Wall Street is so vital to the country (like Wall Street keeps insisting it is), do we really want them acting like sociopaths, either? Perspective | Scaramucci learned his press tactics from Wall Street. They’ll only get uglier.

Read this, then come back to this comment….

The problem with this idea is that there is a huge right-wing machine painting every Democrat as extremist. Nominating a moderate Democrat to suppress Republican turnout only works in the absence of a machine maximizing that turnout already. And this can additionally be counted upon to demoralize your own base.

Democrats have been seeking centers since 1992. We’ve seen three explosions in enthusiasm: 2008, when Obama campaigned to the left of where he eventually governed; 2016, with the rise of Bernie and the candidacy of Hillary (to the left of where she was in the 90s), and now in opposition. We don’t need to seek centers. We don’t need to win over soft Republicans. We need a strong principled stance, and let’s see if *that* wins over anyone who left us because we didn’t seem to stand for anything. Analysis | Extreme candidates lose because they boost the other party’s turnout, research finds

“It goes much further than their repugnant and disastrous effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but all the contemporary GOP’s pathologies could be seen there: their outright malice toward ordinary people, their indifference to the suffering of their fellow citizens, their blazing incompetence, their contempt for democratic norms, their shameless hypocrisy, their gleeful ignorance about policy, their utter dishonesty and bad faith, their pure cynicism, and their complete inability to perform anything that resembles governing.” Opinion | This is what you get when you elect Republicans