In a brilliant moment during Wednesday's sham impeachment hearing, Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz flipped the script and called the Republicans' bluff by making his own motion to impeach President Biden and asking the GOP to second it. The Republicans crumbled as he…

Off camera, the repo men are removing the rest of the furniture and will soon come for the table.

Thank you, Katie Britt. For one brief moment, you restored this site to its glorious, deliriously joyful, collective-dunking best.

The perfect parable for our times: scientists reviving woolly mammoths with the goal of repopulating the arctic with them, where they will promptly die from global warming.
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Elmo trying to change subject.

I'm responding to a puppet on this website, so not so good?

Pretty sure 'living under the continuous threat of violence' actually describes women, but what do I know I'm just a person who lives on Earth and has noted the most obvious features of human existence.

ok yes I'll do it. Allana Harkin Samantha Bee

I don't think it's too much to ask to have Taylor Fritz and Stefanos Tsitsipas date so we could have Fritzipas.

The saddest part is the long-abandoned guitar--how much happier would we all be if Trump had been allowed to follow his musical dreams?

'This is no longer an ethics problem. This is a democracy reform problem and it signals first and foremost an effort to deform democracy to serve the Harlan Crows and the Leonard Leos of the world.'

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We are going to deeply regret developing artificial intelligence, but only briefly--the interval between the blinding flash and the arrival of the shock wave.

Maybe the real lesson was the AI chatbots we trained along the way.

Please let there be a balloon release and then the air force shoots them down over the stadium
#SuperBowl

I will lose faith in our nation's youth If there are not five high school punk bands named Chinese Spy Balloon by now.

I want to thank CSPAN for their great coverage of the vote for Speaker, which if nothing else introduced me to the awesome outfits of CT representative Rosa DeLauro

Curious to hear from others if they use Lens.com and have had trouble getting their rebate (or never received it despite repeated assurances that they will).

Not sure how the actual voting is going to go down, but looking forward to George Santos claiming that he is Speaker of the House.

Right now there's a network exec saying, 'No, I'm not saying they HAVE to keep playing, but, I mean, it's not like TWO players had to get CPR...'