Stephen Robinson (Bluesky at @playtyperguy.com)
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Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
how about celebrating both instead of comparing
#FantasticFour just destroyed SUPERMAN!!!! The MCU is so back 😭
CinemaSins has done irreparable damage to the general public and has turned the average movie-goer into the most annoying person you know and if I ever see Jeremy in the street I’m smacking the soul patch off his stupid fucking face.
Dear comic book movie fans. You cannot evacuate 11 million people out of a city in 10 minutes. That is all.
See, this is the defeatist BS that kills me. If President Sanders or even Warren had Biden’s approval on immigration and the economy, the collective Dem response would not have been “no Dem could have done better.”

Earlier this year, Schumer said Dems need to wait until Trump's approval ratings fell further before withholding support. Now, even though Trump's numbers have fallen, Schumer still wants to pass on a fight again x.com/PollTracker202…
Semafor: Democrats try to defuse shutdown bomb Senate Democrats are making a calculated gamble that cutting bipartisan spending deals this summer could save them from another politically painful shutdown fight this fall. semafor.com/article/07/22/…
Absolutely surreal to watch White House reporters ask Leavitt questions about tariffs moments after she and Gabbard used this briefing to baselessly accuse Obama of crimes punishable by death. We’re a sick joke of a country.
"The Medicaid cuts could product more than 16k extra deaths per year, so Rs are busy trying to distract. They’re only cutting supposed waste & fraud, they say. So when you lose benefits, they’re here to explain why it’s your own damn fault, you lazy bum" publicnotice.co/p/republicans-…
This is so damn infuriating. Biden won in 2020 during a pandemic. The actual historical pattern is that incumbents lose when conditions are bad on the ground and voters are angry. Biden believed he could win again just because he won the last time despite the key difference
Precisely that. People had better pay more attention to HISTORY than polls. Joe Biden got more votes than any presidential candidate in history. You know who was #2? Yep, Donald J. Trump.
If we look at the four years of indifference, backbiting and petty acts of sabotage BidenWorld inflicted on Harris, your statement is clearly true. In the end, Biden (who didn’t think she could win) endorsed her as a screw-you to the party leaders who pushed him out.
Biden dead-ender who isn’t related to Biden is an amazing gimmick.
Turns out I was right. Hunter confirms George Clooney threatened to embarrass the Biden administration before the fundraiser… because his wife was big mad. So the big “moral stand” was really about Amal’s bruised ego. Thanks, George. Hope it was worth it.
What a joke. This isn’t an autopsy, it’s a fig leaf on the status quo. The overriding goal here is not to seek answers, it’s to avoid making anyone mad - a clear sign of a fundamentally cooked organization.
Mr. Terrific is one of the breakout characters of the new Supes movie. Deservedly so. Notice anything about him? No origin, no real name, no exposition about who he is or why he does what he does. Well told stories don't need to explain their characters. They show them to us.
So watch it play out: Ghislaine Maxwell hands over names of only Democrats and says she and Epstein hardly knew Trump. Then Trump quietly gives her a pardon and claims she deserves it for turning over the names.
It's very hard to build a durable anti-fascist political coalition when a not insignificant portion of the would-be coalition is seemingly more committed to bad faith arguments and browbeating natural allies than they are to winning + making change. It's simply not sustainable.
Google is free. If you’re saying I voted for military funding, you are lying. Receipts attached. Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn’t make you part of the “left.” If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!
Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.
Lex Luther faked an assassination attempt of himself to win the presidential election.