JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, won $1.4 million playing blackjack in Las Vegas. He reported the winnings on his 2024 tax returns, which his campaign released this week. “I was incredibly lucky,” he said.

“We invented something that is extremely expensive to produce and which does not generate any money” you know back before big tech they used to just call this a Very Bad Business Idea

We use the word “Balkanization” because every time we split the balkans up into many tiny pieces, it’s a horrible mess and everything gets worse. Conversely, every time we consolidate the balkans into a greater political union…it’s a horrible mess and everything gets worse.

in a proper functioning democracy, every election would have a guy who wears the same red beret literally everywhere, to the point where nobody knows what he looks like without it. he should be referred to in the constitution as Hat Guy. if you ever poll below Hat Guy you must end your campaign

People with every other dietary restriction: hey yeah sorry guys there’s not much here I can eat, I’m good with just a salad or there’s this other place we could try also

People with lactose intolerance: if you give me me enough lactaid I will fight god

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I love looking through the Wikipedia articles for common everyday items. I had to make a point today so I pulled up the Wikipedia page for “Tomato.” It was fascinating.

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits