A suspiciously favorable administrative decision means we're a real soccer country now.

The high was in the low 80’s with light breeze. Everyone was worried about global cooling. The weed was ass but I had saved some Colombian which was just starting to circulate. We got high af and watched the fireworks. Fuck Donald Trump and fuck the GOP.

I was on the Mall in 1976 for the bicentennial. A couple of hundred of us gathered under a big marijuana flag smoking dope. The Washington police walked by without bothering a soul. This was before the all of Reagan’s bullshit. I want my country back.

I know some think we should all cede America and its symbols to bigots and fascists, and that’s all the country ever was anyway. And to that, my answer is no. A hard no. I will not.

“Hakeem Jeffries is black and thus immune from criticism of his shitty politics” is an opinion I guess.

Gluesenkamp Perez on bigots throwing trans kids under the bus: "we need a bigger bus"

We can have democracy or the Supreme Court

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Wizard Council says burn it down but don't touch my portfolio

I wonder how much of centrist Dem anger over DSA/leftist pols is repressed shame. Didn’t they all start off as idealists with dreams of a more just world? Life happens and now you need a story for why yours was the right way — the only way. Mamdani as narcissistic wound.

Been listening Joe Jackson's oeuvre for tonight's concert and damn his music spans so many generas. What a great song writer.

the funny thing about this isn't the stuff at the bottom, those are just platitudes rocktumbled smooth by layers of consultants. it's the cargo cult mentality that mechanical steps win elections with absolutely no mention of ideology or beliefs or desires or material concerns. they worship The Cycle

Hornets will sign Coby White to a 3-year, $74 million deal, as ESPN first reported. The Pistons, Nets, and others had him on their radar. He gets a chance to start with LaMelo Ball going to the Timberwolves. He passed on a Bulls extension last year and will now earn more per year.

@druorfalse.bsky.social What do you think about the Lamelo trade?

In a poll of New York *state* voters Zohran Mamdani has a 45-32 approval rating while Kathy Hochul's is 43-44 sri.siena.edu/wp-content/u...

We have an opportunity in this moment. A responsibility. To insist on everyone’s humanity, all the way through.

Mamdani touched my scrofulitic neck and now I’m cured so it checks out.

Red shouldered hawk terrorizing my bird feeders.

You forget the old saying to never bring a moderate to a gun fight.

Incumbents in one-party districts have one thing to fear above all else: people paying attention to politics

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

”The Director of National Intelligence was acting at the direction of an obscure Hindu cult you’ve never heard of” is up there with “DOGE was led by a teenager involved in a Nazi-Satanist child abuse network” in terms of True Facts That Will Make You Sound Unhinged If You Say Them Out Loud

This person is correct. You cannot build a mass movement by sneering at the normies. If you want to be aloof and cool and radical and elitist, you should get into obscure music or movies or whatever because this energy does not work in politics.

This is Joe Biden’s fault.

oracle of delphi voice

He didn’t specify that the US would be the ones surrendering.

Wrote about Neese's Sausage, which had been a part of people's recipe books for generations. It mysteriously disappeared for months with no explanation, only reappear this week in the hands of another family. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/neeses-cou...

Elon Musk is the world’s most successful conman and tout. No one has come close to his level of grift.

It's me. I'm Bean Dad.

He quit writing when he started using AI.

Scott Pelley is in the idgaf phase of his career.

Friday. Time to get your nip on.

so much of republican politics these days is basically just family annihilator suicide shit but at the national level

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

We got married 47 years ago today. A photo of us on our anniversary trip two weeks ago.

conspiracy thinking is seductive because it’s SIMPLE you don’t need to unpack five interlocking technology trends you don’t need to understand the limitations of a given technology or the process of how things get built and shipped you just need a villain to hate but this is an opiate

my favorite case on this point: yes, Zuckerberg did trip over a curb and land in a radicalization engine then he spent $80b to create a 3D shopping mall no one wanted. no amount of money or connections could conjure the social change he wanted don’t award these guys more power than they have

It’s very sad that Kyle Busch’s death was highly preventable. Apparently healthy 41 year olds of his socioeconomic status don’t just drop dead from pneumonia related sepsis.

All I can think of with any new AI discourse.

Aerobics in hell

I only wish Americans cared this much about downtrodden humans. A human who dares to let on that they're suffering as much as Tofu gets sent to prison.

I quite like Cody Johnston's stance on this: There are two kinds of class traitors, and one of them is the good kind. This would be an example of the good kind.

I appreciate Barney Frank’s legacy as an out gay politician when it was very difficult to do that. I just wish he’d have used his empathy to understand that trans people are fighting the same fight, rather than using his last breath to throw them under the bus

I hate to do this to you but this was my day.

There have always been trans people. There will always be trans people. The only "trans agenda" is to live authentically. Removing trans rights, banning trans people from sports, taking away care for trans people puts you on the wrong side of history. Trans rights are human rights 🩵💗🤍