Car seats are a scam.

This week, Slate staff was notified that three employees—all members of the union—were being laid off. Each was a member of Slate’s podcast staff. With their departure, Slate is reducing its audio content, which includes job reductions for a number of contractors. Slate Union's official statement:

Definitely more than double then.

Can’t wait for “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” Really hope the sequel is “The Mandalorian and Grogu and Kylo Ren.” If they really want a hit, they should make “Kylo Ren and Jabba the Hut and Spider-Man 2099 and Cosmic Ghost Rider.” I have an idea for a trilogy called “Star Wars and Star Trek and X-Men”

How would Batman exist in the popular culture today if this series never happened? Cemented Batman for like three additional generations. You need to keep these characters alive or they will disappear like Dick Tracy and the Lone Ranger.

MINNESOTA WILD CURSED FOR 100 YEARS

Gift link: “our American tax dollars subsidize the Israeli security establishment, so this is sexual violence in which the United States is complicit.”

If you’re a close listener, you might have noticed I took a day off this week. I’m lucky enough to have @1robgunther.bsky.social as a producer, who could fill in for me and make an Ozymandias (!) reference while doing it. But thought I’d do a lil thread on where I was 🧵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJU...

Ricotta cheese is a scam! Do better.

Never imagined I’d be in the position of wanting the Philadelphia flyers to win a hockey game.

A list like this comes out and you can either be a cheerleader or a hater, there’s really no outlet to be like, who are most of these people? Is Born to Run really a good song? But, really? Does Eddie Vedder even exist or was it all a dream?

I’d suggest next time authorities say it in a way that doesn’t require rereading it five times just to make it make sense.

“As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person”

Todd Blanche crying at the end that the reporter is being "rude" is the best.

It's like the Mets made a deal with the devil and then the devil didn't come through with his end of the deal and doesn't know how to own a baseball team and also is building a giant casino right next to citi field.

I’m being personally fucked with for an additional calendar year is the reason behind the decision.

You know I've been fine with the lying and killing and bombs and everything, but Trump cosplaying as my favorite religious figure, this is where I draw the line. I'm a believer, come on!

“novelty snack” how dare you

Would in a heartbeat. Call me.

In 2013, Obama was in Belfast and said something super low key about Catholic vs Protestant schools in Ireland, and all my proto-MAGA relatives went nuts on Facebook, accusing him of being an anti-catholic hate monger.

Gotta fire deboer my 11yo is pissed #isles

Me: 99% of my social feeds for the past 27d:

There’s never been a “robust norm.” Our immigration laws have been a deliberate joke for decades, with the goal of having millions of people live here as second class citizens, doing necessary labor for our economy. Nativism has been metastasizing and it’s not the left’s fault.

I also had a beast basketball game last night and I am also the same age as Lebron so I'm assuming we're both feeling exactly the same type of way this morning, no further questions, comments have been locked.

Domicile

Very hard as a dad of young kids who realistically can't ever go to the movies to not type in "Project Hail Mary plot spoilers" into my search bar right now. Like, I'm guessing he dies at the end, right?

Happy Shamrock Shake day for everyone who observes. 8 years and counting.

The Senate is going all-in on the Save America Act today, even though they don't have the votes. Why? I'm filling in for @maryharris.bsky.social on the podcast today, talking with @ariberman.bsky.social about the GOP trying to take over elections ahead of the midterms. Listen to What Next @slate.com

Me: 95% of my social feeds in the last 24 hours:

Secrets of the fox. Ancient mystery. Will we ever know? Somewhere deep in the woods. What are you hiding? What is your sound? Will always be a mystery. You’re my guardian angel, I know you’re hiding. Will we ever know? I want to. I want to. I want to know.

US takes Canada’s hockey. Italy takes US’s baseball. Italy’s bocce ball is officially up for grabs.

Can’t wait for NYC’s 2026 record winter of way too much dogshit on every sidewalk and also bags of dogshit tied up and then left on every sidewalk and also left on top of everyone’s recycling and empty unlined garbage cans to be over.

Remember those Biden stickers they put on the gas pumps lol

Wow can’t wait to see what other weapons we fire off that we haven’t used since WWII.

If a black hole swallows the earth before 2027 I am going to be rich as hell.

So you’re telling me this warn is going to pay for itself?

Once they put troops on the ground, how fast does the conversation snap back to, “well we gotta support our troops!”

George W Bush declared mission accomplished in Iraq after 6 weeks of war.

Went to the corner deli, picked up sodas for the kids as a treat. My son is like, this tastes different. I look closer and it turns out it’s a version of Sprite from … Iraq? Then I tasted it and it tasted way different, like an xmas wreath and cumin. Anyway glad their export soda biz is doing well.

Minnesota Wild cursed for 100 years, watch. bsky.app/profile/atru...

He’s not bruised, it’s a frequent handshaking side effect.

Gift link: "The account by Ryan Schwank, a former ICE lawyer who worked at the ... government’s law enforcement training academy, coincided with the release by Senate Democrats of several dozen pages of internal ICE records that suggest the Trump [admin] has curtailed the agency’s basic training."

Gotta read @alexkirshner.com on the men's team post-gold locker-room talk with Kash Patel and Trump at the expense of the women's team. "A particular bummer here was the visible, bent-over laughter of overtime hero Jack Hughes, whose mom literally works for the women’s team."

DHS caught straight up lying, again. An agent in Chicago rammed into a car with his gun already in hand, claimed he was the one hit, and then shot the driver five times. They accuse her of being a domestic terrorist. Then he gets congratulated by DHS leaders, and possibly the president. Watch:

Bill O’Reilly, Tom Suozzi, also one of the Village People, also one of the guys from the band Wheatus.

Fort Bliss is within the air space the FAA briefly tried to ban all flights from for 10 days.

Are we the baddies?

Unacceptable.

There is so much dog shit on these snowcapped NYC sidewalks. What do you think is the percentage of dog owners who just DGAF? Gotta be like 60-75%. This is no way to live.