Honestly think about this story every 6 months deadspin.com/rainbow-cake...

If you had a time machine and brought soviet delegates to the great american state fair the ussr would still exist today

i could watch the "a man drink like that and he don't eat, he is going to die" "...when?" exchange 20 times in row and laugh every time youtu.be/UZHTd-QAwjc?...

are there other kinds of marm or just the school kind

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

I have read the second page maybe twelve separate times today and every time I still laugh irl

I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals

we need more education about how the long-term punishment of Haitians is crucial to the white supremacist project a proof-point for them about why you should never rise up, how you can never be free

What on Earth is 'Match Momentum'?

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

"Abolish ICE" is the minimum requirement for any politician running for federal office. This is the "law enforcement" function ICE performs: invading polling places to harass people over social media posts about the ICE agent who murdered someone on her way home after dropping her kid off at school.

the party establishment is Coach K scolding Dylan Brooks for having too-rudely kicked Duke's ass, eternally

i swear to god man, there has never been a cadre of sorrier fucking losers and hall-monitor dickweeds than at the top of the Democratic Party

i wrote about kids and lying and how we make ourselves defector.com/what-if-your...

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

I don't know. For some reason I like the people who the totalitarian kleptocrats are palpably afraid of.

no, on/off record is an agreed upon pact. this is a journalism 101 thing. a source cannot unilaterally declare something off the record nor can they speak on the record then recant.

the wildest thing about Democratic Party shills waking up today petulantly asking why DSA doesn’t run separately is that they know full well if the most popular candidates in the party all spun off and ran third party and split the left in the general they would shoot Hasan Piker in the street

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Mona Khalil, who devoted her life to protecting turtles, killed by Israeli airstrike: defector.com/mona-khalil-...

incredible blog www.vanityfair.com/story/the-ne...

genuinely unbelievable that as individuals we just have no choice but to tolerate that there are sometimes just malfunctioning unguided missiles zooming around the streets at absurd rates of speed because a few people think it’s cool

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

The first step you take on the journey to "abolish the police" is the realization that we could "abolish" 2 soldiers, 4 cops, and a horse from this particular situation, and we would be fine.

The arrests for "vandalism" around the reflecting pool are in principle the same thing as Russian soldiers being forced to record false captures/flag-raisings on the frontlines– the deforming of the state into a tyrant-soothing bouncy infant chair

If you do want to draw some conclusions about the silent majority and/or the vital masculine energies Trump is allegedly solely able to commune with from MMA viewership, the show that beat the White House UFC show was headlined by a 39-year-old woman and 44-year-old woman.

I know you’re not going to believe this, but a bunch of rich old men who are getting really into peptides do not actually have their finger on the pulse of the youths, sports fans, or the herrenvolk more generally, and even a big UFC show on Paramount+ is watched by the people who watch the UFC.

did anyone seriously think there was a rift? trump desperately needs this deal and he's probably thrilled that vance has to wear it. vance has no belief system other than "supplicate myself at the feet of anyone above me in a hierarchy to win their approval." it's working as intended

Dedicated to all Clintonites who abused those of us who, once, dared say that there was next to no difference between the inhumanity of Hillary and the misanthropy of Trump. Nothing further... www.ft.com/content/2472...

get their asses

a surreal pleasure to cover an NBA Finals that ended in a Knicks win. took a few angles on it: KAT's calm, New Yorkers' anti-calm after the OG tip-in, the print media boom, a trip to San Antonio to witness fan lunacy and a Brunson classic

ME: im sober PERSON: oh nice congrats M: thank you P: me, i drink. im not an alcoholic though M: alright P: sure i could probably stand to take a break haha i mean who doesn’t feel that way sometimes M: mhm P: but i don’t drink much. 3 or 4 at a time at most me: P: god you’re right i must be a dr

Josh Barro shouldn’t have a job but his dad is an economist who got him into Harvard so we all have to pretend he’s not a huge fucking idiot

was the box of diapers ok

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

this will be devastating to all the people who naively ate Cheetos for their nutritional properties

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

Bluesky as a whole should be intellectually hostile to this RFK-ass bullshit. It’s the gateway to antivax stuff that literally kills people.

hey pals i wrote about Wemby, whomst is neither a sucker nor a fraud, but rather a bozo (for now) defector.com/whither-wemby

If Bluesky is an echo chamber (fine!) we need a new word for a platform where comms professionals in the party in power think they've reached new levels of cultural currency thanks to a paywalled streaming event for a sport that is orders of magnitude less popular than golf

takes a true comic genius to survey the media landscape in 2026—with blogs basically nonexistent and all the other outlets in the hands of zillionaire fascists on explicitly revanchist missions—and be like “what today has that 2005 didn’t is liberal PC bias in the media”

big same. it’s sloppy and dull and visually ugly