NBA looking into airplaning, hedgehogging, recoilless rifling

13. The MLS team New York Red Bulls is often abbreviated RBNY, probably most likely because the team's formal name is Red Bull New York, and also perhaps because NYRB has been in use since 1963 as the initialism for what literary periodical? NICE, YOU'RE READING BOOKS! #LL107 #bestwronganswers

I have a lot of respect for certain former CMs, but someone whom the voters have removed from the DC Council is not someone the Council should appoint back onto the Council. CM Orange has won about 3 elections and lost about 9. The people of DC don't want him snuck onto the DC Council.

Does anyone else feel like artificial reefs are too good to be true? Like did we really figure out that dumping garbage in the ocean is good for the ocean if you wash it first?

“It’s called soccer” is now an anti-administration statement

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Consolidated authoritarianism across Eurasia

Who the hell called it the Halftime Show Featuring the University of Florida Gator Marching Band Presented by Gatorade instead of the Electrolyte Orchestra

Just give me Ukraine in and Italy out and I’ll call it a good year

Americans can accomplish anything if you let them finish it up ten years late and $400m over budget

The reconciliation package — the sweeping bill passed by Republicanslast summer — has set in motion some of the most significant changes to SNAP in decades. Via @NOTUS.com buff.ly/pnR3Q9G

Just witnessed my first “six seven.” Two kids finding this on the subway map and losing their minds

I missed that Bishkek's Manas International Airport changed its IATA code from FRU to BSZ in August: 24.kg/english/3391...

There’s a lot riding on Arteta’s halftime speech. If he says anything along the lines of “we need a result to stay in position for the title” I predict teamwide mental collapse

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

If DC elects a socialist mayor I’ll share the recipe

Imagine having to write two losing speeches for the same election

Tropical theme at the watch party to celebrate Andrew Cuomo’s new address

Zohran Mamdani missing his own 12-3 canvassing shift because he’s watching Arsenal at Slavia Prague

I’m also this

I knocked so many dang doors today

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

Old bay shrimp curry

imo Poch is way underrating how much time it takes to get your best XI clicking and way overrating how much he needs to see bubble players perform in front of him this late in the game. Like what are we learning from this that we need for the World Cup itself?

Went to the hardcore show and everyone said they liked my sweater

Where do we think I could write a short article in praise of the Airbus A340-600's Grand Cargo Hold Toilet Cathedral? Soon they're retiring and one of the most hilarious aircraft ever will be no more

*At the Savannah Bananas game* RIP Kurt Vonnegut you would have loved this but just for normal reasons not to do with your writing

Lost decade indicator

Blueskyism? It’s just called being outside, why are we making up new words for it

College football is back

Danish publication reports that some Trump-connected goons are attempting to infliltrate Greenlandic society as part of a takeover plot www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Deal-making law firms generally weren’t trying to avoid executive orders—they were trying to signal a willingness to do work that accelerates crony capitalism and authoritarianism. Just look at the kinds of deals they’re getting for clients now (fully explained on Substack): cohen489.substack.com

You’re writing an urgent memo for work. Suddenly the cursor and keyboard freeze. Your browser tabs blank out. Excel crashes. Finally the culprit of the surge in memory demand reveals itself. On Teams, an AI tooltip lets you know you can switch between “month” and “week” in calendar view

COME ON YOU BEES

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Watching Leagues Cup tonight and redoubling how annoying the Apple deal has been for MLS and soccer in the US writ large

Problem with BlueSky is we don’t have”tweet your drafts day” here yet

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

Like most baseball fans who played the game as a kid, I imagine what life would be like if I made the big leagues. Unlike other baseball fans all my fantasies involve getting signed by the Blue Jays so I can address Vlad Guerrero Jr. as Vladimir Vladimirovich

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

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Mocha’dib, the Swiss shack Laderach