Amazingly, the magazine does not let the candidates or their supporters pick who writes about them

I am fascinated to see how the international sports journalists will react to being based in downtown Dallas and the world cup matches in Arlington.

New from @cato.org. They are not holding back. In response to reports that Trump is circulating an executive order claiming Chinese interference in 2020 as a basis for declaring a national emergency to unlock extraordinary power over voting, here is @walterolson.bsky.social's response. 👇

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Emily Flake. #NewYorkerCartoons

Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

I want more of this in and from architecture. Read the alt text.

Holds up

“Elaine from Atlantic, white girl with a hat and notepad. She’s interviewing people in the crowd. She’s a top-notch hater and will spin. She needs to leave." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Artemis II/Artemis program update press conference starting momentarily. I'll live post the highlights in this thread!

This administration is telling every AI company in the country, your ethics stop where our desire for unchecked power begins. Refuse to build systems for dragnet surveillance and autonomous killing, and we will come after your bottom line—an authoritarian incentive structure. #holdfast

Every time they bring up “too big to fail” or “to big to disrupt” the response should be it’s made of parts, break them the fuck down to components then dismember and disassemble until below those particular thresholds. It isn’t rocket science, it’s greed and unwillingness to do the work.

This is so sad it's funny

Got to my east Texas hotel, saw an ad in a state senate race that attacks a candidate for recognizing Muslim holidays in the legislature followed by this banger

People are posting "I miss antitrust laws." If you are old enough, this is not just a sentiment. We remember... If you were alive before 1982, you knew of a single monolith. The Phone Company. It was illegal to own your own phone. Just... think about that. Illegal. To Own. A Phone.

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Trans people belong. Trans people have always been here. Trans people will always be here. We will never stop fighting for our neighbors, our friends, our community.

if Platner isn’t crypto-fash, he’s comically unlucky at slipping on banana peels arranged to look like swastikas

It's incredible that from the moment Roger Stone created an organization called "Stop the Steal" in 2016 (not a typo), the GOP strategy to use propagandistic lies to justify stealing elections has been carried out in plain sight. It's the most transparent ploy imaginable, and it might work.

"Every nation has the government it deserves." – Joseph de Maistre

Benny Johnson is acting all offended about being blamed for posting photos from inside a closed-door hearing, which he did

I don’t think anybody will see this post because Bluesky is broken. But rest assured this is a problem the platform inherited from the Biden administration

IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year

From @theathletic.com: NBA Hall of Famer Chris Bosh said he’s “lucky to be alive” after revealing a health issue that caused him to black out and wake up covered in blood.

No public link for this yet, buy W O O F that's a big number

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

I want the return of Frosted Flakes, damnit!

English Premier League to launch streaming service in international shake-up ft.trib.al/sg6tclV

nerds rock

Consumption's back on the menu, boys!

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

FIFA is so fucking happy to be dealing with American sports consumers finally, they have so many innovations to test on a mass affluent consumer base that rarely gets organized

The USL is expanding at a breakneck pace — and expansion fees stay at privately owned USL HQ. USL teams are folding at a breakneck pace. There's an incentive problem here. An essential piece on the USL + lower-division U.S. soccer from @usltactics.com.

Republicans: great news we have a new healthcare plan that bills you every month and ALSO allows you to pay the full cost of any treatment People : so whats our benefit Republicans : what do you mean your benefit

If you're a sports executive and you suggest variable pricing for ADA parking you should get [redacted]

This morning, Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua posted to FB this memo from Sports Mayor, which calls for a vote on City Hall's fate next week. The CM adds: "This process is a joke and an insult to our taxpayers. I hope the voters are paying attention to this Mavericks/City Hall boondoggle!!"

In April 2016, a weasel fell into the Large Hadron Collider. Nothing has been the same since. We are living in Weasel Times.

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

so -not great! -still many many steps from any kind of implementation of policy -their proposed interventions using this "extraordinary presidential power over voting" probably wouldn't even swing any elections -but like, still not great! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about how the right wing, corporate U.S. press is utterly dedicated to derailing AOC's pursuit of higher office:

There's still some football to be played this season so things can change but sometimes I wonder about possible unusual patterns emerging. Liverpool have often felt blunt and boring this season. What's the diagnosis on this outlier?

Repealing Section 230 might be a good start cepr.net/publications...

My wildly speculative half-belief is that we're trapped in a SimUniverse run that's been forgotten by its 12-year old child deity. They were diligently managing the simulation until December 2012, when Nostradamus's apocalyptic prediction came true and our universe got sidelined for some reason.

The Supreme Court denied that Trump has the authority to impose tariffs—and one conservative justice's opinion in the decision may be the most influential yet from the Roberts court about the accretion of executive power, Jeffrey Rosen argues:

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles routinely rejects vanity plate requests if they contain anything remotely controversial or political yet they have apparently OK'd one with a white supremacist slogan. Cool. bsky.app/profile/roos...

I know it’s reductive of the work they did and still do, but I want to start calling the Black Panther Party a 2nd Amendment Advocacy group, just to see how mad *people* get.