Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack. The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”

Say what you will about the caliber of Time Magazine, the takeaway here is that US policy is indistinguishable from satire, including to Americans.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

This is quite literally HER land. 🤬

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

just grotesque

okay this just fuckin bodied me

break their toys

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

“what the fuck is wrong with you”

I wish political journalists would acknowledge that there is a difference between scandal and evil.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Never gets old, looking at a country where the orange party can never ever get ahead, no matter how sick people are of the red party and the blue party

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Introvert James Bond who realizes at the end of the movie that the sexy lady from the beginning of the movie was actually flirting with him

On the other side of Whitefish Bay, my mother remembers the Safeway supermarket sign in the Sault swaying wildly on its pole that night in 1975.

JUST NOW: Donald Trump gets loudly BOOED by the crowd at the Commanders game. What a loser!

Trump gets booed at the @wshcommanders.bsky.social game #HTTC #TrumpIsASuckerAndLoser #TrumpResign

You'll never guess what just happened!

Judge Mark Wolf retired last week ENTIRELY because of Donald Trump. www.wcvb.com/article/mass... This is what he said:

Strictly from a UX perspective: This is the perfect product

Nobody with a working knowledge of “Minnesota nice” would lean into it in a retail environment

It's Friday night baby

Dipshits get crickets!

Spanberger’s GOP foe spent 57% of her ad budget on anti-trans attacks. Spanberger focused on the economy. You see what won. trib.al/fkMmsR4 The simple truth told time and time again in the polls: The public doesn’t care about trans issues. Voters care deeply about the economy, inflation, & prices.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Well look who’s dropped dead now

I want to see Mamdani win in NYC tomorrow for a lot of reasons, but one of them is absolutely to watch Bill Ackman crash out

But in America, having the decadence of the elites rubbed in your face is traditionally a feature, not a bug. What others process as inequity, Americans register as opportunity.

“relaxium”

Putting aside the business of “the hard men of Gondor”, my theory is Musk is just smart enough to realize he has a window of time to catalyze events into a crisis before the tides turn against him.

There’s a compelling case that as much as Canada wanted it, LA needed it.

to quote the great poet himself, Stephin Merritt, “what a waste of all those beers”

Well, that was suboptimal

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

this is so stressful a canadian anchor just did breathing exercises on air

You guys baseballed so hard I got out of bed and turned on the game

I am having to consume unsustainable amount of beer to maintain my spot at this bar

Ok. The grind is how we do it.

Finally, we get to game 9

Once I went to a jays game and sat in the $9 nosebleeds on a dome open day and there was only one set of people further up than us and at one point they heckled, “I DISLIKE THIS SPORT”

18 innings (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)

Real final boss stuff here with Ohtani third up

I have a soft spot for Blake Snell (make him suffer)

For those people whose sportsnet subscription isn't working, if you have prime video just get a free trial of citytv and watch the game from the live channel

Trey Yesavage (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)

I’m told that Rogers Sportsnet feed from the Rogers Centre has crapped out, in what must be a truly epochal fuck-up in the history of the country’s blighted telecom oligopoly