feel like i maybe manifested this guy? sorry to ohio www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

our long national nightmare is over

real “fuck that alligator” energy

maybe putin poisoned graham’s dad with an umbrella in 1977, just to throw everyone off the trail

which member of black flag do you think is most likely to egot

fascinating how consultants who work with one (1) generational talent on the rise and don’t fuck it up (carville, plouffe/axelrod, even karl rove to some extent) get declared political geniuses and kingmakers even though they never manage to use their genius to make anyone else a king ever again

who are hollywood’s greatest bag getters? specifically people who are neither great nor widely beloved but ended up with long-term big money careers because of a type of role/franchise/etc that came up at the right time for them and they’ve just held onto it

alright. good talk

lot of replies here suggesting micropayments for buying articles à la carte and this will not work, it would collapse journalism even more dramatically than has already happened

tbh the things they're quoted as saying to platner sound like the stuff you see in stories about people who had chat gpt induce their psychosis

jesus fucking christ

the reason a journalist might not include this detail in coverage is that in context, immediately saying "no, don't come over" afterwards eliminates the possibility that "i need my glute massaged" was meant to be an invitation, so it stops being relevant to the story

can't believe this is real, it feels like a bit from nathan fielder or tim robinson or one of those comedians whose stuff makes me too uncomfortable to actually watch

Ok I figured out who needs to hear this

sucks that basically every heartwarming animal story on social media now is fake, did not happen, supporting photos are ai crap with obvious tells. it crowds out the wonder in the real world and makes actual delightful interactions seem pale compared to the fictions we get passed as real

googled "k*n kl*ppenst**n platner" to find out what y'all were talking about and then asked myself what i was doing with my life. going to swim laps instead

Using the Republican Party's criteria, we have brought to life the manly, masculine man of Texas’s dreams.

freed from the curse of caring about us men’s soccer for another four years, i feel so light

the high-profile people who supported platner ignored the nazi tattoo, so a bunch of women came forward to report sketchy behavior, which they also ignored, until this woman had to come forward and tell her full story. i hope they do some reflecting on how and why they put her in that position

listen sometimes you're coming off of a long holiday weekend and you just type up whatever press release was in your inbox even though there is no reason to believe that this movie will ever actually happen

boomers loved the idea that they didn't start the fire (and in fact that they didn't light it but they tried to fight it) so much that they made what even billy joel acknowledges is the worst song he ever wrote into a number one hit!!!!

bluesky moderation labeled this "sexually suggestive," i assume because the paper doll has nips? but maybe it's because it contains Peak Manly High-T Masculine Masculinity and their labeling bot got horny for the antithesis of what the the gop thinks james talarico is, you decide

my hottest take about how we live in a society is that if you claim a table at a crowded counter service restaurant before ordering your food then you are almost certainly a bad person

if i had more wall space in my house and enough disposable income to spend $700 on something i half love and half hate i would buy this immediately

found this v important reddit post from five years ago, theories abound in thread

this remains one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of writing i’ve ever read. if you have small kids in your life, read when you’re feeling emotionally durable, but do read it

Today marks the first anniversary of the Fourth of July flooding that devastated the Texas Hill Country. Senior editor Aaron Parsley was with his family at their river house when the water began rising. In the immediate days following the flood, he wrote about their shared experience:

everything about this is stupid but also like twenty percent of both the hot 100 and billboard 200 album chart right now are rap, i thought this dude was all about doing his own research

i went through all of the things republicans have said are proof that james talarico isn’t manly enough for texas in order to identify The Ideal Form of Texas Manhood, consider the masculinity crisis SOLVED www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

piggybacking onto this to tell yall that in 2022, texas republicans to the right of greg abbott right (who think he is a rino cuck) recruited some dude named ricky perry to primary him just to get abbott seeing ghosts

Welcome to Texas before renewables exploded

kavanaugh's argument is that the EO doesn't violate the 14th amendment because undocumented immigrants didn't exist when it was ratified so there's no way to know how people would have felt about it the fact that illegal immigration didn't exist as a concept seems to tell us how they felt about it

i only follow soccer during world cups and then forget everything that happened during the last one, can someone who knows these things tell me if there are more stoppage time goals this year than usual?

been getting a few of these scam letters pretending to be someone who run a (real) book club or literary festival with a bunch of AI text that has ingested a summary of my book, but this is the first one i’ve gotten for someone else’s book

has anybody who signed the harper's letter said anything about any of this

it is with great consternation that i tell you that billy ray cyrus’s new album is one of the best records of the year

13 years ago today, Wendy Davis was filibustering and Tommy Williams was having a fit about her putting on a back brace. It was an ironic moment as they debated what a woman could do with her body while debating what a woman could do with her body. Also you should read @dansolomon.com’s book.

"After the publication of this story, the Houston World Cup host committee clarified that it recommends visitors use a variety of transportation methods to travel from city hubs to the stadium."

i am curious if folks at various outlets are having any sort of conversation about when it'll be time to opt out of google altogether. it'd be too hard to do as an individual outlet but wondering if it's the sort of thing a group of bigger pubs could jump together on newrepublic.com/article/2120...

the idea that there is a deep well of support for the democratic party *as an institution, and as it is currently constituted* is so funny. people vote for democrats for a variety of reasons, but all polling shows that the percentage who have warm feelings for the party itself is incredibly low

did mexico pay for the fence

one additional piece of context here is that outside of the 2020 and 2026 senate races, there simply haven’t been seriously contested democratic primaries in texas at all. if you want to run for statewide office and you have held any elected office before*, odds are good that you will be nominated

As I often say, sometimes a journalist's job is to bring you the ingredients and the recipe but you gotta bake the cake lol

update: t-pain has officially squandered all the good will he earned from me for his covers album. if you see him please tell him he is once again the guy who had to buy a computer so he could try to sound like nate dogg in my book

gun to my head, either creed, independence day, or kicking and screaming (1995)

"The distance from the eastern edge of Pflugerville to West Odessa is roughly the same distance as the drive from Durham, North Carolina, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." @dansolomon.com on the new 11th Congressional District in Texas www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

the answer to the question in the headline is prolly gonna bum you out www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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

seems like a weird frame for a story about 63-year-old falling?

toy story but it’s about the fruit i forgot about in the produce drawer of the fridge