As was true in 2020, an actual work stoppage by even a single NBA team (ie the Timberwolves) would be tremendously powerful although I’m sure that everyone who has direct access to these players is telling g them not to do that. Athletes, know your own power.

“The best players on earth” are difficult to replace with scabs.

Any time there's even the slightest discussion of the Washington Post as a business entity it's a reminder of how much people struggle to conceive of the scale of Jeff Bezos' wealth. None of this is real. It's rearranging pebbles on the top of a mountain.

Putting the Rowling of it all aside, it's a thinly crafted world more valuable to its fans as a nostalgic touchstone than as a story. It's the Millennial answer to Ghostbusters and Star Wars, an IP so thoroughly merchandised that you don't ever really experience it, you're just subjected to it.

Aside from the lurking specter of transphobia, are we like, SHOCKED that kids are less interested in past generations' media? That they want their own thing? Remember when growing up when your dad tried to show you an awesome movie he loved at your age, and you were like "What the hell is this?"

I think there's a pretty good argument to be made that if it weren't for the bogus charge that TikTok was brainwashing American tweens into becoming Taliban commandos, the ban—very predictably delivering control of the entire platform into the hands of the president's allies—would not have passed

new alex pareene and ta-nehisi coates articles on the same day. the long 2016 finally throws us a bone

Currently have a very mild virus that is making me feel just sick enough to be annoying but nowhere near sick enough to call today a wash and sit on the couch with soup. Can't catch a freakin break

Conservatives fundamentally do not understand the idea of protest as a tool for specific outcomes so their gotchas are like "why aren't you protesting for Laken Riley" (because her murderer is in prison) or "why aren't you protesting Iranian atrocities" (because our taxes don't subsidize them)

Hello I have the tech know-how of your average 78-year-old -- can someone explain what makes this TikTok security update (which I agree is bad) different from all the piles of data that I'm already giving to the other evil billionaires? (not censorship issues, I do understand why that's bad!)

It is very funny watching right wingers go straight into “anything that hurts my feelings is violence” without even doing any throat clearing about how this is different from all the stuff they just spent years making fun of. At least make up an excuse guys

The founders wrote the 2nd Amendment for a reason: So you could hold a cool gun while you nod approvingly at what the government is doing.

I have a concussion, baby, yeah!

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.

Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.

When ICE detainees are released from Whipple, they basically just get plonked on the street, with none of their stuff, in the middle of winter in Minnesota. This mutual aid org gets them transportation & supplies immediately after release. I just donated and I hope you will too: gofund.me/ed84ea50a

The peloton instructors are posting. That suggests a shift to me.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Unfortunately a lot of people in very key positions of political, journalistic, and cultural power are letting their desire to not be living through a fascist rise effect their ability to help prevent the fascism

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I don’t mean just today, I mean any of it. Obama’s last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago

Hakeem Jeffries resign today. Do it you little coward fuck

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

On top of everything else it’s crazy knowing how much of this they are explicitly doing for twitter

There are real journalists and community members livestreaming reality right now who need support. If people choose to not support them, and to boost AI company lies in any way to either supplant or dilute reality, it can't matter their intent. They're on the side of the lies, and Trump.

Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me. It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

One more compromise, bro, just one more, and we will put the issue behind us forever and get back to the important work of constructing the most complicated tax code in history

COLUMBO: just one more thing, sir, uh, you mentioned... when you had this terapy session, you said you made your terapist laugh? MURDERER: yes? COLUMBO: like... you were gettin a good grade? in terapy? but maybe you can explain that to me - is that normal ta want? or even possible ta achieve?

As TX heads into what may be the biggest ice storm of the year, let’s get one thing straight before the disinfo starts. Solar and wind energy operate reliably in far colder places. The real issue is simple: large parts of the grid are not appropriately winterized. When storms come, they fail.

Evergreen

This is soooo much stupider than I ever thought it could be bsky.app/profile/luke...

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

The Dem chatter on affordability might resonate more if they hadn't spent the last three fucking decades rubber stamping shitty mergers, appointing feckless careerists to key regulatory positions, and, with occasional exception (Khan/Porter) being unwilling to challenge consolidated corporate power

the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will

You under no circumstances "gotta hand it" to Scott Bessent, but honestly? I see it

Sigh.

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

The picture of his cubby

The Beckhams really are the new Royal Family in that I am constantly being forced to learn things about them against my will

Fuckin loser baby shit

Defector's @jaspercwang.bsky.social on why it's ok for business owners to choose integrity over survival. With host @greenwell.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

After months of stalling negotiations, the WNBA and team owners continue to ignore player demands and jeopardize the future of women’s professional basketball. Send an email to WNBA leadership demanding they give WNPA the deal they deserve. #1u actionnetwork.org/letters/wnba...

It was clear three years ago that Europe switching from Russian to American gas was simply handing its carbon leash to another master. This is a new analysis that reiterates the need to eliminate gas reliance - if not for climate, then for safety from despotic regimes www.ecologic.eu/20338