TW: DV Please consider what it means that a man can grab a woman by the shoulders hard enough to hurt her, to leave marks, drag her out of a car, twist her arm behind her back, and lock her in a room, then later she will take pains to clarify that he didn’t *break* her arm.

"I did all those horrible things when I was drunk out of my mind." Maine voters: "You're hired!"

”If you question or criticize Platner you are rooting for Collins” is the new “objectively pro-Saddam.”

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

My mother always said I'd be outstanding in my own field, although it's possible she said "out standing".

"Have a proper look". Huh?

Lots of winning.

The WHCA chooses — again — to arrange to platform this madman. A deranged, authoritarian POTUS that would jail them at will if he could. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/atru...

The four words on which more money has been lost than on any other phrase? ‘This time is different’

You've heard of the Ship of Theseus...the wooden planks of the ship rot and are replaced one by one with new timber until none of the original ship remains? Well, meet the Garden Tiller of Theseus. But will the new carburetor fire!?

also I know everyone is assuming he'll be another fetterman but he and fetterman actually despise each other, he's going to be his own kind of disaster and we'll all get to find out together what that looks like

Sure, Grandpa, let's get you back to Walter Reed.

"Dems need to look past some character flaws"* *Nazi tattoo *Admitted alcohol problem *Sexting multiple women *Rape victim blaming *Homophobia GTFOH

The tech bros have done it again!

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

Honestly, all my questions are already "fully fueled."

The Dems just can't help themselves.

My FIL at my son’s preschool graduation when they started singing the national anthem: “I better not see any of them kneeling!!” The hate in their hearts colors every experience. Can’t even watch his grandson sing a song without getting mad about something that isn’t even happening.

@meninblazers.bsky.social I don't think we're gonna make it with soccer in the US. Valiant effort though on your part and by others.

There is NO WAY this cop is showing up in court today. Just embarrassing.

🍉 🏊🏼‍♂️ 🌳 ⚾️ 🌽😁 Hope you make some great memories with your kids this summer! “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault

One of my favorite sights on a warm day in the Chicago suburbs: sandhill cranes in flight.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Who was president on January 6, 2021? It depends who you ask.

Loving Roger Bennett from @meninblazers.bsky.social's wonderful book reminiscing on the World Cup over the years. So many parallels between Roger and Me: watching from the east side of the Atlantic as a boy, arriving in Chicago in '94, even smashing a soccer ball through our living room windows!

We wanted to understand conservative ideas about traditional nuclear families. So we talked to a conservative ketamine addict who has 20 kids by 12 different women.

60-Mile Sunset. Chicago from across Lake Michigan.

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"Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life."

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

/10 Trumpist prosecutor: well, firstly, this was only my second grand jury hearing ever, I am but a smol bean, and secondly, I just found out that vouching is bad? Holy fucking shit this is humiliating for DoJ.

why are they so weird and defensive amanpour didn’t impugn the reporting she’s just reacting with the level of surprise that a reasonable person with knowledge of the parties would experience at reading such a story

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

Navarro is the crackpot economist who convinced Trump that tariffs would be good for the US economy.

Secretary of Homeland Security: Hire your own homeland security

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

I think the case of Fuck You v. Make Me applies to this situation.

The only characteristic of Trump that I find personally relatable is his extreme contempt for evangelicals that support Trump

This man is a sociopath.

Sen Fetterman: "We do need a ballroom." 🤡

NEW from me: Everyone has a bad week but CBS News has now had 32 of them under Bari Weiss. Where's the promised innovation? Nowhere. Instead, her news operation had yet another rough week- even sending lead anchor Tony Dokoupil to the wrong China. Incredible. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Turns out a Navy willing to execute civilians in boats in the Caribbean to produce snuff films for the president is a Navy willing to let the FBI director treat a tomb as a fun frolic

‘Got!’: Panini 1970 World Cup sticker book completed after 56 years

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

“A real hit on Jesus” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve ever heard.