‘Our billionaires need to call out their billionaires.’ That’s our final guardrail?

I can’t explain why this is true, but it is; if baseball were invented today, the pitcher and batter would be on the same team.

This whole press conference has big “didn’t do the reading but I gotta turn in the assignment” energy.

Did no one at ABC watch Andor?

With Robert Redford passing away today, it might be a great time for everyone to rewatch All The President’s Men

I agree with Sepinwall’s take on this. And it was a hell of a great last article to write before getting fired by Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

As a reminder, Trump refused to speak Gov. Walz after Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated. The fact that he can’t even remember who she was tells you all you need to know. If you voted for someone other than Trump, he believes you are worthless. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Dana White’s ad for Ram is nearly indistinguishable from a clip fr the movie Idiocracy.

Saint George and the Dragon, by Bernat Martorell, 1434–35, 📸 by Michael Dawson

Hey @nytimes.com, I just unlocked the evil genius badge. Where do I go to collect my billions of dollars and find out the location of my secret lair?

Grand Marais-diohead #MinnesotaAband

Trump’s memorandum on pharma ads isn’t about improving consumer transparency. This isn’t an administration that’s about establishing new regulatory guardrails. This is really about punishing TV networks and depriving them of one of last remaining steady sources of ad revenue for news divisions.

🎶 Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby SoHo 🎶

I was curious about how cable news would cover the SCOTUS 4th Amendment shadow docket case. And damn, @michaelsteele.bsky.social is giving some good but heavy historical context around how state violence like this isn’t an aberration of American history, but a continuation of it.

Welp, I didn’t have SCOTUS gutting the 4th Amendment through the shadow docket on my bingo card, but here we are. I don’t know that we’ll ever pinpoint the moment America became an authoritarian nation, but this has to rank up there as a pivotal moment when the history of this era is written.

“So much of the presidency has been governed by norms and not hard law” - Professor Kate Shaw Great, but sobering, listen of how the Roberts court is enabling Trump and his expansive view of executive authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Feels like @govpritzker.illinois.gov is taking up the mantle. I appreciate that he links what is happening in Illinois to the rest of the US and explains why it matters to us outside of Illinois. He’s taking care of his constituents, but knows a wider audience needs to hear his message.

Gov Pritzker giving an update on Trump’s troop movements into Illinois. “Terror and cruelty is the point.”

Sadly, @mnufc.com are the 5th supporters community to raise this banner in MLS since @austinfootballclub.bsky.social first raised it in the aftermath of Uvalde.

I gotta say, as a neutral, that Newcastle-Liverpool match was a pure joy watch, especially that second half.

To put this in perspective for Americans: The population of Gaza is 2,141,643 (1). 240 journalists deaths is 0.0112% of the population. The US population is 342,356,913 (2). 0.0112% of that is 38,344. The US has 45,020 journalists (3). If 85% of American journalists were killed in 2 years…

We live in a system that only ever really worked because we agreed with each other not to break it. I think that social compact is gone. And I don’t think that breach of trust is easily repaired. I fear the corrective will be as painful as the breach itself.

Sometimes we let our hope for our better angels blind us to our darker truths. That’s what reading the news feels like these days.

I’m flying out of Concourse A at MSP and I think Lakeville is closer to the main terminal than Concourse A is

Why do I feel like Putin will claim Trump “gifted” him Alaska like Putin stole Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring and said it was a gift?

Friday’s NYTimes Crossword getting spicy #g (relatively speaking, this is the @nytimes.com after all)

“I am condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future.”

Out there deleting amendments because they were deemed too woke by Dear Leader, I bet.

I’m astounded how many folks don’t recognize people who are monsters even after witnessing them do monstrous things

How much do you want to bet that Trump fights this all the way to the Supreme Court? Or that Chief Justice Roberts finds a way to either block the release of the files to Congress or just hand blanket immunity to Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

If the tariffs are finally judged to be illegal since they weren’t implemented by Congress, will the Federal government owe refunds to the American importers who paid the tariffs under this illegal scheme?

I wish I could find every idiot from back in high school who complained, “why do we even need to read 1984 and Animal Farm,” and scream, “NOW DO YOU GET IT???”

Brutal finish for @mnufc.com Wasted points

This Copa final has been bonkers

May all my neighbors forgive me for singing Radiohead in a falsetto I have no right to be trying

Can’t wait for drug companies to pay *me* $1,100 to take my meds instead of me paying them $100 Wharton should revoke his business degree

JFC, which is it Fox/Trump? Are the job numbers cooked and really much better OR the shitty jobs numbers mean the Fed should’ve cut interest rates months ago? Both can’t be true. But we live in 1984-style Doublespeak and Newspeak now, so I guess it just doesn’t fucking matter.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

I woke up this morning feeling like I spent the night gargling dirt

Lucy Bronze played the whole tournament with a broken tibia. 598 minutes of match play on a broken leg. Move over “Willis Reed game” and “Jordan’s flu game”, “Lucy Bronze tournament” has entered the chat.

Watching Chloe Kelly’s Euro performance has me wondering, “what the hell were City thinking???” Also, Lucy Bronze with a Willis Reed-like performance in tonight’s final. (Yes, I know this is an extremely niche reference)

Do people really think Trump has lowered the federal debt since he took office? From January 21st (first full day in office) until July 24th (last day of available data), Trump has added over half a trillion dollars to our nation’s debt. $503,27,630,276.62

If there is no “Epstein list” as AG Pam Bondi claimed, then how did Trump’s personal attorney turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche have a list of 100 people to ask convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell about?

After $16M in Trump’s pocket and $20M in-kind advertising plus a new position over the news division ensuring compliance with Trump’s definition of fairness, and of course the firing of Colbert, the sale of Paramount to Skydance is approved. Kleptocracy reigns www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

Sudoku Reddit scares me. I’ve seen some of the dumbest “what did I do wrong” screenshots on there, and they have me fearing for humanity.

The WSJ story on Trump’s letter to Epstein has Dems calling for Rep Jim Jordan(R-Ohio) to hold hearings on the Epstein file. What’s Jim gonna be doing tomorrow? Sitting under deposition answering questions about his role covering up sexual abuse at OSU by Dr. Strauss. apple.news/Af64Qq86oTKa...

Isn’t it *great* that Republicans just legislated work requirements for all these social safety net programs while the Silicon Valley oligarchs bankrolling their campaigns want to replace 50% to 80% of the workforce with AI in the next five years (~85 to 135 million US workers)

Trump bringing McCarthyism back. Can’t wait for Speaker Johnson to start a new select committee on un-American activities www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Troy meeting LeVar Burton on Community is still the funniest damn thing

Why do I feel like John Roberts is going to let Trump fire everyone in the government and destroy the federal bureaucracy before declaring it unconstitutional? Sure, you’ve got precedent to protect, but if Roberts let Trump do it anyway in a way that can’t be undone, what *good* is the decision?