In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India

This one lives in my head.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

come get a surreal sandwich at Salvador's Delí

Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The city is powered by laughs and screams. This is the perfect game for that

thank you bears

ESPN when Alabama gets blown out in the conference championship vs ESPN when BYU gets blown out in the conference championship.

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

I don't know guys, Alcorn St could still make a run. Better keep the starters in just to be safe, TJ #bluecy

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

And do follow, and purchase and read the books of, @jasonkpargin.bsky.social.

I haven’t seen Ole Miss students this riled up since James Meredith enrolled.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

My brain whenever Tulane completes a pass to Johnny Pascuzzi

Think we’ve just about filled up the Cyclone Football Bingo card today. - special teams turnover - Konrardy field goal - pop pass - Sama stiff arm - injury to a safety - dropped passes - Rocco taking an unnecessary big hit - Neal turnover - Gave up a TD immediately after scoring

The ACC review look in is great but it needs more friction. “Everybody agree?” “NO RANDY I FUCKIN’ DO NOT STOP RUSHING ME.”

lol

I need this coach search to never end

Sean Duffys worst nightmare

Gonzaga should have to give their NIL prize money to Iowa State

AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy. My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

one of the big lessons re conservatives and especially conservative christians is that they are more satisfied by being comparatively better off than others rather than being better off in absolute terms. they’re perfectly happy to lose if you lose more.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

“‘If you’re the real deal in Oakland, then you’re good. But if not, they’re going to run your ass out.’ John Beam’s true story is that he never got run out, & instead was embraced by a town that tightly measures its hugs.” Perfect obituary for an irreplaceable guy oaklandside.org/2025/11/19/c...

It might lead one to suspect that being ICE had previously gotten him out of charges

I regret that they will never have twins named ozzy and izzy lizza-nuzzi

JJ McCarthy: when I get out there I can't be responsible for what happens, I turn into Nine who can only be unleashed on the field. Nine is too intense to exist outside those lines where Nine does damage. Caleb Williams: I'm Caleb Williams

One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.

Another video from Charlotte, NC. Property owners scare off federal agents after they question a man putting up Christmas lights.

“He blew him, Brendan. He blew Bubba and now Putin has a picture of it. Makes sense though. If a guy sucks your dick you have to invite him to your daughter’s wedding, it’s part of the code. The brojob code, Brendan”

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer

They’re all just looting the treasury now

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.