There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

Driving through the Minneapolis and St. Paul exurbs this Sunday morning, I saw a lot of Cyber Trucks, some on the road, some parked outside bars. None in a church parking lot.

79. American citizen.

I’m honestly surprised he restrains himself to claiming the spraypainted non-gold is “24 karat.” Why not 36 or 48 karat? His supporters won’t know the math behind gold karats, and “gold only goes to 24” corrections will just energize his supporters.

Rooting against them, but Westchester SC is a good-looking team.

Very much this. So many good reasons to read any of the L-D debates in full, but especially this. Also when reading keep in mind that when the transcript says Douglas said “Negro,” it means he said the n-word. When Lincoln is so quoted, he said “Negro.”

Perfect example of how the Neocons paved the way for Trump. 2002: Everyone's favorite Neocon resister Bill Kristol argues that it's "unfair" to worry that the president will use the war on terror to settle scores and fight imaginary enemies 2025: Trump designates Antifa a domestic terrorist org

Antitrust: I would divide the country into five-ish commercially sensible regions. Any firm in a region whose market share in any product or service exceeds a high amount, say 67%, gets broken up into smaller firms. 1/

The word “crackdown” seems to me when I hear it to imply some basis in or connection to legal or other legitimate authority. Like, the IRS can crack down on tax cheats. FIFA can crack down on goalkeeper time wasting. But if a leader just does illegal stuff to people, that’s not a crackdown.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

Glancing around my office, it occurs to me that I don’t think of myself as being as big a George Washington stan as I clearly am. I need to track down some Harriet Tubman merch. 1/

A reminder that “Autism isn’t caused by Tylenol” is important, but “Autistic people aren’t a problem to solve” is even bigger.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

Favorite movie prop: The makeshift a-bomb from “The Manhattan Project.”

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

It does not say, 'Blessed are the righteous,' but 'Blessed are those who hunger for righteousness,' that is, those who have a sense of the world’s fallen-ness and their own failings and who yearn for healing. — Martin Mosebach

Get in losers, we’re grieving

I still play daily, but a primal shundo Kyogre was the whole reason I started playing when the game came out.

I’d go one step further. Shoot down manned aircraft, yes. But unmanned? Where possible, immediately strike their launch infrastructure no matter how far inside Russia. Escalate to deescalate is the only way to persuade Russia to back down. That’s been true for centuries.

It’s heartening to hear many principled voices argue that those in office should wield political power in a way that they would be happy to have it wielded when they’re not in power. But it’s worth saying this clearly: the current administration is not acting as if it intends to be out of power.

It’s cruel to women. Wildly offensive to people with autism. And generally offensive to anyone with a brain or a heart. He needs to resign or be removed immediately.

2 offsides changes I’d make for soccer: 1) Offsides never applies when the ball is played from within the offensive penalty box; 2) VAR only applies or upholds an offsides call when evidence of offsides is clear and compelling. If the 4th official needs to measure it, it’s not offside.

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Yes, but states don’t collect tax money and pass it to DC. Individual taxpayers, people & companies, pay federal taxes straight to DC. States interdicting & collecting federal tax payments to withhold would require new state laws. It would also be plainly illegal & unconstitutional. 1/

bond girls but they’re also muppets: thread

When the New York Times interviews a person, and that persons says "we all know Joe Biden kicked Trump off social media," a statement that you don't even need to know the timeline to know isn't true, let alone "we all know," and you STILL INCLUDE THAT QUOTATION IN THE NEWSPAPER

Clap if you thought one goal would be enough against Arsenal today.

Removing a non-comatose POTUS via the 25th Amendment is HARDER than removing him via impeachment. Read. The. Text. The operative bit is four sentences long.

just nsync being insink: thread

“Doku, on the seat of his pants, appealing for a free kick that’s never going to come.” Pure football poetry just now.

There’s a simple answer. “Democrats won’t vote to fund this regime as is. It’s up to the republicans if they want to shut down the government. They’re in the majority.”

Sub-optimal soccer strategy: kicking 2 shots on target in a game while giving up 3 goals. Yes, this is a Mingo sub-skeet.

If a man shoots a Democratic congresswoman, he’s a mentally disturbed individual. If a man shoots a Republican congressman, it’s because Bernie Sanders brainwashed him and turned him into a sleeper agent who is activated by the phrase “tax cut.”

Churches are now willfully breaking a commandment in their services in order to lionize a racist, pad their coffers, and stoke division. I sure hope the hell they preach about exists... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to: 1. Quit baking; or 2. Use an inferior recipe; or 3. Import cake instead of making it

Happy Batman Day! Here’s a cover by Norm Breyfogle (RIP), my personal favorite Batman artist.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Exhibit 7,452 for why we need to say “dictator” & “dictatorship” instead of “authoritarian” or “authoritarianism.” It’s shorter, more precisely descriptive, and more plainly understandable to the popular audience. Authoritarian speaks of an abstract system; dictator refers to an individual guy.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Just read this old Al Franken piece on the Republicans being outraged by political funerals having political rhetoric for no reason in particular.

Key POTUS fashion history: Washington’s blue uniform & brown homespun suits, also powdering his real hair instead of a wig; Truman’s double-breasted coats & Hawaiian shirts; Reagan wearing team merch to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.

celebrities out walking characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.