Managed to tear myself away from the Parrott goal on infinite loop long enough to write about Ireland’s madcap week. A remarkable resurrection. www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.

In fairness, McWhorter did not write the title and does cite Thornton, whose book came out in 1992. I have it, by chance in arms reach, the copy I bought in 1994 in college. In unfairness, "The history of Black involvement in the slave trade has often been treated as off limits" is passive voice.

Again, in past times it would be scandalous for a VP to even bring up the line of succession in such a direct way

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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations. I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

DPI Podcast 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context: Experts Discuss New DPI Report on Veterans and the Death Penalty #deathpenalty deathpenaltyinfo.org/dpi-podcast-...

is it good when a government official declares a religious affiliation to be fake because he doesn't like it

"The danger is all around us. We are suckers for this charm. It’s going to be our downfall, it seems. We’d rather be entertained than taken care of. It’s tragic, really.”--Michael Shannon

Good thing there aren’t a couple hundred pitches per MLB game or this could still be a problem *hand to earpiece* oh, hold on a sec…

I’d start with Warner, good chance Kaine fell on his sword for Warner and no way is VA voting red next fall so we aren’t losing the seat

senate dem: [slipping a note full of schemes into the pocket of an aide] away thee to politico, but none must know my name house dem: the senate was created as an institution of enslavement and continues in this vile tradition to this day,

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

this week has made me the most optimistic that I've been since the election that we're going to get out of this intact, or some vague approximation thereof (whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first) a thread

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Reflecting on the genuine sense of hope I have after last night’s results - I haven’t felt that after any of the other elections I’ve voted in. Flipping that many delegate’s seats… wild.

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

this is genuinely wild

Light a candle for Mike Johnson, who surely won’t know Dick Cheney is dead until a reporter asks him about it

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

BREAKING: A Virginia judge has denied the GOP’s emergency bid to stop Democrats from advancing their redistricting plan. The case will continue, but for now, Virginia Democrats can keep pushing for a new map. Next hearing: Nov 5.

This is precisely why the Virginia Attorney General’s race will be consequential. If Republican Jason Miyares is re-elected, he will fight AGAINST new Democratic maps…and fight FOR Donald Trump. I hope all Virginia Democrats think long and hard about this when they cast their ballots.

good www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

This is fucking obscene

I’ll believe it when I see it, but assuming it’s true: 1) it is shameful that a university would enter into a “deal” of any sorts with this admin 2) I’m not even sure this is, like, shrewd negotiating. Gotta think that a lot of bright people are going to specifically omit UVA from their applications

I have a buddy that went to Croatia once and he said one of the strangest things was locals publicly, verbally clocking him as A Jew. So uh, yeah, I believe an SS symbol was just one of the flash tats on the wall there, but I’d maybe be a bit more hesitant before getting a flash tat there my guy

The president of the Maine senate is a lifelong Mainer who owns a brewery. And seems very likeable. Probably told to wait her turn

And the renovation was carried out by a commission authorized by Congress and staffed with appointees of the president, House and Senate. The president didn't just ring up a contractor one morning to have them tear things down. Because it's not the president's goddamn house.

It will be important for the next Democratic administration to remember with which other countries the United States has extradition treaties. Colombia is one of them.

Correct

Maybe I’m old-fashioned but I prefer the President to not post videos of his AI-generated likeness shit-bombing Americans from a fighter jet

We the people are entitled to representation

I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Seems instructive of media bias that Jay Jones’ texts are national news but John Reid’s nazi porn tumblr is barely getting any play, and mostly in smaller local outlets

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead. When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

The thing that’s so funny ha ha ha is that Vance contrasted it with calls for political violence. Sorry …what do you think musings about sending foes to the gas chambers constitutes?

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

Luttig made a comprehensive originalist argument that 14A forbid Trump in 2024. The Roberts court took legal text that says insurrectionists can’t hold federal office unless given an exception by Congress, and ruled that they have to be allowed to hold office unless forbidden by an act of Congress.

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg. Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting. This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

Kavanaugh stop

It’s dumb enough that it’s barely even worth a rebuttal, but if this were true, we’d see a chasm in the autism rates between the USA and other similar countries like Ireland or the UK where circumcision is not nearly as commonplace

Those guys put together a whole barn in a day and you don’t think there’s just a little bit of autism there?

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp." Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...