Rule of thumb: if a place has more than 50k people, and you (a geography sicko) have never heard of it, it's a suburb

A month ago, I would not have predicted that the Houston Rockets would win 50 games. Now, 53 seems attainable (they would have to not blow their 23 point lead and then win the remaining 2 games)

Susie Wiles, so much to answer for. I can't think of another WH Chief of Staff who served both her president and her country as badly.

General Grant: we propose to move immediately upon your works General McAuliffe: Nuts! Commander-in-Chief Trump: you better not!

My "I Wasn't An Epstein Girl" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions that the shirt was meant to answer

Gives "not if I see you first" a greater resonance

Typically not a lot of overlap in those 2 eras, alas

I appreciate MTG and others speaking out, but understand that this heartland evangelical antiwar pro-worker mash-up isn't a thing in the real world

Reading the Bible for no particular reason, and boy do David and Jonathan have some serious Achilles-Patroclus action going on

The thing is that any law or reform that would curb these abuses would sometimes fall upon legitimate bearers of service animals. However, feel free to express disapproval of anyone that you know, rather than merely suspect, are cheating.

It's a mistake to expect day to day rationality in secondary equities markets. Events of the second Trump presidency have really pushed this truth in our faces, but it was always true.

WTF Astros?

STUNNING: Trump is now bragging about agreeing to use Iran’s 10-point peace framework as the basis for negotiations. Here’s what that 10-point framework includes. There’s no other way to spin this—it’s complete and utter capitulation.

Last night might have been the first time I was exposed at length to Dan Hurley's antics, and hoo boy

I don't hate them, but I despise them, hold them in contempt, and would never trust them with even the most trivial responsibility.

Trump's numbers will recover somewhat *if* an operation to open up the Strait of Hormuz is successful. But this will only prove that the supposed anti-interventionist tenet of MAGA was never serious.

It's 13 Days all over again, except it's the Middle East plutocrats that have the president by the balls, and there's no trick like a blockade to break the impasse without world war or humiliation.

Bigotry is a third-rail issue for the GOP, in that you cannot oppose or try to mitigate hatred and still be viable within the party

Anyone can use that kind of language, actually, if they don't mind sounding unhinged

If Trump uses nuclear weapons in a war of choice, that's the end of civilization. Not tomorrow, but in maybe a hundred years characterized by endless war, famine, and misery.

All 53 Republican senators and all 218 Republican members of Congress ought to be asked if "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell" is how a sane President expresses himself.

If, OTOH, the idea is that Trump is dead or incapacitated: I can't imagine that someone as consumed by lust for power as JD Vance would go along with it for long.

Sacramento A's jerseys will be an odd little collector's item when they move on to their forever home (wherever that might be)

I should add that I found their latest poll on Nate Silver's site. Fox News is not shouting Trump's unpopularity from the rooftop!

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

Chron writer going hard (complementary)

Wisdom is rarer than intelligence. Folly is more common than stupidity.

Look at these illiterate pigfuckers

So they are trying to make Noun Verb October 8 a thing, just when the rest of us have come to realize that our response to 9/11 harmed America more than the attack itself did (as ObL likely envisioned)

How about just have friendly relations with the countries that produce the things you want

The NBA should seriously have an award for the best foreign-born player, but this should be the statue

If it were up to me, I'd pull the plug on the space program. Nonetheless, I won't begrudge their joy anyone who is into this stuff. Not today

Look at Sauer's jawline and cheekbones, though. Undoubtedly how Trump picks them. Cut of his jib

Had to interact with the tax assessor's office today, and they were insanely efficient (Montgomery County, Texas). Don't let anyone talk smack to you about "if you like dealing with the post office, nyuk, nyuk"

My own citizenship wasn't recognized as such until I was in the 6th grade, when I got a Social Security card (which I did not have to produce until I got my first job a few years later)

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

Haha Duke are bitches to the very end

Crap, I gave up on the Duke-UConn game

Remind me again, when did Rob Schneider serve in the military? (in fairness, he is the very picture of 4-F)

I assume we are not talking about Cream, let alone Robert Johnson, the only "Crossroads" with which I am familiar

I doubt Slotkin has been to Idaho, and it is possible that she has never been to Kansas City. They are not at all similar.

Every MAGA will believe this

Fox News: so, what, there's just going to be a mega-protest every few months as long as Trump is president? No Kings: well, he started a needless and pointless war since the last one

They want to police our genitalia and run tests on our bodies to “prove” we are women, at which point they will still deny it. This is why the only feminism is trans-inclusive and why transphobia and anti-trans discrimination should be a top political priority.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the purpose of the citizenship part of the 14th Amendment is precisely that citizenship should not depend on the status of one's parents.

The Worst And The Dimmest

Somewhat the end of an era for the University of Houston Cougars, with 3 out of 5 starters (Emanuel Sharp, Chris Cenac, Kingston Flemings) likely moving on.

Far and away the most famous Peja, to the extent that he could just go by Peja (son is named Andre, far less singular)