Detroit Pistons, how is your arena hype video not the Bad Boys beating the crap out of people leading to the 00s Pistons beating the crap out of people leading to footage of your team now being tough badasses? This isn’t rocket science guys, just such an underwhelming video.

MLB Network is showing Game 6 of the 1995 World Series as a tribute to Bobby Cox and it's amazing how many times they cut to Ted Turner's box after a big moment and every time, no matter how positive the moment—Justice just homered—Zell Miller has a serious, focused, grimace.

At last we’ve made the perfect brochure about sailing around the Aegean, from that classic work of ancient literature “Don’t Go Sailing Around the Aegean”

“It’s Not Always Sunny In The Mediterranean” would also absolutely be a Xena episode title if the show had a revival at some point

It’s really everything wrong with the American Politics Media right here, a “journalism” infinitely more interested in crafting characters in a meta narrative for public consumption and their own entertainment rather than any attempt to discover any actual truth or verifiable facts.

When you’re on Air Force One in 1994 and ask what the nightly card game will be

Maybe there is a reason why he didn’t become DNC chair.

Hell, Blair and his institute at least actually treat AI as a real thing that has real practical applications to developing and implementing policy; these guys treat it as a mix of a meteor destroying the labor market and a random gold strike, with all policies to be evaluated via polling.

I am reminded of Shor’s bugfuck insane “plan” to use the Fed as a printing press in the next recession to nationalize NVIDIA so that all Americans can benefit from owning it

Really perfect timing that today we get the rollout of a new “plan” offering “free primary care” that comes with a polling memo about going on offense but no pay fors so it amounts to hiking premiums to reduce copays and lying to voters that it’s “free” now. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Nothing was ever as egregious as the jump from “free college” to “forgive all student and grad school loans (but don’t change anything else about higher ed)” from 2016 to 2020 and the Biden years

Treknuts #97 TNG "Heart of Glory" Worf is fine. Everything is fine. New to Treknuts? Start here: www.patreon.com/post...

If I were the rest of the LGM masthead I would simply tell Loomis to either stay out of the comments section or don’t write about these issues because his aggro meathead ban master schtick quickly runs into some shitty and stupid places on these topics www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/amer...

To be quite honest comparing Axelrod to Carville is an insult to Carville. He went around the country running a bunch of successful campaigns for folks like Zell Miller and Harris Wofford before 1992; Axelrod was always just a Chicago guy who rode a Chicago super talent.

Local governments literally couldn’t afford this rn if all the firefighters in the state suddenly got collective bargaining.

(It is also insane how this Discourse relies on ignoring that Biden ran an economically populist administration —centered unions, outsourced staffing and policy to Warrenites, hired Lina Khan, blamed corporations for inflation, etc.—and voters ABSOLUTELY DID NOT REWARD HIM FOR IT, THEY HATED HIM.)

One fundamental problem with Democratic political operatives is none of them seem capable of even pondering how governance interplays with campaigns in the slightest, so every campaign must always be dialing the MORE CHANGE NOW dial to eleven even when you’re the ones in charge

Holy shit y’all this is not a drill, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert are dropping stuff off the rooftop of a building near the Ed Sullivan Theater!

California TV Station Owners

(It is somewhat notable watching this primary that there are two candidates whose teams are different hyperonline DC consultants/advocacy groups and then one candidate who just runs their race and goes to black churches and talks boring manufacturing and whatnot while the internet ignores them.)

The difficult truth is that this government is living proof that populist governments fail in office. “Public services will improve but the main taxes will remain flat or falling” was not a deliverable promise when Boris Johnson made it and it didn’t become anymore so in 2024.

his article about having cancer was also an astonishing piece of writing

You think they have a rivalry?

I’ll take “What did the Ole Miss Booster Club tell Coach Tuberville after he suggested all the Confederate flag stuff may be a drag on recruiting?” for $500, Alex.

(This is also why the Nazi Tattoo Bro’s supporters insisting that because all his red flags didn’t tank him with Democratic Primary voters, aka the ‘We Love Everyone On Our Team And Want To Believe The Best of Them’ caucus, General Election voters are fine with them, is a very stupid premise.)

And also is a product of a Politics Media that lives on social media instead of trying to learn the actual details of how the things they’re supposed to be covering actually work, which make them vectors for One Weird Trick-ism and slopulism

The Mets adding a Ewing in panic to save their season feels like a crossing the streams version of the Ewing Theory

☀️ “The Lifting” live in Toronto, May 2001. From the band’s free concert at the corner of Yonge and Dundas Streets. 🇨🇦 #REVEAL25

Even in the first season of TNG, so fall 1987, they have a ship with a dedication plaque that says it was built in the USSR, leading to this amazing bit of Memory Alpha language memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/SS_Tsio...

It’s actually Conan O’Brien’s parody of Friday

Roared with delight, kissed my partner, and started crying as if it were a goal, at a decision by VAR...but *Sisko voice*...I think I can live with it.

*has an aneurysm followed by a pulmonary embolism, undergoes triple bypass surgery, has a pacemaker installed, takes blood pressure medication* That was fun! Only two more games to glory, everyone!

If you’d made Larry Munson have to commentate Arsenal Football Club neither he nor the fan base would’ve been able to survive a season

ENEMYSHIP WITH VAR ENDED. FRIENDSHIP WITH VAR STARTED.

“Achtung Baby—the album U2 made drenched in Gen X Irony and Crunchy Industrial Electronic Music—made U2 a Boomer Band because One, after being a Gen X Band thanks to two albums drenched in Americana and worship of the artists of the 50s & 60s” is certainly A Take.

As always, the lingering contradiction between a campaign insisting “Everything bad I said online was just PTSD” & “Iraq and Afghanistan made me hate war” and a candidate going “I bought several of my war guns to have around me and shoot off for funzies and don’t you dare take them away from me!”

(LeBron’s longevity is, like Brady’s, both undeniably a product of the era he’s in and yet still impressive relative to his peers who had many of the same advantages he does.)

I'm old enough to remember when the top Senate advocate for strong gun control was @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

Ok this is amazing

Except the Amendment Process in Virginia doesn’t date to a redeemer Constitution but a Reconstruction one: www.virginiaplaces.org/government/c...

Yeah except both issues in question today—the amendment process and the non-popular vote election of judges—date not to the 1902 Constitution but the 1870 one, which was drawn up by an integrated Reconstruction convention and ratified by white & black voters www.virginiaplaces.org/government/c...

This is dumb as shit. Law professors are a plague upon the law.

The thing about Goldberg doing Platner rationalizations now is the more important thing is she did the same thing in October 2025, going up to Maine because to hang out with her MSNBC buddy who moved to Maine told her to and gave him the NYT seal of approval on the basis of going to his rallies

well this is stupid. oh you wanted more? well 1. Platner has never held office or done any activism before running for office so you have to take it on faith he believes in everything he says today and isn't saying it cynically 2. "there's no such thing as left wing antisemites" call the USSR

This is a frustrating column for two reasons: 1. I don't think the evidence that Platner lied about his tattoo should be waved away so blithely. 2. This piece doesn't grapple with the extent to which his campaign relies on populist conspiracy theories that rhyme with antisemitic tropes.

One thing that strikes me is the Virginia Constitution—befitting its age and the culture that nurtured its creation—has a very British kind of amendment rule, where a legislature must win a mandate on what amounts to a clear manifesto commitment before it can face the voters in a straight referendum

“No, no, our Enabling Act will be fine because we’re the good guys,” is a distressingly common strain of online political thought.

Stop posting like you are in the Civil War, you are literally waiting on the microwave to finish your burrito

One underrated problem in American Politics is the number of people who are paid good money to pontificate on politics don’t understand things like “How do laws work?” and “What are state constitutions?”

Politics Twitter and Politics BlueSky both seem deeply confused by the prospect that a state/Commonwealth could just have an independent, non-partisan Supreme Court and has just kind of decided that it doesn’t exist.