Please let the administration appeal and send this to SCOTUS. It will probably end poorly for us but at least we will continue to know where we stand. If SCOTUS backs anonymous paramilitary agents, it’s full Calvinball.

that’s right

As a full-time freelancer, I will admit to being a sucker for invoice humor.

This is a great interview and I’m catching up on the Star Wars series because I didn’t have Disney+ until this year — watching Andor is on my list

Marking this to listen after the kids go to bed so I can enjoy 15 minutes of slagging Chris. He’s so bad he’s allowing Alex to fly under the radar a little

I signed up for The Transfer Flow for @kimischilling.bsky.social alone and it’s one of my favorite reads every morning no matter whose byline it is

CALVIN AND HOBBES. Not even close

NBC has always done this and it sucks

It’s Eric “Sleeping With” Bienemy

me on the first four eps to my wife: “there are at least five medical professionals among the women and almost every dude has ‘sales’ in his title. This might be the worst season of men of LIB ever.”

we’re in day 5 of what’s clearly flu going around the house and now I’m getting symptoms so it’s a rush to the doc and hopefully Tamiflu for me

My choice is “Holiday” but the overall consensus would likely be “Say It Ain’t So”

both kids home sick with fevers and coughs, spouse has a gnarly cough, and all three are napping in the parents’ bed at 4:45 pm. bedtime tonight is soooooooo fucked

Wisconsin needs to be its own team

‘I love you twenty-sixty times’: how lyrics written by a three-year-old became tear-inducing viral hits

A reporter who doesn’t write isn’t a reporter, and the editor who wrote this is telling on himself. Good on the college student who withdrew, because the actual act of reporting involves synthesizing everything you’ve gathered into a coherent piece of writing, viewing, or listening

the twins’ daycare classmate had a fourth birthday party at a Dave & Buster’s and I think I’m more overstimulated than they are afterward I had not been in one since I worked at the one near the Santa Anita racetrack 20 years ago and somehow it got even more seizure-inducing

You can sense when someone’s never been punched in the mouth for talking racist shit because they’ll do everything to try and dodge it when the lights are on them

so I've been working a few hours a week on my former colleague's daily news podcast, helping out with the longer Saturday interview shows -- and booking my childhood friend who just happens to be a silver medalist in bobsled to talk about the Winter Olympics was great.

Feature, not a bug. Eliminate the civil service jobs that enable black women to hold down middle class status and benefits, private sector jobs aggressively remove remote work options and flesxibility so those women have to choose b/w advancing or child care

"Lines You'd Think Were In A 'Veep' Episode, Ex. 486" (RFK Jr is more Succession anyway; I'm sure someone's compared him to Connor Roy but with actual power)

Pam Bondi acts like a person who expects to be pardoned on her way out yet knows that if she truly believes in a Hell, she will find herself in it at the end of her time on earth.

We’ve spent the last week being told that there was a drawdown, when there was no evidence. Now ICE is saying they accomplished something and are leaving after getting pretty soundly defeated. Our leaders need to be clear that ICE did not win anything.

I am wary of any politicians doing a victory lap today before we’ve seen on the ground that ICE has left. Their surety makes me think that they negotiated something and I think they owe it to us to be as transparent as possible about what that is.

Federal judge blocks Pentagon punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly D-AZ (retired Navy Captain) for video urging military officers to reject illegal orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

TFW you’re at Costco early and get a chicken bake so hot it’s smoking when you bite into it

I think it’s Kyle Shanahan.

well it doesn't help that many executives of AI companies and others integrating it literally were predicting htat AI would put people out of work by a certain year.

somehow i have entered my Aphex Twin enjoyment era and given how much the video for "Come to Daddy" freaked me the fuck out when I saw it as a teenager, it's kind of remarkable

well shit, i think i have enough thoughts on this to start researching and drafting an essay on cooking, masculinity, and parenthood. I'm sure someone's already written it, so let me exercise these writing muscles in blithe abandon

the entire enterprise of a counterprogrammed alternative halftime show is a textbook work

Stevers is on one right now and I second all of it

tfw u love the troops so much that you want to disenfranchise them

BACK IN MY DAY WE CALLED THIS BACHELOR CHOW

this "boy kibble" thing is clearly coding any enjoyment of the aesthetic of food as feminine and more importantly, another step toward a culture where people view the joy of cooking as incompatible with daily life: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...

we have needed this for soooo long

the popularity of US and UK popular music in non-English speaking countries is proof that vibes win out over lyrics, and I'm a lyrics person. The complaints about Bad Bunny's Spanish-only performance obvs have racism at the root, but they convey more than just that alone.

as a lapsed musician who would not have survived K-12 education without music classes, I felt and recognized the power the inmates spoke about. A great essay from Alex and I'm glad Luke published it.

given what happened in Seattle, the potential for the Trail Blazers being moved out of Portland is serious. OKC won the NBA title last season, which continues to chip away at memories of the NBA's cowardice re: Bennett and the end of the SuperSonics

Regardless of political party, the reason privacy proposals for kids never seem to carry much actual weight or teeth is because a lot of people would look at them and say, "well, why can't we have those for adults too?", and there's too much money at stake to have modernized privacy laws.

I mean, it's generally good to have someone push incumbent Ds from the left in muni elections, but I think the Guardian's article overplays how important a democratic socialist as mayor would potentially be.

Oprah will never catch enough ish for her role in unleashing both Mehmet Oz and Phil McGraw on US society

For a story I'm working on, I'd love to talk to VOTERS who: -Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change -Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice -Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON

So the intersection of SW Alaska and California Ave SW is a 4-way pedestrian signal — all cars stopped while fans rushed into the middle of the street with the walk sign and ran out when the red hand came back.

The official city name is still the City of San Buenaventura, fwiw

It is loud AF in West Seattle, car horns and peeps partying in the Junction

I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"

there are ones even native Californians might not know — Ventura is a bastardized Americanization; the city was “San Buenaventura” (St. Bonaventure)

If you ever have any doubt about this, try going to a "Mexican" restaurant in London.