Ezra Klein on his podcast with Ta-Nehisi Coates:

So someone finally met Adams' price?

Amazing.

Please tell me more about how John Roberts is a moderate institutionalist.

A triple album, Jeff Tweedy? Really? This shit is almost 2 hours long. Grow up.

the French called it "le dunk de la mort" or "the dunk of death" and if there's a better in-game dunk in the history of the sport I haven't seen it Vince Carter remains, I believe, the greatest dunker in basketball history

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis then he did this

Cool new way for cars to kill people

Probably just random variance, but right wing violence is also just being carried out explicitly by the state now.

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

Personally, I slash as many car tires as I can

The people “enforcing” immigration law under this administration understand what their real job is but we’re all supposed to pretend it’s something else

Nihilism as a legal theory.

THIS ADMINISTRATION IS EXECUTING RANDOM PEOPLE ON BOATS IN THE CARIBBEAN

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Great news!

Kind of shocked Kimmel wants to go back

ads for ICE might be the most evil thing I've seen on TV

This was excellent.

Hakeem Jeffries supporting Charlie Kirk before endorsing Zohran Mamdani is really fucking nasty.

this exists it is called thinking

Come on, Libs. Pull it together.

Absolute loser behavior.

A Tennessee Warbler with a touch of Fall color in the background. I rarely get enough background separation with warblers so that light goes into bokeh ball mode. ("Bokeh" is "the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image" as defined by Wikipedia.)

A cybertruck for your face

The American Right fundamentally rejects the idea of a pluralistic, democratic society that does not award privilege to certain people based on race, gender, religion, and wealth. They reject the pluralization of culture, the public square, the institutions, and all spheres of American life.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

"History will judge you!" is such a pathetic statement to make in these times. May I suggest "you're going to die in prison, alone and disgraced.", instead?

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Bleak.

a lot of movies are like oh I can see why this isn’t somebody’s cup of tea, and then there’s Mars Attacks where everybody is just wrong

G by a wide margin

DO NOT RSVP FOR A PROTEST, ESPECIALLY NOW. SERIOUSLY.

Villa scored a goal!

Get. His. Ass.

This is a Dead Kennedys logo

Me as I check the Mets score after a busy day

I still can't believe Seth Avett put out a rap album.

you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

We live in a truly insane country.

The Mets are Metsing.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

I knew the punditry would be embarrassing today but my goodness. It's way worse than I expected.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

ICE is committing political violence daily