That means he's flipped the board over eight times while playing Risk

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”

The only version of it available was taped off a scrambled cable channel for some reason.

The tracking on my vcr doesn’t work anymore

It reminds me too much of the time several of my co-workers were turned into small cubes and crushed into dust by ancient beings from the Andromeda Galaxy, and I just cannot deal.

It has sequences of flashing lights and I have a seizure disorder

Because the electromagnetic waves that constitute the broadcast are now 59 light years from Earth

Clickbait multiple choice! Why is this episode "hard to watch today"? a) It's not available on streaming b) It's kinda sexist and/or racist c) My eyesight is worse than it used to be d) I can't watch it today because I'm busy but maybe tomorrow? e) It's not as good as I remember

I'm sure the media genealogists will be all over this FALSE CLAIM

Tsk, even when you correct the typo, it's still incorrect -- should have been "pervert", not "perverse"

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

🎵 His low appeal, he didn't research it / But here's the deal, he's just a piece o' shit 🎶

This seems right in line with other right-wing jurisprudence, such as "even though it's been the norm for years and years with no issues, now that I'm thinking about it the idea of a trans woman using women's bathrooms bothers me, therefore it should be illegal"

This was a really fun conversation. I don’t get too many chance to talk about puzzles as independent media, but I really believe in the point and Phil is a pretty brilliant interlocutor.

Babe, wake up, the Supreme Court's version of "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" just dropped

Guys, if you can't pivot your entire worldview on a dime to accommodate the latest piece of incoherent cognitive dissonance, I have to question your commitment to even being a conspiracy theorist

From a legislative body which includes an elected trans representative yet

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

Fuck yes to this

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

all these people with material power in some sector and the genuine belief that they are indispensable to America and should therefore be untouchable by the Rabble™️ lost their whole minds during the brief window when they thought a Rabble™️ might have notched a hit against their brother Charlie

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

This, from @erininthemorning.com's latest piece about Gavin Newsom helps explain why Newsom-loving libs' "erm, then enjoy Trump again!!!" stuff doesn't work on trans people who've been paying attention. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

"Then I haven't missed it! Boy, go out and buy the biggest turkey you can find!" "Big Generator?"

*crab-walked

Or, we could just let people live their lives. (thread)

nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy

One mild frustration of the #ZkavengerHunt was that anyone without an official game card (which was most people, since they ran out right away) wasn't allowed to see the final clue, since it led to a location with limited capacity.

Feels like all of enby NYC is out here doing the #ZcavengerHunt and that's rad

You can tell things are hopping here at the #ZcavengerHunt

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

The Democratic establishment's aggressive shunning of Mamdani is the latest illustration of party leaders' bad judgement. Jeffries in particular is showing himself not as coalition leader but a champion of the center-left wing and can't be trusted going forward. newrepublic.com/article/1992...

This a great read.

I suspect that word wasn't "thank"

"Fire is CONFUSING and SCARY and that is why the Cave People Department of Staying Warm in the Winter is halting all fire research."

White Afrikaaners are granted refugee status but members of the South African 29:11 choir, who have performed numerous times in the U.S., can’t even get visas to travel here for a Midwest performance tour No paywall

Q: It seems like your desk was chopped to pieces with an axe shortly after you started your new job. Do you blame your predecessor? A: Yes

Yahoo Mail instituted a 20 GB limit this morning and is it just bad design that you can't search by message size, or that the memory management tool is laughably bad, or that deleting the trash is slow, or are they deliberately making it hard to manage memory so you just give up & shell out the fee

It's Jessica Fletcher

Feel like they were already that dumb and it's just making it more obvious

This man’s great sin was losing his green card and asking for a replacement we’re past “you had a dui in 1984” into “if you appear at any ICE office anywhere you’re a quota target”

Hey in case you didn't get in on this yet, there are now bonus puzzles (including two cryptics edited by me)! Remember: the pride will continue until human rights improve

Well, the American experiment was nice while it lasted.

so you see, 'Remy' is a nickname form of the French verb 'remuer', which means 'to stir', a critical cooking skill -- he's stirring everything! sauces, soups, reductions... "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" yeah bc Remy is a *rat* not a mouse, don't you get it? it all fits together