This.

What qualifies as a heat wave in this country 🤣😂😭!

For the record, I deleted the puerile post of the suggestive nude-like pear *before* the 8-y.o. passed by the fruit bowl and exclaimed, That pear looks like butt cheeks! Can we take a picture?

Grew up in NYC in the 70s and 80s, and people sat on strangers' stoops all the time. General principle was as long as your feet remained on the curb, you were considered to be on public property. Mileage varied depending on time of day and how respectful you were in terms of noise and courtesy.

I stuck with this guy despite all the bad things they said about him, but the misused apostrophe is a dealbreaker smh

It was all almost worth it for the laugh this got out of me. The number of farfetched unimaginable impossible scenarios manifesting into reality that it took to generate this payoff is astounding.

If anyone deserves compensation for unjust prosecution from the “weaponization fund” it’s Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Game respects game.

No exaggeration to say that this song featured prominently in the WBLS and KISS FM Fri and Sat night mixes every weekend for a good year and a half when it came out. I still have vivid memories of hearing it wafting out from car stereos on the avenue to this day.

Funny, I almost wondered if we'd had a sign of life for Tulsi Gabbard recently. I guess a resignation letter counts.

Barely got halfway through the list of France's strikers, and didn't even reach Mbappé, before I cracked up laughing. Possibly (hell, probably) the most offensive firepower ever assembled on a single team in the history of the game.

If you saw a notification that I followed you even though I've already been following you for a while, it's because I just learned this might be a way of fixing a glitch whereby my feed stopped including your posts. Went through my main list and realized there was a bunch it applied to.

Every now and then I realize I haven't seen someone around in a while, then I check their account and they've been just as active as ever. This time it was @heissenstat.bsky.social, in the past it has been @sjjphd.bsky.social and others. Does BlueSky randomly drop people from Home and List feeds?

“An incredibly unpopular man holds undisputed control over our party” is not the flex you think it is.

It sucks living in a world where the stupidest, most evil people seem to have all the power But then again, reading 12th century Muslim ulama, 7th century Chinese scholar-bureaucrats, or 1st century Roman poets, that does seem to be the norm

Ousting the main opposition party's leadership is obviously a huge escalation. I am not sure though whether this constitutes THE turning point for autocratization in Turkey. IMO, this move was possible because democratic institutions and rule of law are already dismantled.

Nathan Brown on Israel's doctrine of destruction post-Oct 7—"one of dominance without settlement, degradation without reconstruction, territorial denial without a political horizon, and war not as a bridge to an arrangement but as the arrangement itself." carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

I'm willing to bet he's getting gray highlights to make himself look older.

There's a word for someone with a record of extreme actions.

The funniest part of this charade is that Iran is the one party in the world that knows how full of crap these claims are. They're broadcasting Trump's weakness to the enemy.

"Nearly two decades" it's almost as if something quite important might have happened almost two decades ago that made everyone think some regulation might be a good idea. Anyone know what that might have been?

It's all kayfabe now.

"[A]fter they operated for nearly two decades in what one banker described as a regulatory 'straitjacket,' the Trump administration is making it easier for banks to expand and take more risks."

Great piece by @mjbusta.bsky.social on the entangled and contested histories that will complicate Cuba's future, no matter what direction it takes and whoever is driving it. Memory wars is such a smart framing, for this and so many other fractured political narratives.

New Havana Syndrome just dropped.

TAQUITO Trump always questions US Indo-Pacific treaty obligations (Feel like this one has been staring us in the face)

Grand Cayman

Malaga

Surprised no one said London.

Burn and Maguire in the area for corners and set plays would have been something.

I'd have swapped in Maguire, Trent-Arnold and Lewis Hall, and I've got a soft spot for Welbeck. But overall I think he selected a good squad from what's available in terms of quality and form.

Dunning-Kruger as a superpower.

There's also a sensual aspect of preparing and enjoying food that takeout delivery seems to remove, and I suspect that's playing a role here as well.

Every time the burrito taxi discourse resurfaces, I can't help but think the financial innumeracy is downstream of a deeper social distress and a fundamental impoverishment in these people's relationship to food and dining. There's so much more to preparing and enjoying a meal than what it costs.

This is the thing about people saying, well USAID needed reform. The idea that somehow we’re going to get better development practice out of this is delusional.

Will AI-free higher education become an experience available only to people in elite environments? Kim Phillips-Fein and @swajcmanearle.bsky.social join hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A chapter into Theory of International Politics, and Kenneth Waltz seems quite peevish and irascible already. Imagine getting called out for sloppy research in the opening of what becomes a canonical text for your field. 🤣😂😭😬

The thing about hyper-rich CEOs that still surprises me, even though I should know better, is how nearly all of them are functionally illiterate about macroeconomic policy beyond the most basic & boring right-wing talking points they’ve read for years in the WSJ.

I'm not convinced the 1980s (as they actually were, not the retro-chic nostalgia version) can be properly explained to people who didn't live through them.

Better yet, The Mane and Keliya Chronicles.

The DoD named its drone initiative the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group: DAWG. Gerontocracy at the top, everyone else is 12.

Also, it is not skepticism that is mounting, but a clear-eyed certainty that this is blatantly and criminally corrupt.

One of the major yet undercovered drivers of domestic and global politics over the past 25 years is the violent contestation of modernity, accompanied by the propaganda of the deed, from within modernity itself. It's the connective thread linking bin Laden and ISIS with QAnon, MAGA and MAHA.

Trump's personal defense attorney defends the slush fund he was installed as acting AG to arrange.

Everything that happened politically in my teens and early 20s was apparently this Kafkaesque joke whose punchline only came to fruition in my late 30s

The funniest part is that they run the op-ed because of who the author is, not what he or she says, but then they have to use the headline to explain to readers who the author is. It's the authority of the office speaking, not the person.

Take me, Lord, I've seen everything I need to see here and I'm ready to come home.

Further "kinetic strikes" in Nigeria. You may have missed it, what with the Iran War, boat strikes, US ops in Mexico, & a potential invasion of Cuba, but the Trump admin has also gone to war in Nigeria without authorization or any clear explanation. (Reliance on the 2001 AUMF would be misplaced.)

Just realizing that the 1974 A's-Dodgers, 1975 Reds-Red Sox and 1978 Yankees-Dodgers were pretty stacked with Hall of Famers, too. What a decade to come of age as a baseball fan.

First one I ever watched, and possibly the greatest series ever when it comes to vintage uniform colors. Without verifying, I'd hazard this may be the WS with the most hall of famers in it besides the 1950s Yankees-Dodgers.