Merry California Golden Bears In The Hawaii Bowl to all who celebrate

Texted a photo of this burned-out outlet to my electrician and he called me and told me completely deadpan “oh just wipe the black off and it’s fine” and I was like “wait really??” and he started cracking up and was like “no dude sorry, I was kidding, it’s ruined,” and now so is my pride

Took my dog for a hike today

I know she's just kind of saying whatever, but it's on-brand for Bari Weiss to review a damning story about the US sending people to a concentration camp and respond "we can't air this, have you even asked Tom Homan if he feels bad about any of it yet?" Perfect readout of who she sees, and doesn't.

There is nothing quite like the feeling of reading notes from an editor who very obviously has no idea what the fuck they are talking about

The comments on this video on TikTok are so interesting to me because it is a lot of people saying that we can’t do this because what if Republicans try it to or what if Republicans reverse it. “We have to change the court the traditional way.”

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

I have been working in media for eight-ish years now, and I don’t think I have the knowledge or experience that are necessary to do a good job running CBS News. The difference between me and Bari Weiss is that I understand that.

I’m reliably informed that three days before Christmas is the ideal time to post exciting professional news on social media, so: I’m hosting a podcast! About media! For @columjournreview.bsky.social! It’s gonna be fun; subscribe here: www.cjr.org/the-kicker

Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!

ME A MONTH AGO, SAVVY AND WISE: I can’t believe I pulled off this trade of Ashton Jeanty for TreVeyon Henderson. Jeanty has that Week 16 game on the road against Houston, a playoffs disaster. Won’t happen to me! ME TODAY: I know nothing. No one knows anything actually. Life is meaningless and empty

Okay folks, it is FANTASY PLAYOFFS TIME, give me your hardest start-sit decisions and I will answer them correctly and in the style of Gus Johnson calling a successful conversion on 3rd and 4 in Week 6

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Relistening to this and it's somehow way, way worse than I remember

In 1946, for the first time, the Supreme Court held an office Christmas party. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting the Court's Black employees to the party, too. I will give you one guess how that went.

The TLDR on Trump's first year of second-term federal judicial nominees: Could have been worse, still quite bad ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Will someone who loves and cares about Puka Nacua simply take his phone away

UPDATE:

[catches up on DVR after we put the kids to bed] never in doubt, Sam Darnold baby

That’s how we drew it up

I realize Trump's "Patriot Games" pitting high schoolers from each state against pairs from every other state in a multi-day athletic pageant is gross and dystopian, and also, 17-year-old me would have started training the MOMENT I heard about it

Here's all the books I think I read this year. Most of them were good. As usual, I wish I'd read more.

It is time once again for the beloved ritual of spending days agonizing over a particular start-sit decision for my fantasy playoff matchup, knowing that whatever decision I eventually make (1) will be super wrong or (2) even funnier, won’t matter at all because I get blown out either way

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

My "our financial, educational, nonprofit and political elites are not mass rapists" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Boy howdy this got me good

I don't have many litmus tests for federal judges, but one of them is, if a nominee has ever delivered a Sunday school lecture in which they compared "handicapped" people to "eunuchs by birth" who are incapable of having "robust marriages," I don't think they should be confirmed

Sorry if this is "controversial" but we are not sure dudes like this should be federal judges

Here is my recap of Trump district court nominee Justin Olson's Senate confirmation hearing, during which Olson spent a lot more time than I'd hoped sharing his thoughts on biblical eunuchs, the evils of fornication, and whether it's appropriate for disabled people to get married

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

[opens Bluesky and immediately encounters a half-dozen enraging stories that fill me with the fiery rage of 10,000 suns] haha sup guys

Laughed out loud at Katie Miller having to put an all-caps "THIS INTERVIEW WAS TAPED BEFORE THE HORRIFIC SHOOTING AT BROWN UNIVERSITY" disclaimer on her upcoming couples podcast interview with Kash Patel and his country music singer girlfriend

Since owner Jeff Bezos overhauled the Post's editorial board earlier this year, it has been very good at cranking out billionaire-friendly propaganda. It is quite bad at everything else.

Checking out a Federalist Society panel where EEOC chair Andrea Lucas is discussing the evils of "sex rejecting procedures and gender mutilation," in case you're wondering how things are going at an org committed to "fair, serious, and open debate about the need to enhance individual freedom"

The Washington Post's editorial board is publishing stupid blogs faster than we can cover them

On the one hand, conservative media exists largely to make you, the reader, upset, and fisking every bad blog would be a full-time job that would leave me no space to write anything else. On the other hand, this Washington Post editorial sucks, and it is my solemn duty to explain to you why.

Lol at this defense of The Dispatch's "Inerm Docket Blog" at SCOTUSblog, which starts with a nonsensical 'Annie Hall' analogy and concludes by insinuating that people objecting to shadow docket cases are just mad about the substance, and maybe not sophisticated enough to understand procedure

The Supreme Court's Purcell "principle" is an intentionally flexible standard that allows the justices to do what it takes to help Republican candidates win elections

Legit lol at Philip Rivers’s first throw downfield. Hung up in the air wobbling like I threw it

If I could give my younger self one piece of urgent fitness-adjacent advice, it would be to start doing Pilates several times a week by age 30 at the *absolute latest*

In Cal* history

One absolutely essential thing to do you if you are playing GTA San Andreas is to make sure you keep separate saves of the game (1) right when you get to Angel Pine, and (2) once you link up with Mike Torino and get ready to start the airstrip/Tierra Robada missions

One of the reasons I believe in the staying power of independent and worker-owned and nonprofit journalism is that, with increasing frequency, traditional outlets are deciding to crank out lazy pro-billionaire agitprop that insults their readers’ intelligence

Canonically a California Golden Bear

Nice

Good piece about some very bad editorials, which I find more depressing than enraging. They have no apparent audience (besides Bezos) and lack basic fluency in the legal concepts they discuss. Both asinine and utterly pointless. Can someone who understands the law at least write them?

Thank you for your service.