No lie, Jody Allen reincorporating the Seahawks into a publicly owned nonprofit, like the Green Bay Packers, would be such a baller move. I'm pretty sure she would still do just fine, and what a legacy that would set in stone for the entire Allen family.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

You know, we can scream and yell all we want about the release of the Epstein files, but it’s not going to happen. Why because the DOJ controls the enforcement of laws, and there is no one there who could arrest anyone in that department. We live in an authoritarian state.

The Shadow magazine, cover dated January 15, 1933. Art by George Rozen.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction at a restaurant and was taken to the hospital but is doing ok Apparently she ordered the Habeas Corpus and didn’t realize it contained due process which didn’t agree with her

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Cancel culture isn't new; we've always had it. We literally write essays about it in high school for the Scarlet fucking Letter. What changed recently is who we cancel - we no longer cancel you for for being queer, using drugs, divorcing & remarrying, but for being abusive, hateful, or a sex pest.

I can hear this cover in my head. The moment when an entire arena is brought nearly silent only for a few precious seconds before the cacophony rises again to meet the action. Art by Daniel Warren Johnson, a cover for his Do A Powerbomb! serialized OGN.

I can't wait to read the headlines about the DoJ arresting a Trump appointed judge in Texas for being too liberal.

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

Trump saved the economy (from himself)!

The pretext is that these tariffs are the result of a complex international commerce dispute, but the actual text is just a Chat GPT spouted formula that's never been applied to tariffs - ever, but the subtext is that it's really just a worldwide extortion scheme.

This has big "zero new cases by the end of the month" energy.

From talking with people I still don't get any sense that the public truly understands the rolling, concussive systemic failures coming due to the dismantling of all corporate oversight, regulatory autonomy, labor rights, consumer protection, and the social safety net this summer will be...hot

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

Congrats to Chuck Schumer on figuring out how to get the entire Dem base absolutely livid at someone other than Trump or Musk.

Fucking Democrats. I should have known Schumer didn't have the stomach for a fight.

Mahmoud Khalil is a weather balloon. If they can get away with trampling his civil rights in the name of whatever boogeyman du jour they choose today, expect a much wider application later.

Democrats even *thinking* about joining Republicans to censure Al Green for having the courage to stand up while they sat down do not deserve to be able to generate a single fundraising dollar from a person of moral character ever again.

Using taxpayer dollars to prop up memecoins sounds on-brand for MAGA. Just look how well the Trump and Melania coins are doing six weeks after launch.

Well this is fucking horrifying: www.scribd.com/document/832...

This was always about rich people not wanting to pay taxes

There is a very distinct theme at work here in the legisative actions of conservatives: blind ideology running headfirst into the brick wall of reality. Over and over. This, "DOGE", every other policy and legislative priority of the right: intentional and completely unnecessary harm to the public.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Out of an abundance of caution I froze my credit with the three unofficial bureau's of credit. I'm not planning on any major purchases and I'm sure not opening any new lines of credit with the CFPB defanged for the time being.

Trump 2.0 is just the dumbest Ocean's film in the series.

I feel so sorry for anyone whose quality of life relies on government programs and services functioning properly. If you depend on SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA you'd better be planning ahead right now. Hell, I'm nervous about where the USPS will be in 4 years.

A lot of people are going to find out the hard way how critical all these governmental services they were largely unaware of really are. This isn't just going to affect imagined gov't "bloat", but every measure these agencies took to ensure baseline safety and stability are going out the window.

which is exactly what russell vought described that they'd do

Watching people who voted for Trump now being directly fucked over by Trump's policies is my new favorite pastime. Misery loves company, I guess.

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

One of my all-time favorite films by the Coen Bros. Newly acquired on physical media, because streaming and digital options - while temporarily convenient - are subject to all sorts of legalities and aren't long term options. New motto is: If its worth having, it's worth having a copy you can hold.

Some of us know what the real Holy Trinity of comics are.

If Kash Patel is confirmed to run the FBI there will be no backing away from the abyss. Trump wants his Brownshirts out there doing his dirty work knowing they'll never face any consequences for it. Removing the FBI from the equation gets that reality much closer.

Just that orange asshole declaring himself above the law. Again. There is a goddamn reason insurrectionists were barred from holding office after the Civil War.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

I'm no historian, so have we ever had such an anti-citizen government before? One that so unequivocally set its priorities in opposition of anything in the public's interest?

We're about to see the largest upward transfer of wealth in tandem with the systematic undoing of any democratic means of redressing grievances against the government.

Most Americans still have no idea about how F'd this country is about to get. I think if they knew it would be too overwhelming to process so they prefer maintaining the delusion, "It won't be that bad." It'll be very bad, folks. Hold on to your butts.

What's cooler than Captain America hanging out in Nick Fury's invisible Ferrari?

Honestly, things started making a lot more sense regarding Musk's obsession with the letter "X" when I learned it's ASCII numerical code is "88", which has certain... connotations.

Indeed.

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

SCOTUS gave Trump a green light to act as illegally as he pleases. The career criminal has nothing but open contempt for courts and Rule of Law in general. I'm almost waiting for the news that he sanctioned the assassination of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil next.