[ahem] Lolmets

Typing this was difficult so you are required to read this or at least repost this to juice those numbers for me

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

There is no easy answer to the media coverage problem in women’s sports. But athletes and fans deserve better, writes @thefrankiedlc.news.

this is actually some of the most racist shit i’ve read today. just completely erasing the black origins of the genre. and its continued influence chuck berry and jimi hendrix didn’t completely define electric guitars to let white jacobin writers claim “classic rock is the music of the redneck”

I will die on the hill of "The Warren Court was good, actually." Just about everything you think of when you say "America has freedom" comes from the Warren Court and not any other era.

This entire concept is just so infantile and narcissistic. I don't want movies to be about me! That's insane!

Every publication should publish the names and outlets of the people who attend tonight because most of us will want to be sure we never make the mistake of listening to them again.

"OR ELSE I WILL SUE"

People ask me all the time for my favorite Onion headline, and there are like 200 of them, but my favorite recent print headline is easily this:

I like to remind my students that Jackie Robinson RE-broke the color barrier because >50 yrs previously there were Black players in the Majors, but the teams actively chose to segregate. Segregation & acts of racism are affirmative choices made by & for the benefit of White people & institutions.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

was once New Amsterdam.

i don’t show my penis to people all the time. in fact, I’m not showing my penis to people right now

if you're on here saying fucked up shit about victims of sexual assault speaking out against the politician who assaulted them and I catch you, I'm going to make sure you have a very bad day

One step further: it should be unthinkable that we would register people for the draft without first making sure that they are registered to vote. And indeed: it makes no sense generally to hold elections without making every effort to make it as easy as possible to vote! That’s what democracies do.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

You cannot only believe victims when it is politically convenient to do so.

i really resent The Current Political Moment for continually putting me in positions where i do a little bit have to hand it to The Head Of The Catholic Church. how dare you make me agree with a white sox fan

@kenwhite.bsky.social big news, Ken, the White Sox are giving away your merch

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

I think about this column once a week, and lately once every few hours.

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

From Reconstruction to "We tortured some folks," from Iran-Contra to January 6th, a prevailing ideology of American politics is that no one should face consequences, nothing should be fundamentally changed, and we should all happily move on as if ignoring the problem solves it.

For his entire life, this is what the “Art of the Deal” president understood a “deal” to be: threaten others until they give you what they want. He has no grasp of actual negotiation or dealmaking - only shakedowns. Combine that with a war he’s desperate to end and you get genocidal threats.

Like half of my brain is constantly in this rage-dread spiral under this administration. And the other half of my brain is so desperate for something warm and loving and funny. There are two wolves inside of me. And they are devouring each other.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

#Artemis crew to Mission Control, after seeing and attempting to describe the eclipse: "And if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary tomorrow, that'll help my vocabulary out a bit. Thank you."

AND! If you're not good at one or more, the best thing about being human is that we can teach each other and work together. You don't have to go through the universe alone. All of humanity can be with you, if we let each other.

Do science. Read poems. Do art. Sing. Do mathematics. Do it all because you're a complete human person and they are all a part of you, an indefeasible patrimony, an incredible gift.

The Sciences call out for the Arts; each needs the other, each helps the other.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Disrespectful to Kobe

It's. Not. Complicated. (but if you want more (trans, intersex and gnc) Torah Values, there are a lot here):

It’s amazing that tons of people, including celebrities who have public reputations to uphold, will openly support a man who released a song called “Heil Hitler” AND is credibly accused of sexual violence and abuse but will NOT openly support celebrity women who have come forward about being abused

We did it!

I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

More like Long Island Milkshake Ducks, imo.

Stirring conclusion to @jamellebouie.net's column. A throughline in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement is that backlashers sought to decenter the Declaration of Independence and the 14th Amendment as marginal, illegitimate, or misunderstood.

The basic orientation of the left is towards democracy, so they want to understand people who oppose it. The basic orientation of the right is towards authority, so they want to crush people who oppose them. Left and right are not mirrors. They are antipodes.

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

Yankees start the season with back-to-back shutouts for the first time in franchise history. (I couldn't believe it either)

NO LGB WITHOUT THE T 🏳️‍⚧️