fireworks and home runs both turn me into an 11-year-old boy all over again “WHOA” “WOW” “LOOK AT THAT ONE” “WHOA”

love to watch dudes mash baseballs into the night sky

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

The state of dew releases

I’m pretty sure Graham thought he would outlive Trump, a safe enough bet TBH, and get a chance to do a takebacksies on all his misdeeds and end his career as a venerated statesman. Oh well.

parents' phones make notification sounds I've never heard in my life

functionally I think the reason his weakest numbers were with the “working class” is that educational polarization rules the world, they all live in the MAGA bubble, and nobody has figured out how to change that dynamic

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

Katie Dippold please go to the Emmys dressed as the Babadook

this is honestly the most cynical I have ever been, it is just "he has to succeed because if he doesn't we're fucked" being repeated ad nauseum

recognition of how unstable the US is and how utterly wretched its president is gets priced in. So a lot of people and institutions are now invested in protecting Trump at all costs

IMHO a lot of this is now a soft version of what has happened with Russia and Putin. The problem with "touch the stove" is that basic recognition of the sheer scale of Trump's screwups means a shattering of the assumptions needed to keep business as usual going. There's nowhere left to hide if

The irony being if he had actually done the hard work of changing it would have turned off many of the "can't people change?" crowd.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

I firmly believe this alone is the biggest driver of crime coverage and discourse

thinking the united states is uniquely evil or irredeemable or unsalvageable on some fundamental level is just american exceptionalism in a trench coat, somehow with even more annoying branding

More players should embrace kicking the ball as powerfully and directly to the goalkeeper as possible, and daring them not to die

They willfully and even gleefully surrendered and are annoyed at the great many people who didn't.

The “vibe shift” proclaimed Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025 was just some elites—in business, media, law, and some higher ed admins—who kinda liked the fascism and gave themselves permission to accommodate it. That’s all it ever was. A close presidential election is not somehow a binding cultural referendum.

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

A wedding at MSG? Been there, done that.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

I do think it’s funny that all these independent thinkers end up regurgitating confederate or segregationist propaganda that is decades or centuries old. But it’s only because they’re not susceptible to manipulation like you sheeple

A follow-on consequence to this is that even the most generous read of Ezra Klein’s intellectual project, trying to understand the intellectual underpinnings of his ideological opponents, is a joke. Their ideological underpinning is that they’ll make whatever claim they want in order to gain power.

BEFORE we get to the "We need 13 justices and President AOC will appoint 4 of them," we need to explain to normies why that is true.

Four-year-old just told his toddler sister “it’s time for the hunt” and they both left the room. Not my business

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

Me at the A24 board meeting: We’ve got a brand beloved by young hip people and cinefiles, basically synonymous with “good taste” and “artistic vision,” in a time where both are hard to come by. What if we flushed that in the fucking toilet for a bit of money?

i totally understand the impulse to compare DSA election insurgency with the tea party but there’s a really important and unfortunate distinction: the tea party’s goals aligned with capital and the goals of socialists do not

op-ed with author photo

watching a movie. shout out to movies

Rory hitting into the Windows XP default wallpaper

*taps sign* its precisely because racism is falsified by the empirical evidence and refuted by logical argument that racists must pounce on and cling to, sensationalize and fetishize, isolated incidents whose surface impressions speciously confirm their prejudice its pure lizard brain activation

it’s remarkable that trump ended up delivering the dishonest republican caricature of the JCPOA, and while most of them won’t acknowledge that publicly, they all know it

Cape Verde

Is it carbon monoxide

Craziest stat for me The Knicks had the #1, #3, and #5 biggest comeback wins in NBA Finals history In the same Finals

If you’re a fan of a sports team A good team A bad team A team that can’t get out of their own way A team that seems like god has cursed them Keep being a fan of that team

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

People drift toward authoritarianism when they lose the ability to distinguish preferences from truths, wants from needs, and annoyances from problems.

It’s interesting how some version of this map replicates itself in every city election in America. Traditional redlined burbs: the conservative candidate Professional class renter neighborhoods: the progressive reformer Traditional Black/ Hispanic neighborhoods: the establishment Dem

NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

You are only a real New Yorker if you grew up in the sewers under the city with your Italian-named brothers and were raised by a mutant Japanese rat and trained in the martial arts.

This is the surefire number one way to tell you're dealing with someone who fucking sucks. Across all fields and the political spectrum. Always criticizing never admitting mistakes. Going through life never letting themselves be the butt of the joke, not even for silly things.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

the cool thing about Bluesky is that a disproportionate number of your followers are living people who actually log onto the app

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.