These parents killed their child and we need to say it

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

I was kind of goofing around with this one last week in that classic Sunday Blog Chair way but it does seem like the Spurs actually have figured something out, here. Just have De'Aaron Fox play at godhead level all game, and also Wemby, and your team could do it too! defector.com/the-spurs-sh...

Mele Kalikimakaaaaaaaaa on da islands.

And Timmy Chang WHO DID NOT DIE

The latest Hallmark Podcast episode is about a movie that isn't very good, but which does offer some thrilling Canadio-Italian fusion flavors, in the service of a very goofy vision of Queens. (Also the last acting role for lead Megan Park, the writer/director of 2024's delightful My Old Ass.)

Important news for the Bluesky userbase (37-year-olds who went to the free Prospect Park shows every summer): Wolf Parade has the No. 1 song on Spotify right now because it's in the gay hockey movie.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

welp. fuck.

The US should just give Hawaiʻi back to the Native Hawaiians.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

it rules watching right wing influencers realize, in real time, that they're losing the war on pedophilia while on the side of the pedophiles

I feel like the public, by in large, wants the value of labor to feel more in balance the value of assets/capital. The US has no current cultural movement to catch that desire so it asserts itself in weird and often counterproductive ways. (optimistic reading, sure)

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

man this is brutal. Just a reminder: Marc Andreessen took a man with zero experience in either tech or finance, and hired him at the most powerful and influential venture capital firm in the industry, solely on the basis that he strangled one of my neighbors to death for being Black.

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

Tonight’s Christmas movie is the debunking of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate, which premiered two decades prior to that book

Christian Fascism with Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job characteristics.

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

Okay, so how?

Swirly swirly #cartopy #spilhaus #python

Made a little animated GIF showing the demise of the V3 camera at the summit of Kīlauea during today's eruption. #hawaii #volcano

They’re calling him the world’s most sober man:

I just found out there is a BEAUTIFUL senior cat named MRS. DOUBTFIRE up for adoption in Centre County, Pennsylvania! So, of course, I had to spread the word. If you’re in Central Pennsylvania, please help this elegant lady find a home! centrecountypaws.org/cats/adopt

Wrote about Maxey.

That friend? Shawn McCreesh, the twerp who wrote the NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein’s emails as a reminder of the glorious bygone days of journalism. How many times can satire die in one week, truly

Oh fuck him. He only regrets getting caught.

People used to throw rocks at you until you died for this kind of stuff

Andre Drummond has made more three-pointers this season (6) than Ben Simmons did in his entire NBA career (5).

Moth Smoke, by Moshin Hamid, junior year of high school—something so beautiful and touching in the downfall of a talented boy. God. Im not sure it it changed me, but it was magic.

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.

the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance

listening to the same song that got me through all the other frustrations, i guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m64...

GEORGIA - CALL OSSOFF AND TELL HIM NOT TO CAVE!

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

The highly skilled, downwardly mobile members of the working class tend to be the leaders of social democratic movements, yes.

IT'S THE @davidjroth.bsky.social & @mobute.bsky.social BUMP!

“Democratic socialists” and “lgbt” both being 80% means every dem candidate needs to be both a socialist and to unequivocally support trans rights thanks.

[Exit Clown.]

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

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