I really liked the first one of these. Osman always manages to hide deep thoughts on grief and aging in engaging characters and silly, fun mysteries.

Today's bonus "One First" responds to the new claim on the right that the Roberts Court's "real project" is "reining in" executive power / empowering Congress—a claim that depends on (1) cherry-picking the data; (2) understating the immunity ruling; & (3) ignoring *dozens* of cases to the contrary:

So Kevin Stitt & Mike Lawler are floating a second class status. They realize that mass deportation is devastating to the economy and even red voters hate what is happening, but they still are trying to appeal to their racist base, by saying,”but don’t make these hardworking people citizens!”

Hey #mapoli people, does anyone have any good resources on the data center fight in Everett? I know there’s a meeting 3/2. I imagine the impact on surrounding areas would be significant, but I haven’t heard anything on it from my usual Boston or Somerville contacts

Our farmers can’t sell their soybeans anymore thanks to the administration so maybe beef lovers can switch to that.

@mikesacks.bsky.social shout out in this list! If you follow me, you know this is one of my per races because Mike Lawler needs to go.

Oh good, it’s snowing again

A funny thing about the USA hockey dingbats pretending they are the dudes from Miracle and using Dream On is that the movie Miracle literally closes with essentially saying using pros means the miracles are over and no one gets to dream anymore. It’s like politicians using Born in the USA.

This B is about to lose her seat thanks to redistricting. Good riddance

I just downloaded Boston’s trash day app because I am a GD grownup.

This did literally nothing to hurt Joe Biden’s presidency. His downfall was his own unforced errors in front of millions of Americans who saw him as old and weak and confused. I simply do not understand what people think disruptions will accomplish.

Literally as I posted this thread, people are flipping out about Hakeem Jeffries telling Dems to be cool and have no unforced errors as though that is a bad thing. SIGH. “No unforced errors” is somehow a bad strategy. 🤦‍♀️

There’s a whole section of Bluesky that is ready to lose their minds on every Dem going to the SOTU as collaborators, and I simply don’t agree with them and think this energy is wasted. First, there are so many vulnerable purple Rs in Congress who you should be attacking instead of Ds. 1/

“Comments have been limited on this post.” @nhlbruins.bsky.social better get your boys some media training fast

Before I was a lawyer, I was a PR professional for like one minute, and even with my limited experience I simply cannot believe how badly this men’s team squandered their moments I cannot believe @njdeviis.bsky.social and @usahockey.bsky.social have done nothing to try and salvage it.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

I’m so sad he’s not running for Senate

As someone who grew up on (white) teen movies, I was struck by how much that Patel scene looked like something straight out of a spec script in the 1980s. The racialized minority over performing nationalism as white frat boys clearly broadcast to everyone but him that he is not really one of them.

One thing that is making me laugh a bit is how many people who don’t follow hockey are like “I wish Canada won now!” as though being born in Canada makes rich white dudes immune to being terrible. I assure you their politics closely resemble the US team. Gretzky is MAGA for goodness sake.

Here are some things that could happen to push back against this culture: Hockey leadership could push back and rebuke this behavior. The men could decide not to go to the White House. Parents could use this as a teaching moment. And we could all support women’s hockey and women athletes even more.

The men’s team laughing along when Trump is denigrating the women’s team is exactly the problem we have in this country. Men do not see the damage they do when they laugh along. They think they’re the good guys because they don’t “really mean it.”

So we binged the new season of Shoresy last night. It was wonderful way to prep for today’s game, but I would recommend it if you love hockey and are still hyped or heartbroken from today. It’s a love letter to North American hockey, and it’s much better than last season’s weird party storyline

This is wild

Genius

Non-hockey people on here would be extremely scandalized by the chirping hockey players do based on the reactions I am seeing to some memes. May I suggest you take a gummy and stream Shoresy?

How should we advertise the LA games? Nepo baby!

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

This picture with the Gaudreau babies is killing me

Poor Luke Hughes

“Jack Hughes Hat Trick”

The Gaudreau babies!? Now I’m crying

Keller siblings are having a good time at the Olympics

I’m excited for Canada to get their loser stuffies

All Hail Queen Ellen

Ellen Weinberg- Hughes is the savior and goddess of American Hockey! GOOOOAL!

Everyone thank Connor for the gold medal.

4 gold medals for the Nelson family. My goodness.

Here we go again

I cannot believe how much free hockey I have had to endure during these Olympics

That was horrendous

Get in the GD offensive zone

Double Minooooooooooor

This the part of the game where I scream into a pillow that I hate hockey

seriously if you are watching hockey for the first time just pick a guy on the other team to hate (tom wilson)

The US needs offensive zone time desperately

Two posts!? Goddammit

That Makar goal felt inevitable. It was Canada and him in particular the last few minutes.

I want him to incorporate this into his chirping, make some real ominous statements in the ice.

Evergreen