Platner fans all day:

goddammit, people. i know we're in a temporary situation with not having a national public health agency, but something has to change. this is not acceptable for our field to be spreading misinformation like this because you haven't fact checked

Blaming Biden for Republicans being in a death cult sure is something.

Thoughts and prayers to my fellow professors and college students across the country dealing with the Canvas hack

not today, large Satan

Pallante can fuck off

I grew up mistrusting Ted Turner because my mother couldn’t stand that he didn’t wear socks with his loafers. But I also grew up watching a ton of baseball on WTBS and learning a lot about the game, so thanks for that and happy trails, Sockless Ted.

This is so much more entertaining than you think it’s going to be 😂

If you still thought there might be some hope for society, I want to share with you that Facebook just showed me this post in the “Crunchy Moms: Natural Living and Clean Products” group. You’re really going to enjoy some of the replies.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day to all the educators who encouraged, challenged, and inspired me ***without*** later being accused of having improper relationships with other students!

I am sure you did.

how I'm spending this fine Tuesday morning

Will you please read this short thread before you share that “Biden was obviously a failure because he didn’t throw Trump in a dungeon!” post that we are all very excited about this morning?

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

Mike Claiborne takes the microphone and immediately, I mean IMMEDIATELY, mistakes a strike call for a ball. Never change, Claibs.* * please change, for the love of god

Burleson has seen 9 pitches and struck out 3 times so I’m giving him an immaculate inning.

This is a good thread. Listen up, Platner apologists (haha they won’t).

1) “Truffle pigs” is my favorite analogy of the week 2) Fun fact: truffle hunters almost exclusively use dogs now instead of pigs, because the pigs are much more aggressive and less cooperative about giving up the truffles they find. I hope student reporters and their advisors follow suit.

I owe the Cardinals an apology because I did not think they would be Fun. I'm sorry, Cardinals.

Horse racing is disgusting and cruel and you don't have to watch it! Here's a cute baby miniature donkey you can enjoy instead.

I’m not sure some of you can really grasp how deflating and depressing Graham Platner’s ascendancy, and the retconning of his ugly recent past and the sneering contempt for his erstwhile opponent, feel to those of us who have met and correctly distrusted a thousand of him in our lives.

How @fleeingoz.bsky.social and I are watching the baseball game

I feel like I am being gaslit about the Platner thing. Like *I* am somehow the crazy person for drawing the line at accepting nazis or nazi-curious candidates. Like *I* am being unreasonable to doubt that a rape-apologist has anything useful to contribute to public policy. What is this world.

He says this like removing 90% of American men from the political process would be a bad thing…?

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

The thing that gets me about Platner is this: Platner doesn't promise ACTUAL meaningful political opposition. He promises a violent, highly gendered performance folks find soothing. But Mills ACTUALLY defied Trump for minorities and it got her exactly zero "FIGHTER" cred, because Woman and Old.

If you’re JJ Wetherholt, do NOT take the $50K

Finally just shame, shame on everyone, shame on every national figure and organization that sat it out, that failed to fight to say clearly "no" shame on those who saw Janet stand up to Trump when no one else would and said "who cares, boring old lady!"

It’s a BlueSky problem that a lot of supposed allies prefer a guy with no experience and a history of racist and sexist red flags to a woman with a lifetime of service and a record of standing up to Trump. Got it. Love Peter endlessly but this framing is making my head hurt.

'Disappointed, "Surprised," 'Betrayed': 12 Toddlers on Where Did Mom Go Peekaboo Oh There She Is

Every one of these articles about Trump voters emphasizes one critical point: these people are unbelievably stupid. They are the stupidest fucking people in the world

I was ready for it to be bad, but when I enlarged the fine print, I was shocked by how bad it actually was, and how obviously these idiots are trying to imitate the baboon-level writing style of their moron king. My goodness.

When you consider that Paul Skenes has thrown 5,568 career pitches, all to major league hitters, and allowed a homer (23) on .004% of those, any Tom, Dick, or Harry saying anything other than "give me the $50,000" is absolutely delusional.

move over, Yakuza, this neighborhood belongs to the

BIRTHDAY WHEEEEE FOR MEEEEE

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

The Angels make me feel better about myself

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

kash patel says the fbi will leave no stone unturned, from the postgame locker room of the los angeles kings game tomorrow night to the jelly roll concert a few days later in memphis tennessee

🎶 Let's all go to the Lobby 🎶 🎶 Let's all go to the Lobby 🎶 🎶 Let's all go to the Lobby 🎶 🎶 To get ourselves some treats 🎶

Shooting Up Galas Is Now Progressive Chic, by Thomas Chatterton Williams

I hope they were all scared enough that they pooped in their fancy outfits. Nobody needed to be there except the unfortunate service personnel who had no choice. Fuck the rest of them.

Reported this to my partner, who says "I guess it's better than watching them lick their balls on air"

Suggestion: Next time they do Purina Pooches at the Park, let the dogs pitch #STLCards

There are dummies in here arguing that it doesn't matter if it's fake. If your brain is this fried, you really need to log off, spend the day digging a huge hole, throw everything you use to access the internet into the hole that you just dug, then bury all of it. It's the only way to be sure.

I get a wee bit tired of the gleeful “bullfighter gored by bull” and “trophy hunter trampled by elephants” stories from people who eat meat.

Started watching The Pitt and it’s very good but I’m developing a theory that the people really blown away by it grew up on crappy Grey’s Anatomy rather than ER as their medical-drama reference point. Because this is basically ER with 30 more years of medical progress (or regress) and more cursing!

LOL Mets

These men are complete festering trash, but also? If you visit the White House these days, you get what you get, so I'll save my sympathy for people who deserve it more.