usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

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["US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says" voice] US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

i've spent my career in politics, often in a strategic comms or adjacent role, and let me say: this is a terrifyingly accurate view of political comms through the lens of sports. going to respectfully offer some sports->politics translations, just to illustrate how accurate this piece is: (1/)

this was my Post of the Beast, and justifiably so

this headline suggests that we are led to believe but do not definitively know that Mark Stoops is Bob Stoops’s brother, and I think this is the level of skepticism we need in reporting today

HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE HIGH ELVES

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

<in the doctor's office> "Well, doctor, I'm agog..." <doctor nods understandingly> "I'm aghast..." <doctor vaults off stool, seizes me by the lapels> "Motherfucker if you say you're in love at last-" <music swells>

if we want john yoo’s opinion on anything we’ll send his dumb ass to prison and ask him during visiting hours, assuming we can be bothered to go

In the first draft of the Three Musketeers their names were Diversity Bill, Equity Phil and Inclusion Will

As a football analytics dork I hate running the football. There is, however, something to the idea of strategically moving the ball a few yards at a time, with everyone doing the little stuff that makes a running play work. It’s what we saw in Minnesota. badfaithtimes.com/we-must-esta...

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

today is a good day, friends, to fix our hearts

this is the dumbest shit imaginable, wall-to-wall clownery

you know who else was chadfished by a moid and frame mogged, simply for jestermaxxing?

are you forgetting that you are dust and to dust you shall return, playboy?

Yeah, so about your claim that The Argument wouldn't be running anti-trans pieces @jerusalem.bsky.social... I knew it.

happy birthday to the poet laureate of our political times (neither derogatory nor laudatory but a secret third thing - deeply sympathetic, maybe? tonally, we're going for 'poor bastard never knew what him', here). and also, i would even say: howard cross, jr.

This poll from CBS News/YouGov contradicts the popular claim that voters think Democrats are as ideologically extreme as Republicans

strike up the pipes! fry the mars bars! mine’s a caley 80! that was, to borrow an expression from Auld Scots, a country ass-kicking

10 point swing for Scotland, special teams wins championships, Big 12 energy overpowering, losing consciousness

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

basically, the Scots are on that ass - my analysis of this match and also the early 14th century

england’s defensive strategy of not doing a damn thing to secure the perimeter is perhaps worthy of reevaluation

rarely see a rugby player take a bigger L than England‘s Harry Arrundell just did, half-assedly contesting the catch on a kick and getting a) totally obliterated; b) a yellow, his second, for a dangerous challenge; and therefore c) tossed from the game and sent homeward to think again

This Six Nations match has powerful Big 12 vibes, which is to say that it has the same desperate energy as a rickety tilt-a-whirl being pushed past the red line by a deranged, gimlet-eyed carnie

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

You know, if Jeanine Pirro can’t find sufficiently high proof, nobody can.

stilton is fighting cheese

“military-grade intelligence tactics” “Pattern-of-life” intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah

A general strike is a great idea, and to make it happen, I need you to organize your coworkers into a union at your workplace

he’ll always be Dammit McDammit to me

hello donald and scott and all y'all, this is your chief strategist speaking, i am advising you today to please keep saying this shit

running daily flights on military planes to the Kingdom of Frisia until the situation is under control

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

SEAN PAYTON, YA BETTA CALL SOMEBODYYYYY

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

Telling the story of the American Deal - how it was forged, how it broke, and what the hell we do about it. Part 2 of 3.

absolutely right. it's the sharp end of federal social media accounts rhapsodizing about deporting 100 million Americans. no point calling it anything else.

the rightwing disinfo system is phenomenal at convincing Americans to believe something untrue about something they don't experience ("X city you'll never visit is a burnt husk"). But it's a losing proposition to keep telling people "this thing you regularly experience is different than you think"

not my house but i know my way around