It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

“All the structural element make clear that Democrats will be blamed for a shutdown” versus “He is going to be out here doing THIS in increasingly public ways every day it goes on”

I can’t believe I’m defending any of this, but I feel a bit better knowing that he was going to an actual friend’s funeral and not the funeral of a podcaster he had a parasocial relationship with. Because I absolutely assumed the latter. All other assumptions remain fully intact.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

the entire second term is just going to be one long object lesson in why corporations used to want their customers to think of them as apolitical

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Outscoring the Illini in less than a quarter. Didn’t see that one coming.

Well Illinois-based sports may be a massive dumpster fire tonight, but at least we have a…nationally-televised Bears game tomorrow to pull out of the skid.

I live my life buy a few simple principles. One is that if you 5-hole Jordan Pickford I buy your shirt. Welcome to the family Hugo.

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

I feel like a lot of people need to hear the gospel of physical media right about now.

Eavesdropping on a woman rn who’s complaining that she wants to cancel Disney+ but her kids will go apeshit without Bluey and it’s taking every fiber of my being not to interrupt and ask if she’s heard the good news about our lord and savior Blu-Ray

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Boy it sure feels like the Kimmel thing is going to go down as a significant overreach, which makes you wonder if the whole Charlie Kirk thing will as well

*sad Borat voice* My rights

In addition to all the horrifying industry capitulation and government censorship subtext, they do realize that old people are the only ones left watching late night shows, right? Colbert and Kimmel being gone doesn’t personally impact me. But my parents and their friends will be apoplectic.

January 23, 2025:

“The President and his staff brag about how they will ignore any part of the budget he wants. This budget is only a law if he signs it. If he doesn’t want to do what it says, he should veto it. Until he agrees to follow the law here, Democrats won’t be part of a sham process.” Fit in a tweet.

ned is exactly right. the challenge is reconnecting the democratic party to a mass constituency and building real affinity between voters and the party. it would be more worthwhole to put $10 million into piloting democratic clubs and associated newspapers bsky.app/profile/resn...

At this point the way Ezra Klein could best get my money would be to write a very detailed memoir of his past two decades so I can understand precisely what happened to him and how to avoid it.

Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.

genuinely feels like an Elian Gonzalez moment in the making and nobody's talking about it

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

the overwhelming question about 2026 remains how much of the GOP base will show up without Trump himself on the ballot, because the specials are clear: the Dem base will crawl over broken glass - and probably ICE agents - to vote

If you see someone from the Trump administration out and about, don’t do a chant. That makes it look planned. Just tell them how you feel and encourage everyone else to do the same.

Think about the level of certainty you’re immune from consequences required to sign your name to this nauseating crap, like it’s all a bit of good fun between fellas.

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

Unless Minnesota reanimated the Purple People Eaters when I wasn’t looking, it’s going to be another excruciating season.

Well the Bears OL is still non-existent, which is strangely comforting.

my slightly cranky old person take is that everyone who says they prefer cigarette smoke to weed smoke absolutely would not have said this in, like, 1990

The simplest explanation for why the right does not appear to care that Donald Trump is a sexual abuser and a pedophile is that they do not, in fact, care if he is a sexual abuser and a pedophile.

JJ McCarthy living the Chicago-area kid’s dream of growing up to throw a touchdown to a Bear

They’re handling it well so far, but way too much of the Vikings busting right through the middle of the line. Same as it ever was.

@heyspirits.bsky.social @washingtonspirit.com I have so many questions about the new (or newly-enforced?) confiscation of sharpies at the gate today. I really hope your keeping my kid from the possibility of autographs wasn’t to make sure nobody could write any mean things about our commissioner.

Can we please, please, pretty please be done with the Daniel Palencia experiment now Cubs? Please?

Extremely light crowd at Audi for this NWSL Spirit/Seattle match. Beautiful afternoon, and I know from looking at tickets that the seats are almost all sold out. Hopefully Commanders related, given the likely alternatives right now.

Absolutely insane that less than three years ago this USMNT was playing England to a World Cup draw, and now they’re here.

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

my non-sports friends: there are incredible scenes over here, like defensive lineman named GENTLE HUNT

I keep typing words and then deleting them because none of them are sufficient to capture how utterly fucked up and unacceptable this is. And yet it won't move a single Republican to give a damn.

Get in Illini fans and day pass Illini fans, time to beat Duke.

lying to a senator and reverend in front of god, congress, and national television cameras should put such a fear of damnation for your mortal soul and your earthly freedom that you simply cannot bring yourself to do it, and it’s congress’ own fault that no one fears them

Fire. Ready. Aim.

starting trinity rodman against an academy team

YOU’RE A DOCTOR, YOU FUCKING INSANE, DANGEROUS QUACK, THIS IS LITERALLY YOUR JOB

A bold strategy when your economy rests on the twin pillars of 1) tourism and 2) importing the elderly. Can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.

so are the troops going to commute from the naval base every day because like