I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Astounding to me how many fundraising texts I get from Democrats who don’t mention a thing about anything happening in the country right now. Just straight biographical information and Obama-era small dollar fundraising rah-rah nonsense.

@jordumb.bsky.social woooooo! Congrats!

so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

i know all i do now is come on here and ask people to give their money away but please send a donation to the everywhere project in memory of dan mcquade!! i have worked with them before and they have been outside taking care of people even in this cold! share.inquirer.com/ErzpTT

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Okay, two @dhm.bsky.social stories I need to share. Appropriately, one silly and one just deeply meaningful to me.

One great writer's obituary for another. Brian Howard on Dan McQuade. "Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan." www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

Dan McQuade was generous with my students, visiting Sports Narratives every year except when he was in treatment, offering help as recently as last week. He’ll always be on the syllabus but I’m crushed that he won’t be with us to give his favorite advice to young journalists: “Have rich parents.”

I know I’m a homer but this was the most quintessentially McQuade story. Perfect idea, perfect execution. Dan was the only person on Earth who could’ve written this.

I have known Dan since high school, and even though we were just a year apart, I looked up to him because it seemed like he always had things figured out. It was a joy to get to get him know him better starting in college, and to call him a friend. He will be missed.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Rushing over to Costco to get my Bespoke AI Washer and Dryer.

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

I can't repeat this enough.

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

every day, into college. Sports section, then comics. Bloom County, Far Side, later Calvin & Hobbes, Non Sequitur, and, yes, Dilbert.

"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l... Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't. Recommended, in an extreme way.

I know my guys.

Nick Sirianni and Kevin Patullo getting ready to absolutely ruin this run of entertaining playoff games.

My daughter clearly has been contacted by the NFL and warned not to infringe any of their trademarks or copyrights.

Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.

If I thought a car was trying to run me over, my first instinct would be to get out of the way rather than film it and shoot at it. But maybe that’s some gun-related skill picked up in training that I didn’t get as a non-owner.

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

not beating the allegations that antivax beliefs are downstream of being afwaid of needles

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

As a fan of TM, having the following info over other fans makes me feel... pretty great. I know who wins. I know the roles the cast members occupy. The wacky one? The one who doesn't care? The one who cares too much? The smart one who is bad at tasks? I know it all. I know what the teams are.

The year I tried to commit to Letterboxd. Timothee Chalawich.

The customer is always right? No, the customer is almighty and all-knowing.

Armando and Kumail? I am excited for the next Taskmaster season, and in traditional Taskmaster fashion, look forward to loving the three people I’ve never heard of more than the people I know and love.

My son received a LEGO donut truck for Christmas. It comes with a cop who’s dropping a hundred bucks on donuts.

This aged well.

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic

if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

In my day, the whole point of being an antivaxxer was to exist as a herd immunity mooch amongst the vaccinated. If you convince everyone else around you to also be herd immunity mooches, there’s no herd immunity for anybody. It’s dumb guys all the way down.

Dan Gelston’s Hall of Fame ballot is almost perfect. But points off for the penmanship.

the weird two-year stretch in which i was older than every nfl quarterback is finally over. hopefully that will never happen again

scanning the @sundance.org lineup: hmm, interesting, might be good, sure why not, :loses entire fucking mind:

my baby would be dead.

I'm actually pro 5 corporations owning everything, but those 5 corporations have to be Wegmans, Wawa, the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, and Vlasic Pickles.

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.