Sports people need superstition like oxygen. Any owner smarter than James Dolan, when facing the dilemma "we're on an incredible run, should I change things up by inviting a massively unpopular dying rapist goblin to the game and sitting next to him for several hours" knows the answer is no

They're calling it the Trump Curse. When your owner invites that man to create four hour security lines and get booed during the national anthem and fall asleep mid-game, you do not win a championship for 50 years.

Spurs in six

But Patrick how will you know about Saudi Aramco's special offers

If Hollywood weren't 100% cowards they would have followed up Buckaroo Banzai with a zillion sequels, none of which made any sense, all of which lost truckloads of money and drove at least one studio out of business

Our local, investor-owned utility supplies electricity to 422k people and it just signed an agreement with a mystery company that needs half of that. They aren't saying it's a data center but honestly, what else could it be? www.kxly.com/news/avista-...

Just have this company make dumb versions of everything. Tractors and cars and fridges and coffee makers and laptops and etc etc etc

The only caveat I'd add to this is the US has fought this war so half-assed that a future president actually using the military to do something useful other than launch rockets might take everyone by surprise. OFC we also need to tell the truth for once about expectations vs drones and insurgents

Truly disgraceful. FIFA should suspend the tournament. Other teams, including the US national team, should boycott the games in protest.

Say what you will about Jerry Jones and other micromanaging team owners but ol' Jerry never demanded the Cowboys kill themselves when they missed the playoffs last year

This would be worth taking seriously if people in the Seattle suburbs weren’t the most passive-aggressive, all-talk-no-action dorks on the planet. Find out who’s making the threats and build the battery facility right next to their house. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I was in a pho restaurant when I got the call that my sister had given birth, and I paid up and drove to the hospital. Afterwards I realized I should have exuberantly paid for everyone's bill (it was a small restaurant so I could have afforded to). When it happens I'm going to make that right.

Someone call 911 I'm pretty sure I'm having a stroke. This is probably a perfectly normal sentence about taxes or something but when I read it my brain tells me it's about dildos and Bed Bath and Beyond conspiracies

"This is an increasingly common belief among researchers in Silicon Valley. They insist they are on their way to building a more powerful species — or even a new God." These are the stupidest people alive www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/t...

Chuck Schumer won't resign, but he should. This is like having a Republika Srpska march with Ratko Mladic or something. The big scandal is that Mamdani didn't come but there's a much bigger scandal regarding the moral compass of the people who did. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

My old Soundgarden CD says it's gonna break its rusty cage and run. Not sure what that means but it makes a compelling case that demands more investigation

This web page is currently THE go-to place for delicious schadenfreude www.reddit.com/r/Sonics/

"He's a bad boy - but I know I can fix him" is a helluva campaign slogan.

Part of the reason not to nominate a guy like Platner is that you know it's going to be one shoe after another after another dropping for months. Even if you think nothing we already know by x date is disqualifying, your prediction should be that there's more that we just don't know *yet.*

I think it would be good for our future civic health and restoration of democracy if we grapple with the fact that several hundred (a few thousand?) US government employees are professional torture specialists 1/3 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Speculating here but it really seems like Lebanon is the key to a US/Iran agreement and until that's fixed Iran has the US over a barrel. Israel wants to keep bombing Lebanon, but Iran can keep its foot on the jugular vein of the global economy until that stops

Bad, bad verdict in Spokane for 3 protestors convicted of conspiracy, with a possible six year sentence, for a nonviolent anti-ICE protest. Good chance the federal prosecutor in your town is a Trumpy goon who will try this out on you if you raise a fuss. 1/15 www.kxly.com/news/crime/s...

But what does Nine say

Embarrassed to admit that I've never even taken a cognitive test. I'm gonna stop criticizing Trump now

Seattle gets ~7M international passengers per year but if all those flights get diverted to Boise I'm sure the Boise airport (5M passengers total per year) can handle it. And the 500 mile drive from there to Seattle is real pretty

Donald Trump, leader of the energy transition, boldly showing the world that we don't need to fear a future without fossil fuels

I once asked some people debating the gender of God why God needs genitals, and the only answer I got was that He needs to pee, which I suppose is plausible

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social this is as good a measure of current shame levels as we are ever going to get. A brutal callout by a ten year old girl having no effect on ICE = zero shame; every ICE agent melting like the wicked witch of the west = appropriate levels of shame

Do we have plans for an amphibious assault on Ft. Lauderdale? Because by this logic, Florida's "nobody gets a vaccine and everybody gets a gun" governance model would absolutely justify an invasion

I'm assuming that, like the Iran war, this was cooked up by Bibi or Bibi-adjacent Ben Gvir types. They've been throwing insane ideas at US presidents for decades and until now our guys were smart enough to see it for bullshit and shoot it down. This particular bunch though? They'll buy anything

Got damn she ripped them all a new one. If I was an ICE agent and hadn't already died of shame I would after getting called out by a 10 year old girl with more heart in her pinky than I had in my whole body

Earlier than that. I still occasionally think about the full Deliverance-In-Uniform horror of Abu Ghraib and how everyone but a few low level doofuses got away with it, got think tank slots and book deals, John Yoo got tenure at Berkeley, etc. We've had a problem for a while

Does anyone in this mess know how to play cards

Men can have haversacks, which are 100% just manly purses that we all agree not to call purses. Great for day hikes and working outside and such. If you get it waxed it's waterproof

The kids and I watched The Host, which I hadn't seen in years, and it rules. It's the best creature feature since Aliens or maybe even The Thing.

Wanna get drunk? Maybe it's because you wanna party or you wanna get laid or the game is on or life got you down or you've got a drinking problem, but MAYYYYBE you're engaged in a profound anti-elite cultural trend requiring a deep dive analysis www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Quick note for the CIA if you want to free me from house arrest: first, thank you, that's much appreciated; second, if you could avoid dropping a bomb on said house while I'm in it that would be great tks

Jam all cell reception, ban Doordash delivery, don't answer the phone 20 minutes later when he calls via landline to surrender, and take bets on how long it takes for the dude to pull a David Koresh

I'm sure this take is weapons-grade awful but I have some sympathy for whatever Oklahoma sportswriter dummy wrote this. I suspect it was a lethal case of deadline + writer's block + Skip Bayless-level political awareness = go with whatever bad idea you have

I know Chet Holmgren is tall but I didn't think blocking Wemby was even possible

Signs the Strait of Hormuz is opening up: ❌Trump says so ❌Some JP Morgan analyst with no imagination says so ✅DHS tweets "there is no God but God and Mohammed is his messenger, and Ali is the wali of God"

Two cents from a non-climate scientist about the angst between different climate scientists about the President pooping out yesterday’s nonsense about RCP 8.5. Y’all are a lot smarter than me but I don’t think it’s worth the agita some of y’all are feeling about it 1/7🧵

The Trump admin is refusing to release fire prevention funds unless states agree to follow their anti-transgender, anti-immigrant, anti-DEI executive orders. We adopt their racism, help their slave catchers, shove queer people back into the closet, and who knows what else, or we burn. 1/9

Confession time: when I was in high school, Pizza Hut gave out free slices to graduating seniors and I claimed one even though I was a junior. I didn't think to ask if I could write a long drippy op-ed about my crime in the New York Fucking Times which I guess proves that I wasn't Stanford material

Confession time: when I was in high school, Pizza Hut gave out free slices to graduating seniors and I claimed one even though I was a junior. I didn't think to ask if I could write a long drippy op-ed about my crime in the New York Fucking Times which I guess proves that I wasn't Stanford material

Bingo. The right wing media bubble exists but a) these people are fed algorithmic disinfo via their phone and b) with the push of a few buttons on said phone they could find accurate information. They don't want to do this. They scarf down bullshit and look for more because they like how it tastes.

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

Lots to choose from but bureaucratically, the worst part about the ICE kidnapping spree is the people who have been here for decades with no hope of becoming citizens. I'm a broken record on this but my great grandpa got off the boat and got his citizenship in 24 hours. This guy was here 30 years!

Huh. Sounds bad.