Aces win, Dream win, and another successful Indy hate watch. Just need a hearty bowl of pho to round out the perfect evening.

Not even a quarter way into the season and Angel has already provided us with like 8 new memes

Basically the only defensive strategy left against A'ja 😂😂

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

I know the correct answer is to immediately throw hands. But...If it's a triple chocolate from Papa Haydn bakery, there's a 50% chance I'm just going to pretend that I didn't hear it 😂

There's a broader conversation to be had on the subject of romance/dating and how Black people seek validation in white spaces. But tbh it probably can't be had because it's far more widespread than some folks want to admit (*cough* Nicolandria stans *cough*).

They eked out the W and A'ja is back to asserting her dominance on the boards so on balance that's a good day. But it's increasingly clear that their overall game is much sharper when Jewell is not in the rotation. So, not sure how they're going to approach that as the season trucks on.

I have received video of Seth Moulton being loudly booed at Boston Pride.

A lot of people thought this would stop if they just threw their area studies and Black student centers under the bus.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

Middle Millennial (87). An interesting quirk about folks in our general age group is that our early childhood still revolved around a mostly analog lifestyle. But we were young enough to have an adolescence shaped by the takeover of the digital age.

This is still America

I have no connection to the city, but seeing all those NYC residents turning entire city blocks into giant Finals watch parties has filled my cold urbanist heart with pride.

It's official, Bluesky is a sports app now

Sorry but I'm not doing the whole "Wemby is just a little baby, his feelings must be shielded" routine after I just watched a solid 4+ months of people talking about how he's singlehandedly "saving" the league. That 8 foot tall Baguette is just gonna have to take the smoke.

Sorry, nuns. GOD IS A NEW YORKER

I'm not going to say they are definitively cooked but...Having to walk into MSG down 0-2 feels like an insurmountable obstacle with the way this Knicks squad is playing.

OH MY GOD I LOVE FINALS BASKETBALL

This game!!

The Venn diagram of "left-ish men who enthusiastically support Platner as a bulwark against a feminine Democratic politics," "left-ish men who stayed on Twitter," and "left-ish men I bailed on a long time ago when they pinged my transphobia radar" is a circle.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

It's even crazier when you factor-in that many (if not most) of the biggest sports media outlets are literally still running with that narrative even as recently as the start of this season's playoffs.

Colorado’s Black community wonders, ‘where did all the good allies go?’ after Elijah McClain paramedics’ convictions overturned

he need to trademark this

The Grim's & Stoller's of the left have rather openly longed for a Democratic iteration of Trump for the last 10+ years because they desperately want a vessel that allows them to air all of their reactionary grievances while shielding it under a veneer of progressivism.

The vibes around the Knicks have been absolutely immaculate this week. So of course this broke handed ass 🦝 had to spoil the fun.

It would probably be net benefit for society if all podcast mics were rounded up and burned. But I will admit that I miss the halcyon days of emergency pods.

A lot of people certainly seem relieved—liberated, even—to no longer have to pretend to care about violence against women.

The right's vision of masculinity is a domination contest in which participants have to perform greater and greater acts of cruelty and vulgarity and deny themselves more and more pleasure and comfort in order to meet ever more outlandish demands for strength.

Any WM wearing jeans and owning a pickup truck is what we are to consider "the working class" regardless of the actual socioeconomic status of said WM.

They ALL ventriloquize imaginary working class ppl to obscure the fact that they're always only EVER prioritizing white male identity politics at the expense of everybody else.

Part of the problem is that they don’t consider the sentiments these people are expressing as actual intolerance. Vance's claim that people in Appalachia had similar cultural problems as Black people was seen as an enlightened and progressive perspective rather than a denigration of both communities

This mode of white male identity politics often gets conflated with class politics. It happens because signifiers of working-class identity are inherently ambiguous, and underspecified populist discursive categories like "the people" and the "establishment" strategically enable this conflation.

not just prominent figures but absolute gutter racists

Not the most original insight, but damn Olivia Miles is impressive. To say that I completely misjudged her potential would be a massive understatement.

“I’ll be the chief opposition to the Egyptian gov’t… That doesn't make me anti-Egyptian...I want my tax dollars to be spent here rather than sent over there to cement the chokehold of a military dictatorship on its own people. I apply the same exact principles to Israel.” -Abdul El-Sayed

If you are saying “that is not a principle I care about”, then you are, at least, being honest. But you cannot say “I will elect a person who does not honor this principle, and they will advance this principle.” That does not happen. It cannot happen.

I don’t know how to tell people that the only way to win, to truly win, is to have principles and bring people along to rally behind advancing those principles. Electoral politics is no exception to this truth. If you elect someone who does not adhere to, or advance, your principles, you cannot win.

So many people insisted that Graham Platner was just a growing boy who couldn’t be held responsible for a Nazi tattoo and some bad behavior in relationships and the Democrats are so desperate to appeal to white men who they will never sway that they will tolerate this raggedy ass man.

Lunchtime joint flow

Doing "Illiberal Left" takes in the year of our Lord 2026 is certainly an excellent way to demonstrate a complete lack of self-awareness.

Good example of a headline that is literally just untrue and amounts to malpractice— there is no "seeing" settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal, they are factually illegal. UNSCR 2334 and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice from July 2024 say so.

A detail that has really stuck with me about Tony Judt‘s ‘Postwar’ was the section about how hundreds of thousands of ex-Nazis went on to become East German communist apparatchiks Flunkies like Flanagan remind me of these characters—not truly attached to an ideology so much as place in the in-group

According to Germany, the lesson of the Holocaust is not that genocide is wrong but that Germany must help Israel to commit genocide.

another doja tweet has hit endor

If the Knicks end up taking the whole thing, NYC folks are going to burn the city to the ground and construct a 50 ft Mamdani statue.

There's just nothing better than good playoff basketball

This game is giving me heart palpitations

This game

Eeesh, if Brunson is actually hurt then it's a wrap.