while the Republican gerrymanders will likely not be enough to stop the democratic wave this year, we still: 1. will likely have a smaller majority, meaning we can’t nominate any 80+ reps who could die in office 2. need to retaliate for 2028 3. need to pack the court and pass DC statehood

One of these days either I am going to kill Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin or it is going to kill me

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

One of the great scenes of the 21st century

Pretty annoyed at this style of reporting, which primarily exists to make people mad on social media

“When you were 10 years old, did you like films that were made 30 years ago” is a crazy question to pose to Millennials and Gen Z parents who grew up on freaking Star Wars

that reporter was going to get to the end of her script or die trying, she's got more fight than the entire Sixers organization

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

What a galaxy-brained decision by The Athletic. Gleeman is one of the best baseball reporters there is, but beyond that he’s been a Twins guy basically his entire life.

I mean, a real case to be made for The Saga Begins by Weird Al Yankovic.

Does Maria Taylor have haters? I feel like she might have the highest notoriety-to-number-of-haters ratio in American media

I think we have to entertain the idea that most of the baseball teams are bad this year, even some of the good ones

LaOne Ball

There was a time where you could use Twitter like you were Ozymandias at the end of Watchmen but man, that time has been gone for a while

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

After the WHCD they used basically the same playbook they used for Charlie Kirk (right down to going after Jimmy Kimmel again) and it fizzled out so quickly. They desperately want a Reichstag fire moment but they are really bad at creating them.

It makes sense that the Wild are winning tonight because if John Randle ever screamed at me to do something I will be damn sure to do it

TLJ expanded upon the original lore in a way that was consistent with everything Lucas intended and people were too obsessed with dogma to see it

Northern Michigan University had to shut down their saunas because students were fucking in them www.mlive.com/news/2026/05...

almost every municipality in illinois would rather financially strangle themselves than build housing

little known fact: bob dylan came up with the line “suckin’ on a chili dog”

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

I think Wisconsin is probably Chris Chelios? Hilary Knight might have a case too, maybe either of the Suters as well. If we eliminate hockey that’s easy, it’s Rose Lavelle.

democrats need to start internalizing that in politics you can lose many battles as part of winning the war

So far no official statement from Lucasfilm or the Walt Disney Company regarding the death this morning of Grogu

Happy #LetterboxdFriday y’all

State statutes permitting early voting are dependent on the specific definition of "election." Four Virginia Supreme Court justices absolutely decided to engage in partisan hackery in a way I've never seen before in the Commonwealth.

Another good day to be furious at Andrew Cuomo

I’ve been reposting these so I should probably mention: Minnesota Public Radio’s contemporary music station, 89.3 The Current, is counting down their Top 893 Essential Voices this week. It’s the final day & they’re in the top 100, so all bangers from here out. Give it a listen www.thecurrent.org

Man, if I ever get grumpy enough to hate kids, just take me out behind the woodshed. Yes, some peoples' kids are annoying and many people are bad parents, but the fact that the mere existence of kids laughing and playing inspires rage in some people is so sad.

I am being a true patriot and filling up my car with $100 of the finest allegedly nuclear-free Iran I can find

DON’T PATRONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZE

Nothing can prepare you for who's singing this National Anthem (via lpaulfranklin / TT)

The voice of a generation, of any generation really

Luigi nooooo

I’ve been seeing ads with this slogan around downtown Chicago for months now, and I really need to know if the marketing team for the USA 250th celebration thinks the Revolutionary War ended in 1776

This song is about the shark from Jaws (“Brrrrrruce”)

The median American WW2 veteran is now 98 years old

The odyssey accent thing is weird. They’re supposed to be speaking ionic greek, why should they have british accents

I love that this makes it look like he changed his name to Claude

No, fuck it, send it to Indiana at this point.

Zoning was created as a tool of discrimination. It was very bizarre to hear the alderman extoll its virtues and why it needs to be protected from the Governor's BUILD Plan.

The DJs on The Current made sure to tell the houseboat story before playing this

this is cold and heartless of me but one takeaway I have from the Vitamin K story is that we have gotten way too soft on needle hesitancy and need to swing the pendulum HARD back towards "you are little pissbabies endangering [yourself/your child] because this medical necessity involves a poke"

Remembering the Cartoon Network NASCAR in honor of Ted Turner.

Listening to this right now and I must say this is a particularly demented radio edit of this song, I love public media

"Ruff Ryders' Anthem" by DMX Album: "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot" Time: 5:51 pm

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.