I'm something of an historian of sketch based comedy and i can tell you that the kids are reinventing the revue from first principles which is great

counter-majoritarian loopholes for me but not for thee

People forget this but they think this stuff is going to work. They really honestly do. They think the problem with everything is wokeness and if you eliminate that, things will suddenly be awesome. I know it looks like deliberate destruction but I think they're genuinely surprised this doesn't work

Nation's sports franchises mark Pride Month with the annual closing of the comment section www.thebeaverton.com/2026/06/nati...

hell yeah

Generally speaking if you have read claims of sexual misconduct in the a broadsheet newspaper or glossy magazine, you can assume that they have been thoroughly vetted and that there’s a lot of worse behavior that couldn’t be confirmed.

Bari Weiss is perfect for her job because she is very much there to gut and neuter real journalism but she's also such a blinkered narcissist she genuinely thinks she has a vision for how to save journalism and everyone who pushes back is a hater

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

exactly the right response

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

something something only Trump could go to Iran

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

headlines like this are but one reason why I continue paying for a Defector subscription

Lucky sighting of the pride bus on Barrington Street this evening. Happy Pride Month! 🌈

The municipality is hosting a Scan-a-thon event at the Keshen Goodman Library on Saturday, June 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. The Scan-a-thon is an annual event that offers residents an opportunity to contribute personal photos to the municipal archives. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

on the one hand, you have men who sexually assault women and treat them as subhuman. on the other hand, you have women who say those men are not good prospects for relationships.

Just imagine the two dozen cars that we could have parked here

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

🛑STOP🛑 Robie Street NIMBYs from posting their Ls

I’ve never understood how every second of this clip scans as a comedy sketch despite very much being real life, but I do think because of it, it’s one of the most miraculous recordings in recent history. A perfect document.

The classic tale of the frog doing whatever the scorpion wants while a bunch of other frogs are yelling at it going “this scorpion is stinging everyone, please stop giving it a ride” as the frog takes it around letting it sting everyone then the frog is like ah shit who could have known @wikipedia

have we considered that flo rida and vanilla ice might be locked in a deadly game of chicken where both performers have their entire net worth tied up in elaborate parallel kalshi bets that they will be the last act to drop out? I am asking us to consider it

In a not-demented local media environment we are cheering the creation of 4 large family-friendly apartments in a walkable and high demand neighborhood

This might be slightly out of hand

It is hard to imagine a better hand dealt to a nationalist than FIFA, The Olympics, and the sestercentennial in one four-year term - but folks, these people are just evil and incompetent enough to fuck all three of them up.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

I do think if you want to do the raise for public servant salaries, you have to pair that with like public executions for corruption

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

this is great news. now to take a sip from my cup of coffee and make sure we didn't do anything stupid like elect this guy's party to a supermajority.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

I just don't think anyone watches playoff hockey and says, you know what this broadcast needs? someone with the affect of a garrulous drunk to talk continuously over the game!

she described how some of their jokes were so bigoted and unoriginal that it took the funny right outta the roast. this is an expert critiquing other purported experts in the same field, not “pearl clutching”

oh word? more of these fellas? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

it is extremely rude of Rogers to, in the conference finals, subject hockey fans to Garry Galley's insipid colour commentary

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

This is great. We need more human story explanations like this. Just pointing at data and research fails to reach a lot of people.

such a global powerhouse they had to identify it by the state in which it's located

We inherited a lot of transportation safety policy that boils down to “If you wanted your kid to play in the streets safely you should have given birth to a truck.”

Due process is ending after 250 years. The demise of the long-running pillar of democracy made our critic think of another thing: maybe the government should just kill everybody they don't like immediately and get it over with.

even taken at face value this is a patently risible lie. if he cared about profit why shovel so much money in the garbage producing that awful podcast/youtube thing that's generating double-digit view counts?

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

if there's no value to publishers in letting Google reference them, they should not let Google access their content.

South end NIMBYs say they’re “not against development”, they just want density caps in the centre of the city right next to the province’s largest university.🙄 Why can’t any of these surrounding homeowners imagine renters living in such a walkable area without every single one of them owning a car?

Preston St is in the core of the city, a handful of blocks from a bustling commercial street, a university, and several parks and hospitals. If staff didn’t envision quite this many units here, staff are either unqualified for their jobs or lying.