I know the consensus is that Trump always chickens out, but this cycle is the pattern by which we’ve gone from January 2025 to *gestures sweepingly* 2026. TACO is often a process; it ends up in a place that can look a lot like him following through with his madness.

This is a really important point. It’s become clear that many of the conservative justices are as terminally Fox-brained as any garden variety red-hatted rube.

They make this. It is good. Signed, a parent of two boys under age 5.

So, is Bluesky just dead now or what? Cause, I mean, that would be fine. For the most part.

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

A thing I’ve learned from years of writing about markets and the economy is that markets can stay irrational long after fundamentals have turned

The whole damn point of reading is to find those specific passages you must reread over again for the rest of your life, while you build your own personal canon of perfect sentences and paragraphs. To understand the text. You must read the words. And then reread them. Do not bring me a summary.

PSA: "Wolfboy and the Everything Factory" on Apple TV is a *wonderful* kids show.

One of the busiest parks in Toronto and as usual, it looks like trash. Staff destroying the landscapes they’re supposed to care for by driving full-size pickups through them. Incoherent design. Poor construction. Ugly fixtures. Somebody should lose their job over this.

“Dying shoe company becomes compute provider” is easily the best bubble story we have seen so far

just incredible that while the last shipments out of the strait are finally rolling in and there’s nothing coming behind them, the entire executive branch are obsessed with winning online flame wars with the pope

The two of us, watching the last minute of NBA play-in basketball overtime.

I now exclusively use X to check how various Canadian soccer players are doing on any given day. Thing is: the algorithm is *shockingly* good at knowing I'm only here to see if Cyle Larin scored again; yes, I want to see a clip. It nails me 100%. If I used it for news, I wouldn't stand a chance.

Says a lot about JD Vance that he would go and say something that's every bit as stupid as "the pope is WEAK on crime," but it's not close to 1/10th as funny.

Oh god, this will be unpopular, but: I don’t think it’s inaccurate or wrong to say Trump and the Pope are in some version of a “feud” or equivalent wording. Leo is obviously using his platform to speak out unusually directly in opposition to Trump. He’s morally right, but not passive.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

“Trump wants to name himself pope” is one of those ideas that should sound so much more unthinkably impossible than it may truly be in the man’s actual mind.

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

The 5th seed in a much-improved East is a really, really good result for this Raptors team. (Even if it really didn't feel like it at times throughout the year.)

Dumb question: The name Péter Magyar — is that kinda like a PM named Joe Canuck or President Johnny American, or do I not quite have a handle on what Magyar means?

Is Baylor Scheierman going to shoot the Raptors into the 5th seed?

It’s been a really weird weekend.

It’s incredibly bad that we have a generation of young men who think that you need $600k a year to be comfortable and the only way to get it is crypto and DraftKings

I’ve heard people talk about the 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s as times in US history where everything was hunky-dory economically compared to today, and as best as I can tell they’re just referencing the cozy vibe of period-piece movies and TV they’ve seen

With a little more than an hour to go before polls close, voter turnout is nearly *75%* Independent Hungarian media outlet Telex says turnout in some areas could hit 90%, and that these numbers heavily favour opposition leader Péter Magyar.

I think this is at least partially responsible for the cavalier way politicians are responding to the crisis we're living through. They think it'll pass and when it's their turn to govern they'll still be governing America as they understand it. They probably won't

that we haven't even confronted spam phone calls, something everyone hates and we all know how to stop to me is most emblematic of a society too inert to address significant problems. The telephone revolutionized communication and connected us to everyone on the planet and now no one picks up calls

smdh you shouldn't have told him about the tankers coming to the US, now we're all screwed

This is at the core of Trump’s logic this morning. He thinks the U.S. is in a position of strength if the Strait of Hormuz is closed indefinitely. He is going to have to touch that stove.

Trump: "I predict they come back and give us everything we want. And I told my people, 'I want everything. I don't want 90%, I don't 95%.' I told them, 'I want everything.' They have no cards."

I guarantee you Trump hasn't thought about this

That’s it, you people have stood in my way long enough! m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUk...

So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?

I mean, it was pretty obvious the escalation spiral was back on. But. To be fair. I don’t think any of use expected him to say that.

Question for the sous vide dads and sous vide moms out there: Why does liquid and air get into the bag if the surface of the bag is above the surface of the water during the cook?

One of my fears for my kids’ future with LLMs is the same I have with modern social media: The product’s v. addictive and the path to profit is built around maximizing dependence, damn the harms. But more pernicious, because the experience of prompting an LLM is 1-to-1 akin to using a slot machine.

Nothing matches the fury of a 14-month-old boy being prevented from climbing inside the kitchen cupboards.

You don't have to go full Nate Silver false precision, but it's a basic skill to be able to think in probabilistic terms about how something can be likely but not certain, or unlikely but not impossible. A decent chunk of dumb dogpiles often involve getting irrationally angry at such an observation.

Fun fact: Did you know that "goes hard" can be traced back to Shakespeare? "The villainy you teach me I will execute — and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction." That's Shylock in Act 3 of The Merchant of Venice. (I love that line so much.)

ngl this Pope goes hard.

I dunno, man, is this one really a good use of the courts' time? www.thestar.com/news/gta/neg...

boy do I miss when you could go on the internet and see, in chronological order, posts made by people you followed

Iran has no cards, except the one card I really, really don't want them to play, for which I have no response, but am tweeting about anyway. Sun Tzu, I hope you're taking notes up there.

On the whole, the most popular modern pop stars are much better vocalists than ever before.

In retrospect, the timeline of the co-ordinated outrage to Trump’s civilization post from the right-wing talking heads (Carlson, Kelly etc.) is super interesting. Knowing they often take direction, it makes you wonder if there was some insider campaign to stop him from following through.

Fun game: What would this concept of an hypothetical lookahead-to-future-Trump front page look like if it was made today?

Hall of fame FT correction

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

It’s certainly not the Cassandras who have been systemically wrong about Donald Trump.