When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

People like Riley Gaines and Chris Rufo understand swaying public opinion leads to policy. Liberals for my money are too fucking earnest and are terrified of media manipulation. It’s a big reason we lose so much.

We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.

First team to beat USC this year needs to riff on this post

Please pay attention to how “I don’t want to think about it anymore” slip-slides so gracefully into “it’s not happening,” and ask yourself if there are any other recent unpleasant issues where this might have occurred.

It's still wild to me that there's a team called the Nashville Predators. "Go Predators!" www.nhl.com/predators/co...

Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...

The same Harlan Crow who has a mansion full of Nazi memorabilia?🙄

"Creation of national service" is an insane priority that doesn't actually fix any of the very real problems we have right now AND would be wildly unpopular.

Do I support Stevens' campaign? No. But do I kind of want one of these signs? Maybe.

Thinking about this a bit, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden being charisma voids probably didn't help prevent the rise of fascism or the overall rightward shift of culture and public opinion.

Prove to your ex loved ones: store.theonion.com/products/dem...

“i’m demon free bitch” is one of the funniest things i have ever heard

Campaign ads made with AI need to be made illegal. Check out this AI ad for the TN-06 GOP primary.

2/ Some background: Joel Anderson, a Black staff member at Slate: “For Black employees, it’s an extremely small ask to not hear that particular slur & not have debate about whether it’s OK for white employees to use that particular slur.” www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/b...

Bari Weiss' new head of podcasts will fit right in with all the other right wingers. Good grief.

actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."

Spoof ad in London

lol epic sauce!!! You just know that group chat is on fire right now!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Ben Shapiro going from talking about Lindsey Graham's death and transitioning seamlessly into a ZipRecruiter ad read. Amazing.

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If you noticed toilet water tastes different today, you’re not imagining things. Tune into The Jim Haggerty Show every Thursday for more things you AREN'T imagining.

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Wrong Home Alone 2 actor, tbh www.tmz.com/2026/07/17/b...

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Although it pains me to admit it, Sarah Longwell is six years younger than I am. She was 13 when Newt Gingrich became speaker. Her 20s were from 2000 to 2010! We're talking Bush v. Gore, the Iraq War debacle, "enhanced interrogation" (i.e. torture), the Tea Party, and McConnell's Obama obstruction.

Not everyone can have the high standards of Burger King en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_...

A couple of weeks ago they said breadsticks were getting married, are you going to do anything about that

This ESPN mini doc about how "Seven Nation Army" became an arena anthem is so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D8B...

Another Kyle Gordon banger

Over on Threads, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is asking people to stop making fun of Haley Stevens

It just shouldn't be this…sh-hard…

Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...

@rcobooth.bsky.social had a great piece about this earlier this year. While pundits argue about whether Dems should move right on "trans issues," the right has moved on to stripping legal protections, documents and healthcare from adults: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

In his opinion in BPJ, Brett Kavanaugh goes on and on about how sports are just "different" from other "factual contexts." But anti-trans activists don't see it that way. For them, sports bans aren't the end goal. They are the starting point. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/anti-trans...

This is why, speaking as a reporter who has covered a lot of this stuff, I find it bizarre that a lot of the commentariat don't see where anti-trans stuff is going. Gaines et al are pretty clear about how they see sports as a way to win battles that bathroom stuff didn't like a decade ago.

It's amazing that Trump have a speech dedicated to pushing his election fraud lies, still get in weird comments about trans people, and pundits will be like, "Are DEMOCRATS too focused on trans issues?" No, dummies. There's only one side that's obsessed with trans people, and it's certainly not Dems

The world whenever Aaron takes any time off:

Thinking about one of the last times Taco Bell was at the center of a food safety controversy, which ended with them permanently getting rid of green onions because of an E. coli outbreak (turns out that it wasn't the green onions that were the cause; it was lettuce). youtube.com/shorts/mDCel...

dude if even this guy knows it’s bad, it’s bad bad

This has reminded me of a recent incident when I kept trying to recall/explain a song to a friend. "You know it! Curtains for zooshka! Really raw, pained son – 'some say love is a broken thing', plays on Ring of Fire? Adam Curtis used it in one of his docs. CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHKA." …Song for Zula.

"parasite outbreak blamed on taco bell because they're the only company reporting it" feels very "1918 flu blamed on Spain because they're the only country reporting it"

If you're wondering if the TV networks should air Trump's Thursday speech live, the answer is no. (Obviously.) www.readtpa.com/p/the-predic...

every 5 months you hear "Joe Rogan is turning on Trump" from people in the media who don't actually watch rogan and take the bait like it's susan collins casting a line when in reality this is literally what he says almost every single day about democrats including fucking yesterday

We're going to see a lot of reporting about the people ICE has hired over the next few years, but it's hard to imagine how it could get much worse than this.

🧵 Luzerne County, PA is extremely hostile towards the LGBTQ+ community June 2026 was a month-long hatefest culminating with virulent online attacks against a local food truck because they served food at PrideFest June 28th. Notis the Gyro King makes phenomenal gyros if you're ever in NEPA

The leafy background slideshow at the beginning of this clip reminds me of the video for The Books "Smells Like Content" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_U...

The thing that confuses me about this is that companies like Polymarket and Kalshi pretty clearly promote the idea that their markets are good judges of what will happen based on the idea that there may be people with some amount of inside information betting on the event.