I'm so old that I remember when dudes would give players crap for missing a game for the birth of their children. I suppose attending a political rally disguised as a funeral for a podcaster is more defensible. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

For real. Wonder what the sentiment was in the Cubs' clubhouse about a rookie leaving the team heading into the last week of the season for what was essentially a political rally. Wonder if Shaw will be asked by anyone to explain himself. bsky.app/profile/29su...

Parker Malloy says Ekko Fucking Astral (And You Can Too!)

Get in losers, we’re grieving

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

What the picture doesn't show is Lee Greenwood singing "Proud to be an american" in the background as the pyro goes off. This is the tackiness singularity

Just saw this super fashy ICE recruitment ad on TV, making the pitch to Chicago cops.

Fevers are dangerous early in pregnancy and Tylenol is the only fever reducer pregnant people are supposed to take. In this freak’s mind, having a baby with congenital anomalies incompatible with life is *less bad* than having a child with autism

It's been a while since I've paid attention to Terry Bradshaw doing the highlights during the NFL half-time/post-game shows. Has he always been this mumbly?

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

Olamide Zaccheaus went for the jumping celebration with DJ Moore who didn't see him 😭🤣

lol. It's this meme in real life.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

*sigh*

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Caleb Williams to Rome Odunze for the touchdown. Let's go Bears

From a purely aesthetic point of view, I'm not a fan of the guardian caps in the NFL. Looks like someone turned on a big head video game code for just one or two guys on the field.

Yesterday we learned that Trump micromanages the prosecution of his enemies and that the head of his secret police was filmed accepting a $50k bribe in a paper bag. Still, for the editors of NYT, the sanctification of Charlie Kirk, saint and martyr is a bigger news story. This paper is soulless.

Imagine cooking on this level

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

The funny thing about Brian Kilmeade being forced to apologize for wanting to kill homeless people is that many of the people aghast at his comments have functionally the same beliefs; they just may not consciously realize it.

To put this in context, I’m writing a biography of Abraham Lincoln & as a longtime admirer of and reader of Terkel, Zinn, etc. am particularly interested in public history - doing academic work and effectively translating it for accessibility to a wider audience. But a PhD is a grind & can be $$$$$.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

I would strongly argue that you will understand what the New York Times has become much better if you understand that they soft launched the new NYT with their trans coverage, and have been building and expanding from there. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

I’d never seen this one.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

I joked the other day that all the Post's editorials are just "what if this bad thing were actually good," and will you look at that

Couldn’t make a crueler caricature if I tried

Did...did Disney buy the NYT overnight?

Authoritarian theocrats in prestigious positions whose entire politics is “the state should force my religion on everyone,” which they rightly know sounds bad, so they use euphemisms “common good” and “civic purpose,” which they wrongly think sound good. Harvard law prof Adrian Vermeule is another.

This is what happens when you hire a bunch of conservatives as editors and writers.

I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this

A tacit threat to re-invade Afghanistan, this time in writing. Just another casual Saturday in Trump 2.0

Chicago's local Nexstar station is: WGN Television 2501 West Bradley Place Chicago, Illinois 60618 773-528-2311 Steps 2-4 are up to you.

*taps sign*

The total right wing takeover of social media is complete. Good luck to us all.

It's kind of wild that Bluesky got branded as the place where people were saying rude/mocking/disrespectful things about Charlie Kirk's death. I just popped over to Twitter, and the stuff I saw over there was way edgier than anything I've seen on here.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

the revolution will not be televised (they canceled their subscriptions)

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

What do you all think the split between honoring CK's life and demonizing the left will be? I'm going to guess 20/80

perhaps this is why people keep screeching about bsky being a bubble that no one uses and also is influencing everything like, this (presumably) un-dicked-with flow of content is painting a picture that looks out of whack with FB and twitter etc

The past week really mattered in a way that I’m not sure has been totally processed yet

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