The sad irony is that “The Great American State Fair” is, in principle, a really fun, unifying idea! In reality, it’s cheap, rushed, and needlessly divisive. Just like everything Trump does.

Seems like one thing Democrats might actually want to investigate is the former Speaker of the House solicitously running a protection racket…

I’m still salty about the end-game timekeeping last night. There’s a chip in the ball to tell us if there’s a goal; we have AI telling us if a guy was a millimeter offside. But how much time is left in this game? Oh, well let me check my little watch…

I’m not in favor of arbitrarily deporting people, but if that ref had to leave the country tomorrow, I wouldn’t mind. Anyway, treat it as a fun 2-2 draw. Last goal was absolute manufactured bullshit.

John Strong with a “Scottie Pippen of the Portland Trail Blazers”. My man.

Good fuckin’ luck, world.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

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For whatever it’s worth, my job at USAID was to leverage your taxpayer dollars to draw nearly a billion dollars worth of private sector co-funding in to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives. Pretty useful! Massive ROI! Deleted nonetheless. Not transferred to the State Dept. …

When was the last time this guy had a new or interesting idea?

Watching Fareed Zakaria credulously cling to the pretense that the U.S. government is basically still normal and functioning, and that its leaders are working thoughtfully and strategically in the long-term national interest, is really something to behold. Truly operating from a parallel universe.

Nobody wants to say this out loud, but FIFA sucks at game day production. I have been to games at a couple of World Cups now. And your median MLS club does a better job of both cultivating an organic soccer atmosphere, and the game day production value is much, much higher.

My extremely tepid take is that they were both pretty good candidates, with very similar policies, and that a lot of voters of all stripes liked them both. It’s the first time as a DC voter that I can remember feeling spoiled for choice.

Hey, look at this remarkable achievement! “Whoa whoa whoa, have you considered this unrelated achievement in a different competition played-in by an entirely separate universe of players?”

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I’m not kidding— If we play our cards right, we can goad RFK Jr into swimming in there by sunset.

RFK going to look for his speedo:

So supposing we hit the pool with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light?

Sounded just a moment ago like there was still an Air Force flyover… how much is this fabulist white trash boondoggle costing us?

Our most precious special boy wants fireworks for his birthday and he doesn’t give a shit that it’s 11:30 on a Sunday night, THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS!

My takeaway from all of these videos, as a high-functioning introvert, is that, wow, New York has a whole lot of people that I would prefer to not have to make small talk with.

I recently heard a radio ad for @blackriflecoffee.bsky.social and it really just made their whole company sound like a bunch of try-hard assholes. When do you ever hear a radio ad and think, wow that company seems like a jerk? Impressive achievement at some level.

I love that every Mamdani TikTok is like, “that’s what I would do if I was the Mayor!”, but in a world where the job was simply being a really fun guy hanging out with his friends and celebrating sports. It rocks that he’s both good at that, and also seems to be good at being the *actual* mayor.

You’re all invited to my ‘Blazers Clinch the Championship’ party on this date next year

I’m happy for the Knicks. Next year, the Blazers.

I’m excited to report that “Hydration Break!” with your boys is officially ‘a thing’. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you want to know where all your money went, look at the people who have all the money.

“The Spurs were up by 29. And then when we wake up and somehow New York is declared the winner? I think instinctively we all know something is wrong.”

Trump has got to be so pissed, btw. Insane reaction incoming.

Hey we could all feel like Knicks fans someday

Never seen an NBA game like that

You realize that if the Knicks pull this off, New York will never shut the hell up about it.

Trump take Championship

The images and stories of foreign visitors discovering charming bits of Americana all over the country make it somehow even more maddening that we are not hosting any part of the World Cup in our national capital.

A touching statement of North American mutuality on the eve of the World Cup we’re all co-hosting together.

Is it to celebrate the triumph of the screwworm?

I say this as someone who loves the WC more than any other sporting event: every team should get on a plane home right now. Or all the games should be rescheduled for 🇨🇦 & 🇲🇽. The USMNT should be disqualified now & suspended from the next WC. Or, we can start acting like a serious country of adults.

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If a stiff breeze came by, Ted Cruz would be on the first flight to Cancun…

Donald Trump hates New York and New Yorkers, and Knicks fans should treat him accordingly.

Among many, many other things, it’s notable that it’s taken nearly six years for a reporter to directly confront Trump about the 2020 Election. He lies about it every single day, and yet has never presented a coherent theory - much less evidence - for how it was rigged or by whom.

*clears throat* The Turd Reich

I want the Knicks to win this series just so that the most annoying of you will finally shut up.

“Yeah but ‘the law’ doesn’t apply to us”, is a neat summation of the Trump Administration’s governing philosophy.

Nobody tell him about Lake Michigan…

This map is hilarious on its own terms. But it’s even funnier when you discover that it’s being credulously shared by someone who describes themselves as a “Geographer” who “loves maps”.

It’s time to come to terms with the fact that the court will not save us this time. If they have even the thinnest pretext, they will gleefully overturn the will of the people. Their only pursuit is unaccountable, unbridled, and unyielding Republican power. A de facto one-party state.

The Supreme Court is a nakedly political institution leveraging its authority for purely political ends. Democrats should treat it accordingly.