Oh yeah, and the longest active playoff drought in MLS is over too!

I’ve never been angrier at this useless party than I am right now

new @teenvogue.com: @maiamcdonald.me covers the latest w/ Chicago protests. outside an ICE facility that's come under national focus, protesters and journalists have been arrested and teargassed. @katmabu.bsky.social was shoved to the ground; she says more politicians should be on the frontlines.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Any day’s a good day to fly the W 😎

The cup snake in the bleachers lol

Back 2 back!

People whose literal job it is to know US politics: who could have predicted that fascists would do fascistic things to this degree and scale once in power???

You know things are bad when even NYT is acknowledging basic reality

The Dunkin Donuts $6 meal deal has my seal of approval

A 100% healthy Cubs team would be a real threat to win it all. But this Cubs team, with their best and third best pitchers hurt, probably won’t win shit. I’d settle for winning 1 game against the Padres, as the Cubs haven’t won a playoff game since game 4 of the 2017 NLCS

If you believe the Covid lockdowns happened under Biden and the GFC wall street bailouts happened under Obama, or that Bush wasn't President for 8 whole months before 9/11 happened, you *might* be living in an anti-reality, hyperreal simulacrum bsky.app/profile/josh...

I know we on the project volunteered to keep our identities off the individual stories but it's been a year and also things have only gotten worse so let me tell you Writing this comic last year and having every single god damn thing come to pass at this point is just Fuck, man. I'm so tired.

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Hi I’m MrBeast and this is the Stanford prison experiment

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Brylin Hollyhand—the Christian nationalist trying to take over as youth MAGA leader from the late Charlie Kirk—calls the murderous assault on the LDS Church in Grand Blanc, MI an attack on Christianity. Except the shooter was a fundamentalist Iraq vet MAGA diehard who saw the LDS as the Antichrist.

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

That provision would effectively ban trans health care for people of all ages everywhere in the country. If Dems can't stand up to that, then they deserve to lose forever.

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy. as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

now that eric adams has ended his campaign for mayor it’s time to stroll down memory lane

Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15. I'm running for Governor to change that.

Oh also Rome Odunze is starting to look like a real WR1, which is very exciting

“All the Faucets” by sink-182, is this anything?

Okay okay okay maybe I was a little too much of a doomer about the Bears. Yes, they had no business winning the game yesterday, but Caleb Williams is definitely making progress. Still a long way to go (and Ryan Poles needs to go), but I feel better going into the bye week than I thought I would

This is so far beyond fucked up. I can barely find words for it

So exhausting..

Imagining a slow zoom on Mr. Beast’s uncanny valley-ass face as Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata plays. Also, interesting horror movie concept: a YouTuber who kills people with depraved “challenges.” Basically Saw but the killer is a content creator, I suppose

Pritzker needs to task as many Illinois State Troopers as he can on this beat (ie investigating and arresting federal agents who do violence in Illinois)

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

Holy shit

One weird fact about me is that the chocolate covered pretzels scene in Mallrats is how I found out chocolate covered pretzels are a thing

Good for you, Peanut! #Bears

Headlines that typically immediately precede either a civil war or an autocratic coup signifying the end of a republic

The degree to which we’re seeing a conspiracy out in the open in front of everyone to control what we can see, say, and interact with on social media is stunning and scary. Andreesen et al really think they can just get away with it without even trying to hide it, and they might be right!

Rest in power

Sir, we found these bullets at the scene with these strange engravings on them. Wait, this looks like… the quadratic formula. My god, he’s back. The Math Shooter is back. Get me the president.

scolds on here couldn't parse the difference between "American global leadership" and "American participation in foreign policy" or accept the idea of prioritizing fixing our democracy so we stop sabotaging the world and now one of the foremost advocates for democratic renewal deactivated.

Sir, we found these bullets at the scene with these strange engravings on them. Wait, this looks like… the quadratic formula. My god, he’s back. The Math Shooter is back. Get me the president.

the pejorative "deliverism" bothers me for the same reason anti-left liberals using "do-somethings" does: the implication being that voters don't deserve anything good done for them by elected reps, bc the ask is either "too unrealistic" or the recipients insufficiently grateful, so why even try

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

I didn't buy the idea that Van Hollen was seriously considering a presidential bid in 2028 until I read this profile of him just released in WaPo

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Thinking about this today for no reason at all