The Game Was Never the Point They spent years manufacturing the trans-athlete case and still can't cite a single number. That's the tell. The ruling was never about sports — it certified a method for sorting Americans by who holds rights fully and who holds them at someone else's discretion.

This.

And checkout hurling while you are at it.

For those enjoying the World Cup soccer, I invite you to check out Gaelic Football.

I only recently discovered the Playing Along podcast hosted by the amazing Norah Jones. This week she did an episode with the legendary Ron Carter and one of the most unique and important modern guitarists, Bill Frisell. It’s wonderful. Ron Carter just turned 89! @adamkeiper.com might enjoy this.

I suppose surrendering at Versailles is the traditional way to do it.

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@dansinker.com and the teams that are producing whistles are doing important work. If you are in a community that has the need, reach out. We’re all in this mess together. And if you are able to help these folks offset their costs, there is a button on the linked page where you can donate.

I think this is a deliberate statement, not just an ignorance of history. To Hegseth and Trump, democracy was/is the dangerous ideology, and the Nazis are good guys in their world view. We are being governed by halfwit TV entertainers – who tell us every day, out loud, what they really believe.

The Pope released his encyclical on AI and what it’s doing to the human person. It’s one of the clearest reflections I’ve found on the technology and our place inside it – and an important read, particularly for those of us who actively work with, and are creating things with these tools.

If you haven’t read Pratchett, you can fix that and make your literary life better.

Sonny Rollins died today at 95. The Bridge was the album that showed me what jazz actually asks for – not technique, not cleverness, but the willingness to pour your whole self into the sound. His tone was so human, and so completely honest. There was nobody else like him.

This is very, very good.

I aspire to someday be as relaxed and comfortable as this dog.

The Trump family is systematically converting the United States government into a revenue stream, and doing it openly, because they have determined — correctly, so far — that no one is going to stop them. I suppose the question for all of us is whether they’re right.

Honestly, does it get more good than Matt Nelson and @weratedogs.com ?

🧵 Energy Secretary Chris Wright just told the Senate that oil & gas has had “a rough couple decades.” I did the math. In today’s dollars, four companies alone – ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP – netted $1.87 TRILLION in profit since 2006. Rough for whom, exactly?

Happy 100th, Sir David. At a moment when the natural world needs defending more than ever, you’ve shown us what’s worth saving. The rest is up to us.

Trump’s media company: 29 employees, zero patents, no proprietary tech. Full-year revenue in 2025: $3.7M — less than a busy Applebee’s. Net loss: $712M. Q1 2026: another $406M gone. Cumulative losses top $1 billion. At best it’s a meme with a login page. More likely, it’s a money laundering scheme.

The Virginia Supreme Court strikes down the new House map drawn by Democrats, and approved via a people's referendum. Meanwhile, here's how Republicans respond to such things.

I think his core personal mission is to kill as many people via otherwise preventable causes as he possibly can.

We live in such a stupid world, because now we all have to wonder if he ate it.

A lot of people dunking on Blanche’s restaurant lie. But the absurdity of the claim is exactly the point. Authoritarian regimes use obvious lies deliberately. 🧵

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Staggeringly dishonest people, who have zero respect for their constituents.

The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act. The fight moves to the states now — and that means state legislatures, state courts, and state supreme court races matter more than ever. Follow outlets like @boltsmag.org. They’re doing the work to keep us informed. Now we have to vote.

Yeah. The guy who has spent eight years leading the central bank of the largest economic power in the world is….unemployable according to this vapid halfwit. The word clown doesn’t even begin to describe Trump.

This is beyond obscene.

To wit…

🧵 So let’s just think about what happened last night. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is already a strange and inane institution. The press corps, in formal wear, openly socializing with the administration they’re supposed to be covering. 1/11

The Republican civil war is coming. The worst thing Democrats can do is try to meet the winner in the middle. Here’s why.

We call it a “tariff” instead of an import tax on Americans. A “plurality” becomes a popular vote mandate. An authoritarian movement gets called “conservative.” Language isn’t neutral. Every word is an argument. We’ve been making theirs.

The Pope: too soft on crime. The seditious conspirators who attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government: that’s actually fine, let them go. This is the insane (a)moral framework we’re dealing with. 🙄

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And not to put too fine a point on it, but the lunatic just posted this. He’s dangerously unhinged. America is an embarrassment, and has become a pariah state. This insane, obscene, hollow little man has done generational damage.

Good piece by Quinta Jurecic. Gift article.

Tomorrow is No Kings Day. 3,000+ events, all 50 states. This week Trump put his signature on your money. George Washington refused to go on a coin while he was alive. Called it monarchical. nokings.org. Show up however you can.

This sort of sounds like the kind of thing you’d say because you are worried that sometime in the future, someone might be sitting in a courtroom, saying, “Pam is the architect of making all these plans work.”

Who knows what foul, urine-like fluid is coursing through his cranium. But even acknowledging that he has a bottomless capacity for reprehensible remarks, this is particularly obscene.

Yeah. ICE thugs shooting innocent citizens in the face in crowded airports should really help move things along.

"Those now in charge of Iran think that prudence and restraint have only encouraged US aggression. They are likely to pursue more aggressive nuclear and missile policies and be more willing to...escalate confrontation with the US and Israel." - Vali Nasr for Zeteo

Every accusation is an admission.

Yeah. I can see how having the FIFA Peace Prize winner simultaneously bombing your country — while also hosting the tournament — might make participation a little awkward.

18 Senate Democrats confirmed a nominee with no cyber or signals intelligence experience to run the NSA and Cyber Command — the same agencies Trump already purged of their leadership at the behest of Laura Loomer.

S&P Global’s Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power,” told me the Iran war “points to the possibility of the nightmare scenario” for markets and the economy:

And of course, the traditional solemn trip to the waffle station at the presidential country club, as is customary for a United States Commander in Chief at war – remembering the sacrifices of those he sent to fight.

Trump must really be torn up over those dead service members. He was still wearing his official mourning hat today, as he played the traditional round of grieving golf. As one does.