mcconnell returning after weeks with a gigantic BBL

Me trying to talk to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

Similar to the reaction to the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case the muted response from the ostensible opposition party demonstrates a hegemonic victory of the “tough on crime” politics.

And 50 years later, things are... not going great

OH HEY I MADE THIS INSTEAD OF CHECKING REPLIES 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝘅 𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗭𝗘 LET ME PUT THIS IN LANGUAGE THAT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND:

funny and in hindsight unsurprising that many are assuming my original skeet was about digital slop, poorly maintained websites, bad search tools, etc. when in fact i'm more worried about the dozens and dozens of local news outlets that simply no longer exist

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

OK, I know the character is, but David Suchet isn't Belgian.

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

Thank you Facebook for showing me that there are conversations happening that are worse than I could’ve imagined.

Black feminists have told everyone that all politics are identity politics. But that "charge" is levied only at the marginalized. Oh well...

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

i mean, a teacher could do that, but they would be immediately fired and not allowed to continue collecting pay and benefits like our geriatric legislators

Well, well, well [deletes takes] looks like all of my takes have been vindicated

hey here's an idea maybe hold men responsible for acts of sexual violence as a matter of course

Your reminder that every “news” piece about Tilly Norwood is a press release. The creator keeps saying stuff and the media keeps printing it with no other sourcing. None of it is real

data visualization is my passion.

PJ Harvey should sue:

Id take it further, I would argue that pain is the goal here. The more I think about it, the more I see the need to jail and institutionalize as a manifestation of the need to punish difference. The impulse to institutionalize disabled people overlaps and is born of the same anxiety/disgust/anger.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social

FIFA is corrupt; Trump is corrupt; the Balogun call was bullshit; the suspension of the call was bullshit; the appeal of the suspension is bullshit. Wow this is like the perfect storm for a discourse. You have all sorts of possible stances to take. Have fun everyone.

what are we doing here? what is this?

None of us are free until Balogun is free

Rahm Emmanuel, considered one of the most pro Israel members of the Obama admin and a 2028 presidential candidate, is going to deliver a speech on Wednesday where he will call for an end to all taxpayer funded aid to Israel and sanctions on people, banks and companies engaged in settlement activity.

I haven't checked my voicemail in two weeks, so I probably have 57 new loan offers.

World Cup has made me realize there's just too many countries, this is really taking forever, and that's why borders should be eliminated

MLB should make a rule adjustment to prevent runners from being called out for momentarily losing contact with the base.

White Sox defense has not been good today.

Bluesky is #1 for stutter step discourse:

Understand why people in the US are taking this framing as primarily US focused but the “migrants who died at sea” piece is a very direct shot at the European policies which continues to drown or otherwise kill people attempting to migrate their too,

Dear European friends: If you don’t like the FIFA decision and think Trump/FIFA/USA is corrupt my suggestion is to BOYCOTT AND DIVEST FROM THIS FUCKING COUNTRY like I’ve been freaking begging you to because of our multiple HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!!

The weather on Juneteeth was incredible. Make of that what you will.

It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in an open field when we could hear thunder 😑

Maybe they’ll learn something, see they need us, they ain’t learning a damn thing and they want us dead.

Why does this feel like a spiritual sequel to the movie "Sinners?"

This is the other thing I thought of, but nobody's seen this show:

This is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. Fox News asked him to wave and he then waved. At the TV, not at them

"Through a scanner darkly."

Ignoring evacuation orders because weather is a liberal conspiracy. Conservatism is a death cult, as they say. bsky.app/profile/cmew...

Everything I have ever heard about this woman’s sex life has been against my will

*starts singing America the Beautiful, but specifically about Chicago*

250, y'all. Thinkin' about the melting pot today. Folks who came here outta hope or by force. Folks who were already here, minding their own damn business. All of us in this sometimes rocky boat, trying to make it work. I love y'all. Let's keep meltin' and whatnot.

Spiritually everything … Every sign is communicating… “Call it off”