"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”

That, and the governing body has historically decided not to make it a sport (though the IOC has recognized it as a sport since 2016!). (See: cheerdaily.com/industry/is-...) There was a Leverage episode about it. Among other things, safety standards are higher for sports.

TSA is already part of DHS. They get a photo of every single person who goes through security. This is nothing but pure terror and intimidation. Abolish DHS

When "Abolish ICE" gets applause from people who watch The View, you know we've reached a turning point.

Oooh, really love the slightly subtle racism here.

Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned

Except with the tariffs, China *did* escalate against the US and ended up with the upper hand.

One of my priors is that things are really bad if I am coming across news related to the bond market.

Uhhh so they've started the transition from concentration camps to death camps I guess.

They really, really care about prices

outside of leftist spaces its not extremely hostile, but there is a level of eye rolling sneering, a kind of "oh god them again" that is very prevalent, and yes an air that all right thinking people don't like Israel, the place not its current government

Huh, nice. I think I'll pick that up.

Murder

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

"critics say that Elon Musk is a right-winger, but he's less interested in free speech and low taxes and more interested in white birthrates and a heroic autocrat winning the coming ethnic war", etc.

it's like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, right? the more times you say the country is free and popular, the more autocratic it is. the more times an Atlantic columnist (or whomever) says that a political movement "defies easy categorization" the more fash it is.

One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.

Infuriating that “cancel student loans” is a nonstarter but “dismantle entire post-war coalition” and “unaccountable masked federal agents killing people with impunity” are viewed as legitimate policies.

Oh it's even worse. It's literally "fuck you, I'm taking it."

I tell this story all the time bc it helped me so it might help you, but... As a wee lamb alone in NYC, I asked a stranger how to tell the difference between uptown and downtown. She rolled her eyes, swore about jackasses, and told me when the numbers go UP, that's uptown, and DOWN means downtown.

I hold to my unpopular opinion that we know how his story ends. The way the TV show ended. He saw how everyone reacted to that ending and said “well fuck, that was my ending, fuck ’em if they don’t like it”.

Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

genuinely obsessed with this idea that some people are more likely to believe in time travel than a man being horny. "Charlie was a wifi router because he said he always felt a connection."

lmao, neighborhood Signal chat full of people who would otherwise be considered “wine moms” has turned against the New York Times for their coverage of what’s happening

Product design liability question of the day!

if the Europeans do this it’ll be painful for a lot of people and businesses and also Macron’s approval ratings will spike

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.

Reminder that the immigration system overwhelmingly preferred by the entire electorate, the first choice of basically everyone but ethnonationalist freaks is vastly more liberal than we've had in generations -- but they believe it to be more stringent!!!!

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

this reminded me that if you get a yoshi in your item box, you can force him to spawn while carrying himself in his own mouth. forcing him to spit himself out makes him do whatever this is

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

Yup wasn't ready

What the fuck? Like I knew they weren't *really* investigating but I thought they were doing a pretend investigation both for form's sake and to justify stonewalling state investigators. They're just like "no, we will not in any way investigate this homicide committed by one of our officers"?

The topless sleeved implied by sleeveless tops.

Of course it would be Miller... *taps the sign* bsky.app/profile/benh...

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Forty years ago a point-shaving conspiracy of this scope would have been like a weeks-long top-of-the-fold national scandal, and there’d have been congressional hearings Legalized gambling and 10+ years of casual Trumpian graft have corrupted the American public & press

We really are ruled by the dumbest motherfuckers around, aren't we?

NATO IS THE SECURITY UMBRELLA. That is why UKRAINE WANTS TO BE UNDER IT. Sorry for shouting but this is the Treasury Secretary of the United States, the world's still-dominant military power. And the Treasury is most definitely a foreign policy agency.

Our treaty with Denmark would let us put any military installation we like on Greenland, we already have a principal missile defense radar and use to have many more

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

I’m not reading too much into this. This fucking tweet has 14 words, and 88 characters with spaces.

i am reading the politico article about "what went wrong" at the university of austin and i want to say: author evan mandery please let me inspect your wallet in case there are any woke pronouns or onerous regulations in there

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...