Just because someone suffers from a systemic injustice, and feels intensely about a solution, doesn’t automatically mean they have the right solution, or should be “listened to” for the answer.

Cal Raleigh could kill a baseball right in the middle of the street in downtown Seattle, and people would let him do it. Cheer for it, even.

Mike Gundy and Ryan Walters, in the same week? This is the best week for Oklahoma in all of 2025.

there’s a phrase for Marvin, “a martyr without a cause”, and while folks know the trope-y version, I think Killdozer was ahead of the curve for becoming the darker version of this— a crank who saw resentments and conspiracies against him, built on nothing but his desire to “get justice”.

The many permutations of Marvin “Killdozer” Heemeyer, imo.

As a small example, the mayor of Palm Beach in 1993 was *checks notes* … … the great-grandson of Tsar Alexander II and an heir to the House of Romanov. Also, his dad was involved with killing Rasputin. Palm Beach!

This (very funny) line does raise the question: has Palm Beach ever not been in “a different time”? Was there a period when it was ever normal?

“I then moved into a peroration on the subject that everyone was able to cheer for. And, behold, I had my boat through the impossible strait!”

Setting aside politics, this is such a wild mishmash of a metaphor. 5.0 degree of difficulty for a straddle…in a water passage…that has a peroration at the end of it

There’s still time to have some excellent cobs of corn if you live in the US

To me, fair Friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed Such seems your beauty still.

George Constanza wearing the new line of Yankees jackets

I don’t think I’ve actually shared the damn original. Anyways, this is what “Choctaw Bingo”. A culture that is only occasionally and tangentially related to Native gaming establishments.

19th and early 20th century America was a land of beautiful language

and vegan milk is from WHERE?

Got to hang irl with @rumpledchords.bsky.social this afternoon, meet your Bluesky friends, folks, it rocks

Kinda wild how some of the people who have the best grip on where things are going are people who've done psychedelics and not fallen into the hole about them. I forget that some people are still back on the first bank of the river, and I imagine some of this is extra inexplicable.

Kinda curious what answer JD would give if he was asked "and why is being called a Nazi a bad thing?"

I have spent years trying to call it "y'know, like, the best music you've ever heard" but people don't usually take me up on it either

If any of my followers say the first screencap about _me_... I will support them, for they are right to say so.

There are so many parts of driving a car, sense-wise, that get twisted by EVs, it's pretty neat. We all think a fast car is a loud car, and that relationship between power and noise is severed now.

The reason why I use Sport Mode is pretty defensive. Every once in awhile you will get stuck in front of an aggressive asshole in a huge truck who tailgates on people and bulls through the left lane. Dusting their ass to get away and back over to the right lane is a nice option, but like 5-10s max

There is still time to get in on this, gang. We are going to have supercars that have minimal engine noise, and that is going to open up all kinds of options for race courses.

Has the average person gained more self-understanding over the past 100 years? Less? If you think it has remained roughly the same, do you think it's been a static quotient, or have there been rises and falls along the way?

Like, if a damn etiquette guide for oil and gas execs can tell those God-fearing Texans that “the West has had a blind spot to Arab people and Arab cultures, for centuries”, surely we can make this a baseline element of the Democratic Party, and what we expect people to accept.

I say it a lot, and mean it: I am really glad for my time in animal right/veg activism before I came into progressive politics. It let me see the inert nature of purity demands, persuasion is slow, etc…but it also gave me good time having to row a boat next to doofuses and annoying people

Walter Russell Mead has the (imo) very good line that goes something like “if Jews ran the US government of the 30s and 40s like antisemites claimed, Israel would likely never have existed.”

Most Americans of all stripes take it for granted that 17th and 18th century Anglo Christians had Old Testament first names. This isn’t true on a global scale— the US was founded by self-guided Bible nerds

Not lecturing OP, they surely know, but: the same dynamics that keep Arabs outside the camp of US liberal views is (imo) the same blindspot that lets liberal people have literalist views of the Bible and Christian fundamentalism persist in their midsts, and politics.

I’m glad more people are seeing the consumerism in this stuff: vocally support, demand, buy, etc. These people claim to be taking on a gigantic interlocking system of disease and evil profit, and all they got is Yell At The Manager in their toolbox

We can expand this a little bit, but not much, and it’s pretty much just gonna be the physical freaks, like Usain Bolt. And I know Shiv knows this, but: even Lebron has to thread injury luck.

I think this is where I’m at, too. I understand the folks who think a US-led global order would be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s kinda disquieting how many We Still Got It voices aren’t the most rabid “we have to upend the domestic order we’ve known for a century” ppl too.

i have great love for what the international order *could* be, but I believe future historians will describe it as a world-class blunder to look at "15-20 years of FDR presidencies" and think the US the right platform for establishing international human rights and orders. We were barely stable.

Feel like Peter Thiels is the perfect example of the type of person who should be gatekept from certain conversations. An insufferably self-assured person that waddles into the deeper end and demands an audience. “Read some Diarmaid MacCulloch or STFU, bud”

The guy’s a dumbo, folks

A candy coated rabies vaccine that doesn’t require a supply chain fitted with electricity, there’s hope for Ohio, god be praised

I promise you that there are people who’ve studied the issue of security sector reform more than “the guy who made one of Obama’s favorite TV shows on HBO”

the suburbs of Dallas probably probably have more of these dead-end racist dildos than any metro in the country

If we don’t want to use the word “defund”, I am fine with going back to the more academic terms: the United States needs transitional justice and security sector reform. We need to “disarm, demobilize and reintegrate” the armed groups known as US domestic police.

I promise I will stop bringing up Keith Ellison as soon as I’m convinced that the people and resources who screwed him over aren’t so close to Democratic elite influence. Unfortunately, the race for NYC Mayor involves some of the same people.

When people say “every generation is the same”, what kind of things are they referring to?

Ah well, nevertheless

there’s not a lot of cultural conversations about “the greatest” that I feel comfortable participating in, but there’s a couple, and one of them is WASPs, and “Martha Stewart Living” is one of the peaks of WASP Culture

In medieval England, there was a “Peter’s pence”, a-penny-per-household tax that was sent to the Holy See. This seems like such a bargain for salvation, in today’s economy,

I’m not sure if Chotiner-Menswear Guy is an “irresistible force meets and an immovable object”, or if they’re like two magnetic poles that can’t be near each other, too powerful

What do we think Chotiner does when the interviews conclude and the phone line or chat window is closed? Does he burst into guffaws? Go cook family dinner? Return to his book of bridge problems? Throw consecutive triple-20s into a dartboard?

I would also add, that “an America that adequately defenestrates its authoritarian sects and funding networks” would present the most reliable and stable global partner in….in a long time

baseball is a comedy-based sport, and this is going to give us at least a couple dozen extra moments of comedy

the global international order, the church, if you will

If you are a prophet, you shouldn’t expect any priest to be enthused with your comments.