It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

Would be cool to have one guy athlete who wasn’t bad

Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

The @bostonglobe.com keeps throwing him freelance assignments. Meanwhile, check out the NY Post cover today. It'd be nice if the ostensibly liberal media acted like it for once.

This thread made me think, "Remember how Dairy Queen came out with a blended drink and called it the 'MooLatte?' Wow, that was crazy," and then I looked it up AND THEY STILL SELL IT?!? HOLY SHIT!

In a normal, actual functioning democracy, he'd be forced to resign tonight. In our system, there will be absolutely no consequences.

The extent to which Diggins and Shiffrin have been so open about their experiences is quite remarkable. Hard not to root for them.

There’s not really any reason to be the biggest assholes ever and yet that’s literally their aspiration

(Homer Simpson voice) Kash Patel: Is there any hockey milestone he *can't* ruin?

They should just redo the 1984 program: guy flying in on a jetpack, bunch of pianos playing "Rhapsody in Blue," maybe some Lionel Richie (looking no older than he did back then). Bland, yet totally inoffensive.

Did Mark Stone get his uncle to take his place for the medal ceremony? Guy looks like he's 55.

I’m so proud of these dudes whose social media content I will never, ever check

Amherst > Lowell, at least in this case.

Re-upping this piece. Still feeling disengaged about all this. the-anthem.beehiiv.com/p/switching-...

An awful lot of Olympic Village furniture got a stay of execution today, for sure.

The amount of prime real estate they've given him, Mounk, Singal and others over the last year has really sucked. Just be the liberal paper your readers (and haters) expect you to be.

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

The man is the #1 public health menace in the United States. Measles comes in second place. At least measles can’t destroy the entire vaccine effort in the United States. RFK Jr can and is doing so.

Of all the writers who've exposed themselves as a Dipshit Clown during the last decade, Conor's the Dipshit Clowniest.

The end of the Jessie Diggins race will get significant play in primetime tonight, I suspect. Absolutely inspiring but also ... kinda hard to watch. One of the most resilient athletes anywhere.

Tonight ought to slow the roll on the "Will McDaniels get a third shot at a head coaching gig?" discussion.

Well that'll piss off the right people.

He's the best. (I mean Alan. Vrabel's pretty good, too, though.)

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Donald Trump has never apologized to the Exonerated 5, who were TEENAGERS when they were falsely convicted. He still says these innocent men are guilty. This is the ad Trump took out with his own money against them back in the day. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACIST.

Best we could hope for, really.

From The Anthem: You can find plenty of examples of principled stands in U.S. sports over the years ... but oh, how things have changed.

Everything else sucks, but it truly is the Golden Age for lovable mascots who crave fiery death. #poptarts

The Olympics are here. The World Cup is coming. The country is fractured. Introducing The Anthem, my attempt to figure it all out. the-anthem.beehiiv.com/p/switching-...

First great contest of these Olympics: Kevin Martin battling to say "off-fense" instead of "oh-fence."

How the hell can they negotiate with Johnson after the comments about the 2020 election the other day? There's not an ounce of good faith.

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

I am biased because alt-weeklies formed me as a reader and a journalist, but I pitch this idea all the time everywhere I go. Communities need a raucous, widely accessible cultural and political touchstone in some usable form. The knowledge and experience are always there, if someone has the capital

Intentionally hobbling one of the last major newspapers (and destroying its highly regarded sports section) is unforgivable. Bezos is a villain.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

You don't see a lot of "Lighten up, Toots" anymore ... quite the throwback.

This is not surprising. It's not suspicious. It's completely banal. Mike Johnson knows this. He's pretending not to know this because he's a coward and a sleazebag who pretends to be a pious Christian.

OMFG. 18 hours to go 170 miles. Buona fortuna, spettatori olimpico!

In a non-Crazy Pills world, the meticulous work @ddale8.bsky.social did in 2016, documenting years upon years of lies, would have sunk the campaign.

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

Again, there is one constitutional mechanism for solving problems like "The president threatens to nationalize & overturn valid elections." For the previous 45 presidents, it would have been used already. Everyone is just kidding themselves at this point & pretending there are other solutions.

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

man the guy with all of these accusations in the epstein files is the same guy ordering masked agents to minneapolis where they are shooting people execution-style in the street, demanding ten billion dollars from the treasury, blowing up longstanding alliances. wild that our system has no remedy

The cover-up is simultaneously sinister and incompetent in almost equal measures

Democratic leadership neeeds to stop working with and compromising with the GOP, period. Oppose, oppose, oppose. Use every tool available to slow them down, and loudly explain why. You can't treat any of this nonsense as if it's legitimate.

24 hours later: Trump has two journalists arrested