Last I checked the Super Bowl is like two months away

Legalizing widespread and easy gambling was a mistake

The Olivia Nuzzi thing feels like an elaborate hypothetical designed to teach journalism students why they shouldn’t have relationships with sources/subjects, to the point that it’s genuinely shocking there are people defending it

It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be

it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law

Sy Ableman???

Chris Rufo literally was a core figure in boosting a lie that Haitian immigrants in an Ohio town ate pets. He offered a bounty for “information” after the lie was repeatedly debunked. Spare us the navel-gazing nonsense.

Hard to imagine how this would come remotely close to surviving the unconstitutional conditions doctrine (but then again who knows whether that still meaningfully exists)

Just comically on the nose

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

For all the assertions that the Biden administration was horrendously out of touch on the issue of inflation, I defy you to find a single instance in which Biden said people should just suck it up and buy less.

Feels like Renate Reinsve has very quickly ascended to the top tier of currently working actors

I watched “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” when I was a teenager and thought it was really good, and then again as an adult having gone through real relationships and breakups and now it’s one of the most profound movies I’ve ever seen

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

One of the lesser-known post-Nixon reform laws, the Tunney Act, was passed specifically because Nixon was extracting favors in exchange for favorable antitrust treatment of mergers

This is where you see people genuinely treating LLMs as if they know things, rather than that they are, at best, a version of reading a lot of stuff that’s already on the internet. Even if the idea that Carol is Kim weren’t silly, which it is, that would be inside the head of Vince Gilligan.

Hall voters hate Barry Bonds so much they decided to put Jeff Kent in just to spite him

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

By the way this is why I know they’re lying when they say they knew who was on the boats and they’re all on a military list. The US military had somehow built a dossier on Robert Sanchez, the boat pilot living in a cinderblock house and earning $100 a month? He was next on the kill list after Osama?

"sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat" What did you think they were able to do at that point? Launch their Iron Man gear?

There is no point in debating someone who says a man taking off his shirt as he sits atop his destroyed vessel is a dangerous act that merits an air strike. That person is lying and will lie no matter what you say. At that point you need to tell him that you know he’s lying.

Yes, the entire murderous campaign is premised on the GOP pretending we live in some kind of Breaking Bad Extended Universe where drug cartels are peer-state enemies with fleets, Air Forces, and maniacally dedicated soldiers who will continue “their mission” after being blown to bits in the ocean.

There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really. Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.

Maybe a hot take, but I sincerely think people are reading *way* too much into this. Sydney Sweeney isn’t an especially proven star, the movie had very little publicity and mediocre reviews, and this kind of movie has been tanking for years now

Wait the FIFA thing isn’t a joke?

I think national security is serious business, and life or death decisions should be taken seriously, rather than treated as entertainment for anti-speech activists on social media. I also know that, for the regime and its fans, people like me objecting to gleeful war crimes adds to their enjoyment.

As Kagan notes, SCOTUS has given states a cheat code to enact illegally racist voting laws: just pass them close enough to an election that the Purcell principle will bar judicial review! Under this logic, courts couldn’t block actual Jim Crow laws within a year of an election. It can’t be right.

The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'

the only information about this arrest by Kash Patel’s FBI is that the person arrested is “a man” and given the fact that we just went through weeks of right-wing conspiracy theories about the J6 pipe bomber(s), it’s worth slowing all the way down as news leaks out about this arrest

So a few things: 1) The initial boat strike was illegal; 2) The two survivors were trying to continue their drug run by clinging to wreckage?! 3) The initial boat strike was illegal.

I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.

“Liberation” and “John Proctor Is the Villain” would make for an amazing two-show weekend

“Both sides’ perspectives are equally valid” is simultaneously one of the deepest foundations of how journalism works in this country and one of the ones that most urgently needs correcting

I think it's bad that the president is constantly saying things that would get you immediately removed from any work happy hour or neighborhood barbecue

On top of everything else disgusting about this, let’s not lose sight of the fact that Megyn Kelly tried to remake herself as a liberal/nonpartisan journalistic hero, washed out both because she couldn’t hack it and because of her documented history of bigotry, and has now doubled down on hatred

Drug trafficking is not an act of war. This whole idea that these boats can kill millions of Americans is fantasy land. It's based on a fake statistic about fentanyl. And they're not going to the US and they're not carrying fentanyl.

Also, this tweet should be a scandal in its own right! The Secretary of Defense, currently under bipartisan scrutiny for potentially committing cold-blooded murder of shipwrecked men, is cracking public jokes about what he did - essentially spitting in the face of his victims AND Congress.

Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.

I feel increasingly confident that Trump is going to pardon Sam Bankman-Fried (whom, it should be remembered, the right was certain wouldn’t be prosecuted because he had donated to Democrats)

MAGA stands for freedom of speech (with the exception of journalists, elected members of the opposition party, former administration officials, anti-fascists, students, librarians, scientists, federal civil servants, immigrants, and any US citizen who criticizes their lord and savior Donald Trump).

Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased. Truly Orwellian.