60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

In 2016, when Post reporter Jason Rezaian was freed after spending 1.5 years in Iranian prison, Jeff Bezos personally flew him back on his private plane. Bezos used it as a photo op. Now, Bezos is leaving people he laid off overseas in a lurch. bsky.app/profile/myhl...

Hoo boy, it seems like McKenzie Scott has a tempting way to kick sand in her ex's face and do even more good.

Gutted for Vonn. She knew the risks and rolled the dice, making the decision that a great many athletes would make, which is to go for it. You talk to your doctors and then you sit with yourself and you make the call. Sad for her that it didn't have the storybook ending she hoped for.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Don't exaggerate this. Ventura is scheduled to take a whomping. Part of why he wanted to delay the election was that areas in which he is strong have been hard hit by the flooding. Seguro was at 60 to 65 percent in polling preference.

His sole political gift was and is understanding how horrible a majority of Americans are, and how susceptible those people are to the lie that that they have been mistreated. His other gift was the Dems. Politics is often just timing.

After Celta Vigo's Borja Iglesias was subjected to homophobic abuse, including that he painted his nails — his club fought back. Borja's team-mates and 5,000 fans painted their nails for their next match💅 (Article free to read on @theathleticfc.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

This is why these here Internets exist.

Speed skating (long and short), bobsled, luge, x-c skiing, biathlon. End of.

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?

Bravo. Not "racially tinged," "controversial," or "allegedly racist." This post's language is absolutely correct, and laudable. May it signal a change in the way his actions are presented.

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

A federal judge is allowing the public release of much of the evidence in the case of a woman who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent last year that includes text messages on the agent’s phone. blockclubchi.co/4ckKRoC

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

bring back shame

Important reporting www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Here’s a message to Republican lawmakers who enable President Donald Trump and every American who still supports him: You own the deeply racist video he posted to his social media account in the late-night hours of Feb. 5. My column on the complicity of silence:a www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

They're just having the athletes march in to a deejay bumping techno. They're like, "We remember what Paris did. Ain't trying to top that."

Trump didn't see that Obama post my ass. For someone who wants to be in control of everything and own it all, it's amazing when bad things happen, "Someone else did that."

Went down to see the Douro today and holy shit. My usual cycling route is gone. A fancy new hotel down there was closed due to flooding.

By cracky, if I was a younger man and still working ... Someone should apply for this gig. I know so many people there and every last damn one of them is cool AF. Good people and good journalists. Imagine that.

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The thing about Scott saying that the video Turmp posted was the most racist thing to come from the White House makes you strain your mind to think back on the litany of racist things to come from Scott's Dear Leader, and wonder if his statement is in fact true. That's how bad shit is.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am not. Every time someone types, "This isn't who we are" or some such, I think, "No, this is exactly who they are, and why I am no longer a resident of that country."

I'm sorry when was AOC a "left-wing agitator?" She was an elected member of congress. She didn't harass fellow members like MTG did/does. Is being left of Pelosi considered being an "agitator" by the NYT's? Does Kellen know what being a "left-wing agitator" means?

I am old enough to remember when Hillary Clinton calling Trump voters "deplorables" was in the news for days and days.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Looks like as of right now, the presidential election are a go for Sunday in Portugal, unless a state of emergency is declared. sicnoticias.pt/especiais/el...

I would love to know the cost of this compared to, say, USAID.

I read the story, and holy shit, but it still isn't clear if the victim was just searching for porn in general, or searching *specifically* for spy-cam porn on the channel devoted to it, and found the video in question. Is the cam circle closed or not? (I know, I know ... damn editors.)

Can you imagine the hearings, and headlines, and hysteria if, say, Obama was president and in the Epstein Files? Weeping families on Fox News asking how he is still president, etc. That there isn't a bipartisan hue and cry now is illustrative of how bad and riven everything is.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

For those who believed the caffeine suppository of the U.S. cycling team during that one Games couldn't be topped, I bring you ... dick injections.

This is Zephyr. He is a professionally trained bed bug detector. When he recognizes the scent of live bed bugs, he gives an alert by sitting and smiling exuberantly at his handler. We're pretty sure no one has ever been more excited to find bed bugs in their life. 13/10 (TT: emmercrew)

Both candidates calling for the postponement of Portugal's Sunday presidential election second round, as parts of the country are quite actually underwater.

International travel to the US has plunged in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, as the president has overseen a dramatic expansion of immigration enforcement, mounting scrutiny at the border and global tariffs. ft.trib.al/qS5dOcd

Now if the Dems aren't dumbasses, they will make it abundantly clear whose fault those higher premiums are, even as this here app will feature lots of "Dems suck for caving" stuff, this is an opportunity for them if properly used.

It seems that the majority of America has reached a tipping point with cruelty toward immigrants. It's a pity that these ghouls, who seem to be using so much of what Trump and his cabal are doing as a template, aren't seeing how the story plays out.

Enforcement is the larger question. What are the penalties for noncompliance?

That‘s the spirit.

If people don't support it, it goes away. "Getting the paper" used to be so automatic. Journalism entities were like utilities as you just got the paper. On the way to work or school, you got the paper. The farther away those days move, the more in danger journalism entities become.

This VAR check is hilarious. The defender pulled the shirt over the Real Sociedad aka Real Sickosiodad attacker. A pen was awarded.

WE GOT A LAMBO!!! #WorldBollardAssociation

Every last damn word of this thread.

And somewhere, Pep Guardiola's ears perked up.

So, here's the thing about newspaper advertising vs subscription revenue… www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.