Must mean he got the high sign from one of his stooges there that things will go differently the next time.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

Every conservative pundit’s working overtime to try to make Platner’s sexual assault the face of the New Democratic Party and Donny can’t help but go “well hold on a minute, maybe she made it up”. What an incredible political specimen.

Over on Facebook, we have been celebrating this queen like she's a damn holiday. The accomplishment really is incredible on any level you can imagine.

Theoretical contrarianism, the heartless "well, actually ... " of the protected class. At parties they would be the "let me play devil's advocate" person whose face you want to punch after about 12 seconds.

"stick to politics"

American politics is being dominated by toxic white men because America has a predilection for electing them. As long as that continues, American politics will continue to be dominated by toxic white men. And not just politics.

We can't believe we have to say this, but consent can be revoked at any time, and consenting to one thing does not imply consent to any other thing.

today i learned that the official song for the 1978 world cup was by ennio morricone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQd...

you joke but this is what a number of the punditry seems to think. They need to be punched in the neck.

I don't think I've ever wanted anything more in my entire life than for Count Binface to win the Clacton by-election

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

It is worth noting that Trump has just made it easier for some people with mental health complexities to acquire firearms, and wants to make it possible to buy guns by mail from a company one of his spawn has a stake in.

This is a Monty Python skit. Sensible Party vs the Very Silly

Free idea for MS NOW: Offer Trump an hour live on the air to explain exactly how the 2020 election was stolen. He’d get that hour under the conditions that he appear alone and face questions. He could bring source materials. Trump wouldn't do it, of course, but his refusal would highlight his fraud.

This would be more fun if voters could randomly apply electric jolts through the bracelet, like those electric fence things that keep pets in the yard.

Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

I wrote about the lads

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Pochettino thoroughly debased himself in this tournament and before it with his sucking up to Trump and his gleeful acceptance of open corruption in his favour. He richly deserved this humiliation even if his players didn’t.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

One thing about a bartender: they can spot a Type

Same process as moving away from the dollar. It's tricky, it takes time, it's hard to find alternatives, but everyone knows it's essential

It has felt like almost every game at this World Cup, someone on the pitch has been credibly accused of, or is set to stand trial for, some form of sexual assault. Football has an enormous issue and clubs and federations are letting us all down in protecting these players.

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY

Even more than that bsky.app/profile/hlee...

Spectacular self-delusion. “But no matter how the Balogun story ends, it wasn’t at its core about politics or favoritism...It was about righting a wrong and minimizing the damage done to a team’s chances of winning the World Cup. What nation in the same situation wouldn’t have done the same thing?”

You knew this was coming.

good to see that public contrition and self-reflection is still a thing that happens

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Seeing a lot of "distracted team" posts that overrate the USMNT. That scoreline was always likely if Belgium plays anywhere to standard, and apparently they did. No knock on the USMNT, they just aren't at the necessary level yet and it's okay to admit that.

Pro tip: Never undertake a bicycle maintenance project after 11 p.m. It will lead to nothing good, sleep-wise. At least I was able to successfully complete it and come upstairs to tidings of great joy.

Belgium should still appeal the protest, just for funsies. Assuming of course that Trump doesn't call Infantino to find a way to declare Belgium ineligible because of visa problems or something.

Yo. That person is ... the president?

So obviously, some news since these posts: 1. He should obviously drop out 2. I hope that the person who gets put in there as the nominee wins. Definitely an uphill battle, for sure.

Sorry, but just last week Brett Kavanaugh wrote a Supreme Court opinion that's going to be the basis for the complete dismantling of my rights in the coming years. Susan Collins is what that happened. Rooting for her downfall, no matter who her opponent is, does not make one a "Nazi."

Me: "I would prefer that Susan Collins, a woman who has voted to make the life of me and everyone like me worse, who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, who has helped advance Donald Trump's agenda." Average Democratic poster: "You are literally Hitler."

Seems like America's predilection for white males in politics is an increasing problem. Dude needs to have already dropped out so that a (hopefully) properly vetted candidate can replace him. Because holy shit.

If Platner were to drop out by July 13, the Maine Democratic Party would be able to replace him on the ballot.

The Platner vetting must have been the equivalent of someone sniffing the air outside and saying, "He's cool. Let's roll." The Dems have a problem on their hands, while Collins doesn't have to do a thing.

With no Mike Pence to do the right thing, what is going to happen if Belgium wins?

Mbappe fires back at the racist Paraguayan senator who said he grew up with chimpanzees

The Belgian FA's reaction will be interesting. Apparently FIFA has a strict rule against governmental interference in the tournament, previously invoked a couple previous times. Per the rule, the affected NT is immediately ejected from the tournament. HAHAHAHAHAHA, never ever.

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

How TF can Belgium have no standing in its appeal? What an astonishing, but also entirely unsurprising ruling from FIFA, handed down not long after Trump bragged about putting his thumb on the scale. And Balogun plays for the USMAGANT.

That. Is. A. Load. Of. Bullshit

What is funny about this is he is in many ways echoing the many USMNT supporters who screamed at me about how unfair the red was, including one who claimed to have been watching with former Division 1 players, and none thought it was a red. My ass.