this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

The only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is an even worse guy with a ballroom.

this is why trump needs his 30 ft tall mechanical spider that he can ride around on

3 takeaways: Pirates beat Brewers, win first three series against NL Central for 3rd time in 32 years

Sabastian Sawe has just become the first person in history to run a sub two-hour marathon in race conditions. www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/l...

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Tonight’s event is airing on C-SPAN. CSPAN actually runs with zero commercials. But I think they should just show ads for whoever’s bribing Congress right now. Like, “Senator Mitch McConnell is brought to you by Blue Cross/Blue Shield. They’ll turn down your cancer treatment so he can buy a boat!”

"So let’s get started. Much like I say every time I get in a Tesla – 'Buckle up, and let’s hope this whole thing doesn’t blow up!'"

"The last time you all had a woman hosting, she got in trouble for making a joke about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ smokey eye makeup. And for that reason, tonight I’m not even gonna mention J.D. Vance."

In 1962, John F. Kennedy threatened to boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner unless they started letting women attend. And in 2025, Donald Trump will boycott unless they stop.

And another thing: I’m not a basket case. Don’t put in the newspaper that I’m a basket case

This doesn't smell right. The ONE time he attends this dinner as president, the entire event, where he will be brutally mocked, gets ERASED. The exploitation and talking points seem TOO well choreographed. Trump is staging another show for his own benefit.

I'm sorry but I think it's kind of funny that we've all reached "Yeah I guess someone tried to get him again whatever"

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

I reposted this earlier today. Shortly thereafter I went to a organic grocery where a guy came out of the back room and loudly announced: "I know I said what I said about cheese." (long pause) "But fuck what I said."

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Thinking about the mythical pee tape tonight. I've always maintained that the most damning thing is that the tape existed or didn't. It's that not one person could say "well that doesn't sound like the Donald Trump I know." 1/3

Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

Meanwhile, at the White House correspondents dinner:

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

look at the clouds in the picture. it's the same picture

I feel like the Red Sox' 17-1 win today has to set a record for the greatest margin of victory in a game that was immediately followed by the manager being fired.

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Trump fires the entire National Science Board

BTW, this is how vouchers have ALWAYS worked when implemented. (1) Almost all the vouchers go to families already privately schooling their kids. (2) Once the vouchers are a thing, the private schools hike their tuition so that the few poors who get vouchers still can't afford them. #Segregation

as much as i despise AI, i have to admit that it has made it possible for anyone, no longer just the very wealthy, to be a big adult baby who doesn't know how to interact with normal people and throws a fit whenever they don't get their way

If I remade The Breakfast Club this is how Ally Sheedy would have changed again after the closing credits

Israel is bombing Lebanon again.

your tens of trillions of dollars spent on our military were unable to stop an Iranian F-5 (that we gave them in 1972) from causing billions of dollars of damage to U.S. bases https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-caused-extensive-damage-us-military-bases-publicly-known-rcna331853

I’m just thinking about how much thought and effort and worry I put into my job as a high school teacher and how little thought and effort and worry this senile pedophile puts into his job running the most powerful nation on Earth.

Me, yelling in a crowded restaurant: YEAH I wanna fuck the wolf from The Bad Guys, he's voiced by Sam Rockwell and they dress him in little suits OF COURSE I wanna fuck him, what are we even talking about

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you can't talk about declines in trust in public health without talking about the massive dark money campaigns led by right wing billionaires which targeted pandemic policies that threatened their profits + the politicians who supported them

wild how easily this shit takes off. a NYT interviewer mentions that he has seen people on social media framing their shoplifting as a form of protest, his interviewees say they aren't aware of this, and then chatterton writes up a whole pearl-clutching piece about it without any further research.

Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before

A few years ago, scientists observed *something* orbiting another star that wasn’t a planet, comet, or asteroid. Alien megastructure was a theory that was seriously considered, The star was 1500 light years away. If Alexander the Great had sent them a message we’d just be getting the reply now.

a very easy, small thing you can do to make the world every so slightly better is just talk about art and creators you like, be vocal when you enjoy something

a few weeks ago we joked “should we throw a baby rave at the bookstore?” and now there are a bunch of toddlers wearing glow sticks while dancing to elmo & bruno mars and playing with a cardboard turntable, and it’s THE CUTEST

is that bad? "The contract provisions...allow wealthy donors with business before the federal government to contribute anonymously to a sitting president’s pet project, while exempting the White House from key conflict of interest safeguards and limiting scrutiny by Congress and the public."

If you’re against DEI, you’re a segregationist and I’m tired of folks, for the sake of politeness and naïveté, pretending the discussion is anything but that.

Link:

In late March, 18-year-old Tucker Collins was on his way to completing his first year of college at the University of Southern California (USC), unaware of the life-altering events that were to come. The full story: lataco.com/usc-student-... By Lizbeth Solorzano and @shoton35mm.bsky.social

A message on the Camden Yards scoreboard: No more fireworks tonight as the Orioles have hit too many home runs.