The Hurl of Sandwich. The defendant walked free, with a rye smile on his face. Despite grilling him, the prosecution was unable to summon the special sauce needed to get a conviction. Their case was toast from the beginning. And thus a hero was born. I'm sorry. I'm trying to delete this

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

this is literally just the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

"Hwæt" Beowulf, 1000 Unknown 🇬🇧

Amazing thread from the meeting of the stupidest bag-holders on Earth.

My favorite comment on the FT story

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

subway’s chief marketing officer cannot believe his luck

Subway should absolutely create a sandwich combo meal called The Dunn Deal.

🎵 I threw the sandwich ... but I did not catch the felony 🎶

I believe that Captain Sandwich, after his total acquittal, should receive free sandwiches for life. Not since the Earl of Sandwich has a person furthered the simple plight of the submarine sandwich. He is the hero of heroes!!!

I don't know if it's just me, but I've gotten the sense recently that transphobia a political tool is already played out. Not only is it not a winner, but it really feels like the right overplayed their hand with anti-trans hate and people generally seem sick of it, sick of bulling running on hate.

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

"The Pope is infallible in matters of faith & morals" is the whole *point* of Catholicism! You explicitly *don't* get to pick & choose things he's wrong about! If you want to be Christian w/o caring what the Pope thinks, you can be a Protestant! But Vance & friends are being literal heretics here.

And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Ohhhh hell yeah kotaku.com/jonathan-bai...

The Pope needs to start wielding his power and excommunicating “Catholics” like Vance Denying a Catholic Eucharist is massive. That’s like saying you cannot pray. Communion may not be a big thing in Protestant Christianity but it’s essential in Catholicism, the religion most ICE detainees practice

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

congrats to Donald Trump for figuring out how to install the "gold ink" cartridge on his inkjet printer

Along with everything else, Trump admitting the shutdown led to a bloodbath for Republicans should at an absolute minimum lead Dem Senators to shelve their apparent plan to prematurely cave. He's admitting he and the GOP are in a weak position, Dems. Exploit that!

Mike Johnson's only lens for explaining the universe is that *everyone* is toddlers throwing tantrums

my rep has introduced impeachment articles for Trump twice and Kavanaugh once, so in think she's good

I'm no lawyer, but the Supremes seem unimpressed by the President's lawyer in the tariffs case. Prediction markets have revised the probability of the White House winning (and the tariffs being found constitutional) from 45% to 30% in just half an hour.

TIL there are 70 highway routes in Minnesota that are explicitly established in the state Constitution and can't be removed without a constitutional amendment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legisla...

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

America's Mayor

Big day for people who care about other people

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

the Zohran Mamdate

Trans rights is a winning platform. Pro immigration is a winning platform. Taxing the rich is a winning platform. Affordable housing is a winning platform. Free childcare is a winning platform. Hating Andrew Cuomo is a winning platform. SOCIALISM IS A WINNING PLATFORM

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

I wonder how the council of unelected law wizards is handling tonight. Well, Alito's sorted: he's about to fly several flags that they don't let you display in Germany

imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

congrats to WRITE-IN for coming within 20 votes of beating Eric Adams for 4th place (out of 8)

Gentlemen: thank you for your service.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

TIL that Minnesota has two state constitutions, because the state Democratic & Republican Parties hated each other so much that they drafted & ratified two separate, nearly identical, versions & sent *both* to the US Congress for approval. A truly Minnesotan level of passive-aggressive pettiness.

this was Jesse Ventura's whole thing

oh fuck, called out

"Western tourist in Japan" x.com/dailyportalz...

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

i did not have "teen vogue milkshake ducks" on my 2025 bingo card

co-signed, by someone whose $5.15/hour manual labor job convinced me to get a degree where i could have a desk job