Sorry to self-promote, but this old blog post still works, imo. I don't preach a fun method, but I do think it works, from experience snowden.st/2024/11/09/w...

i feel like we dont stop to remember how funny the wagner coup is often enough like, i cant imagine a day that wouldnt be made better by someone just randomly coming up and reminding you of the wagner coup

Not the point at all, but showing off your physical fitness by going to the putting green is like saying you eat healthy because you put lettuce on your fried chicken sandwich.

a liberalism or a socialism that does not reckon with the ideological and moral dead end of nationalism will always fail it's stated goals. Russian nationalism helped kill the Soviet Union, White nationalism is killing the United States, and eventually Han nationalism will probably poison the CCCP

The only thing that would be funnier than Jasmine Crockett and Ted Cruz being Texas senators at the same time would be both of them being on the supreme court at the same time.

They have created this entire mythology around Justice Jackson being stupid, where her stupidity is refusing to accept the ascendant conservative legal norms

The structural argument that they used to tell us that the framers of the 14th Amendment couldn't possibly mean what it plainly says was possibly the single most disgusting thing that I have ever heard in the history of American jurisprudence.

the fact that farm workers are significantly disenfranchized non-citizens is not just bad for the obvious labor relations reasons but because it wildly skews the politics of rural areas

the gulf between the understanding one gets of american politics from reading the primary sources (poasts), vs the understanding one gets from reading the news is irreconcilable. i’m forever dropping truth social links in the GC, because print and tv news refuses to not lie to their audiences

I think a lot lately about how very young people being able to spend money on leisure was a notable part of the postwar boom

Should bsky horseshoe into becoming pro boat strike to stop the hantavirus? The Longest thread in history locked after

The fact that the states doing this are exactly the ones you thought it would be proves how essential the Voting Rights Act still is.

I would like to see a future Dem administration look deep into the FDD for FARA violations. They're the number one advocate of this approach when it's used on others, and frankly I don't believe that it's only a ~$24m operation

We get: open Strait of Hormuz, nuclear inspections, ending support for regional militias Iran gets: sanctions relief, rebuilt infrastructure, State of Palestine, and Air Force One landing at Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport with Trump, Netanyahu, Hegseth and ~20 other war criminals in restraints

SAM

what if cigarettes were a sport?

The failure of elite institutions is not relegated to the legal profession.

Would also note that a big part of the watching-sports-on-TV experience is being able to flip from game to game. This was true even way back in the day when my dad had me walk across the room to change the channel. Being forced to switch from one app to another every time is so much worse.

So it sounds like Trump is going to destroy my home course, where I’ve played hundreds of rounds over the last six years. Before that happens, I want to share with everyone how special of a place it was. This is East Potomac: a photo essay by someone who sucks at photography.

looks like the nba scheduled another game 7 tonight. i do not know why they ever do this. it doesn't take a math degree to realize that if a series lasts for seven games, one team will end up with fewer wins than the other. it's sloppy, it's asymmetrical, and it's a bad look for the league

White House to Congress on May 1st: Hostilities with Iran have terminated. CENTCOM on May 1st: U.S. Forces continue to enforce the ongoing naval blockade of Iran.

2025 sucks because men will blast life-shortening substances to achieve perfectly naturally attainable builds as a mid life crisis instead of buying the Mazda MX-5 Miata, God's perfect sports car.

Credit to @kaine.senate.gov for asking CJCS Caine yesterday about the legal basis for the boat strikes. Caine offered no legal justification for the strikes but only referred to a classified legal opinion—presumably the OLC memo. Administration's refusal to release this OLC memo is very telling.

Frankfort, Louisville, Lexington

The copaganda runs so deep that *testimony* that directly results in *this* is still only an “allegation”

just for reference there are over nine and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter of this game

now playing for the new york knicks

Maybe this'll get folks to pay attention to the *checks notes* 70,000 Kuwaitis who have already had their citizenship revoked

Holding a big presidential gala every year for the top two hundred individual taxpayers and their plus-ones would be kind of a fun thing to do.

If Democrats actually want to fight back after the VRA ruling, they should split DC into 8 wards and admit them as 8 states. That’s 16 more Senators. That’s a supermajority to codify pro-democracy reform into the Constitution and end the era of minority rule forever. No more half-measures.

Woke II shouldn’t stop with recent MAGA crimes. We need to throw Oliver North in jail for treason

more similarities to iran's guardian council than a court really

I think an obvious solution is to not only pack the Court, but to take advantage of Congress's plenary authority over Congressional elections to nationally gerrymander for Democrats, while offering a constitutional amendment to prohibit partisan gerrymandering and guaranteeing the right to vote.

i really do feel like we are lolcow watching but the cow is the most powerful man on earth

save us from our slopulist nightmare AOC...

Saw a woman on the Metro betting on soccer games with Kalshi. Love to see women in male-dominated spaces

I would love to be a customs agent in a foreign country arbitrarily denying people entry for having the Trump passport

anyway it rocks that the people who do the educating for the degree that we've societally decided is the single criteria to be An Important Person are all psychotic right wing racists who are also all sex pests, and this is a thing society has just accepted

We must declare a war on chiropractic. De-license and prosecute as many as possible.

LIV event in Louisiana getting postponed makes me wonder if they have to cancel other tournaments because of money. Sounds like LIV was actually throwing some money to the state to make this one happen

Sports being on streaming isn’t great but at least I can watch them if the weather is nasty outside

I love defending my culture (finding new ways to enjoy grilling different meats with friends from a wide range of cultural backgrounds).

Guys I don’t want to burst any bubbles here but even if you gave Paul Skenes all of that money to serve you a BP ball you almost assuredly lack the coordination and wrist/core strength to get that thing to standard outfielder play depth, much less over the fence

Even if you’re willing to accept at face value that our democratic traditions are just “rituals”, which is a massive “if” on its own, imagine believing that you and your talking head pals’s decadent dinner and a show is a more important one than, say, not imposing martial law on the nation’s cities

garlic press (historic term of abuse for italian-owned newspapers)

trump out here reinventing “damn osama was tall as hell he should have hooped” from first principles

So I forget if I've mentioned I own a 2000 Miami-Dade County butterfly ballot voting machine, still with detached chads in it. But, uh, that. By far.

When republicans complain about being called fascist, remember they put a hammer & sickle on *Andy Beshear*