My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

No Kings day demonstration in Lexington, MA — birthplace of the American Revolution. Speakers pictured Poet Laureate of MA Regie O'Hare Gibson, @billmckibben.bsky.social , and @markey.senate.gov #nokings #lexingtonma @lexingtonalarm.bsky.social

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

99% of what the Internet gives us is bad. These sixty seconds are part of that rare good.

The world still contains wonders and beauties.

MEGA MAN X

Sometimes the hellscape* still reminds you to laugh. *Also a butthole.

Minimum demands from here on: - Abolish ICE immediately - Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution - Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level - Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

Subsidiarity. The network of mutuality is inescapable, but not every responsibility/obligation is direct for everyone. We all have a part to play, but it’s called a PART for good reason.

As called by Brian Barnhart on Illinois Illini Radio Network:

Hail to the orange....no no, not that orange, the other one you never really think about!

Ref show in Champaign is kind of hilarious right now.

It could dwarf everything else.

Personally I think this thread elides over a little of the immediate post-Trump battle among his possible "heirs" upon his passing, but Kirk as JD's chief of staff then trying for the empire is... Terrifyingly obvious

Narcissism of small differences is one of the greatest motivators known to humanity.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Political cartoon from 2015. Washington DC in 2025.

Somehow the "things fall apart" season after the title is the one that creates the greatest entrance video of all time.

Sometimes you go to Mikey Walsh's house, but then find out that @burgermike.bsky.social is at Disney.

this is the video game level that teaches you how to use the controls

What is Con Law even like for 1Ls these days?

BLASTER MASTER

Really makes you think about his cameo in Idle Hands...

Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.

I should not have spent so much time this morning doing the Bill Simmons One Day at Learned League. I also should not have scored as highly as I did.

If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country

America's three constitutional branches of government: The crown, the praetorians, and the six ayatollahs

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

The path is very clear: Republicans are creating a system to allow anybody—you, me, whoever—to have their citizenship revoked, sent to a prison camp in the Everglades, then exported to a labor camp in a third-world country. That entire pipeline could be in place in 24 hours.

Damn. I'm going to have to be jealous of NY's mayor soon, huh?

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

Maris’s brilliant book comes out in one week!!!! There’s an excerpt in Rolling Stone today!!!! She’s a star!!! She’s a genius!!! Preorder I Want To Burn This Place Down!!!

He has friends everywhere

What poster you had in your room growing up

I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.

Dems. I'm begging you. This is an easy layup. This is some random dude. Put this front and center. They're telling people to be OK with a kidnapping.

When people ask "what does it mean to be Catholic..."

If a day ends in the letter "y" it's always Shut The Fuck Up Friday.

If only there was a film on this subject @chrislhayes.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Leadership is about leading. Show, don't tell. Lander is showing so much right here.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

That goes for today, that goes for next week, that goes from any anytime you’re the least vulnerable one in the crowd. You’ve heard “be water”? Your job is to be a rock in the river.

While it’s never been more important to protect yourself from surveillance … if you look like me, if you’ve got privilege to spend, now is the time. If you do not NEED to blend in, it’s Opposite Day. Wear your PTA shirt, keep your phones on, record everything. Hoka dads, same for y’all.

Had Zach Galifianakis ask me if he could bum a cigarette before going into the UCB theater while I was waiting in line. I don't smoke.

I told you we’d be back

A fun magic trick to make off-the-books detentions transform into proper arrests. People think this country is becoming more authoritarian, but the real 2025 of it is how lazy the purveyors of the crackdowns want to be.

I've thought about how I'd handle AI answers as a teacher, and it feels like the easiest solution is just to grade it like the kid produced the work. AI can earn that F honestly.