Rolling into the weekend with a Different Kind of Car.

This is not totally original, but apropos of the book I'm working on, I think the best response to 9/11 would have been a focus on shoring up world order against terrorism by A. reasserting the responsibilities of states to not support or tolerate terrorism and B. Re-establishing the Weberian/

Lewis Hamilton's got another bedazzled helmet this weekend, watching the forward facing cameras through the swimming pool section is always nuts

Have been since 1968

Looking pretty good

what I feel after seeing this screenshot

I encourage watching this. It’s a great question (yup, be afraid) and his answer doesn’t sound confident to me in fact it sounded like they have no plan.

Interesting to see CENTCOM doing these factchecks about alleged attacks in the war with Iran. Maybe CENTCOM can finally tell us who TLAMed the school in Minab on the first day of the conflict? (And for some reason, the US blockade and US strikes on Iran don't violate the ceasefire. Weird.)

Bari Weiss is a sleeper agent for Netflix

Pathetic. Trump is privately demanding his advisers find a way to reach a deal with Iran that TV commentators will compare favorably to Obama's 2015 deal, per the Atlantic. On the pod, @emilyhorne.bsky.social is good on how this perfectly captures why we're stuck: newrepublic.com/article/2114...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

This is all so weird.

My guy, this is New England and there are standards; patrician attitude or machine pol. Running as self actualization is not serious.

Slate has been doing really great stories lately, which was a surprise Slate! The one about Florida *not growing oranges anymore* in particular; everything you could want in a web-magazine. below is trash though.

Maine could only elect a déclassé blue collar slub you lib fools (picture unrelated)

Wicklow man first non-New Zealander to claim coveted sheep-shearing title

This will happen if Iran and the USA both finish second in their groups. Which….well it could happen.

the public is dumb but in this they are correct; they don't like AI, its on the gambling/porn/drugs side of their moral continuum, so there is more resistance to a new AI factory in town.

I believed that for a long time too but Dean recently admitted they were getting almost no fundraising, that his crowds were following him from state to state and he was starting to *recognize* them The scream reporting was the killing stroke, they just didn't have the resources to recover

I really hate this shit

i've always thought it had to have been really depressing to be losing a war that definitively against a foe who has you as their second priority.

*Star Wars klaxon noise*

Sebastian Junger is the son of a painter and physicist and went to an elite New England private school before Wesleyan. Graham Platner is the son of a chef and grandson of famous architect these guys are cosplaying a certain version of masculinity that only comes from privilege

Democrats have only won the presidency this century with a Biden on the ticket.

The leverage the Strait of Hormuz provides is the Iranian regime's last big card against its opponents. The problem for Tehran is that its value will erode as global trade and energy networks develop ways to bypass it. If the regime waits too long, it overplays its hand, again

RFJ Jr is already on his way there...

He will reappear with cheek fillers the size of the moon

Gulf states in talks for oil pipelines to bypass Hormuz ft.trib.al/dbzS8dL

Same energy

Excited to see what the court does with the birthright citizenship case. My bet is “not like this, but if like this sure” and then a decade of the right being chipped away.

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

time-color synesthesia is when you associate times with certain colors. It is currently shadowed green coming up on maroon-red.

It will be very funny

a lot of responses to this but not the obvious one.

this is a GIF of the 2024 median voter/non-voter

Trump has betrayed Iran over and over and over again for going a decade now, and capped it off with a Pearl Harbor style sneak attack that massacred most of the current leader's family and then a triple tap strike on a girls' elementary school. now he can't even articulate a consistent set of asks

my like 60 percent confident take from the start of all this is that the strait is not ever opening back up so long as Trump is in the chair. even if President Pedophile could be trusted to stick to a deal (he can't) he'd straight up forget about it 3 hours later

in the morning it was Trump, by the evening it was Milley/Pence/Pelosi

You better believe republicans would support anti-miscegenation laws again.

Worth noting that Scott Pelley was the presenter of this award to HS student journalist Santiago Campos, worth $10,000. Pelley can be seen clapping during Campos' very gutsy speech.

The American bi-centennial was remembered for a generation. It’s very sad the 250 yr anniversary is going to pass unnoticed due to Trump perversions.

Trump couldn’t admit he lost the 2020 election until there was a real possibility of a bullet to the back of his head. He’s never signing an agreement with Iran that is functionally a surrender outside similar duress.

Came up with a new curse word when I watched this

the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

Just so we’re all crystal clear, the Supreme Court says they’ve gutted the voting rights act and used the fifteenth amendment to justify it; what they’ve really done is to rewrite the fifteenth amendment, designed to protect non-white citizens’ voting rights, as a White Power amendment.

Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together. Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social: