This stuff really does underscore how much it’s objectively speaking about xenophobia, racism, other bigotries as policy, because Trump had repeatedly campaigned on oh we still wanna let Good And Smart Ones in if they follow the Rules, but no, even those people get told immediately to fuck off

I'm not sure why the Trump Admin feels the need to aggressively defend every mistake at an airshow, when the CO of the Blue Angels obviously doesn't.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Me: Damn feral hogs are going crazy. My Wife: I can fix them.

i was just about to say this. a century ago some WASP failson was saying the exact same thing about people *like Wurman*

the truth is, social media is not too split into 'echo chambers' but is in fact not silo'd *enough*. humans naturally code-switch in different venues and settings but the idea of the 'common town square' means that we have these places that are both dive bar and work happy hour and it's a huge mess.

It has truly felt this past year that monoculture events are taking hold in ways they haven’t in a long time; a return to Internet culture living downstream of legacy media. That feels like a direct result of social media fragmentation, AI, and the enshittification of the entire internet.

“Getting older makes it harder to remember / we are our only saviors.”

My Cato post warning about OMB's move to take over centralized review of federal grantmaking to enforce consistency with MAGA policy. Comments deadline is tomorrow. www.cato.org/blog/warning... @samwang.bsky.social

The score at the end of regulation should have been either 2-0, 2-1, or 1-0 Norway. Instead we get paeans to England’s grit.

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

sorta feel like Haaland gets the Shaq effect a little where people foul him and it doesn’t get called because he doesn’t move and then he fouls them just a tiny little bit and they go flying

“Every time England needed a moment it’s Bellingham to the rescue.” This is VAR erasure.

England is ranked #1 in FIFA's pettiness standings. Whining, diving, pushing the ball away, knocking the inbounds ball off the stand out of spite.

England #2 forearm to Norwegian head in the box there. Nothing. Laughable officiating.

None of the officiating here is going to help FIFA beat the match fixing... Didn't know you could smash into a guy who has a free header.

VAR can never be good in soccer because as soon as they start looking at it long enough they are going to want to justify holding up the game

I feel like the U.S. in the Iran War is probably the most disproportionate war in human history in terms of the "lack of fucks given" to "fuckworthy strategic implications" ratio.

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

If worth saying once, worth saying a billion times: Employment in US coal-mining industry peaked more than 100 years ago, shortly after WW I. Why not new subsidies for ice-delivery-truck companies, from days before home refrigerators? It was also *big* employer around that same time.

They couldn’t be telling us any more clearly what they are intending to try to do this Fall www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Liberalism in its modern form is fundamentally dependent on the capacity of the state to execute on its directives. Every loss in state capacity discredits our program, lowers social trust, and weakens the coalition that would defend and expand it. State capacity makes liberalism feasible."

A short comic about Lenny #TheSimpsons #comics

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

has there ever been a man so effective at demolishing the vibe. historic scarer of the hoes

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

of the millions of crimes you can lay at this man's feet -- and at the feet of his reckless enablers -- a not insubstantial one is this: the generational damage he did to your childrens' and neighbors' moral fabrics

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

"The Founders did not stumble into a diverse, immigrant-heavy society by accident—they lived through it, debated it, and ultimately enshrined it in a Constitution that barred religious tests for office and left the door open to immigrants of every nation and faith" www.cato.org/blog/founder...

This can get kinda philosophical fast, but slo-mo and stand still photo technology are fundamentally different experiences than “just” instant replay at live speed. Reviewing human calls by superhuman standards is actually a transformative event. Sport rules were never meant to be perfect!

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

The existence of the line favors the defense, so for balance the implementation should err on the side of the attack. Literally just switch the conditions.

It would simplify the review system a lot if all the players simply agreed to play in full-body mocap suits

The purpose of the offsides rule is to prevent cherry picking, not whatever this is.

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

Ball don’t lie

Bosnia playing defense

WC: Wow, games are going great, very exciting. VAR: <clears throat>

“Take this 33 year old Middle Eastern activist. No job, just travels around all days with his friends criticizing hard working entrepreneurs like the money changers. Do we really want someone like that in the US?”

kavanaugh's argument is that the EO doesn't violate the 14th amendment because undocumented immigrants didn't exist when it was ratified so there's no way to know how people would have felt about it the fact that illegal immigration didn't exist as a concept seems to tell us how they felt about it

This might’ve been the easiest 9-0 in the Court’s history and the constitutional question won by a single vote.

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

With their wins over Sweden and Senegal, the French national team has as many wins at MetLife Stadium in the World Cup as the New York Jets did in the 2025 NFL season

My only addition to this discourse is to say that the gander is often overvalued.

Lying on national media like this should have legal & financial consequences

Now think about what this means if all federal grant making is under political control as per new OMB rule. Crony capitalism at its worst: do you want these people fixing your bridges, making sure your water supply is safe? @donmoyn.bsky.social

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...