On CNN just now, Kristi Noem repeated the debunked claim that Sen. Chris Van Hollen had margaritas with a prisoner in El Salvador. Trump’s dictator friend Bukele arranged for margaritas to be brought to the table to set up Van Hollen. Everyone knows that, but it’s Homeland Security policy to lie.

lmao imagine thinking Aaron Judge isn't the MVP

Just a reminder that the Yanks have to finish a game better than Toronto to win the division.

It's hard to stress enough how pathetic it is, particularly when you know his own team triggered the escalator stop and was responsible for the teleprompter. This is some real "old man yells at clouds" nonsense. Embarrassing.

That’s Judge’s 4th 50 homer season.

Voters, man, they’re wild.

It is so funny that putting the release on hiatus probably made things worse for Apple than just letting it air with no fanfare (LIKE ALL APPLE TV SHOWS)

The more A-listers speaking out about censorship from this regime, the better.

I assume in the production of The Sound of Music currently on at the Kennedy Center, the Von Trapps all end up in Birkenau.

100% And the overwhelming sentiment was that the Access Hollywood tape was a campaign-ender which, to be completely fair, if it were *literally* anybody other than Trump it absolutely would have been circa 2016.

My most Basic Liberal Opinion is that Trump absolutely loses in 2016 if Comey doesn't jump in at the last second. I'm not saying that we don't end up in Fascism Land eventually regardless, but it all plays out differently.

The prosecutors involved should face serious professional sanctions.

Obviously bad for the rule of law, but you've got the world's shittiest attorneys indicting a bunch of people because the President posted on his social media app that they had to do it. I'm not too worried about the charges sticking.

Brendan Carr did not “make a joke on social media,” he went on a podcast and said ABC had to take action against Kimmel or the FCC would revoke licenses! We all saw it! Ted Cruz quoted it on HIS podcast in a silly mafia accent!

Just a reminder that armed, masked men snatching people up in unmarked vans on the orders of the president, the very top of the Republican Party, is political violence.

My own personal boosterism of fellow Swarthmore alums aside, I honestly don't have a take on "President Van Hollen" yet, but the country would be a much better spot if he took Chuck Schumer's job today.

Ari Shapiro absolutely bodying Uri Berliner here.

Getting closer and closer to the Rapture (the Astros missing the playoffs entirely).

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

“We are praying for the victims [our prisoners] and their families [whom we were working to tear apart].”

it seems pretty clear that Kirk's reputation in the chud circles that the administration trucks in is disproportionately high compared to the world outside that bubble, but like all things chud-related, they don't realize that or don't care bsky.app/profile/park...

These clowns are going to totally screw up a slam-dunk murder case.

If only mainstream journalists -- who continue to be awed by Trump's "strongman" act -- were less gullible.

Or that we won't get a serious look at whether the shooter wrote this stuff on the casings as misdirection.

Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.

I mean, considering the honesty of the Trump Admin and Kash Patel's bumbling approach to everything, isn't it just as likely he took some random bullets lying around, wrote "anti-ice" on them himself and photographed them.

using a Bic pen on just one of the bullets, our ideological mass murderers sure are getting lazier these days bsky.app/profile/notu...

in hindsight this is just obviously correct, and I was on Markey's side

Dressing up as a Torah cover for Halloween.

These also read like stock quotes

Every time NPR does this anti-science "it's not clear" bullshit when it is in fact clear, I lose sympathy for their defunding. Report reality please.

Bret Stephens yet again confusing "consequences" with "banning speech." What a tedious disingenuous bore he is.

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

"Trump's Argentina bailout" just start saying that over and over again. Something goes wrong in the economy? What did you expect? Trump spent all our money bailing out Argentina

Most generously considered, what is happening with your Ezra Kleins and even your David Frenches of the world is to attempt to broker a compromise between racists and anti-racists, bigots and anti-bigots that might leave things stable for those who prioritize stability over racism or anti-racism.

I think we should make IBBs optional. The team receiving it can decline the intentional pass.

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

perhaps they should learn not to be incompetent on every conceivable level??

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

MAGA clowns mad that an escalator malfunctioned is the height of their impotence on full display.

Absolutely deranged BBC alert about Kimmel

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Who is spending money to buy air time for Sliwa ads at 11:30 on ABC7?

Stupid baseball.

say what you like about ole Mike, he knows for a fact that if Trump will not survive walking up a full flight of stairs

@airlineflyer.net what’s flying above Prospect Heights right now? Some UN security thing? It’s not showing up on the apps.

We don't want to anger Charlie Kirk's fans, who this show is in no way about

Yanks 🫠

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).