Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

I don't have good news, but I do have previously unreleased duckling footage set to feel good music. Best I can do. Rest up, we got a hell of a week ahead of us! 🪶 🐣

State and regional redundancy in expertise will be the only way going forward in this administration and beyond. The implications of that reality are not entirely sanguine but here we are.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

There's a joke about the origins of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat." But some of us *were* killed in those days, and some were killed today. This is a holiday about hope, persistence, and light shining when it shouldn't be possible. May all the killing end.

Is it too late for the Saints to win the NFC South?

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

Regardless of the shooter’s motivation, each mass murder event changes the community. Healing is a slow and complex process. We must stop gun violence. I wish more politicians would run on that.

"Age and identity verification in order to use social media" is the "here, hold this magic rock, it repels tigers" of online safety. If does nothing, exposes people to more risk while assuring them it's a risk mitigation so they are less cautious, and is powered entirely by magical thinking.

More like Carl "Don't send me back to the AHL" Grundstrom am I right?

Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.

This photograph is unsettling to say the least. Caption: Unaccompanied migrant children watch television from inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children, March 30, 2021, in Donna, TX. (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File))

Any attention to the fact that the Trump regime is propped up by explicit threats of violence (often directed at its own members!) is good.

So if the Positivity Rabbit gets the Eagles a tie do we still get mad?

They say the Presidency ages you, but have they considered playing pro sports in Philly?

Crony capitalism isn’t bad for some vague ideological reason. It’s bad because it creates profound harms to most of the economy. The leader’s toadies become extremely wealthy while everyone else suffers. Look at Russia: a land of bottomless misery with the occasional oligarch.

I fear it is impossible to overstate this, but I wonder if what we are listening to is a third reconstruction (counter-construction?) of our entire federal government. Either we go full autocracy, destroy federal government state capacity altogether, or make the court a super-legislature.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

This is why, every time I hear weak-knee Dems or Dem pundits/consultants talking about how they can appeal to Trump voters, I get irrationally angry. The goal isn’t to embrace racists and fascists. The goal is to provide the alternative that lets voters kick racists and fascists into the wilderness.

The goal is the creation of a white nationalist international.

The best analogy I can think of for this technology is Wall-E. We are literally doubling down on destroying the planet to infantilize ourselves into becoming incapable of independent thought.

Mostly because we have replaced it on your server by exploiting this RCE on your React components

The "best" reason I have heard for Jeffries leadership is that he raises lots of money, as if money in politics wasn't one of the systemic problems in our politics.

I fully endorse this sentiment.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

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Hard to imagine a much more obvious blinking sign that says "I am pro bribery" then Trump pardoning the Democratic Congressman indicted for bribery and money laundering.

Hivemind, I have a challenge. Popular culture is dominated by the car (car chases, cop dramas etc), helping us accept a car-dominated urban environment as normal. Can you think of any examples of popular culture highlighting bikes, trams, walking etc? I can only think of A Streetcar Named Desire.

dems should start saying that presidential pardons dont apply to international war crimes and in fact implicate the president, no idea if thats true but they should start saying it

I still call that work. When I cook every night? That's work. A lot of it. Planning and shopping weekly groceries/menu? Work. This helps me make sure I don't undervalue it, and by extension the people doing it, when I'm using money to outsource it. It's also responsibilities maybe, but still work.

In celebration of Native American Heritage Day, the Wild produced a first-of-its-kind broadcast in conjunction with the team’s new arena sponsor.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

I’d rather be the party of Mark Kelly than the party of George Santos.

dems in congress shouldn't stop talking about how noem must resign and face consequences for this atrocity

The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"

the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power

The best time for Chuck Schumer to resign as Senate Minor Leader was months ago. The second best time is today. archive.is/Xbra2

Ok I read "the poverty line is 140k" essay without realizing it going in and it's equally deranged and cogent? It's insane to me that you could make that argument and yet it's not entirely pulled from thin air.

Aubrey AND Elliot miss wide? The fuck is wrong with this game?

Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say. Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.

Any excuse to repost my review of season 1 of Andor donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

It is honestly so cool that Flyers fans spent two years saying “hey so what if we just traded for that guy?” and then the team traded for him and he absolutely kicks ass lol

You can’t tear an organization down in hopes a franchise altering talent awaits at the top of the draft; there’s too much prospect variance from year to year to rely on that—not to mention the lottery. We’ve just seen an unreal run the last three drafts, and it’s affecting fans’ perception.

I’d also add now that fans are biased because of how outrageously good the last three 1st-overall picks (Bedard, Celebrini, Schaeffer) have been. Imagine a team built a core of Lafreniere, Power, Slafkovsky. Good players, but I’d probably take Michkov & Martone over any one of those guys!

Still thinking about Ziggy's game last night. Yeah the Flyers gotta score more but they have to be amoung the league leaders in posts/60

That might have been the best shift I've seen from Deslauriers in 3 years

Hofer you better go hug your posts after that Power play

President Trump's rhetoric has already resulted in political assassinations in Minnesota THIS YEAR. Rep Melissa Horton and her husband have already paid for these calls of violence with their lives.

Today the President of the United States called for the killing of his political opponents. People need to understand how serious that is. This is not normal. This cannot be something only Democrats condemn. Every leader and American must condemn this.