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Is the Overton window within the Overton window?

These bodega guys will straight up put a cup of coffee in a paper bag, and somehow increase its portability.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

The IDF is just beyond parody.

400 dead "raised the prospect" of war, maybe. The Times is unreal.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

A few years back, centrist Democrats & the Very Serious People mocked & dismissed the slogan ‘abolish ICE’. Today’s actions are a reminder of how ICE is a rogue, lawless agency that is easily weaponized by an authoritarian administration & that it very much should be abolished.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

This is fucking incredible.

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

“You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based”

Secret Service: $7M to $10M. Air Travel and Motorcade: $4M-5M. Stadium Security Upgrades:
Additional metal detectors, bomb sweeps, security checkpoints: $2M. Local Law Enforcement: Overtime and personnel: $1M. Trump's Super Bowl attendance: $15 to $20M. Where’s DOGE?

Damn it. I was going to do this one, but I thought it was too dumb.

Asked a seasoned State Dept employee how Marco Rubio has been received so far. "He has a minder, like a Trump campaign minder." A what? "Someone in his office, not of his choosing. [Like with Tillerson], they sent somebody over because he wasn't totally within the fold." 👀

This is a really good demonstration of why Biden’s “soft-handed” genocide was actually FAR more destructive than Trumps bombastic approach. Because everyone could simply look away.

NEW: NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl. The announcement comes the same day a White House official told NBC News that President Trump would be attending the game.

New podcast with Matt Matros! We talk about his new book and analyze every decision point of a triple barrel bluff: www.thinkingpoker.net/2025/01/epis...

Rest assured that the world's dumbest people are on the case.

Another instructive losing hand: open.substack.com/pub/matrospo...

Law professor @katherinefranke.bsky.social describes the relentless harassment by university administrators, faculty, & members of Congress she received for defending students' right to protest, leading to her effective termination from Columbia Law School today: ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

just want to make it clear to all my friends in LA that you are not allowed to die

[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are

before i got banned from this online poker site i used to tell people i was driving the whole time i was playing and they always lost their shit

Books finished in 2025 (thread): 1.

Kind words about the new book here: cardplayerlifestyle.com/poker/best-p...

A little late for the book, unfortunately, but a fun night on BetMGM Poker!

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

United States only 1.87% of earth’s surface area but has the vast majority of alien spacecraft sightings. Thats called #globalleadership, UFOs just sense we’re the winners, the big dawgs

Just in time for your holiday shopping (or just in time for your own reading material when you need to escape your family), it's a new booklet for 2024--A Year of Daring Bluffs and Nitty Folds!

Just in time for your holiday shopping (or just in time for your own reading material when you need to escape your family), it's a new booklet for 2024--A Year of Daring Bluffs and Nitty Folds!

You know you've failed in life, when in death your biggest defender is Bret Stephens.

I wrote a short piece about the importance of loving poker, and the tradeoffs you have to make to go pro: www.poker.org/poker-strate... thanks @pokerorg.bsky.social for giving me this space to share!

From the NYT coverage: "Chief executive officers of health care companies often receive threats because the nature of their work." This could use some more explanation, right? The "nature of their work" is supposed to be taking care of people.

OK, I've written up 24 hands...

Wait, 4 a.m. eastern start times for these world chess championship matches?? Rough! #chess #worldchesschampionship #singapore

I'm in Philly waiting to get called as a tournament alternate. Ask me anything, if you're so inclined...

5 Writers I've Read 5+ Books By Jane Austen Colson Whitehead Jonathan Lethem Isaac Asimov Haruki Murakami 💙📚 #booksky #books

I still think Jordan is the GOAT, but the numbers LeBron is putting up in his 22nd season are completely insane. #NBA

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Heck of a passage for the New York Times to publish without requiring the author to explain how the fluck “no man is above the law” can be a “central pillar of American democracy” if there are extraordinary men to whom it does not apply.