Excellent piece on the SRY gene test for World Athletics, linked in the @fastwomen.bsky.social newsletter this morning. Read the piece then subscribe to @fastwomen.bsky.social. Or subscribe then read the piece. I guess the order doesn't matter. goodsportmagazine.substack.com/p/witnessing...

I remember before the election when Musk kept saying "if Harris wins I'm going to jail" and everyone dismissed it as just inflammatory paranoia when we should have gone "ah right, because of the crimes"

And we all commit typos. That's the human condition.

lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that (I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)

There is nothing I would love more than for all of the people praying to be raptured to actually leave this planet

my word nymag.com/intelligence...

The alien abductors have the opportunity to do the FUNNIEST SHIT on Wednesday.

When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

OK, now let’s get Disney adults super mad about ICE.

Dear Disney- I don't see an actual apology there, nor any sort of admission on your gross overreaction and misjudgement over what Kimmel actually (and factually) said. So, yeah, I'm glad you're backing down but I don't think you've really learned anything here.

when my father tells me he’s having grilled meat and boiled potatoes for dinner for the 487th time in a row because “that’s what dinner is supposed to be”

I'm not, for instance, entirely sure that allowing that frothing nazi goblin to throw an extended public tantrum yesterday was such a hot idea.

Perhaps in the spirit of renewal that comes with the new year tonight I'm allowing myself a sliver of belief that the current regime is badly overplaying its hand.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Anti-humors groups melt down over reports officials to link disease to miasma.

Fine, I'll watch that monologue

While I am no fan of pharma companies and Tylenol does have some health issues involved with it, the drug has no practical connection with autism and I hope Johnson & Johnson sue the dickens out of RFK Jr. (and Trump once he leaves office).

This........this is not what happens when vaccines are given. What the fuck is he talking about?!?

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

Mostly because Marshall had integrity and because the right wing evangelical pro-nationalist China focus groups were trying to smear both Marshall and Gen Stilwell for daring to point out that Chiang Kai-shel kinda sucked and that the Communist forces were far better trained

(Oh and of course Doug MacArthur stayed quiet the whole time because Doug, if presented a list of options that weren’t ending hazing at USMA, Island Hopping, and Inchon, could always be expected to pick the worst of all possible options)

You all know we won't shut up about this, but there is a specific dynamic of national outlets reporting on Chicago carelessly—as if there are no real stakes here because the middle of the country is a big black hole to them Thanks to @huffpost.com for participating in it!!!

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

Ending every email like this until early December

I sincerely encourage Riley Gaines to do precisely that.

You can find more of my coverage on TikTok as well! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRXUvTF/

Listen, sometimes when your job requires you to be immersed in Everything That's Happening All the Time, you just have to draw a line for your sanity, and my line is that I simply refuse to learn why people are talking about the rapture

This could apply to so many things right now

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

Happy Autumn Equinox! It's the first day of autumn, when day and night will be roughly equal length. Days will get shorter, nights will get longer, and all coffee will be pumpkin spiced. Farewell summer, hello spooky season... 🍂🎃 #autumnequinox #halloween

Happy Autumnal Equinox. Happy Chicagohenge. Today, we move into another season of the year.

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

And my Cleveland Guardians, who on Sept. 3 were FIFTEEN games behind Detroit in the AL Central, are now ONE GAME out & the two start a 3-game series with each other in Cleveland tomorrow night. Cleveland, left for dead in August, is also tied for the last AL wild card spot for the playoffs (2/3)

IT IS THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

Remember when Biden looked tired? Crazy times.

I’m no fancy politics guy, but i’d say any country where you can’t put a man in prison for accepting a literal bag full of cash in exchange for favors from the government is not, in fact, a functioning state.

when my dad was a kid, his housebound grandmother would ask him to bring her back blessed ashes from the church for Ash Wednesday and every year he would bring her back furnace soot from their own basement so I don't think we're in any danger of losing him to the rapture

The point is that to not point it out lends acceptance of their criminality. Look at where not pointing out & discussing misogyny & racism gave gotten us. The point is to get Americans to demand accountability which is the only way out of this.

And the consequence is the tyranny of weak men. Kennedy, Patel, Homan and of course Trump. All mediocrities who cannot face the truth about themselves while blaming everyone else for their weakness. Boys who were never told to grow tf up.

I am begging the nation’s elites — political and otherwise — to stop believing that Donald Trump is popular and retains the mandate of heaven

🤦‍♂️

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

This is the whole thing in a nutshell

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

Death be not proud. Or dignified.

Harry Styles ran a 2:59 marathon in Berlin. He would probably run faster in a point-to-point marathon. He’s better in one direction.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.