look if 2026 is really gonna be the year of Bad Bunny I might have to start being more optimistic about it

AIPAC pissing away $2+ million as a show of force against Malinowski just to get a 2018 style Squad member elected would probably be the funniest election of 2026.

Between this, California, Indiana and Florida backing off from redistricting, and the rapidly collapsing Hispanic GOP vote, it is almost certain that Greg Abbott handed Democrats +5-6 margin in the House next year by starting this gerrymandering fight

sixers deadline recap:

I mean if Skubal had lost that case you might as well have just gotten rid of arbitration entirely.

a social media account run by ‘young’ democratic consultants? and it’s posting quote tweets if donald trump with captions like “uh, THAT just happened 🤨”? consider my interest piqued

“a new Gen-Z led progressive content hub"

okay everyone shut up the muppets are on.

Tries to pull the smug “Apologize for what 😏” soundbite but then starts immediately stammering and backtracking the second the reporter presses him on it. Not built for the lights. “Role player who thinks he can anchor a team” type beat.

eric gordon watching jared mccain get dealt to duck the tax

they sent my fingernail painting tiktoker to oklahoma, they want him to die.

Waiting to see if the McCain deal is step one of a larger move because if it’s really just about ducking the tax, it’s not only terrible but it’s stupidly selling on him at his lowest possible value.

You're not charming enough to be this mean, dawg

I regret to inform everyone that McConnell dying and getting replaced by a boilerplate MAGA Republican would be a net negative right now.

James Harden is going to do for Cleveland’s strip clubs what LeBron did for its educational system.

HARDEN: "So, be honest, what's the nightlife like around here?" MITCHELL: "I mean, it gets dark around six."

From: JEFF EPSTEIN wtching senfeld. thy r so mean to rhe shrt one. ____________ FROM: NOAM CHOMSKY But he deserves it. ____________ From: JEFF EPSTEIN yeh.

it really does feel like we’re solidly in the “reaping” phase of Trump just trying to bulldoze his way through everything without caring about the process.

Shams spending weeks breadcrumbing a Giannis trade that’s never going to happen just to get caught flat footed by two blockbusters within 24 hours.

Ja Morant having so little trade value he just has to hang out through the Memphis’ rebuild like a forgotten, ‘Ozymandias’ style relic is wild

excuse me what the fuck

I feel like I’m in the minority here but I’m fine with Democrats just side-stepping a shutdown by funding everything but DHS. Shutdowns are dramatic but I feel like it would just distract from the core “DHS either reigns in ICE or it doesn’t get funding” argument that’s probably like an 80-20 issue

“Whistles cause panic and trigger trauma responses” yeah, that’d be the point

woj would’ve had the full harden trade details out by now, we’re living in dark times

You gotta convert Barlow to an NBA contract at halftime tonight.

bill clinton during the four seconds between when he finishes handing over every name he has and when hillary remotely activates the cyanide capsule in his tooth

Going back in time 18 months, telling right wingers that the future Deputy Attorney General will go on primetime cable news to say “It’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein”, and then asking them to guess who the President is going to be.

bunch of dirt poor Ellis Island trash that got starved out of Ireland by the English

watching cinema

the funny part about the Texas primary drama is that Trump’s going to endorse Cornyn in like two weeks and render the whole thing moot

I reject this. They’re real robots, and they’re alive, and they’re my friends.

one of you give me like $2,000 and I will fly out to report from this live.

Look, I don’t know how national Democrats want to address it, but it’s probably worth pointing out that Chuck Schumer taking a hardline stance against Platner was probably the biggest boost any candidate has gotten this primary cycle.

luther vandross looking down right now

I love Lady Gaga for getting weird again. She could've just coasted down that post-“A Star is Born” lane but she made a choice to go back for the freaks.

I’m happy for him but it’s incredibly funny for Noah Kahan to be dropping a “Whoops, turns out I’m actually nostalgic for my hometown now” album

As is tradition, the losing Best New Artist nominees will now be humanely euthanized.

The best new artist nominees should have to wear name tags, I am 70 years old.

I haven’t seen one “Trump is going to abuse the Insurrection Act” conversation address the fact that the current Secretary of Defense is a former Fox News daytime TV host who dragged every active duty general back to Quantico to listen to his TED talk on why they’re all a bunch of fat pussies.

Eugenio Suarez's OPS dropped to .720 in the 2nd half and .682 with Seattle so I guess teams just banked on him being too cooked to offer a multi-year deal? Still wild he couldn't do better than a prove it year with the Reds.

real ones remember those sixteen hours they tried to run a “Trump was actually an anti-Epstein FBI informant” playbook before realizing how dumb that was

Okay, reading between the lines, I feel like the Fangio situation is that they’re talking to Jim Schwartz and if he’s willing to step in, Vic might just retire and hand him the job this year. If not, Vic stays at least one more year and they hit a fresh DC search next offseason.

I am 100% certain that the Phillies deal for Bo Bichette falling apart played a factor in Vic Fangio wanting to retire.

in spite of everything, I am somehow still excited about Phillies baseball coming back.

the extreme Texas gerrymander that set off all the redistricting wars is almost entirely predicated on the assumption that the Hispanic Republican shift in 2024 was permanent and could perhaps even be expanded on so we are now at DEFCON-2 for something extremely funny happening in November.

kicking around the idea of rolling dry january into dry february and slowing coming to terms with the fact that what I’m describing is actually just sobriety