How I’m entering the new year

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

With this 7-yard touchdown pass to Josh Downs, 44yo Philip Rivers becomes the weirdest man ever to throw for a touchdown in a NFL game.

[Exit Clown.]

I'd need to know more about whether the minister shot in the face with a chemical agent from point-blank range before weighing in on it. Maybe it was good that it happened.

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

No Kings — Grand Rapids, MI

Yes, arresting a journalist for doing their job is a big flashing red light. But I don't want people to forget the whole reason everyone is out there. This is what I saw inside: Four holding rooms. Two smaller rooms were being used for holding protesters. Two larger rooms held ICE/CBP captives.

"not tepid legality" seems like it should show up in a trial exhibit somewhere

Bobby Jenks made the most of a short time: defector.com/bobby-jenks-...

*sigh*

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

😎 pfp retirement to follow shortly

The irony of him coming out to “Gold Digger” and then proceeding to get $5.5 million for doing nothing.

Only Jerry Reinsdorf could lose valuation on an MLB team.

@chorizy.bsky.social @josh.soxmachine.com saw this thought of y’all

I am (allegedly) going to run the 2025 Chicago Marathon with my best friend. The only way we will qualify for an event designed for actual athletes is by raising money for charity, and we've chosen Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. Please donate! fundraisers.hakuapp.com/james-fegan

Absolutely heartbroken to learn of Dikembe Mutombo's untimely passing. A story: one day in 2010, I got the most random phone call to my office at Morehouse. It was Dikembe's personal assistant, asking if I'd be willing to meet at his office to talk about the D.R. Congo. Obviously I said yes. (1/n)

BB, 2B, BB, FC (RBI), K, HBP, K possibly the platonic ideal of a Joe Kelly inning

This is so good. We raised global ocean levels by three-quarters of an inch last month to remake the Safdies' "Good Time" except now Robert Pattinson's character is played by Muncher. And it's only going to get better....

big strong accountants come up to me, big tough guys with tears in their eyes, and they say sir, sir, youre insolvent

I began attending children's birthday parties years ago, to get a look at what delights our youngest Americans. I was surprised to find that, instead of a silly clown, I encountered a versatile, even chameleonic entertainer, one capable of fashioning astonishing and lifelike animals from balloons.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

the rest of history is just going to be billionaires throwing little tantrums while half the population thinks it’s the coolest thing ever because they believe the pinnacle of human achievement is to be an extremely powerful baby

Me saying let’s circle back after the holidays: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me after the holidays: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

it was never inflation. It was always just the hand of neoliberal capital reaching into your wallet to rob you while lying to your face. these cutesy names for corporate criminality and domestic shock doctor in only allow it to continue in new and accelerate forms.

You can believe: (1) plagiarism is bad (2) elite college professors should be held to plagiarism standards (3) the people pursuing President Gay are mostly doing so in transparent bad faith (4) It’s news, but very dubious it’s a front-page story other than by bad faith (5) it’s not a Congress issue

My father, a political science professor for 40 years, used to joke that his undergrads would write, "The earth cooled. And there was Poland."

Palestinian suffering is never as urgent as the counterfactual: defector.com/palestinian-...

@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social here’s a rage focus fxtwitter.com/laurencowlin...

Ian Miles Cheong starting to sweat profusely: "Keep correcting it. KEEP CORRECTING IT." "I'm tryin-" "NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH."

this is lovely

payback for every grad student that has to read Foucault

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Originalism is ad hoc, usually post hoc, amateur history and it’s just deeply stupid. Training in the law absolutely in no way qualifies you even a little bit for robust historical analysis, and pretending otherwise—as originalism requires—is fundamentally dishonest.

The lead paragraph in Chris Coons’ obituary should be that he short circuited Trump’s impeachment because he had to make a goddamn date night with his wife.

Hard to overstate how much the precipitous decline of American journalism has to do with the fact that there are no longer any stable and viable careers to be made at places like the Cleveland Plain Dealer or the Kansas City Star.

If you haven't had a loved one in jail, you may have no idea what a hideously cruel racket prison telecom really is. The rates for calls or emails are extortionate--because the contractors literally have a captive audience. Good on Massachusetts for ending this vile practice.

Unhappy mismatch between what is representative, and what is newsworthy and then becomes perceived as representative

They melted that statue of Robert E. Lee down into slag and all his shithead offspring decided to have meltdowns too

My partner and his family are from Maine, he works closely w/ organizations based in Portland. Last night we both got on X for the first time in months hoping that there might be some chance it could still work as a realtime news source when we didn’t see much here. The answer, absolutely not.

January 6: “history will remember” Oct. 25, 2023:

I'll say this: the process clarifies that the party is weak, despite its majority, and that the consensus point is insurrection in the name of Trump. The Republican Party is about nothing so much as this.

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

elon petulantly overruled his engineers on flame deflectors obliterating his own launch facility and a wildlife refuge, but please notice how it's government and the "regulatory process" that's framed as the real enemy in press reports

the Bandcamp thing feels like we're now at a stage of capitalism where if anything is good - if it is useful, if it fulfills a purpose, if it creates something beautiful - that tells capital that someone is not being exploited ENOUGH