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My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

JIm Ratcliffe is a scumbag. More than that he's a hypocrite. And dangerous. Words. open.substack.com/pub/nqatpod/...

They’ll be hearing from his father

@waynesbarton.bsky.social by total coincidence i began the second chapter of After Munich this morning and i’ll plow through the night. it’s wonderful stuff; the first-hand accounts are haunting. i go into the weekend spiritually attuned for the ceremonies. thanks, and have a good one, Wayne

Feeding all of Jeffrey Epstein's emails into an LLM to create a writing style legible to billionaires.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

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.

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.