RFK Jr. Questions Efficacy Of Skin https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-questions-efficacy-of-skin/

Asking to be held in contempt to get 24 hours of sleep. Yikes.

"He crossed that line between everyday villainy and cartoonish super villainy."

“You’re my only friend, Mr. Snowball.” “I’m not your friend, Dan.”

Keeping that ball flight low, under the high winds of winter and directly aimed between the eyes of an evil authoritative state.

The New York Times writing 180 pieces in a 10 day period on Biden being old.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

Planetary Alignment xkcd.com/3192/

This is a well written complaint.

The lesson for IU basketball this season is to not go up by 16. #iubb and #iuwbb both coughed up 16 point leads over the weekend. I don't make the rules.

LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.” @letterman.bsky.social $PSKY youtu.be/CHYksa07oQA?...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

When you've radicalized the host of Jeopardy, you've really accomplished something.

Mayor Frey is probably going to get a lecture on civility from one or more of our major news outlets.

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

Good stuff from @garbageday.email

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific" cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Shift the Ape, speaking for the Tash-Aslan administration, is pleased to report that Narco-terrorist Caspian has been neutralized through kinetic strikes on the Dawn Treader authorized by Secretary of War Puzzle, the donkey.

A mid-December look at how 11 former IU basketball players are playing this season www.insidethehall.com/2025/12/15/a... #iubb

Bummed as we were getting some good production from her, but can't argue the rationale. #iuwbb

Exactly this. Schools don't just educate children. They knit communities together. In 1848, Caleb Mills advocated, "Awaken the public mind, and concentrate it on the question, 'Am I not interested in the proper education of all that are socially and politically connected with me?'"

Trump, as is his wont, posted something shitty someplace where I don't go. Now my Bluesky feed has repeated iterations of people platforming and disseminating his words. The quoters object to his words, but for some reason they're bent on disseminating them more broadly than things worth reading.

I don't really expect this to ultimately be the case, but it would be a crazy world if the Indiana Senate was the rock upon which MAGA foundered.

They're gonna run out of Buckeyes if they keep sending them into Indiana to lose.

Indiana gerrymandering absolutely clobbered

Once you give in to a shakedown, chances are it will keep happening to you.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." This is known. Less known is that "fair maps" means mid-decade gerrymandering that cracks Indianapolis into four districts and cuts right through the middle of my subdivision in West Lafayette.

Looks like the GOP's effort to create a multi-ethnic working class has run into a few minefields . . . which they laid themselves. Also looks like a 4 year degree continues to provide good insulation against economic shocks.

Excuse me while I whip this out...#iufb #1.

At the Big Ten Championship game, as time was running out, an Ohio State fan was self-soothing by saying "this game doesn't mean anything anyway." And, as an Indiana fan, I thought to myself, "to us, this means everything." #iufb

For me it’s this classic

In fairness to the statement, he did not say whose side they were on during that war or who he thinks won.

This is related to a thought I've had about these people who are briefly famous for dubious reasons. Life is - god willing and the creek don't rise - pretty long. Building a life that will sustain you over the long haul is slow work that can be derailed considerably by going for the quick strike.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

“Suicide rate among married women in 1950 was 22.1 per 100k.​ Today it's 6.9 per 100k. After the passage of no-fault divorce in 70s/80s, suicide​ rates dropped 20%, there was a 10% decline in women murdered by​ their partners, & rates of other kinds of domestic violence​ against women dropped 30%.”

#iuwbb play Gonzaga at 1:30 this afternoon in a holiday tournament at FGCU. TV’s on FloHoops, which isn’t a value-conscious addition for two games per year. Radio is on wbwb.com though!

Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg

In case anyone was curious, between yesterday afternoon's IU Women's basketball game and last night's IU Men's basketball game, the refs called 95 fouls! #iubb #iuwb (Some quick and possibly unreliable research suggests that's about 20% higher than average.)

Enright was a lot of fun to watch last night! I don't want to get too excited about this team - I've been down this road before - but I'm starting to hope. #iubb

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Mostly passing this along for the Muncie content.

After it rolled around on one of my Pandora stations, I've been enjoying Wu-Tang's "Mandingo" for a few months now. Not being particularly up to date on music, I vaguely assumed it was a decade or two old. Nope! Released in April of this year.