Jake Tapper is really bad at this.

Wednesday: @jaketapper.bsky.social says Gen Z is "gonna be a lot more conservative." Also Wednesday: Trump gets a 20% approve / 75% disapprove rating among Americans age 18-29. (Via Economist/YouGov poll) d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

They're about to fuck around and find out.

It's crazy to me that it's fallen to @wired.com to lead the way on this kind of reporting, but I've never been happier to be a subscriber.

Late to this, but if you aren't willing to stand up for trans people that puts you on the side of the villains. There is no excuse and no "strategy" that justifies it. Either stand with people under attack from the state or get out of the way so someone with a working moral compass can step up.

"While you’re welcome to try it, my feeling is that man-to-man defense simply isn’t an option. Some teams like to play a box-and-one, which generally works well against most lycanthropes. With Teen Wolf, though, you have to be careful."

This is still true. I didn't think it would be.

1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead. Her death was ruled a suicide. But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. Subscribe to support my journalism.

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

Four dogs in the distance Each stands for a kindness

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Imagine hearing this guy speak and being like "Hmm, he needs to tone down the rhetoric, this isn't a winning message with mainstream voters."

Where are all the Christians who reject false sin-based identities and insist on use of true identities? Maybe we should refer to these people as they most truly are: beloved children of God.

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Baseball organists like, "Let's do the Star Wars theme... Ready or Not by the Fugees... Seven Nation Army... some kind of sea chanty... bit of Bohemian Rhapsody... the first six notes of Sledgehammer... Star Wars theme again"

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

Seeing the man himself tonight in Somerville!

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

The actor, whose career spanned films, TV dramas and soap operas, was beloved for her roles in "Lassie" and "Lost In Space." She died on Thursday of natural causes, a family friend said. n.pr/48NrwLd

Again, not a puritanical abolitionist, and all drugs should at least be decriminalized, but instant gambling on your phone is so obviously a harm accelerator. If when I was doing coke for years I could instantly get it every single time I thought “hm I could use some cocaine” I would be dead.

White Supremacist and Nazi’s come in a variety of fields. You may see these on cops, people in the medical fields, your mechanic people in the grocery store, gas stations attendants, Home Depot etc etc. Pay attention.

had to put this one together from the archives but: called it again

Someone in OKC with a ladder has a chance to do the funniest thing...

And then you’re 30

I will repost this forever.

Many of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.

A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

everyone's laughing at this guy falling on his face but when you've been in intense training for as long as he has your highly trained body just reflexively seeks where the boot would be to lick it

PSA for everyone going to protests

“Those who take part become more positively aware of how they belong to a class,” to quote Berger again. “Belonging to that class ceases to imply a common fate, and implies a common opportunity.” orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

To my non-nerd friends, this is an astonishingly smart, funny, emotional, exciting book and you don't need to know a thing about the character or even like superheroes. If you're into magic, motherhood, myth, and lost children who become Chosen Ones, pick up the 1st trade or check it out digitally

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

This is exactly what we've all been asking for over the past nine months, just fucking swing hard at them and see what lands. It's not like they're giving you a shortage of material to work with.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

Celtics Regular Season Countdown: 6 Days ☘️

Seems like Democrats could find the same info and hire the people who put together videos like this. But they never seem to do so.

And here’s the clip, back again! bsky.app/profile/mati...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

WILL ONE PERSON ON BLUESKY CRITICIZE RFK JR PLEASE!

🧵 The United Auto Workers have endorsed Graham Platner for the United States Senate in Maine. As a U.S. military veteran, oyster farmer, and proud lifelong Mainer, @grahamformaine.bsky.social is a true fighter for the working class.

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

this is literally the cbs news fact-checking process now

needs more fonts

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

The piece in question, by Jake Romm, is indeed very good. www.welcometohellworld.com/your-death-w...