Wondering what’s on our “totally unserious” “radical wish list”? It’s affordable health care. God forbid!!

That was another wasn’t it?

That’s three shakers on the day now, at least by my count.

In my research, only people with kids have autistic children, so you know, the data there is rock-solid, gold-standard, and the policy implications are obvious.

Shook a decent little bit but only for a moment; couldn’t have been much bigger magnitude wise based on duration.

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake occurred 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California! 🗺️ Coordinates: 37.858800, -122.239800 This is an automatic report and may be revised.

Well that was more earthquake than usual.

Shout out to F1 Oversteer, which delivered a searing remark oh so delicately in noting Carlos Sainz podium in a Williams came before the man who replaced him at Ferrari, one Lewis Hamilton, managed to notch the same performance for the prancing horses. That is a *savage* burn. Nicely done.

I mean, seriously, the amount of nonsense this is is very high

What is Apple doing? It’s transparent on the left, blacked to the middle, opaque and white in the right — and I’ve set the damn thing to be “let’s work in dark mode”. What are they doing?? This is nuts.

When the walls started truly started closing in in Russia, there was a now infamous editorial meeting in a vaunted Moscow newsroom. One of the reporters asked, "Where is the line?" The EIC responded, "It zig-zags."

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

The court jester is one of the final few people who can speak truth to The Man when executive power is at its over-reach. They’re coming after the court jesters now. That should tell you a thing or two. I hope on his way to Heaven, Gilbert Gottfried made his connection in the Empire State Building.

Fucking hell they’ve cancelled Kimmel too. This is fucking ridiculous.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

What the actual fuck is this?

Leonard Cohen and Napoleon were at the Paramount. Anyway, man does this city have performance spaces. Holy cow.

The Fox is, as it stands, one of the grand houses to play in Oakland. I’ve seen Kacey Musgraves and Broken Bells there and whooooo is that a time. What a great venue.

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Q. Why is there a special election in the Minnesota House tonight? A. Because the Democrat who held the seat was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

AMERICA FUCK YEAH

The Decemberists with the SF Orchestra has second balcony tickets starting at $155 so yeah.

Phil Williams sharing some data…

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

You knew this was coming.

He is not the brightest ayahuasca smoothie on the menu.

“It’s Tapioca Tuesday and I’m jonesing for something bland and lumpy!”

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything

Your PE teacher and your stepladder are getting married

thanks a fuckin lot for the in hindsight views howard

Hat tip to Mark Leibovich for calling out the ridiculousness of the idea that overwhelming ambition is somehow a disqualifying factor *for a politician*. I laughed out loud. I mean, the Senate is a body composed of 100 Americans who wake up every damn day, look in the mirror, and see a future POTUS.

Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads— “HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.” Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.

I’m not gonna make a business case here for cable news but Galloway probably isn’t stupid enough to believe that n-many downloads of a podcast equal n-many impressions. Podcasts download automatically, frequently never to be heard. Viewership and playback on cable and DVR is a bit more accurate.

“Clos Pegase ‘94” the honcho orders at dinner. Look, my dude, we need to decide: are we getting a mid wine with dinner or blowing a wad on one? Because that order is doing both at the same time.

I am loving this episode of The Sopranos in which creepy shitbag dude is chowing down on a brown sugar Pop-Tart and a Fresca.

“Continuity error. The bottle of syrup turned around; now we’re seeing the back label.” I am probably a fucking pain in the ass to watch things with.

The RFKJ Gold Standard Science report on autism and acetaminophen is about to drop. “Wellllll many kids who took Tylenol also developed autism, so Tylenol is verboten.” Soon to follow, white bread, breast milk, and water.

I quite enjoyed this explainer on the current track layout at Monza. preview.redd.it/ht174507ysk3...

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

The Gorn Identity

Another super-hilarious thing about this is that, were it true, you know the document drop would’ve happened forever ago in order to bolster the Nobel campaign.

I know chucklefucks like this have been going to the White House to kiss POTUS’s ass for a long time. But we didn’t always have to like, watch them grovel in this voyeuristic way. I’m somewhere between uncomfortable and furious.

Folks who *need* transit service to get around will use it more if it’s less financially burdensome? And those who *choose* transit vs. other modes don’t experience the same elasticity? There’s good nuance here. You can induce demand and encourage service use *without* having to go farebox-free.

DC offered low-income residents half-priced fares and these folks spent more overall on transit, suggesting they took at least DOUBLE the transit trips as when they paid full price. Clipper START has similarly been wildly successful and is essential to Bay Area's path to transit ridership recovery.

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns. Since 2018: •4 trans shooters means 2A is null & void •4193 NON-trans shooters means 2A needs expansion Here's a better idea: Solo men commit 94.6% of all mass shootings. Let's ban firearms from solo men & see how it goes.

100 percent. And they don't need to be in command. They failed their sailors.