Throw an extra five years on his sentence for that bio. I've never seen a thesaurus-haver go harder.

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Anyone else watching DCI Southwest Championships today? I’m at home instead of in person for the first time in a few years. Anyhow, Seattle Cascades has played bits of Man in the Box, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and Heart-Shaped Box in their show. Plus Rite of Spring, obvs.

Want to avoid explosive diarrhea? Pass it on

You can take Houston from my cold dead hands

Texas is our coolest state, and also our most evil, and it’s not gonna let you just pick one of those

I've spent the past ~17 years with a kid in the Fort Worth public schools, defending the district to all the naysayers and parents opting out for privates. Hard to do now. The unnecessary state takeover looks more like an effort to kill it for good rather than make any meaningful improvement.

Highlander 2: The Quickening and it's not close

TIL SMU football legend Kyle Rote had a son who was a US soccer star in the ‘70s

Critical context about Trump's speech: Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and criminally conspired to subvert it. That conspiracy was based on knowing lies. Not delusions. Not mistakes of fact. Lies designed to preserve and grow his power.

A statement from WIRED leadership.

POINT OF FACT: Trump never accepted the results of the 2020 elections. He still left office and Joe Biden served four years as president.

"Declining" would be a better word than "refusing" to describe ABC and NBC sticking with normal programming tonight. It's not some sort of revolutionary act on their part. It's a judgment call by private news organizations in a country with freedom of the press.

CBS is going to do a tape-turn, via Stelter. NBC is going to put it on a stream but not the network, says Reuters. ABC is going to “monitor” the speech, according to Deadline. Earlier today the cable nets were still looking at regular programming. h/t @dandrezner.bsky.social

"His goal has been to write 10 books per week, which is the maximum Amazon allows."

I was told gender affirming care was "woke" and had "no place" in the military

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

FOIAball's first ever exclusive!! www.foiaball.com/p/holiday-bo...

Saw a zillow listing touting the smart fridge and can't tell you how much I need the fridge to be the dumbest appliance in the house. I just need it to be cold. Nothing else. Should be JD Vance levels of dumb, just there without a thought, being cold & impersonal, staring at the couch all day.

US govt policy denying visas, even tourist visas, to disinformation researchers, trust & safety professionals and content moderation workers is STAYED on 1st Am grounds. Lots of good stuff in Judge Boasberg's order storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To be fair that’s more phrases than Bezos allows the WaPo editorial team to publish

Disney World’s “virtual assistant” chatbot is about the dumbest thing I’ve seen

I must’ve been going to the wrong libraries all my life.

You can go vote on the raccoon’s name on Halaand’s instagram story.

Reaching peak old-person-at-Disney status by going on the “Behind the Seeds” greenhouse garden tour at Epcot in a few minutes

I show scenes of Citizen Kane and Tomorrow Never Dies to my journalism classes as examples of pros and cons of being owned by a billionaire

Hollywood Studios experience so far: Show up at 8:20. Slinky Dog coaster is 30 minute wait. lol it’s 60 minutes. lol finally ride 75 minutes. Go to muppet coaster. 35 minute wait! lol nie it’s 60. lol it’s really 75. And the muppets were broken

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people don’t have to rush to say, “Please be polite!”

And now for something completely different, remembering a great dude who recently passed, Peter Irwin. He did PA for SMU and high school games (and press box PA for Cowboys games) for many years while I was working all those beats in the ‘90s. www.restlandfuneralhome.com/obituaries/p...

How to give reporters credit: "an independent arts journalist, Adam Schrader, the founder of the site Urgent Matter, filed a public records access request. He obtained text messages between UNT President Harrison Keller and then-Provost Michael McPherson about the show's removal, and posted..."

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

1. Yikes 2. Those texts are the kind of thing I‘d make up on an exam if I wanted to bypass students’ speculation about possible legit motives 3. It seems (separately) bananas that university admins apparently thought they might be able to edit the exhibition themselves?? www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

Disney fan account with the local angle

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

victory lapping on this one

I wasn’t opposed to England before this game but all the flopping and crying has turned me against them

I am in a hotel without Telemundo and I believe I’m entitled to compensation

"AI, you dumbass"

This you?

All of this. I just finished writing some chapters and even a day or to come back and rewrite some of the more unhinged passages helped. Trying to do it the other way around would be madness. (writing about rule of law & stare decisis & First Amendment today can make you sound like a crazy person)

(i’ll make this about me)— a highlight during my time writing about the texas rangers back in the day was a twitter thread i created highlighting how cj nitkowski liked right-wing content on twitter. it went viral, he locked his twitter and rangers pr got involved. my dm’s were a mess for months.

Portal 3

Been at Disney barely an hour and I’m already drinking out of a skull. Arrrrrrr

HERE'S THE THING THOUGH: Are we meant to believe that woman became a master baker while being too ditzy to follow instructions? No way. Amelia Bedelia knew exactly what she was doing. She was using malicious compliance to wreak psychological havoc on the bourgeoisie.

Amelia Bedelia was always like "I burned down your house and washed your dog in the dishwasher. Also I made you some bomb ass pumpkin bread" and her boss would say "Amelia Bedelia, this is truly some bomb ass pumpkin bread. How would we ever live without you?"

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

More good news out of Florida as a state court judge dismissed an $885 million dollar defamation lawsuit brought against the Miami Herald for its coverage of a bribery scandal involving an elected official. These vexatious lawsuits are designed to discourage critical reporting about government.