One of the biggest problems we're gonna have in the future is a lack of guillotine capacity.

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

This first came out in a Rolling Stone article in 2023 and Stephen Miller denied it. His denials weren't credible then, but now that we're doing EXACTLY THIS, almost certainly under Miller's orders, I have no doubt it went down this way. Stephen Miller deserves prison. www.treason.io/p/read-one-s...

Today's newsletter: I bet on a game. The loser had to share an embarrassing story. My team lost so I talked about how I fainted when my then-four-year-old daughter cut her head open and almost fainted again when she got stitches and everyone made fun of me. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

"His daughter . . . is affectionate but short with him. Yet for all of his stoned foolishness, Bob has clearly imparted a real distrust of authority to his kid." Is this a synopsis of the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie or a description of my family?

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No current Cub attended Ryne Sandberg's funeral.

Dodgers woulda won today if Blake Trienen had taken leave to go to the Charlie Kirk thing.

I'm so old that I remember when dudes would give players crap for missing a game for the birth of their children. I suppose attending a political rally disguised as a funeral for a podcaster is more defensible. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Hell yeah. bsky.app/profile/awfu...

The good thing about Brentford sucking ass this year is that, so far, Villa, West Ham, and Wolves are too, and I know a lot of people who like those clubs so there will be a lot of good commiserating happening.

How the rapture has upended the pennant races: My column

Before seeing this part some doof I just blocked was yelling at me that, actually, Schumer is doing the right thing by trying to build a consensus for a shut down. That was weak as hell, but he's not even doing that! bsky.app/profile/atru...

God, I hope so. Because (a) there's no way I'm getting called up to heaven; and (b) I have a long flight the next day and my odds of an upgrade will skyrocket if all of the good Christians are gone. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

I've been much later to appreciate rising grocery prices than most people because, since my wife has celiac disease and I have to buy so many gluten-free products, I have long since gotten used to bread or a box of cereal costing like $8.

Chuck Schumer: "Let's talk about Trump engaging in genuine bipartisan budget negotiations"

At this point it's not that he doesn't get the fact that we're in an existential battle for the survival of American democracy. It's that he doesn't give a shit. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If athletes count: Stan Musial. Met him in a random situation when I was ten. No one else around. He asked me if I played ball and when I said yes he said “that’s swell.” And then he bought me a soda from a machine. God level. I’m never feeling better about any ball player. bsky.app/profile/lila...

Is there a lead that Brentford can hold? Nah, no lead whatsoever.

Seth Meyers is doing a standup show in Columbus soon. This is how the Columbus Dispatch is talking about the standup show. In case you want to know if it's possible for anything to exist these days that isn't rammed into Trump-related framing. www.dispatch.com/story/entert...

[Every single thought I've ever had about this guy redacted to avoid violating any and all standards one could possibly think of]. bsky.app/profile/demo...

Pretty much the same as far as what I post. I have adjusted my habits, however, and have adopted the insta-block/mute means of dealing with tiresome people. My bickering with people has probably dropped by like 90%. bsky.app/profile/ceep...

Happy Birthday Jarvis Cocker

It doesn't make up for all of the bad stuff of course, but being the first generation of parents who can tell their kids that things were better back in their day, dadgummit, and actually be right about it is weirdly satisfying.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

I’m an atheist. And I’ve been happy being an atheist my whole damn life. But these days I am desperately hoping that there is a Hell and that these fuckers burn in it. bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Well I saw Skubal in person finally. He was not his best but he gutted through to better results than he could’ve had. Tigers offense being MIA again is a real bummer for them.

This is the one place where the federal government should supress speech.

Cannot recall a team making weaker contact than the Tigers have made against Bibee today. Like their bats are paper thin.

Comerica Park scoreboard just used a “The MLB” construction during Gleyber Torres’ at bat

I don’t keep track of who is a slow worker or not but Tanner Bibee feels like a slow-ass worker.

Woot

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This is also what I cannot get over. It’s like Mr. Beast getting a state funeral.

This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

A study in contrasts

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

In today's newsletter I take a roundabout way of talking about what the Bayeux Tapestry, William of Poitiers, and Trump people have in common. This will appeal to almost no one, but I'm right, dammit. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Sorry to dox you, but I want everyone to know where you live. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_Ho...

Most groups like this are plays for money rather than actual influence or change. But even if they could mathematically prove their efficacy, I will never, ever, ever support a movement that would sacrifice the vulnerable for political gain. Fuck all the way off with that noise.

Today's newsletter: Ohtani no-hits Philly for five, a weird interference call, whitewashing Roberto Clemente's legacy, when you know you're right, Trump's lawsuit, and Robert Redford. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Graphic design is my passion

Nightmare blunt rotation

“Shohei Ohtani threw five no-hit innings and hit his 50th home run as the Dodgers lost 9-6 to fall 7 games out of a bye” is something I’d have made up in February to make fun of all the people saying their offseason ruined baseball