When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Just because this is so much fun… Youngest son takes over, expands family business.

Three men on a boat argue about the best way to catch a fish.

As it is National Hot Dog Day, we need to acknowledge those things are nasty.

For as long as I live, I will never get the love for Golden Girls.

Train travel > plane travel.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. But Belgium surely showed us how far the USMNT still has to go.

The fuck was our goalkeeper doing?

Donald Trump and I have three things in common: a love of Citizen Kane, a love of Diet Coke, and utter contempt for Donald Trump’s supporters.

Mel Brooks is 100 today. Drop a gif of your favorite of his films to celebrate.

Between this and the attacks on Spurs fans, New York sure is doing a lot to ruin the moment. www.complex.com/sports/a/mar...

Clearly they were saying “let’s go Brandon.”

In Indiana, breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches are considered expressions of our Midwestern values on an at-times-comically undersized bun… which probably explains why they’re meh.

Man what a great finish for the Indy 500! It’s even nicer that MAGA-booster Roger Penske lost so abruptly. Release the Epstein files.

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In a sentence probably never uttered in human history, my wife has informed me that my hair smells like chocolate chip cookie dough.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

We need to stop thinking of the GOP as cowardly. Many of them are eagerly abetting this destruction. Trump is simply the blunt instrument by which they realize their goal destroying functional democracy.

I hate conspiracy theories. But given that reports had been circulating for a week that Trump planned a mic-drop moment at the WHCA dinner and the sheer incompetence of the reporting, yeah, I’m willing to believe this was staged.

As if everyone would actually share the risk. (See second screenshot.)

Moscato is a good wine for people who drink Sprite and think “I wish I could get drunk off this.”

Roberts will go down in history as one of the worst but most consequential chief justices. He might get some decisions right, but few have done more to undermine confidence in our system than he.

When your party’s brand is “hey, at least we’re not as bad as Trump,” sexual assault allegations remind us that “not as bad” is still pretty bad.

Tl;dr of every @datelinenbc.bsky.social: “the husband had an elaborate plan to do it.”

The one game where I want Duke to win….

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

At the workshop on Making Academic Research Potent and Potable for General Audiences workshop—more panels need to include spirit samples! Thanks @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social, Jennifer Porst and all of the presenters for a fun, informative, provocative panel! #scms26 @scmstudies.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

Train conductor hats are top-tier headgear.

REP. HARIDOPOLOS: I was a shitty history teacher.

This is also true if, as in our case, the constitution isn’t that well-designed or as well-respected.

The fuck is a hot beef sundae?

I’m guessing it’s Andrew Jackson. Trump absolutely idolizes Jackson, absolutely is talking to his hallucinations and absolutely is certain they too think he’s the greatest president ever.

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Whereas the U.S. had been certain bombing schools would result in a mass outpouring of love for us.

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

This is nearly a city of 10 million people. Imagine New York City being carpet bombed. Tehran has a larger population.

Why isn’t Melania testifying? I’ll tell you why Because her husband is a pedophile

"Pure evil"

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

If you’re looking for an invigorating read about personal myth-making and the popular press in late-twentieth century Hollywood, might I recommend an essay in the latest Journal of Cinema and Media Studies? muse.jhu.edu/article/982202

The amount of work faculty are going to have to put in, the amount of regression, the amount of the worst kind of rigor discourse we're going to lean into, the amount of suspicion we'll have to have for our students... Techbros pushing AI everywhere, I hate you. I really do. Hate.

Spoilers for season two of Heated Rivalry.

When did we stop teaching students to write in separate paragraphs? Asking for my weary soul.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

So someone paid $3 million for a ticket?

Rep. Randy Fine is really working hard to be the most loathsome GOP member of Congress.

Sinners deserved all sixteen of its nominations. I’ll be surprised if it actually wins a fourth of them. (I’m not saying it doesn’t deserve to win all sixteen—just that Academy politics and, yes, racism make it unlikely.)