George W Bush also had 4x as much career WAR as his dad

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

The NBA isn't some neighborhood soccer club. It's a business. They knew if they embraced gambling there would be betting scandals. Every fan with a brain knew that. The NBA concluded that the extra income would be greater than the amount they'd lose by compromising the integrity of their sport.

Fancy Beaver England and Wales, Census, 1851

Lane's done with the play sheet, nice catch

Toronto crowds are always insane. Sports, music, everything. Hell of a town.

in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...

In case you think this is a joke

Remembering that very famous Vonnegut line: don’t worry about who you’re pretending to be. No one will notice or care

I knew lawns were bad but I did not know they were *this* bad

Article on my visit last week with Mumia Abu-Jamal. There was a LOT going on: the return of his eyesight, his previous night's remarks at an event for Assata Shakur, a forthcoming march, and then drama with the guards that may have killed irony forever www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Major Bitch United States, Census, 1870

i understand that dr. zack isn’t for everybody and that if you’re a longtime football fan, you don’t get a lot out of his segments. but they’re a great way for casual fans and newcomers to learn football concepts like the alphabet

Platner needs to drop out. but the upshot is that the next senator from maine is gonna be another corporate funded freak who supports trump’s dismantling of america really bleak stuff

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Someone doesn’t remember how badly going to a video store sucked, and just generally how much worse things were in the 90s-2000s. Oh, it doesn’t work perfectly? Sometimes they just didn’t have the thing you wanted. We live in an era of unprecedented media abundance and it’s has spoiled us rotten.

Great news, some poor American towns are desperate enough to be adequately exploitable for global capital, years of joy

Conservative cringe compilation

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Pussy Brickhouse United States, Census, 1880

I gotta give Argentina some credit here for scamming Trump so badly

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

The question that concern all New Yorkers: will you condemn Hasan Piker?

sometimes you gotta give your homies a little kiss

Fun detail I found while researching my latest article on how Republicans destroyed ACORN - and how Democrats let it happen. The more things change, the more they stay the same... www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress. Everything else is noise and bluster. This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

California keeps passing overwhelmingly popular bills by wide margins and Gavin Newsom, who sucks, keeps vetoing them https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/california-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-required-employers-to-provide-notice-of-ai-use/

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

can we all at least agree that no one should ever be criticized for any reason

Remember when the right went after ACORN and Democrats just let it happen

f you want to get married, have children, own a home, or own a vehicle, being under 50 is now a greater disadvantage than not having a college degree

It’s always what happens. Most of Bush policies targeted our own population, Regan’s "war on drugs" which did nothing to stop drugs, but did a lot to lock up Black and Brown ppl. Most of the time they use the tactics of fear to make ppl comply to these new policies.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

Children of Shatila

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78 year-old man, a newly released video shows Lacy took his own life days before he was set to appear before a grand jury

We continue losing daylight for 78 days.

Ice is kidnapping black citizens in Chicago in the middle of the night.

Big tough hospital guys

Jane Goodall’s Final, Urgent, Message “Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.” BENJI JONES Environmental Correspondent at Vox www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the last bit about arc lighting vs incandescent lighting in Red Dead 2 is insane youtu.be/mTtMCoJrGxk?...

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

Well don't I feel stupid

Much hype during Thursday Night Football (brought to you by Jeff Bezos and a hologram of Charlie Kirk) about this Sunday's game in Dublin at legendary Croke Park between the Steelers and Vikings. I'm just back from Dublin and If ya don't think sports is political... www.thenation.com/article/soci...