This is roughly Obama’s approval rating at the same point in his second term. A few of his polls from January/February 2014 were even (slightly) worse

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

when you’re talking about Aqua Boy but can’t remember his name

A federal judge has colluded with the president (who appointed her) to let him off for a bunch of crimes and now to also cover up the evidence and the press could not give less of a shit

No one asked but a core memory for me is partying with a bunch of German students in New Zealand like fifteen years ago and they all absolutely lost their shit when Major Tom by Peter Schilling came on.

This is all obviously true BUT Patel being distracted jet setting to sporting events and concerts is almost certainly better for everyone than if he was concentrating on running the FBI

I'll say it again: Donald Trump ruined Canada as an object of gentle, good-natured mockery, one of our nation's longest-standing and most cherished pastimes.

in the interest of Non-Politics Posting I’m going to make a thread of the nonfiction books I’ve read/am reading/will read in 2026. I usually get to 10-15 a year. (and so I can find this thread later, a little signpost for myself: aardvark)

Oh my god

They call American hockey “the Overtime Kids”

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

also once again that portrait is basically his mug shot

Trump's insight that being openly corrupt makes him immune to the conventions of "political scandals" is perhaps the greatest example of his peculiar political genius.

Pawsitively adorable 🐶 Italian local dog “Nazgul” crossed the finish line in the women’s cross-country skiing team sprint event in Milan Cortina.

As far as I know RFK Jr — for decades a prominent and fairly successful professional environment activist — has never been asked on the record about his support for a regime that is Captain Planet villain level anti-environment

Dev: drives himself to the brink of death Me 20 hours in: oh the title is like “blueprints” I get it now

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Shoutout to double silver medalist and pride of Vermont Ben Ogden, first American man in 50 years to win a cross-country skiing medal. Both silvers were behind Klaebo too

What if they combined the Czech and Slovak hockey teams. They’d be really good. Someone should look into this

We're still keeping track of all 4th place finishes in our Aluminum Medal Table! Germany has surged to the lead with eight 4th place finishes in the Winter Olympics.

one thing that makes Norway’s dominance even crazier than it seems is their team isn’t even that big — Norway has 31 medals (and counting) from a team of only 80 athletes, which is 13th biggest (This is because they basically don’t compete in hockey, snowboarding, or the sliding sports)

Somehow just TIL that the actress who played Moneypenny in the Brosnan movies is named Samantha Jane Bond

This show is named after a movie where there’s a climactic twist involving a guy revealing to his bride on their wedding night that his dick got blown off in WWII

going to give myself twenty internet demerits for referencing the 2028 primary two years in advance (which I believe should be illegal, at least on this website) but the worst Democratic candidate, whoever you consider that to be, will at least try to reverse this and no Republican will.

This event is insane

Do you think when Hans Zimmer was working on the Gladiator score he thought that seemingly like a third of figure skaters at the Olympics a quarter century later would be using it as their skating music or no

Someone should put a collection together of court rulings against the regime that are all variations on, "What are we even doing here?"

the winter olympics are magical

Stellan Skarsgard giving his like 8 year old iPad-addicted grandson dvd copies of Irreversible and The Piano Teacher for his birthday in Sentimental Value is the hardest I’ve laughed at a joke in movie in years

Peacock should have a mode for watching the Olympics that adds a little Mario jump sound whenever someone jumps

Short track speedskating is easily the drunkest winter Olympic sport

What’s even the point of Montana and Idaho if they can’t give us a good biathlete every once in a while

Oof

It’s cool how the U.S. political and electoral system favors republicans, sometimes enormously, and yet they’re all still frothing lunatics and/or petulant whiners about everything

incredible

The dual front Trump 2.0 all out war on a) medical research and b) anything that might slow down or mitigate climate change is going to cause suffering at an unimaginable scale in the long-term all for literally no reason

Lmao holy shit

After he first won in 2016 I sorta assumed that Trump would lean into his “you’re fired” Apprentice persona but he’s actually done the opposite, no one ever loses their job for any reason (unless they’re deemed personally disloyal of course)

the superbowl included an ad that actively sought to associate Musk with a product that wasn’t even his (the ai dot com one) which is proof of a colossal failure of civil society

Ten months later the answers to these questions appear to be “nothing,” “no one,” “maybe some consulting on ‘trade deals’?” and “no”

you wake up and every day it’s like “The Trump administration plans to remove all toilets from homes, saying “there’s no need for them”, a 2018 study says otherwise “ SCOOP with @johnDCbeat for The Hill

Reminder, here is how Skeleton is scored: - the bones are their money - so are the worms - the bones equal dollars - they will pull your hair up but not out - all they want is another chance at life

Twice using italics for emphasis AND concluding with an exclamation mark?

That Dobbs was leaked to Politico has been the strongest evidence that a conservative did it (a lib would’ve leaked to either the NYT or WaPo) so this is interesting

Ski jumping sucks to watch and has been completely market corrected and superseded by big air, ditch it