So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

This whole series has been great, and genuinely moving, despite (or because of) being polished campaign video. It is so rare to see those techniques—with that *surety*—used to say things like this, from positions like this, with a platform like this. No hedging, here. Makes me want to do the work

Might fuck around and watch the entire 2021 WNBA Playoffs

Briefly mixed up Dua Lipa and Depa Billaba.

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

ICE. IS. ALWAYS. LYING. Bodycam footage shows ICE agent taunting Marimar Martinez before shooting her 5x in Chicago’s Brighton Park, contradicting federal claims that she drove toward officers. The footage blows apart DHS’s fabricated story about the shooting.

A'ja Wilson, man. Even the basketball god's couldn't intervene

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

Jackie Young is absurd

This isn’t meant as shade but I think it’s kind of wild how the Aces so rarely get the “superteam” label because two of their stars (and three when KP was there) were draft picks. Nevermind they were all #1 picks. The ethical preference for lottery luck over free agency is still odd to me.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

building our entire society around cars is, in my opinion, the stupidest thing any species on this planet has ever done

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era: theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...

Mercury in 6

Alyssa Thomas may never get an MVP but she’s about to get a Finals MVP mark it

If Odyssey Sims has 1,000 fans I’m one of them. If Odyssey Sims has 1 fan it’s me. If Odyssey Sims has no fans I have been eliminated from playoff contention #EnterTheSimulation

We are all in the Sim-ulation now. I need Sims merch. I need a crossover with Sims 4. I need a Nike commercial and a makeup line.

All the pieces in place for Alyssa Thomas to complete the Stewie/Phee/A’ja revenge tour and there’s nothing I want more at this point. It’s amazing what happens when a team actually puts real offensive weapons around her.

Hard to complain about Vegas/Phoenix Finals, especially given the A’ja/AT and Jackie/Kahleah matchups. But it’s tough to see The GOAT (Odyssey Sims) denied the win with that Kelsey Mitchell injury

This Odyssey Sims game is what Liberty fans (see: me) will tell you the Nyara Sabally game was (I love you Nyara)

What the actual hell man

This game is so good it’s got me rooting for the Fever lol

Odyssey Sims turning into Cynthia Cooper is one of the greatest things I have ever seen #wnba

They should let Aliyah Boston play in this overtime #wnba

Odyssey "Kelsey Mitchell" Sims.

It’s a mistake overshadowed by other ones but Chicago letting Dana Evans walk away is on the damn list. #wnba

The thing that frustrates me the most about this is not that the specific play at the end was in fact clean (bad luck for Phee, obviously hope she’s okay), but that Cheryl had NO ISSUES absolutely throttling the liberty through every scheme last year in the Finals. The double standard is crazy.

Cheryl Reeve saying "I can take an L with the best of em" Liberty fans:

I understand she’s a legend but Cheryl Reeve isn’t beating the sore loser allegations anytime soon. That was a “This game is over, let me dodge the loss with rage” ejection if I’ve ever seen one #wnba

Oh geez, I hope Phee’s okay. Not AT’s fault at all, clean and smart play, but you hate to see it #wnba

I never want to hear Fever fans complaining about how the calls never go their way again lol #wnba

NaLyssa Smith is my hero

I like Lexie Hull taking that midrange jumper

What a damn game #wnba

If we’re getting this level of trash talk in game 2 just imagine

This likely overtime loss reminds me of how every fan, player and coach of the Lynx last year talked about how “barely” they lost game 5 and how it was “stolen,” when THEY HAD FIVE DAMN MINUTES IN OVERTIME AND HAD NOTHING

Mercury fans, be prepared that if you win this series, the Lynx fanbase will spend a full trip around the sun yelling about how it’s all because of that uncalled foul on DeWanna Bonner

If Alyssa Thomas smiled at me the way she is smiling at Napheesa Collier on defense I would never sleep soundly again

It’s almost worth the Liberty season being over just to get Phee and AT talking shit to each other like this

Overtime, baby. Hell yeah.

Sami Whitcomb was the first “role player” I saw catch fire for like 6 minutes in person. 4 threes in a row against Vegas back in 2022. Still think about it.

SAMI MOTHERFUCKING WHITCOMB

I probably would have voted for Phee but as a Liberty fan I also have so little sympathy for Lynx fans once again declaring that losing a close race means the world is out to screw them. Sometimes you lose by a little. I get that it’s cold up there, but I promise it’ll be okay.