the whole thing about jewish-iranian conflict being ancient really irritates me. on balance the various pre-muslim persian empires were friendlier to jews than most other regional powers. isaiah calls cyrus the great the messiah!

The phrase "they were half of these confrontations" is incredibly damning. This is a discussion about a story of a government being unleashed on and committing violence against its own people, and Pelley still finds a way to frame this as a "both sides" story.

A gleaming Donald Trump hits "the Blanka pose" during a TV interview. Electricity pops and sizzles visibly around his heaving form as he prepares to complain about the way he is talked about on television.

Also, it's the least of her many sins here, but we now have a bunch of accounts of Weiss weighing in on stories well after deadline, which leads me to conclude that she a.) doesn't understand her own pipeline and b.) simply can't be assed to look at them in the correct time frame

Rid yourselves of the conditioning (and it is just conditioning) that conservatives are automatically more authentic and legitimate, and so must be catered to and redeemed the second they turn on each other. It's dangerous and incompetent. We can just let our enemies fight.

Dude…

Bro really pulled a Richard Karn.

It is hard to overstate the lack of seriousness with which we treat the ability to own and operate machines with the ability to kill and maim

When you run for LA mayor but you’ve never voted for LA mayor before.

Hundreds of thousands of German Jewish refugees fled Nazi Germany and most were unwanted abroad, putting them back in the sights of the Nazis. Hegseth's analogy only points one way.

I have told our alderperson that the nickname for this bike lane is the murder stripe. We have asked repeatedly for better safety infrastructure. Her answer is that there isn't room for protected bike lanes. This is the main street for our neighborhood three miles from downtown.

We can't rely on people who will make mistakes that could get someone killed. Ald. Lee has repeatedly told our safe streets group that there is no room for a protected bike lane (because parking would have to be eliminated.) Fuck that.

Dashboard updated for today's drop. Raman was +20 over Pratt, well above what she needed. Projection now has her beating Pratt in the final score by ~2 points.

oh they’re doing one now. never mind

hairless chewbaccas for han solos with allergies. just a big pink fleshy naked guy strutting around yelling

There’s still a few hours left for the funniest thing to happen

man voters

The Annoying Ideas Issue

“My bad” ancient warrior saying, solves poster’s madness

“refusing to take the L” remains the surest path online to madness

thinking about that old post about tracking creeping american fascism by comparing old and new legos, because my current router is an Ominous Hexagon

taxpayer funded bailouts, ai is thriving

kind of an aside on this, but as the Southern states get more leeway to act like the South again, I think it's pretty critical that this kinda thinking gets stamped out wherever it comes up.

the baseball stadium (81 home games) should be downtown. The shared hockey/basketball arena (81 home games) should be downtown. The football stadium (11 home games) should be a big field thats not near anything bsky.app/profile/dail...

You send me a chat, I respond immediately with a question, and then you don't answer my question for 2 hours. Coworker behavior

i dunno, I think the guy just sucks

I was just bringing this up with friends the other day. It’s strangely endearing (and VERY generous to the American psyche) that the Japanese would view conspiracy theories like this as being a sort of american folk superstition, not unlike the kind they have in east Asia

Important news: My wife, who worked in Detroiters’ art department, has located the original Karn on the Cobb file in her archive.

craaapp

staying locked in at halftime by watching some classic basketball cinema

This blocker was out of line

getting my nutritious energy from this colombian soda i got from the market

you rarely have to hand it to vanilla ice but I've never heard a better answer to "where are you going?"

ball over everything

There is this sort of recurring phenomenon where journalists fall in love with how delightfully provocative right-wing apparatchiks and intellectuals. Giggling at the naughty words they're not allowed to say, and thinking that makes them cool and sophisticated. Children, playing at being grown.

why are there several men with the last name patlan getting aggresive about the archer road diet

I wasn't sure what to expect. Seeing the whole thing didn't help much.

A man famous for his capacity to accurately decide "this guy seems chill"

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

if you worked on an adult swim show, especially the ones that essentially became my personality as a high schooler (e.g. the first crop, Brak Show, Sealab, ATF, etc) you should be a multimillionaire and living a life of comfort and leisure.

but, black dynamite, i LIVE on oil and fertilizer!

No-one ever wants to talk about the absolutely wild free speech restrictions placed on abolitionist speech throughout the South.

To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com