I don’t know who needs to hear this but: 1. Autism isn’t a tragedy 2. Autism being largely genetic isn’t a sign of “de-evolution” and it’s dehumanizing to autistic people to suggest it is.

Good morning to everyone except the people who think Tylenol or vaccines cause autism.

So I guess it’s back to when Grealish was at Aston Villa. The opponent can do anything to him outside of actually murdering him in a football match and not get a player sent off…

Looks like Kash Patel paid off the refs in Liverpool-Everton. Multiple tackles on Grealish violated the Geneva Convention. Same old nonsense.

Empaths who are too overwhelmed and burnt out from the constant onslaught of horribleness to speak, and feel so guilty bc the societal mandate to “speak up” about every single horror is constant & nothing you say or do will ever feel like enough: I am with you. I love you. You are doing enough.

Flying on 9/11 today for the first time since 9/11. Hard to believe it’s been 24 years.

Oceans rise. Empires fall.

Naturally Everton will be docked 7 points for this

Again, a reminder that the law of the United States creates and names executive departments, not the president at any given time. "The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111

Nobel Peace prize guy changing the name of the Department of Defense to Department of War.

Disgusting. But from a group that adores a president who insulted Gold Star families, what else is new?

Truly one of the best and most impactful pieces of journalism I’ve ever read. Has stuck with me for years.

That’s right! Grant the original SEC Champion! Sherman went back to back!

Great day to start this Civil War podcast series on the Atlanta campaign. William Tecumseh Sherman: the Original SEC Champion!!!

Manchester City the club I’ve spent most of my life supporting is becoming increasingly unlikable. Trafford is one our own. Signing Donnarumma is a betrayal. Full stop. maybe this is why when MCFC was training down the street from me this summer I didn’t even bother to show up. I’m so over them.

for those who don’t know, I wrote an e-book in 2014 about my long-term fandom of the club. But as the club became bigger and quite frankly more foreign, (I know I’m not English, but I am an anglophile). It became much more difficult to relate to them. Now it’s impossible..

The other point on this would be I’ve felt closer and closer to Everton the last few years. It’s the Howard Kendall/Peter Reid Legacy. There was so much shared history between City and Everton. So I naturally had a rooting interest in Everton also. And so that happened to me also.

Everton making me feel Hope. Not something I’m used to.

Urban giving me Tom Hagen vibes in that burgundy suit. Except Hagen was the conscious of the Corleone family

Boosting this to get it to my followers. You need to do this now, before these boosters and vaccines are unavailable.

We live in a country where many conservatives are more triggered by rainbows on sidewalks than our children being repeatedly slaughtered in schools.

The real Cracker Barrel crisis is the amount of salt they put in their ham.

Dr. James Dobson leaves a legacy of abuse, hate and a lost American church. If the apostle Paul saw the American churches Dobson shaped, they would be receiving a dandy of a letter. Dobson’s version and vision of Jesus was small.

Reminder that “slavery as a benevolent institution” was not only the South’s main argument against the morality arguments advanced by abolitionists but also a linchpin of the white supremacy arguments that were used to justify post-Reconstruction Jim Crow.

Just so folks know it was actually Ron DeSantis of “the Free State of Florida” who revived the old Lost Cause trope that slavery was partly a benevolent institution before Trump.

Was discussing the best episodes of TV I’ve ever seen with friends this week. Multiple folks mentioned “Two Cathedrals” from The West Wing. Just exquisite. Perfect.

The Kindle Edition is out of my new book ; paperback drops tomorrow amzn.to/4mcGRc1

Liam Gallagher whining about Jackie Grealish going to Everton at an Oasis show is how I know Grealish has some great football left in the tank. Or that’s what I’m going to tell myself.

As the dearly departed Grant Wahl once said (which he owed to the dearly departed Stephen Keshi).

my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...

Another sure sign that the fix is in. Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus on X: "We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case." And says they're already in discussions with the administration.

Old North State hot take: Michael Whatley is affable, engaging, and can play as a “moderate.” In a world where he didn’t need to defend Trump, the broken Helene promises, and deep Medicaid and solar energy cuts that hurt North Carolinians, he’d be a formidable opponent for Governor Cooper.

Defamation and other types of damages suits are integral to fighting back against the misinformation and fascists. From Ruby Freeman and the Georgia election cases to this… keep it coming

To review: Trump denies Epstein friendship. Trump uses Epstein files to smear opponents. Trump promises to release Epstein files. Bondi tells Trump he’s in Epstein files. Musk confirms Trump is in Epstein files.

The Club World Cup was hot, diverse, imperfect, and... very American. If it was a taste of what's to come, 2026 won't just be a World Cup hosted primarily by the U.S.; it will, in so many ways, be an Americanized World Cup. A piece on that + more: sports.yahoo.com/soccer/artic...

Is Old Takes Exposed on this platform yet?

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Shelton can beat Sinner on grass. Full stop.

Ben Shelton is the most talented American men’s player certainly since Roddick and perhaps since Sampras. It’s a matter of when, not if, for Ben, as long as he’s healthy. Will Sinner open the door for him now?

Annual reminder that, for all the talk of “hostile” environments, U.S.-Mexico games are mostly just a really cool, unique celebration of this sport

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Happy 249th Birthday, America. I love my country. I want to be proud of it again. Do what you can on a local and national level so we can get there. Organize. Volunteer. Be kind and be tough. Vamos 🇺🇸

@edsouthern.bsky.social In “Fight Songs”— you talked to a professor, as I recall, about the history behind SEC/southern fan base beliefs, institutionally. Any idea who this was? Sorry this is vague I just know it was a deeply fascinating part of a great book

Absolutely evil. No other word for it.

Disgraceful. If you thought North Carolina’s right would suddenly support free and fair elections when @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won, you were mistaken. The fight continues.

Mamdani shows that Democratic working class/Bernie politics can inspire male voters. But it’s hard to read much nationally into a NYC election dominated by highly educated voters who lean left. The question remains whether you can sell Mamdani’s ideas in swing states key to the balance of power.

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

Probably bad with a dose of really bad today. But hey at least the @nytimes.com is running stories painting ACB as a moderate amirite @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Did I just become a dodgers fan?

Extrajudicial killing of political opponents. Physical takedowns and unlawful detention of sitting US senators in minority party. Unlawful police force on mayoral candidates. The US is closer to an authoritarian and fascist leaning broken state than a constitutional republic right now.