@thepressbox.bsky.social I don't know if this fully counts as a strained pun "headline" but I thought "Watch Potty" was pretty good nonetheless

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

@thepressbox.bsky.social we've got a media piss test with an AI twist: "... the AI narrative is 'Uber for X' on hallucinogenic steroids"

If asked I would serve.

This post is extremely Bill Simmons coded and I guess you can take the boy out of Grantland (and the Grantland out of the ESPN and the entire written media industry off the face of the earth at that) but you can’t yada yada yada.

"Not even the vaunted American pastime of football, it seems, is safe from this partisan vitriol." Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Justice Jackson is annoying the Republicans on the court and going beyond her fellow Democrats in making very sharp criticisms of recent rulings by the court's right-wing majority. That's leadership. She is the rare Dem in a powerful role meeting the moment. newrepublic.com/article/1975...

with all due respect, eat shit

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

I wrote about Adam Riess, a Nobel Prize winning cosmologist who thinks that there might be something deeply wrong with our leading theory of the universe — the very theory that he himself helped stand up www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Over at @theatlantic.com, @leahlitman.bsky.social and I summarize our study of the Trump administration's practice regarding judicial orders, which we term "legalistic noncompliance" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I WANT TO BELIEVE IN ABUNDANCE I wrote my review of the new book, what I liked, what political opportunities it presents, and where I was left unsatisfied. Here are some sections, and you can read the whole thing here. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Head Start, an early childhood education program for low income families, is on the chopping block. Growing up, my own mom was an aide with the program; it’s helped countless young mothers, including the one who tells her story here. www.kqed.org/news/1203596...

yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Imagine if I had done any of this.” — former president Obama, at Hamilton College this week

Trumpists want to argue for a future-world that doesn't yet exist, in which the tariffs create a perfect equilibrium for US growth. But the tariff plan announced yesterday does exist. We can read it. It does not make sense and is not defensible on its own terms. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.” - @dkthomp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

making a difficult off-cycle election into a referendum on yourself personally? brilliant gambit sir

A beautiful peace of writing.

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...