It's kind of disgusting to see the American military tradition destroyed in this way. Over the last 200 years the mightiest empires on earth have fallen before a middle class army of citizen soldiers with initiative and intelligence; is it really going to end with this tedious"warfighter" slop?

hopefully the return of a political prisoner will help ease tensions in the U.S./Vatican cold war

*chef’s kiss*

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Re-upping from last night. This offense deserves attention.

Florida played 120 minutes of basketball vs Kentucky this year. They were tied for a combined minute, and UF did not trail for a single second. #mwahahahaha

The Ascension of Christ, by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710, 📸 by Issac Baldizon

Got Spelling Bee to quote Lebowski today

“More than just being unconstitutional, and very clearly illegal under international law, this war is also morally reprehensible. It's wrong,” says Chris Hayes. “All of this may sound obvious, but it must be said.”

The Supreme Court:

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

Roughly 1/3 of the annual payment they get from Time Warner every year, for the next 12 years.

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

Yale, Harvard, Stanford

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

Definitely read the piece below. This man infiltrated and reported on fascist movements for 40 years. His first big project was moving to Chicago’s Marquette Park in the early 1970s to fight neo-Nazis. It was five years after MLK was hit with a rock in the neighborhood: bsky.app/profile/hist...

If you can’t get a first round pick for Ayo Dosunmu, you have no business being a NBA GM.

Gotta respect the Trump administration keeping Gabbard out of the loop from the Maduro kidnapping so she could maintain the integrity of her Puerto Rican voting machine investigation

This happened right after I got back into town from my mom’s funeral. A real, Joycean (a la “The Dead”) moment for me.

Bovino being put out to pasture *does* have pleasing symmetry, but the man belongs behind bars.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

The existence of a mushroom that turns you into Dr. Seuss’ Horton for up to a week makes my heart sing

Not totally optimal, but any season where you end the Packers’ is delicious as fuck.

Really feels like Trump admin is inverting Marx, where its first iteration was (mostly) farce and the current iteration is tragedy

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.

“Abolish ICE” is yet another example of the left committing the unpardonable sin of being correct too early - which is to say, exactly when action should have been taken.

“'You would have no command and control over the military and no police force,' he said. 'You’d have looting and chaos.' Any U.S. military deployment meant to stabilize the country would probably require tens of thousands of troops, he said."

“We love sports and we don’t *care* who knows!”

Real shame James Bennet isn’t around anymore to bring us the Tom Cotton NYT Op-Ed “The Extrajudicial Murder Of Helpless Survivors For Non-Capital Crimes Is Good, Actually.”

*Sigh.* Denzel Aberdeen is leading UK in scoring and assists, while shooting 53, 39 and 80%

The vibes in Chicago right now are sort of like during the pandemic except if covid showed up in a random neighborhood every day and had to be driven off by everyone yelling at it

Great win, Gators. Fire Billy Napier into the sun.

Feel like King of the World is pretty great post-apocalyptic sci-fi

I really admired Kaleb Horton’s gifts as a writer, especially his strong sense of place, which is usually a hallmark of the greats. He also turned me on to the music of James McMurtry, for which I will remain grateful. RIP

Tomorrow night the box will read - Shaw, DNP, raptured

Head coach should fire the offensive coordinator imo

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...