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Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

They're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more.

Fuck them.

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

Painting of snowdrops on a light blue background

Snowdrops for spring #imbolc

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

MOBY GOT DICK By Josephine Riesman I hate white whales and I cannot lie You other seamen can't deny When the beast swims by as a pale and eerie sight Spermacetti is your right You get sprung Wanna throw spears well Til you know that the whale's in Hell Oh, Moby I wanna stop goonin' And get harpoonin' My boatswain tried to stop this But that eye you got makes (Me so vicious!) Ooh, Devil’s own whale You say you wanna end my tale? Well, try me, try me Cuz I ain’t no average briney
 I’ve seen him blowin’ To hell with all knowin’ He swim, fin Got it goin’ like a turbo Schwinn I’m tired of novelists Sayin’ orcas are the best Take the average Ahab and ask him why I’ll tell ya I’m not shy So sailors (YEAH!) Sailors (YEAH!) Has your whale-foe got the white? (HELL YEAH!) Tell him to fluke it (FLUKE IT!) Fluke it (FLUKE IT!) Now throw that sharpened stick Moby got Dick

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

Drip/pour over coffee is a very good and I want an apology from all the euros who have trashed it over the years. Especially the ones who tried to claim that an Americano is somehow an acceptable substitute

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

Nice little rally the Blue Jays having going here. The odds suggest that they'll score at least one run here. But have you considered the 100-percent odds of them making two more quiet outs and wondering what could have been?

everyone says they want a third space until i offer them the use of the dank, lightless prison cells i've dug out beneath my home in secret over 30 years. way to let the perfect become the enemy of the good, guys!

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

Remembering Some Guys is possibly the most singularly wholesome, non-toxic activity many men engage in

you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching

Erin Burnett asks Zohran Mamdani what it means to be a Democratic Socialist. Hear his response YouTube video by CNN

A really great, clear explanation for the "How you gonna pay for this" skeptics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecd...

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

that’s right

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office

current levels of optimism in the US: "lots of people actually still think concentration camps are a bad idea"

you know the Overton window has shifted to basically another plane of existence when you read things like "there's pretty broad discomfort with disappearing people with no due process" as though that is a reassuring, optimistic stance to take

Saw an article from a local Philly paper saying that they thought this Giants-Phillies series would be "at least 3 easy wins to pencil in" and I gotta say I appreciate humility of putting that in print after last night's game

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Home.

I was talking to the Brewers manager and he told me that every time the Yankees hit a grand slam he just puts in a new pitcher and I told him it sounds like he's just feeding pitchers to the Yankees and his pitching coach started crying

Thank you!!

the only exception to this in my opinion is José Ramírez. you can't play third base professionally for long if you ever think about anything other than "see ball -> catch ball". 100% of your brain power has to go to that state of preparedness 24/7