John Pfaff

Yeah, it’s excellent. Ridiculous name, but great ER.

I’m sorry, but Stanford is in the ACC?

The *A* CC?!

I get the Pac-12 has collapsed, and that conferences in general are divorced from anything regional or historical, but still….

It’s literally ON the Pacific Coast. Words still have meaning!

Or is “ACC” now a wordless acronym like KFC or AARP?

*LaNgone, not Lagone. I’ve been there enough you’d think I could get it right.

(And not joking abt the Home Depot part. NYU’s hospital system is NYU Lagone, and Lagone founded HD. So it makes sense, but seeing “Home Depot Emergency Department” on things still feels a bit corporate-branding-in-Idiocracy-esque.)

a man in a wheelchair with a bandage on his head is shaking hands with another man . Alt: a man in a wheelchair with a bandage on his head is shaking hands with another man . Says all good here

Now that NYU’s emergency department is literally the “Home Depot Emergency Dept,” do they offer repeat customer deals like HD?

Because today is my third visit in less than a year for someone breaking a bone.

(Track kid broke a leg, I broke my arm, and today the skateboard kid broke a wrist.)

* I’m kidding abt the bleu cheese. Never used that stuff. If you can’t handle the heat straight up, move to Syracuse or something.

My wing credentials are impeccable. I ate so many in HS that if I got a cut I’d apply bleu cheese to the wound.*

So I have some standing to say:

This is an abomination against God and nature. It’s a war crime. It violates treaties that haven’t been written yet. It’s why aliens don’t visit us.

I’m sorry, but why does Kennedy call this site “BLUE-skee”?

Is this just part of some effort to appear like a (UVA and Oxford-educated) small-town lawyer?

"We Christians are called to do more than charity. We are called to challenge the *systems* that make charity necessary."

As my kids would say, nodding appreciatively: "bars."

The politics and international relations press as well:

“Greatest source of US soft power and global cultural influence cut by 33%” seems like a big deal too.

I’ve never seen the exonerative voice applied to the ones DOING the criming before.

Is the rise of AI “agents” creating some sort of nation-wide shortage in everyone else’s agency?

This also applies to Randy Fine (R—Hatesville). Whose comments from today I also won’t link to for the same reason.

Honestly, yesterday, I was puzzled by the pics of Ongles bc I thought he looked different. Turns out I was thinking of Fine.

They’re basically interchangeable hatebots.

And I don’t mean this in Trump-is-incompetent way.

I mean, to a lay person like me, this seems to point to a glaring hole in the entire military infrastructure we have.

I’m genuinely and legitimately not a military guy, so maybe I’m missing something.

But if we are running low on the high-quality ammo this quickly against a country as weak as Iran, doesn’t that imply we’d be absolutely unable to sustain any sort of long-run conflict w, say, China?

Good to see this.

And good reminder of a cost of anti-reform DA politics.

Reform DAs have never been SOFT on crime, they just want to REALLOCATE their attention.

Towards, for ex, police violence.

It’s why Krasner and Moriarty (Mpls) have been so vocal, O’Neill (Chi) and Hochman (LA) so quiet.

Part of me wants to say we need tougher anti-nepotism laws in the future, but maybe we just need to go full Janissary.

Just nip all nepo-babyism in the bud.

Ok, hear me out: this is a case where I think most of us would be okay with some egregious insider trading.

… who then passed everything he heard on to the Iranians.

Wonder what the soldiers and officers doing the actual fighting think when they hear that their commander in chief is checking in w someone credibly targeting them for death?

Just the most weak, manipulatable person ever to be POTUS.

There are many reasons to impose age (not term!) limits on elected positions.

Senility is obv #1.

But near the top? Ensure that they will likely live long enough to be forced to see the long-run costs of dumb, dangerous actions.

And reduce any panicked desire to secure “a legacy.”

Ok, this is strange and controlling.

But the end of this sentence is … perfect.

The absolutely TACKINESS of someone who convinced so many his brand was “luxury.”

“The president is particularly enamored with a pair of $145 oxfords from Florsheim that can be found in most discount shoe stores.”

Also, what about parents like me, who affirmatively find things that distress homophobes appealing? I do enjoy drinking homophobic tears. Don't we count as well?

If discussing someone being gay in a movie makes you need tons of therapy, consider the movie a successful diagnosis, bc you clearly needed that therapy before seeing the movie.

Also, guessing "some parents" really means "some STRAIGHT parents," bc doubt kids of gay parents are shocked by this.

Hennepin County Attorney Candidate Interviews - Hill & Lake Press In mid-December, I sat down with the Hennepin County attorney candidates who had entered the race by our copy deadline of Dec. 15, 2025 for a series of 20-minute Zoom interviews. The only exception wa...

Here’s a good set of brief interviews with most of those running in 2026.

I assure you that Folk will not take on the Feds, and I’m skeptical that a former police officer and CO (Nguyen) will either.

But the 2026 race is, in part, abt whether Hennepin will go after ICE.

Supremacy Clause immunity is a real thing, and the DA’s office seems like it is trying to build its cases carefully.

I’d add: the current DA isn’t running for re-election, and as Chicago and LA have taught us, non-reformers (and some are running in Hennepin) generally do not take on the Feds!

Does posting Ongles saying something redactable abt a vulnerable group provide any new info? Absolutely not.

Bsky is nothing but too-high-info politics types. We all know who he is and what he is.

I feel like it is far better to let him just scream into a void.

Hatedunks are universally net harms.

They pollute everyone’s timelines, the hateful speech getting reposted likely poisons us in hard-to-appreciate propagandist ways, dunks aren’t adequate inoculation, and engagement of any sort just encourages this sort of behavior.

As always, I genuinely wonder if the best way to handle Rep Ongles (R-Racistburg) is to pretend he doesn’t exist.

I won’t repost what vile statement of his triggered this post. Bc that’s the point.

He WANTS us to be angry, and he WANTS us to hate-repost his hate … which SPREADS THE HATE.

Once again to @johnpfaff.bsky.social's point: the huge budget ICE/CBP got last year was and is absolutely a concern but the chances that they burned through a huge part of it bc of graft and incompetence were always gonna be pretty high

That just got saved for future use!

As someone quick to point out baserate fallacies, looks like the oil price jump is not one.

My usual rebuttal to “biggest percent change!” is “yeah, but what abt the absolute change?”

Which here? Also the biggest of all time.