Brendan

Hello, friends! If you're following me, that means you're cool. Or uncool. I don't remember which. But you're likely to get a shit ton of TV and music recommendations in between tons of political content. Also the occasional #actuallyautistic post from a guy who spent 41 years thinking he was NT.

Once more, with feeling... RFK Jr. IS A EUGENICIST

I cannot tell you how much I'm gonna celebrate when this humanlike lizard person finally has the major coronary he so richly has deserved since he was about 18.

I'm not entirely certain what I was listening to at the end of yesterday's third @312sportschi.bsky.social Forward Progress, but man do I love listening to those three idiots get to be meatballs immediately following a fun (if frustrating!) Bears win.

Literally setting money on actual fire would have been cheaper.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Swear to God, I almost want to go back to Twitter just to reply to this, "Ok, but have you heard 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell?'"

It is amazing to me how much better El-Sayed is at this than conventional Democrats. Would a generic Dem be leading an empty-suited, empty-headed Floridian running with the endorsement of a likely pedophile? Idk. But AES is gonna win, and I think the margin is gonna shock David Axelrod.

Jesus. I knew the guy had like negative charisma, but he absolutely cannot sell Trumpism the way Trump can.

David Axelrod has cooked his brain on Obama-era civility politics and Twitter's mainlining of Nazis. What a disappointment his second career has turned out to be. Just an absolute fossil and loser.

Good News whatever the outcome of the game.

Can someone smarter than me let me know why Ken Paxton's camapign is running ads on a national broadcast? Wouldn't that money be better spent on local ads in sympathetic parts of Texas? Seems like he's lighting money on fire.

I'm not sure anybody involved in this broadcast has ever watched a football game before

General reminder that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is the Democrat we should all be avoiding. He's basically a Republican who has a good social media team.

I swear, if Hegseth goes any deeper into the closet he'll stumble into fucking Narnia

Another reminder that the Roberts Court has less legitimacy than the Reinquist Court that did an *actual* suspension of the Constitution.

Seems like a *really* good way to improve your standing in the world and win allies to your cause there, Beebs.

This is commonplace now, but it should be no less shocking. You'd have a better hit rate if you completely guessed on every question on a multiple choice test. Zero hits? None? Not one? You have to be just the dumbest of the dumbest to be THIS bad at your job.

Amazing. The clowns at @nytimes.com think a man who rapes children could make an A-OK president, and that enabling his delusions makes for good politics, but a woman representative having aides feed her pet is A BRIDGE TOO FAR. We are not a serious country.

Sam Alito should never have been on the court to begin with. If y'all will remember, he was the second nominee after Harriet Miers withdrew due to not being conservative enough for W's base. Bush was a pussy who was afraid of his base.

Yet another reason to keep Newsom as far away from power as we want MAGA to be. He is a chatlatan techbro wannabe with absolutely no national political instincts. He hired a good social media director. That's it.

Honest to God, it feels like all Republicans (and way too many Democrats) have *never* set foot in a store.

Melania is totally boinking someone who's not this decrepitly stupid.

@sanders.senate.gov has absolutely lost me for good. I caucused for him in WY; my spouse was one of his DNC delegates. This is beyond the pale. You don't partner with fascists on anything, Senator. You do not "have to hand it to them." Way to show you're just as big a fraud as the centrist Democrats

I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

IMO it’s pretty obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI are burning cash at unsustainable rates so they want to collude under the guise of safety regulations, cut down on research costs, prevent new more efficient competitors from entering the market, and split LLM demand between them.

Reminder that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social is completely and utterly compromised by AI and techbros and absolutely cannot be allowed to win the Democratic nomination for president. I don't even care if we have to go with a centrist like Pete or Ossoff. We cannot allow Gavin Newsom to become president.

You can have a democracy or you can have a racial caste system but you can't have both.

Worth noting: in the 5 years before Caleb Williams arrived, the Bears only scored 63 points *total*. And that included a game where they scored the most points in the post-Lovie era. Today was absolutely wild.

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

Scoring 59 points used to take the Bears a month and a half.

I am floored. I have never seen this from a Bears team. Never. This is... incredible.

Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that

This is the best news. Even better than Caleb being maybe awesome.

So Drew Brees is... good? Like, not spectacular, but he's made me notice a few things that have aided to my understanding of the game. And Adam Amin is his usual awesome self. This is a good announcing crew.

People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent

This is a real thought that someone had, put into words in their head, wrote on a phone or computer, and hit "Post" to post. Nowhere in those steps did it apparently occur to this numbnuts that literally zero women have (or want) to sleep with him because there are normal men out there.

Why aren't reporters calling out Johnson for being a less-than man because of this comment the way they did with Mamdani and El-Sayed? Or are they only fake sports fans when they're Muslim?