Jon Plotkin

Jon Plotkin

@jplot.bsky.social

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If Watson was playing like the best player in the league I wouldn’t really be against him winning MVP since that’s purely a football award. But comeback player of the year is a “hey good for that guy we’re happy for him” award. You absolutely can just not give it to the guy we all know is a rapist.

Idk if Blexas is actually going to happen but I’d be incredibly certain that it wouldn’t have if Trump endorsed Cornyn. Such an unforced error.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social

Thomas Phillips, the former Republican chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, announces he's backing Democrat James Talarico for Senate. "Paxton’s longstanding reputation will embarrass Texas in ways our state simply cannot afford." www.beaumontenterprise.com/opinions/art...

Remember in 2020 when Trump said how mail-in voting was bad and shouldn’t be allowed but then was obviously told that it tended be more popular with republicans in Arizona so he added a caveat that mail-in voting in Arizona was ok?

“If you’re not a Democrat, you’re a Republican” is undefeated.

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

My most conservative-coded belief is that most people who don’t have kids would be happier if they did, even if it’s a conscious choice, for this exact reason.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

I’ve only ever flown coach but I’m not dumb enough to think it’s the most luxurious way to fly. Not being able to afford better doesn’t mean you can’t know better.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

I think it's fine that Barack Obama made fun of The Cheesecake Factory but also you are kidding yourself if you don't think there are Americans who consider The Cheesecake Factory to be fancy, special occasion dining. Multiple things can be true.

I’ve cleaned for an AirBnb and I will tell all of you people: I don’t really care whether or not you strip the bed, but don’t make the bed before you leave. You’re just doing a chore to make my life more difficult.

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

After he was shot Trump made like 5 public appearances in a two month span while running for president. If Kamala one his campaign would absolutely be talked about as a disaster.

Look, I’m sure this wouldn’t be great, but if I see a sentence start with “Supreme Court agrees to review Reconstruction-era ban on” I feel like this is the best possible outcome.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court agrees to review Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes.

My parents have kept me and my children in their lives due to one simple trick (not being shitty to me my entire life before I got independence).

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Obviously the transphobia is horrific, but as an American the concept of male/female only sections of hospitals is absolutely insane to me.

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

Everyone is trashing him but A) If the conceit of the game is that you have to beat someone in something they’re an expert in then of course it’ll be something they’re an expert in. B) He did pretty well. It wasn’t like he just got completely exposed on WNBA players.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social

I think the context makes this clip even funnier —the woman is Carolyn Swords, who was in the WNBA from 2011-2020 —the show premise is "pick a topic where you're an expert," she chose "basketball players" —Rob Lowe REPEATEDLY points out to the guy that she was in the WNBA —HE CHALLENGES HER ANYWAY

C) I absolutely beleive I know more about some sports’ history than most professional players. In my lifetime I’ve seen an NFL QB admit he didn’t know the NFL had ties.

It isn’t new but for as much as Peanuts might have declined over the decades, Charles Schultz, while dying of cancer, somehow wrote the perfect conclusion to the decades of Lucy pulling off he football away from Charlie Brown.

It was absolutely the right decision that we never got to see him kick the football, but if you believe Rerun pulled it away, you’re a monster.

I have a fully paid-off car so it doesn’t make sense for me to change to electric unless gas prices get truly absurd but it’s become incredibly obvious whenever I get a new car it’s going to be electric.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

boy Trump fucked the American auto industry. first he yanks their EV subsidies, leading them to slash production and write off tens of billions in investment, then he jacks up the price of oil by 50%, leading to skyrocketing EV demand going almost entirely to China bc GM et al left the market

Whenever I say this to people they act like it’s bizzare for me to say it but it just seems so incredibly obvious at this point.

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team

its really funny to me how the statement "new york is the capital of america" follows an inverse bell curve distribution for how well the person making it understands the country

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“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

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fuck these guys. put them all in prison.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Markwayne Mullin on ICE shooting a man while his 5-year-old child was in the backseat: "I'll say this about the 5-year-old child. As a father of six, I would never endanger my kids."

He did the meme!

Thomas A. Fine@thomasafine.bsky.social

And yes, 10/7 is Israel's 9/11. Except that 10/7 was in many ways far far worse than 9/11. One way to understand this is to observe that 48,000 Americans being murdered is the proportional equivalent to 1100 Israelis being murdered.

Not to defend this guy but when I realized I was sick of fantasy football and quit doing it, I got a ton of shit from a lot of people for years.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social

the tech bro who uses AI to play fantasy football for him is being dragged online. no one has ever been quite so mad frankly.

People joked about it at the time, but it’s pretty crazy that back in 2016, Trump both held that “Gays for Trump” flag on camera and had Caitlyn Jenner at a rally of his. Either of these happening now would be stunning.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.

Nothing like my daughter asking me what her new McDonalds SpongeBob toy’s name is and looking at it only to realize I have to tell her who Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen is.

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A quick web search says this commercial as well as the first Doug one both came out in 2019 but if that’s true, the “struggling actor” one got way more play than Doug at that point. Regardless, Doug was simply not known enough after one ad to go all meta with.

The “Liberty Biberty” phrase came from a commercial that not only had nothing to do with Doug, but I believe came out before there was ever a commercial with Doug.

Ignoring the evil of it for a second, why is the UK allowing someone with a pending rape trial to leave the country when they pretty clearly are just not going to come back?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

This was what got my family to buy a DVD player.

On This Day in Simpsons History@dailysimpsons.bsky.social

25 years ago today, September 25, 2001, “The Simpsons: The Complete First Season” was released on DVD in Region 1 US. It became the best-selling television DVD in history, but it was eventually overtaken by Chappelle’s Show Season 1.

I’ve had numerous discussions where people say it’s hard to prove Trump committed crimes and like, its not. Maybe treason is a tough charge, but you can just prosecute the obvious ones that the media just decided were boring and it’d be easy to send him to jail for the rest of his life.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act…

This reads to me as Newsom knowing he’s not gonna be president and just positioning himself for a cushy post-Governor job from the rich.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

It’s funny that “person who cares too much about whether their kids win or lose in their sports” is universally accepted as loser behavior except in the trans sports debate suddenly little league outcomes are sacred.

Emily@emilyonhere.gay

KIDS PLAYING SPORTS ISN’T ABOUT FAIRNESS IT’S ABOUT KIDS PLAYING WITH THEIR FRIENDS