New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
It seems pretty obvious that they know who British Lula was, they just want to have someone else they can do the purity testing they accuse the left of doing
YouTube comments best even here in the not getting the joke stakes. Found a comment section crashing out over full-fat coke because all coke is fat free
Weetman skull-measuring incident has reminded me of people who used to "be a thing" on twitter. It's inspired me to do an occasional thread. Feel free to chip in with suggestions/lore/questions.
when an all time great athlete declines and cannot accept it, it is sometimes sad and it is sometimes funny
great news: cristiano ronaldo absolutely falls into the latter category
the essay is a narrative written by Ronaldo in the purest notes app quasi-apology genre form depicting himself as the Real Victim Here, describing how he ended up leaving the national team camp
the core of the story is (for real) about Jorge Jesus not reading the talking points Ronaldo gave him
just want to highlight the talking points here again, they're amazing
again, this is Ronaldo's instagram essay, his recitation of the talking points he gave to his coach, shared with the intention of making Ronaldo look like the good guy
it's incredible
What’s hilarious is this might actually be the most politically unifying event to happen in the uk for donkeys years, and Burnham is about to swan dive onto a rake
@alexwickham.bsky.social: ‘Exclusive with AlexDooler DNair
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter’1/
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room
TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality.
POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile
TIME: We have a limited amount of time.
POTUS: jealousy interviewer
if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans
The first team in MLB history to make the postseason after even two consecutive 100-loss seasons (they had 3) just won a postseason series
These White Sox, what a story!
I accept that the national finances are bad, and it’d make it a little bit easier for me to accept even more harsh cuts if former chancellors and pro-austerity pundits lined up and committed seppuku on the floor of the Houde, one after another, while John Healey announces them.
Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track
BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces new sanctions against Iran through "Operation Economic Outcast," as the war approaches its six month mark.
The cost of a complete private day-school education for leavers rose 5.7% from last year, prompting fresh debate over the Labour government’s decision to remove the VAT exemption for independent schools. ft.trib.al/183SBWg
Yes, there would be a reset: Israel would keep most of what its seized, a new hugely escalated normal of brutality would be established and there’ll be an all-channels effort to tell the public that some weird and nasty shit went on, but that’s all in the past and things are fine now.
Not only are they nakedly corrupt which is already insulting, but it’s such a low budget corruption. Your US counterparts wouldn’t get out of bed for less than 100k!
NEW: Housing Sec Angela Rayner took £20,000 in speaker fee from an anti-rent controls lobbying group just weeks before ruling out a rent freeze in what campaigners from London Renters Union have called a conflict of interest.
Read all about it here: wefightthegoodfight.substack.com/p/rayner-tak...
here, then, is what to tell people: rowling has decided to make eliminating trans people from public space her life’s work. as such, of every dollar you spend on wizarding world material, some portion will go toward that goal; this will not change. but whether you participate is up to you
Why don’t you say it on a site he’s on so you’re not doing this sad little ‘brrrr let’s be cool guys on our little pirate ship that looks like a microbrew meet up?’ Why do this bitchmade little ‘teehee the bad man said bad words?’