Patrick Hruby

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

This is kinda a throwaway line in an otherwise fine Times story but...I don't think it's true? I can't think of a single way that AI has affected my personal life, other than the fact that I have to hear about it nonstop.

“Good job” lmao

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

Shooting fish, at night, with bows and arrows (?!?)—this was a fun photo essay to assign and edit

This strikes me as incredibly optimistic

Worth your time!

the tech industry is about to invent books

One of the most influential magazines ever

You could explain existentialism to somebody, or you could just have them walk into a CVS where “more than this“ by Roxy Music is playing 

Trump voters in 2016 were happy to admit that he's a corrupt liar. They just thought Hillary was more corrupt and dishonest. Don't know about this guy specifically, but a huge percentage of the conservatives "turning on Trump" now are gonna find excuses to see Dems as a bigger threat in 2028.

The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.

The last line of this piece hit me hard www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Worth your time!

This sounds great

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

The A-Team was ostensibly soldiers of fortune within the Los Angeles underground, but did anyone actually ever hire them?

I don't really follow politics

This is perfect, thank you @brianphillips.lol

What if you just paid some damn taxes

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

Two wolves

Racquel Kelley was a civilian. An office worker at the Pentagon in 2001. She never imagined that her job would one day nearly cost her life, and that the terror she endured would never fully end. New at @washingtonian.com

Racquel Kelley was a civilian. An office worker at the Pentagon in 2001. She never imagined that her job would one day nearly cost her life, and that the terror she endured would never fully end. New at @washingtonian.com

lmao

they're calling him the Most Republican Doctor of all time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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Billable hours remain undefeated! See also: the NCAA

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I absolutely hate it when I draw renewed scrutiny

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