Shaker Samman

Someone please tell the Lions to hold onto the ball

Can someone explain to me why Indiana wouldn’t have called a timeout to save 30 seconds? I’m losing my mind

just incredible work. reading this is like getting struck out by Misiorowski and just chuckling on the walk back to the dugout

Excuse me?

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🫡🫡🫡 that’s my mayor @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

every win proves Mina's point here a little more, really sucks

Two smaller things I appreciate here: 1. Unless I’m mistaken, there are zero cuts or edits in this? It’s the whole conversation, start to finish. 2. The addition of “or not pray at all” every single time, which a lot of candidates tend to omit.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Oh my god how do you not know where your feet are on that

“Thank you, fans” ass sequence

BIG WILLY STYLE

Alright now that that’s settled

I wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates

"The apotheosis of insanity.” For the 20th anniversary of 30 Rock, I went deep on my favorite thing about it: all the fake shows, movies, and songs. With help from Tina Fey. www.theringer.com/2026/10/08/t...

THE POWER FRIDGE

My Braves-Dodgers Game 3 recap: Yamamoto and Enrique play the classics.

Jake Cronenworth hit a homer and I just had a slice of cake leftover from my birthday. The St. Clair County boys are doing big things.

Nigella Lawson sounds exactly like Tim Curry. I will not elaborate.

Me and my friends would’ve killed Liberty Biberty with hammers I can tell you that much

announcer: YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE 2026 WORLD RALLY CHAMPION!!!! I DO BELIEVE HE'S DONE ENOUGH! (2.8 seconds later)

Mickey Mouse stadium

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

PCA in the postseason

Wrote up a quick explainer about the latest rollback of Title IX by the Trump administration and what that means, both for protections for trans students and students who report sexual harassment or sexual assault. Gift link:

Patrick is a stone cold freak for dropping writing this good into the intro of what is a useful, but fairly formulaic Game 2 preview format: www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

AL LABISSIERE

The Lions are a complicated machine that turns wide open opportunities into backbreaking failures

Hell of a way to repay Michigan’s debt to the Time Gods

So you’re saying things have changed since Verlander debuted

Mad Men, Thrones, GBBO all honorable mentions

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

Look if we’re not calling the Tigers’ stadium Comerica anymore, I’m just calling it The Bank. The Nats and Tigers face-off at The Bank later today. Sure as hell beats “Fifth Third Park"

Trinidad Chambliss is a god-tier name