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Gamble at the casino, not on the addiction machine in your pocket.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

Noted radical... Hillary Clinton... now in favor of court expansion. :)

MLB needs to get rid of the salary cap so the big market teams can compete with the Tampa Bays and Milwaukees

The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.

Dengue n I hate dem

Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I don't watch the Olympics to see a fair competition. I want to see some kind of super mutant throw a 16-pound hammer into the face of god

Lethal Shooter has Ms. Rachel on fire.

The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When old SVU episodes don’t hold up in modern times.

Happy Bell Riots Days to all who celebrate. #DS9

I hope 2025 & 2026 have adequately prepared everyone for the shitshow that will be 2027: Strongest El Niño and highest global temperature on record Energy and affordability crisis from the illegal war End of 3-year federal science grants awarded in 2024 AI bubble bursting Continued rise of fascism

Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.

No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.

Bond market gonna be like

cc: Every centrist Democrat who thinks promising to add more cops is politically savvy

RBADVISERS: “.. Yet another inflation impulse. The US basically has NO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE (SPR) anymore.”

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

Worse, in virtually all cases where I examine a specific criticism, Dems are doing what is demanded--the complainer was just too lazy to look. I get people don't understand in an atomized media world we all need to do better. But at the very least stop outsourcing agency!

Have Donald Trump run their country for a couple of years

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Those of you eager to serve wealthy MLB owners as volunteer Pinkertons won’t like to read this, but as usual Joe Sheehan nails the real problem:

Lmao this is as close as you'll get to "everything that guy just said was bullshit" from the chief economist at JP Morgan talking about the Fed chair

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

Lady just got me thru a four hour flight with a toddler I will be her strongest soldier

personally I think FIFA should throw everyone a curveball and say Mamdani convinced them to rescind the suspension

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...

Bossing knickerbocker

Yet another perfect day in NYC. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads! What a gift it is to be a dad.

Aaah the live broadcast from Cape Verde being interrupted by the goal

on a sincere level: being a dad rules, kids can be challenging but there simply isn’t anything like raising a little human being and watching them turn into a person in front of you I love my boys very very much and I feel so lucky to have them

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

New York Knicks with Zohran Mamdani in City Hall after their NBA Championship parade. Photographed by Ali Imam.

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

According to the Trump administration, only the people on the left of this picture should be considered as potential refugees unequalscenes.com/south-africa

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell