ZigZaggin

Kiah Stokes going to send the Aces a postcard from the Finals. #WNBA

Happy No More Mock Drafts day to those who celebrate.

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

My spouse said that this is the Golden Age of conspiracy theories, but I posit that it is the Fool’s Gold Age of conspiracy theories because the conspirators (or pyrites, if you will) behind it all tell everyone exactly what they’re doing, and a third of the public believes the opposite anyway.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Decency and empathy may not “poll well.” They may not win elections. The folks in power don’t care about either one of them. They’re more focused on performing cruelty to prove their (false) strength. But without decency and empathy, we live in hell. A line in the sand, folks.

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Currently at 719,000 views. I expect it to be in the millions by end of day. Colbert’s forbidden/banned interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

I've just decided that instead of "affixes" as the general word for prefixes, suffixes, and infixes, we should now and forever simply use the word "fixins."

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

That time of year again!

Announcing my new NYT podcast, Hypocritical Times… 🎧 tap in

Panthers fan here. Did not expect to cheer so much today. @minakimes.bsky.social how is this happening?

And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

wow, new rule of posting / emergent atmosphere best practice: anytime you make a bluesky post with ≥ 1k likes you *have* to write a leaflet post to expound, extrapolate, and expand upon it!

I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Wrote a while back about how the algorithms convinced a lot of folks they were living through a total economic collapse during the Biden years. badfaithtimes.com/the-algorith...

You are not a parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And linguist @EmilyMBender.bsky.social is very worried what will happen when we forget this. nymag.com/intelligence...

The nightmare Republican chat groups exposed last week kinda reminded me that they are unable to view society outside hierarchies of oppression. It’s sad, really. badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-...

Hey Cathy (is that how this works?), maybe the Chicago Sky should be sold to Houston. #WNBA

The Don’t Tread On Me people say, well, this is what happens when you break the law. You lose all your rights. Your liberty is eviscerated. You become a non-person. badfaithtimes.com/tread-baby-t...

Atlanta Dream eliminates $10 million in debt for families across the city

Allisha Gray Hive, stand up! Great piece on one of the best players currently in the league.

Don't want to hear anymore Fever fans bashing Natasha Howard. She's your MVP! #wnba

My partner, Holland Kaplan, writes about Azurá Stevens, who has had a career year and is helping the Sparks stay afloat. More in the Sporting Tribune.

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

is it bad that i'm hanging my hopes on us being fucked so fast and hard that the backlash avoids longer term fucking

I’m an American teacher, and I’m worried. I’m worried about losing special education and Title I funding, worried about the voucher scam, worried about Christian nationalism in public schools, and I’m tired of being scapegoated. Education isn’t the problem. Education is the solution.

Am I the only one who thinks this still looks like a romance novel cover where Chewy is tenderly holding Luke from behind while showing him how to wield a lightsaber?

RESOLVED: ee cummings, in his 1944 poem 'pity this busy monster, manunkind,' was the first to posit the existence of a multiverse, long before either Marvel or DC Comics. Discuss. allpoetry.com/pity-this-bu...

Our fluff resting instead of annoying.

My daughter woke up and texted me from her dorm to see if I could give an update. I had to tell her the news. I think it broke me.

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

One of the biggest and most successful propaganda pushes in American history convinced much of the public that the world's best economic recovery was actually a severe recession.

So the closing arguments from the two campaigns comes down to: “we, as a nation, are better than this.” Vs “No, we aren’t.”

“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post