Brendan

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Maybe for some. But then it’s still just semantics. What people react negatively to is the breakdown of fairness, which coincides pretty well with a breakdown in formal democratic institutions, whether or not they connect that to the term, “democracy”.

Seems like it’s not that hard to understand. People value fairness. Voting and establishing rules that apply equally to everyone is basically a widely-agreed upon method of establishing fairness. That is what people associate with democracy.

liberals are the biggest marks in world history

the only real tennis fans tired of seeing sinner/alcaraz are fans of another player who can’t get past them. if they weren’t as good, men’s tennis would be in shambles and a 38 year-old would be lapping the field while playing half the season. this is some of the best tennis ever played.

alcaraz played incredible tennis. gotta love this.

the post-serena years were rough but we are truly back

cleaned it up for the tiebreak!

has there ever been an all-time great as careless as alcaraz when up 40-0 on serve and up 0-30 returning?

carlos refuses to hit it into the open court and novak knows this

so many errors from carlos

the wta must be tired from carrying this tournament for 2 weeks

Osaka-Muchova with some of the best hitting all tournament

turned it back on to see it’s still terrible tennis

this Felix-Demon match is worse than the Sabalenka-Vondroušová match yesterday. Felix regressed to the mean and Demon’s serve is awful. If there were any justice, both would lose in straight sets. Sinner should play left-handed in the Semis.

all alcaraz needs to do is put the ball in play and yet

Carlos is gonna regret not just looping in his seconds there

I love when Carlos does his servebot impression

you don’t have to worry so much about the fate of fascists. if the Dems ever get back into power, we already know they will do little to seek accountability and, insofar as they do, the justice system you seem to believe in favors the fascists anyway. they will be back in power in no time.

Carlos isn’t beating Shelton the way he played today

Alcaraz’s first serve abandons him at the worst times

the giant shrug of it all is really unsettling

alcaraz v medjedovic is a low-intensity practice session

alcaraz is gonna have a hard time breaking if he can’t put a return in play

Things on the ChatGPT sub-Reddit are getting grim.

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

It’s possible those of us shocked at this outcome have overestimated the critical thinking skills of people we once thought reasonable because the words they used generally corresponded to what we already believed and so we projected a degree of independent thought onto what was just repetition

Israel plans to invade and “take control” of Gaza City in a major ground operation. The decision came after a late night Security Cabinet meeting.