Dr. Heck

the actual contrast is between spanberger/mamdani (focused message, vigorous campaigns) and sherrill (unfocused, half-hearted)

the only way out is through. i think we need to welcome this development. the old world is dying and the new one needs active midwifing

Imagine if newspapers instead wrote something like, "According to police, the suspect tried to hit the officers with his car. In 35 out of 37 statements issued by this department over the past 5 years, police gave false initial statements, later contradicted by their own bodycam footage."

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL
FINAL

✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1093rd unique final score in NFL history.

Bad Bunny will perform at the next Super Bowl halftime show 🏈

“Courageous and authentic” are true. Adams really was that weird and it was very brave of him to be that weird in public for so long.

This was a very excellent crossword this week - go do it!

Now this is Content

Frame: this man is here illegally

Negation: actually his paperwork is in order

Kirby: this is a racist attack by fascists bc a Black man is
leading a school district, and the better he's doing the more they hate him

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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This would be fucking insane. Im flying to Vancouver in a few months, and my connection back through SEA only works with preclearance.

Me: sometimes I stay up all night and I don't go to bed. It's called "bonus time".

My loved ones: no it's not.

Because they're anti-ice.

Soccer should adopt Hockey-style penalties. I want to see Power Plays. 11-10? Yes please. 11-9?? Right into my veins!

If we don’t want to use the word “defund”, I am fine with going back to the more academic terms: the United States needs transitional justice and security sector reform. We need to “disarm, demobilize and reintegrate” the armed groups known as US domestic police.

This is also why ChatGPT et al. are so dangerous. Now everyone can have a little devil on their shoulder telling them all their ideas are actually great

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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That cat is STARVING. Rapidly losing weight. Soon to be only Skin and Bones.

Heated, a sweet striped orange cat with a white chest and white mittens, stands expectantly. She is being very polite but her eyes are huge and it is clear she does not understand why she’s not getting dinner.

how do I explain the concept of anesthesia to a cat. I am not starving you, I am trying to keep you from aspirating when the vet cleans your teeth tomorrow.

The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now.

But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

I think lesser evilism is doomerism personally. You're dooming us to having to accept something horrible because it's less horrible. It's less doomerish to dare think we can try no evil instead of less evil.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.