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YouTube video by Conner O'Malley Pipe rock theory

normalize sharing "pipe rock theory" any time you mention "pipe rock theory" to someone www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

good pull

I'm reminded of the 2019 Europa League final, where Henrikh Mkhitaryan could not even attend the match because geopolitical safety concerns. sporting bodies would simply rather do business with bad governments than have to work around them, barring a huge outcry.

Trump to POLITICO: ‘I really don’t care’ if Iran plays in World Cup The country has pulled back from World Cup preparations after U.S. military attack.

i think it's pretty obvious at this point we should not be hosting the world cup, but of course, i also understand what FIFA is www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Tweet from Vince Shalomi: Suing the GOP Texas for deleting my nickname "Shamwow" in the Primaries so they help the incumbent John Carter so the voters don't recognize me. Rigged election by these rhinos.

The Shamwow Guy, Vince Shlomi, says he is suing the Texas GOP for “rigging” his Texas House race by not including the word “Shamwow” on ballots

he's on his way out the door, and I'm not trying to read any momentum-shift into this. it's just: a lot of them deserve this kind of contempt from senators for reasons that *should* be nonpartisan but have basically not been in a long time.

maybe i've memory-holed something from the first term, but I actually can't remember the last time i heard a republican senator talk to a republican official in public like this.

they're putting up Pirro numbers

We should set aside our petty grievances in order to make room for new and even more petty grievances

it has been pointed out, and corrected, that I have been misstating the name of the president in the West Wing for my entire adult life

thank you

jesus christ i've had it wrong for 20 years

apologies for spoiling season 7 of the west wing

" But if the yearning Talarico taps into wasn’t real, your relatives would not have sent you his videos. For decades, Democrats have longed for messengers, real and imaginary, who can defuse the power of the Christian right. At the apex of the Moral Majority, Aaron Sorkin wrote the West Wing’s Jeb Bartlett as a spiritual foil who quoted Leviticus chapter-and-verse to hypocritical Bible-thumpers. George W. Bush’s real-life successor wrote a bestselling memoir named for the sermon that changed his life. The West Wing, for its part, ended with the only fantasy more persistent than beating a bunch of theocrats at Bible Bonkers—a Democrat rising from obscurity and turning Texas blue."

The Texas Senate primary is today. Here's my profile of James Talarico, a new twist on something old: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i will say I liked the idea of cracking staten island in part because i like anything that breaks down people's monolithic misconceptions of an area.

Justice Alito’s latest opinion is a very, very bad sign for voting rights A decision upholding a New York GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the Voting Rights Act.

maybe they let Big Sam have this one just to get it out of his system...or maybe we're fucked www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

can't recognize everyone there, is that hillary clinton meeting jeffrey epstein

if the executive branch were not working full time we would not have gone to war illegally on a saturday

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

work rate is a constitutional crisis—a supreme court that needs a year to decide that congress has the power to set tariffs; a legislature that decides, after an insurrection, it will address the issue in a month. the branches are not co-equal when only one works full time.

i know we're getting a war powers vote. there are plenty of people *in congress* who want congress to exist and exert its powers. but i think the fact that the vote will eventually happen, days into the war rather than before it, sort of gets the larger point.

the most significant thing that's happened in the house of representatives in a week in which the president launched an illegal war is hillary clinton was deposed for four hours about a man she never met.

very much does not seem like congress exists in any recognizable form

Today in Placard Abuse: The 'Lieutenant’s Girlfriend' Who Parks Illegally - Streetsblog New York City Meet a driver who gets the gold medal for placard corruption.

sometimes cop culture is really beautiful nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/03/t...

even by the standards of american professional sports the "Texas Rangers" are a particularly cursed concept. they took the name one year after the US Commission on Civil Rights called for the Texas Ranger police force to be disbanded. it's like calling yourself the Minnesota ICE.

"A photographer captured Banks, leaning against a tree, as an effigy of a Black student hanged above the school’s entrance." www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

"to walk the road of peace, sometimes we need to be ready to climb the mountain of conflict"...

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

Imagine hiring one of the firms that decided they should bend the knee in one of these, you'd be better off with Jacoby & Meyers