Alberto García Maldonado

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

"Pizza the Hutt ate himself to death" is a line that randomly pops into my head every so often, and I laugh every time.

Oof, this is like 10 minutes away from where I grew up...

The "made daily with FOOD" is what's getting me.

Launch Coyote Media Collective A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area

Happy to have contributed to the launch of a new alt-weekly that'll be covering the Bay Area.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Sign of the times: watching the Mexico-Turkey friendly being played in North Carolina. The Spanish-language announcers note that there not might be as many fans as expected in the stands "given the situation in this country right now."

Evergreen skeet.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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I should be able to swing by the authoritarianism panel.

At this point, I'm half-expecting an eventual reveal that it actually is.

A picture of Shutdown Fullcast host Spencer Hall. Above his is a message of thanks for making a donation to New American Pathways.

My favorite college football podcast is doing its annual charity drive for New American Pathways, a non-profit that provides refugee resettlement services. I donated one dollar for each victory (48) that UC Davis has over Sac State. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

Thinking about the pop in the theater when Cap picked up Mjolnir and when T'Challa walked through the portal still pumps me up.

No! Which adds another layer of unexpected to that conversation.

I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
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This reminds me of a conversation the people seated in front of me on a plane last fall were having. No joke, one of their examples of how "bad" the economy was under Biden was them not being able to buy a new vacation home.

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.

The fact that this is all happening as I'm prepping my ISI lectures -- including the "it takes time to build industrial capacity, and you better hope there's a robust market for what you're making" part -- is adding an extra level of surreality for me.

To borrow from a classic dril tweet: you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

Welcome back, darth!

No joke, this skit randomly popped into my head earlier today and it made me smile.

Mostert agreed to sign with the Raiders a few days ago.

My mentor, colleague, and friend Brian DeLay on what folks like Bret Stephens don't know about UC Berkeley, its faculty, and its students.

I can't find it now, but I saw a post where someone likened today's Democratic "yay" voters to those who voted for the Iraq War, in that they're gonna be defined by this for a long time.

Yeah, approaching policy debates and votes as a combatant and being an ideological moderate are not mutually exclusive positions. As many others have pointed out, really does look like the big dividing line among the Dems is now fight-don't fight, not left-moderate.

My House member is a Dem. He's not one of the big names, but he's consistently been great at this kind of thing (holding town halls, responding to calls and emails, sending out emails with "if cuts in federal services are affecting you and yours, click here to tell me how" links).

Sacha Dhawan was so great as the Master.

I followed the VP account on IG, and unfollowed when it switched to Vance. However, IG kept putting it back in my "Following" list all throughout today, and I finally had to block the account.

My understanding from his time in SF (I’m a Niners fan) is that he’s very good at ingratiating himself with ownership.

I went to the USC-Michigan Rose Bowl in 2007 as a neutral fan, and thinking about my first sight of the field and the San Gabriels on the horizon still takes my breath away.