Gabe

Today was great for baseball. I needed some good news while America’s slide towards authoritarianism accelerates.

Is this the fastest "this person should not have gotten the prize" in Nobel Prize history? Genuinely interested in other examples

You must not put another scandal on him

The third paragraph reads as if the Russians wrote it. Maybe they did. In any event, it is an atrociously big lie; 1984-grade, as Aaron Rupar rightly says.

Ugh this is so good and I love reading all the lists but:

5. Harborcoat
4. Strange Currencies
3. Wolves, Lower
2. Find the River
1. Country Feedback

Sí.

Wow. If true, I must hate myself…

Beautiful. Day of the Deadish in spirit.

Pushing back on concentration camps.

This is the point, to feed the White Supremacist trolls.

This is a lot. This didn't happen during Reconstruction, when there was an actual reason to supplant local authorities....

What kind of monster uses architecture as a verb? @minakimes.bsky.social

Tec, Campus MTY in July.

Life’s Rich Pageant is REM’s best album. I am ready to fight everyone who disagrees, especially @rudalev.bsky.social and @mcopelov.bsky.social

Also, my deer friends…

Wow. Better than the NYTs

Seems like appropriate reading this day.

The U.S. Is Switching Sides Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality"

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We’ve shifted money from saving people’s lives to killing them

Trump vs. the Declaration of Independence Several of the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.

Several items on Declaration of Independence list of grievances against George III also apply to Trump today, most notably on immigration, trade, and deportation without due process. Like King George, he is "unfit to be the ruler of a free people": reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Why are we here, you ask? This. This is entirely the reason we are here.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ah, but you have Mookie here.

Supplied with worthy men! plant love among's! Throng our large temples with the shows of peace, And not our streets with war!
- Coriolanus (III, 3)

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then, well, here it is, all in one post:

He has produced the real emergency that he can now use to stifle free speech, round people up, and demand total fidelity.

At the cost of many human lives and devastation.

Declaring it is time for peace right after bombing is quite the thing to say. An abuser’s tactic.

Welcome, sir.

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

Yes, this is where we are at.

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

Go in and cheer the King, he rages, none
Dare come about him.