Alex

That was my thought also. What friend goes along with this?

Header: Choose Your Mentor Young Man Top panel: alpha male e-celeb (Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate pictured and saying unhinged shit) Bottom panel: friendly guy you met in the pub (aggressively British guy holding a pint of beer and saying supportive things)

It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time

I hope she gets help. The degree of self harm she was willing to endure to undertake this hoax is really disturbing.

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

I can't think of the last piece I read that brought tears to my eyes as often as this one did. What a powerful and incredible piece of writing.

Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.

Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:

*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats

On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Curaçao 🇨🇼 are the smallest nation to ever qualify for a World Cup, with a population of 155,826. For comparison, here are some larger U.S. cities:

• Murfreesboro, TN
• Killeen, TX
• Surprise, AZ
• Shreveport, LA
• Sioux Falls, SD
• Des Moines, IA

Simply incredible!

"Everybody is pushing to make Mauricio’s decisions difficult": USMNT shine in true World Cup test vs. Uruguay The United States cruised to a 5-1 win over Uruguay on Tuesday night. Here's what stood out.

The USMNT closed out its 2025 schedule with a bang, decimating Uruguay on Tuesday night 🇺🇸

“It shows that we have a deep team and that everybody is pushing to make Mauricio’s decisions as difficult as possible."

From Florida, @sanjaysujan.bsky.social examines the United States' statement result ⤵️

I know people think Poch is doing some morale building bit here but I think he truly and sincerely believes that he has or will pick players for this roster who are playing at the level required for a World Cup, and everyone has something to contribute. And so far he's been right.

I went to Curacao in 2019 & wrote a Goal USA story in which the great vibes of the retrofitted school bus the team uses to get around the island was the big star.

Getting to the Gold Cup was the big deal then. Now, Curacao is into the World Cup. Incredible.

www.goal.com/en-us/news/n...

Islamophobia is near-hegemonic among the US political/pundit class. As is tradition the only distinction is whether you’re a right-wing true believer; a ‘moderate’ who ‘happens’ to hold that view; or a Democrat who assumed the stance post-9/11 to appear ‘serious’ and got stuck when the wind shifted.

Chat, is this good

"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

a new study finds that there is enough microplastic in your nads to make a little army guy. whats worse is that its the guy with the radio so he doesnt even have a gun. and he has a bunch of extra plastic along the seam on the bottom so he keeps falling over.

From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e... Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community

I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...

As long as you're shameless and willing to tell important people what they want to hear, either about them or about yourself, you can go quite far in life

Infantino has to go. He’s sold the game to cozy up to Trump and whatever dictator pats him on the head. Somehow makes Blatter look like a man of courage.

www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Imagine realizing gradually, over time, that the person trapped inside of you and waiting desperately to get out is a conservative white woman

Just fyi, by "playing on the edge of something" she means "deliberately inviting scrutiny of their gender" which I'm pretty sure trans athletes absolutely aren't fucking doing

Wu is determined to make sure you know that gender is mutable but being a Karen absolutely fucking isn't

I will say one thing about this football game. It is technically a football game.

Watching this game and grateful that at least we're not the Raiders

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

“Multiple prominent Protestant leaders say that two pastors close to Trump [Paula White-Cain and Mark Burns] have given their approval of the plan.”

choosing to believe this is about Nuzzi

I'll wait for y'all to break down future segments, I'm not reading anymore of this shit

The cool stepdad.