Luke Côté

indeed they did slate.com/business/202...

Would these be the same libertarians who insisted on gun rights were absolute and necessary for the purpose of overthrowing a tyrannical government?

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

I have to admit that while I appreciate your reporting and the excellent work you do, I saw ‘Molly awards’ and I thought maybe you had gone into some very happy, hugging, feeling unbelievably good and happy reporting.

But you haven’t. 😢

REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement

CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are?

STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors

CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks

I hate people who want all those fake and empty events like concerts. And musicals or plays.

And football! Don’t get me started about all the performative nonsense in sports!

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X.com For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

My preferred professional American football team will not win the concussion bowl this year.

I became a fan of the Patriots 40 years ago in Super Bowl 20.

And at the end of the 3rd quarter in Super Bowl 20 the Patriots trailed the Bears 44-3.

So it could be worse Pats' fans. It could be worse.

I made a lot of money with fantasy pools and sports betting back in the day.

2025 was the first in about 39 years I hadn’t done a pool etc.

I stopped not because of losing money etc, but because the supersaturated nature of gambling in sports now made me not want to do it anymore.

Great post!

I’d argue integration was the impetus for the Southern Strategy.

But the lowlife, degenerate, racist pieces of shit that was the marrow of the confederacy losing the American Civil War is where the backlash originates.

“I can generate a book in a day.”

I wonder how that turned out?

Did Mueller win?

Also, Go Pats!

I became a Pats fan because of Super Bowl 20. Forty years later I’m just hoping they don’t lose by 35 or more points this time.

Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

I'm GenX. We grew up in an all-print world. We read really fast. So, my Millennial and GenZ peeps, I beg you for the love of Bananarama, please just send me the article and not the TikTok of the dude talking about the article. In Prince's funky name, amen.

judge a quarterback by whether or not he defrauds millions of dollars from poor people

Future standardized question text in America?

If one person in the military was forced to see the Melania movie by their commanding officer in week 1 of release, and attendance dropped off by 67% in the second week, how many people saw the movie in its second week?

Imagine agreeing to be on a Sunday morning show and this is your talking point. And imagine all of the things that have to go wrong for this sentence to even be uttered.

1. Are Americans more racist/more sexist is a long running debate. With the Trump regime putting in enormous effort to protect white, rich men and released child sex materials of girls, I'm siding with sexism
2. If anyone is joining ICE for a job/insurance, that's a damning indictment of America

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive

Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

DID YOU KNOW?

If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home!

They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

primary every democrat who thinks ‘reform’ is the answer

The only Tim Burchett I know is the one who had sex on Christmas morning in front of his nephew.

If a Canadian jury returned this verdict, I think precedents might be the least of our worries.

What the fuck was wrong with those jurors? And how many more like them are out there?

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

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