Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

"Asked about the discoloration on President Trump's neck, the White House issued a statement declaring that 'the very sound and not at all dangerous treatment that President Trump is undergoing for a minor medical issue has been fully contained and is not spreading beyond our control to his brain.'"

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

Donald Trump. The dove.

I think I’m ready to concede that she was not

It’s gonna be really funny when the God of War 1-3 remakes come out and people who only know the series from 2018 onward discover what God of War originally was

$50 million right now if you can:
- Run 10 miles
- Call your father and tell him you love him
- It would mean so much to him and it’s been a while since he heard from you
- I know he can be gruff but he loves you in his own way
- Just give it some thought please
- Eat an entire large pizza

You know your father loves his pepperoni and black olives

$50 million right now if you can:
- Run 10 miles
- Call your father and tell him you love him
- It would mean so much to him and it’s been a while since he heard from you
- I know he can be gruff but he loves you in his own way
- Just give it some thought please
- Eat an entire large pizza

A screenshot of two paragraphs of text from a Hell Gate article: "It is the threat of this kind of revolt of the order-keepers that the police and their allies have held over Mamdani's head even before he was elected. As a democratic socialist with redistributionist policy aspirations, Mamdani is clearly aware that his political enemies are waiting to pounce on any opportunity to portray him as a poor custodian of New York's order. Mamdani has so far attempted to defend that flank by giving the NYPD power bloc what it wants: Leaving its commissioner in place, apparently abandoning some of his promised police reforms. In exchange, he clearly hopes, he'll get a little room to move his core agenda of affordability down the field. The Police Snowball Fight Discourse reveals the folly of this bet. Police unions operate at the same piercing frequency of grievance whether an officer is killed or just gets wet. Billionaires, the corporate lobby, and the political right don't need an uptick in crime numbers as pretext to start drawing blood from the mayor. Tisch doesn't require any reformist provocation from the mayor to openly defy his leadership. The battle between Mamdani and his political opponents was always going to be fought, in bad faith, on the terrain of public safety. It is deeply stupid, but ultimately not surprising, that the precipitating event of that battle should be a snowball fight."

Per usual Hell Gate gets it hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...

Temperamentally Max Scherzer is very well suited to being a Blue Jay: aggressive, loud, territorial, definitely willing to peck out your eyes if you get too close

Noted antifa and anarcho-communist Bob Nightengale

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“Will the NYPD threaten to hand over Zohran’s aloof wife to ICE” at 75% and rising

Also seems notable that Tisch didn’t even wait a full month into Mamdani’s four-year term before publicly undermining her nominal boss over a controversy she and her cops spun out of thin air

Seems pretty clear based on this extended diaper filling over a snowball fight that the NYPD is gonna pull the same insubordination routine and public war on Mamdani that they did on De Blasio, and I hope Mamdani has a better response planned than BdB tucking his tail between his legs

I would like Del Bigtree to contract my fist in his teeth

I imagine some of it is also Tisch trying to stake out a position as an NYPD commissioner who'll stand up for her officers given her non-NYPD background and asserting herself as a law-and-order type as part of her unsubtle national profile building ahead of an inevitable mayoral run in 2030 or '34

Worst-case scenario, he adequately deflects, the narrative fails to catch, and everyone moves on. Best-case scenario, he blunders with his response, the story gets picked up on a national level, and now he looks weak over something silly and minor

I'm taking it as a concerted effort on the part of Tisch and the anti-Mamdani factions of city government plus the usual suspects (the NY Post, local right-wing bloviators, etc) to test the fences: stir up a scandal over something trivial to see how Mamdani reacts and how much trouble you can cause

The way he says "It was Ramirez" with a slither when Dent corners him in the car is permanently burned into my brain, ace stuff

The world would be a markedly better place if what passes for political journalism nowadays disappeared and if the people in charge of it fucked off to run amoral crisis PR and marketing firms like they're supposed to instead of pretending that they're Ben Bradlee for the social media age

Semafor is no less a suckup rag than Axios or Politico: bullet-point journalism written by people who can't write for people who can't read, created to curry favor with the powers that be and pass along the only thing these jackals enjoy, which is industry gossip and petty sniping

Ben Smith apparently loves dining out on gourmet boot

Some Florida daimyo is about to get his ass handed to him

Honestly, it’s amazing that he was allowed to keep his job after being caught on tape yelling all those slurs about Albanians a few years back

Unstated in this piece is that Mr Clean is retiring in lieu of facing a disciplinary hearing for firing his service weapon during a fight at a high school basketball game that he was refereeing

"The State of the Union, unlike failing Graydon Carter's Oscars party, is very hot," said President Donald Trump

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