USOC and CCL speedball, let’s go sickos

Thank you I was mortified when I heard the episode

Because I am a Luddite will Jake or Trey kindly DM me regarding whether I inadvertently offended you in the tip jar please an thank you 🙏🏻 🙃

FYI: I did a really awful job of accurately recording the over/under in my notes app earlier this year, but for the affinity nights my summary of Jake’s question said: “Will Trump war on DEI affect affinity nights as trickle down? Is 7 fewer than last year?” And you both passed on answering

Bill Paxton doing ACTING in all capital letters

The internet’s watering hole x dot com is not a phrase I was expecting

Exclusive: Pregnant Woman in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried The 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act allows physicians to deny care to patients whose "lifestyles" they disagree with

This is bananas. @rachelwells1.bsky.social reporting on a doctor refusing to provide pre-natal care based on marital status, under the recently enacted Medical Ethics Defense Act open.substack.com/pub/wellsrac...

lol

Hey @eastnashtivists.bsky.social it’s been zero days since Gavin Newsom was joining a MAGA podcast to peddle transphobic conspiracies. Maybe spend a little more time reading @erininthemorning.com and a little less time taking selfies with this dipshit and passing it off as “voter education”

As a Tennessean, I’m wincing. Her record is far more alarming than the highlights in most of the coverage I’ve seen (birthright citizenship case, defending abortion ban, she clerked for 3 current justices, &c.)

You’ll never believe the answer

Truly 🫥

Just in the Substack comment section. My DM (after the invitation to speak further) has gone unanswered

Fresh transphobia for ya

Usually my Substack pieces are too long, so I refrained from including all of @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social’s shit posts about Gavin but there are many good ones such as this bsky.app/profile/ruem...

I wrote a thing about Gavin Newsom’s surprise guest appearance at a Nashville ‘progressive’ org’s meeting yesterday open.substack.com/pub/adamshoo...

Consent manufacturers not sending their best bsky.app/profile/edro...

Further evidence of what a weirdo Ted Nugent is from a newspaper clipping about a visit he paid to Ohio to promote gun ownership and killing your own meat. From the bed of a pickup truck he told the audience: “Tofu—I don't know that is. That will make you gay."

Clipped from my local paper when I was a teen

Yep bsky.app/profile/nytp...

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About SCOTUS’s Transgender Ruling The Skrmetti decision to uphold a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors was not as sweeping as it seems—nor is the trans rights movement to blame for it.

It’s telling how the Christian right’s role in getting Skrmetti to SCOTUS is being erased—and by those seemingly desperate to blame trans people for asking for “too much.” So I spoke with legal historian @kredburn.bsky.social and ACLU attorney @chasestrangio.bsky.social, who argued the case:

Honey I shrunk the president

What a Mighty Good Mam

Zoolanderish Zohran united New York’s salt and pepa, and this hunky hip-hop fan makes me want to shoop.

by Maureen Dowd

+1 to the I should move back to NYC column

I hope he’s having a nice night

Food Bazaar is the underdog to root for

Whenever I think it would be easier to find standard recipes if I still had access to NYT Cooking they remind me why I will not give them any money

It’s essentially Obamaism, but with zero rhetorical talent because he’s a boring cis white guy who self identifies as a “wonk” jacobin.com/2024/08/bara...

Nashville’s Mayor Would Rather Not Be Tangled in an Immigration Fight

That @freddieoconnell.bsky.social thinks saying or doing anything about immigration enforcement in Nashville is akin to “a series of rhetorical check boxes” is telling. It isn’t even saving him from accusations of ‘embracing sanctuary lawlessness’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

The first consequential decision of my just-old-enough-to-vote adult life was Bush v Gore. On the other hand, that term they struck down Nebraska abortion restrictions under the Roe “undue burden” test. Didn’t realize that stealing an election but not overturning Roe yet was as good as it gets

An accessible explainer on the Supreme Court ruling allowing deportations to countries other than the person’s own, without due process