well it's a good question, Daniel, how WILL something that physically literally does not exist that makes stuff up out of whole cloth change the fundamental laws and constants of our universe? I certainly don't know!

Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

as @paigeleckie.bsky.social and I incidentally noticed last night the Rockies and White Sox are also the only teams whose starters are averaging fewer than four innings per start which, I feel, raises some questions about how we’re going to get through 140 more games

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

Matthew 5:9 — “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
26:52 — “Put your sword back in its place… for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
Romans 12:19–21 — “Do not take revenge… ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

I’ve never been this angry lololol

Baseball season is in full swing, NBA is heating up, march madness just ended and the NFL draft is next week and they all somehow still found space to do an article on the front fold about how dare anyone in the public question a reporter using AI to do her job for her , guess why

Fun fact I live in a studio apartment in Manhattan and $1,643 would cover less than half of a month’s rent

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

it’s like actual torture istg

This is a movement whose entire existence rests on the argument that the (voluminous) evidence of gender-affirming care's efficacy doesn't count because its methodology is weak. Yet their own side accepts the most embarrassingly janky studies you've ever seen.

... so the in-game gender reveal fully is a thing now, we're just doing this as a rule. Cool.

I’m not here to comment on service in and of itself, but this specific situation in which players attended service academies (which is the kind of thing you usually need considerable resources to do) and then transferred out to play sports cannot possibly be anything but stolen valor, surely.

I cannot think of a weirder time to be on the “I’m a Major League Baseball player who almost joined the military in a former life and totally did not” train and yet more than one guy is doing it. It could not be less flattering and it’s unflattering in about 12 different directions at once.

I think it might be????

look what did she expect, saying Palestinian children are as precious and worthy of our protection as all other children

Hey I used to be on the Syracuse development list

YES

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Is this better than the Amir Garrett photo???

JD Vance is going to welcome his fourth child soon and at least one of the elder three is going to have a tantrum about mom and dad favoring the new baby and giving them *all* the attention, as is very normal. He will scoff at their feelings, completely missing the irony.

your reminder that you need to PAY ATTENTION whenever any politician goes to India because that is yet another country where a lot of people in power including the prime minister see at least one prominent minority group as their household pest

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

one of the many things I find very dispiriting about the present moment is that everyone agrees that someone should do something but the "something" almost always feels wholly inadequate (retired presidents write op-ed) or wildly implausible (general strike)

José, hello

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability