Is it hard to go through life with no backbone?

just a reminder to everyone that this is a significantly different undertaking in a parliamentary system than another (he also has a unprecedented supermajority in the unicameral parliament)

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

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you know how certain parts of every job are kind of fun and subjective? what if we outsourced all those parts to a soulless gutless machine?

Ndamukong Suh, having just intercepted Cody Hawkins, crushes him like an insect on his way to the end zone.

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I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.

all the cool Nebraska fans are making their donations in honor of Nebrasketball (and you should too!!) 🌽

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

I drank roughly 128oz of Coke at the Olympic curling trials…out of a mug shaped like a curling stone

i gotta say i do think we have gotten melania body doubles lmao

Third female secretary purged from Trump's cabinet Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer certainly deserved to get the boot. But why is it only the women being held to account?

"Until I see one single man in Trump’s cabinet lose his job for being equally ill-behaved and dysfunctional as the women being thrown under the bus left and right, then this is just more rank misogyny dressed up as an administration having standards."

Boom from @lebassett.bsky.social

Hey #huskers fans, we can do better than goddamn Iowa!

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Me, circa 2015: I love this idiot sports website and all its people

Me, today: I love this idiot sports collection-of-no-longer-websites and all its people

25 years ago today I played my first show, at the Cog Factory

Wild how formative that very bad high school band was

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There will be some major announcement™️ from Trump today about Iran

It’ll be around market open or market close, so Admin officials can profit off of insider trading

If you’re a resident of DC, every time you see these guys I recommend telling them:

“I hope you get sent home soon”

Not now, Japan.

2026 will be the year of peak Big Pants

by 2028 you’ll start to see skinny jeans reappear in the wild, like wolves in Yellowstone

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Punchbowl: "The House will consider a number of environmental bills, such as a rewrite of the Endangered Species Act and a geothermal energy bill. The American Broadband Deployment Act of 2025 and the Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act are also on the agenda."

Bills to Gut the Endangered Species Act, Deregulate Geothermal Projects, Fast-Track Communications Infrastructure, and Roll Back Energy Conservation and Fossil-Fuel Phaseouts in Federal Buildings House Rules Committee H-313 Capitol 04/20/2026 at 04:00PM The Committee on Rules will meet Monday, April 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures: H.R. 1897 – ESA Amendments Act of 2025 (Text, Report) H.R. 5587 – Harnessing Energy At Thermal Sources Act of 2026 (Text, Report) H.R. 2289 – American Broadband Deployment Act of 2026 (Text, Report) H.R. 4690 – Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act (Text, Report) H.R. 1897, as amended, would fundamentally weaken the authority and effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)

In many ways Punchbowl News is essential Hill reporting. But in important ways it's toxic trash.

Compare these mentions of the House bills this week...

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

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This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.

And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

100% this. The next gen of leaders can’t feel AI-generated or calculated. They can be supported, empowered, enabled — but not manufactured.

In the mid-20th century, NYC planners were convinced that the solution to their traffic woes was that building one more bridge or one more tunnel would ease congestion of their epic traffic jams because the new artery would reduce pressure on the existing ones. Instead, they discovered that traffic expanded to meet each new roadway. In Alexandria we seem to believe that making our primary thoroughfares more attractive to a few more bike commuters and changing the timing of traffic signals will offset the off-the-charts increase in housing density planned for development in the coming years.

The neighborhood listserv bike lane complainers are *so close* to getting it