They think you're stupid.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

When my youngest was but a precocious toddler and having some acting out issues I said “Frankie (yes, that’s his name) you have got to improve your behavior.” He immediately and cheerfully said “OK!”

And then after a beat he said “what does THAT mean?”

Multiple friends on other social media sites also repeating the false narrative and you know what? Absolutely not going to even mildly push back on them because I’m a cis man and I know how it will be taken

New Blazers owner just seems like a complete piece of shit

Picked a bad season to stop sniffing glue

Minnesota steals one in Denver! This series just got real interesting.

Please accept my comment in the spirit in which it was offered, which was not particularly serious. Tone is difficult here

West coast sports schedules are great and fit in well with our overall higher standard of living

Classic XKCD cartoon explaining the “lucky 10,000” concept where people learn what everyone else already knows

@mostlymartha.bsky.social relevant to your interests

Greatest scorebug screencap in cfb history

Some possible support for the “forbidden fruit” argument in favor of full legalization here

Agreed, I’m a goddamn commie compared to the median American but in a former life I had to occasionally argue for design approvals before the Minneapolis City Council and watching these uneducated elected officials spitballing about requiring an extra window or a specific type of crown molding… ugh

holy...

If you figure it out please tell me your secrets. I am getting much better with my cakes (it’s been my 2026 point of baking emphasis) but then I keep messing up the icing/frosting stage so I don’t feel like I’m progressing

It even depicts splits in the coalition around trans people

I hope more politicians catch on to how much it cheers and energizes voters to make the ultra rich suffer even a little bit

It was manifestly clear that the administration only used Christianity as a ruse to lure in mark-ass suckers before this week, but if you’re a Christian that still supports this administration after this week you are DEFINITELY a mark-ass sucker

Four alarm fire, people will literally die in the protests if this proceeds, I don’t think the country understands how important this area is

Author of one of my foundational quotes of American politics:

A supporter heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.”

It’s Adlai Stevenson! 😂

Adlai Stevens has a very tasty milkshake

That’s a good one

I have hundreds of random images saved on my phone and rarely get to use them

Surely women will be brought over to the Republican side by the clever habit of MAGA trolls in always calling her “Kotex”

Dwayne “the fuck?” Johnson

IS IT??

My word is Congress seriously going to let them mine the Boundary Waters?

The Thunder passed on **Jaylin** Williams in the 2024 draft. He’s now playing for the Sacramento G-League team. I was watching and hoping for the opportunity to have THREE

I was in law school September 2001 and we all knew our class was fucked when on-campus interviews got canceled en masse after 9/11