Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

Virginia is for lovers—bless her tiny little heart.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Me trying to be normal:

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

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GOP - *gerrymanders*

DEMS - hey stop that no fair

GOP - *gerrymanders even more*

DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue

SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*

DEMS - *start gerrymandering*

GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

I have complicated feelings about either party gerrymandering but gosh that blue map is pretty and I'm glad D's are fighting back.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

a bunch of fireworks are going off in the sky Alt: a bunch of fireworks are going off in the sky

Save act is dead LETS GO

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Expelling Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell from Congress could have a chilling effect on future Congressmen's ability to sexually harass their staff members.

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

Stop attacking me 🫠

Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”

OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)

NSF at -42%!

I love these books and I always hope I'll see an announcement for another.

I am dying laughing, please donate bloob to save me

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

TFW someone not from Jersey says Denny's is a diner....

(Had that experience this past week.)

Only 1?

Say no to Generative AI Art Buy art from real degenerates

Off to make some Human Art 🤘🏼

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

Job ad: I'm hiring for a Research scientist to join my team at @joinprolific.bsky.social

If you've ever wondered who's working on the hard questions in online research — data quality, sampling methodology, the effect of AI on how research gets done — this is that job. [1/4]

Seems like a good time to share an amazing bit of reporting by Cokie Roberts that has stuck with me: Her discovery of a letter from Louisa Adams detailing how Congress left behind *40 pregnant mistresses* after the extra-long session of 1820, necessitating more orphanage space -->

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports?

DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.

excellent burn! 👏👏👏