Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

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This is based in part on how both seasons end with someone coming in for treatment due to foregoing medical care, whether it's that wild pregnancy thing or the kid with measles from season one.

I'm calling it now.

Season 3 of The Pitt will take place in the winter, during flu season. There will be a virulent flu strain. Many people will be unvaccinated and have to go to the emergency room.

It will be like COVID all over again. Dr. Robinavitch will have more of those flashbacks.

I mean, is Ghislaine a minion?

jesus christ

It's giving glowpuck

wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social my brother: so after Deb retires from Pfizer we'll probably sell the house up north and move to Hermosa. me: nice that's cool. you know the Hatchet Gang? it's like 80 guys with hatchets. they are after me. they think i stole a relic but i didn't. it's a long story. can i smoke out back? 11:54 PM • Apr 1, 2026

Scott Bessent with a smug look on his face.

Scott Bessent looks like the antagonist of an 80's boner comedy about a stock trading chimpanzee.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

It was nice to not feel any internal or external pressure to go and do anything. The right thing to do was to do nothing.

I had two young kids who suddenly weren't in school, my wife and I still had to work. I couldn't find time to be alone while my single neighbor was despairing from the lack of contact with others. Everyone got too much of whatever they usually had and it went on and on. But it also had its moments.

The Iran conflict's energy shocks are not yet fully realized | Brookings The perceived risk in oil markets will change after the conflict; the world can’t go back to the time before the war.

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I could run really fast too if I didn't have to breathe and my legs were made out of metal, also if I didn't have all this skin and these organs to weighing me down, and if my legs could never hurt because I couldn't feel pain

One thing leaf blowers are really good for is blowing away any peace and quiet that people within half a mile of it may have been enjoying.

They're hosting matches here in Kansas City and I wonder how many people traveling here for it realize how far the stadium is from the city and how hard it is to get over there without a car. Summers here are brutal. It's going to be a mess.

Resting Droll Face.

I have no snick and I must er

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

lol. lmao

ladies, you need a guardfrog to protect you and your precious objects

He looks like my best friend's dad and for the longest time he seemed reliable but lately I have the sense he's wrong a lot.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

any time another of my former associates is revealed to have been doing unspeakable evil for his entire adult life, it really shows what a discerning judge of character i am. see, i knew darkness lurked within this guy. that's why i stopped talking to him after he was rude to me at that girl auction

[Citizen Kane dying voice] Air Bud

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Reed College’s mowing avoids cutting down these little stands of daisies, making it a nice week for us to talk about Keats

“thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers”

Exactly one year ago today:

It also adds so much to The Young Pope. He should do more soundtracks

Ugh, I hate it when someone interrupts my Scholar's Refrain. Which is when I take the flute out of my billowing sleeve and play an original composition to clear my mind...

and it's just him? W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot both still get periods