Remember that this was happening just as the right (and the useful idiots of the non-right) was swollen with performative celebrations of how Charlie Kirk was the hero of free speech
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Remember that this was happening just as the right (and the useful idiots of the non-right) was swollen with performative celebrations of how Charlie Kirk was the hero of free speech
I appreciate Pedro wearing a real Red Sox jersey
An economy that is turning towards almost exclusively graft, speculation, fraud and gambling to obtain wealth, which is basically what we currently have, is going to only create more conditions that lead to social isolation and violence.
This is literally unbelievable
ChatGPT5 definitely wrote this Mets season.
not speculating in any way but statistically speaking the odds are generally well in favor of it being “someone on the right” in any act of violence in the United States
We live in the dumbest possible world. Your options aren't only "Charlie Kirk was a great guy and we need to treat him like a saint" or "We should murder people we don't like." There's an option for "He said awful things that dehumanized people, but that doesn't mean he should have been killed."
I know, the people on the right who were complaining about cancel culture and free speech were always full of shit, but that doesn’t make seeing this stuff play out in real time any less disturbing
Up for grabs: my fandom All you gotta do: tell this guy to fuck off to his face
i don’t think i can be a fan of this team anymore.
So this is what a functioning democracy looks like...
Again, this is one of many reasons why I don't wanna see those ghouls get popped (as bad as they are) because no matter who pulled the trigger, the blowback is always gonna come back on people who look like me
Especially given preliminary indications this was done by a person of a mind to do it again, you might wish the Bureau was run by professionals.
Sorry, I'm supposed to listen to Linda #McMahon, who ran a business full of drug users and people who commit suicide and is married to a man who defecates on women he's trafficking talk about mental health? And I LIKE #wrestling.
the level of incompetence at all levels of this administration is staggering. they could have randomly picked people off the street to do these jobs with the same general results
Jesus, and I can’t stress this enough, FUCKING Christ
This is how you turn a functioning government into a corrupt apparatchik court of fools
Jews need to be reminded that disgust for the Israeli government is not necessarily antisemitic. Non-Jews need to be reminded that being Jewish, or even being a Zionist, does not necessarily mean blind support of the Israeli government. Jews are not monolithic and Israel doesn't speak for us all.
I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.
There will be a special place in hell's deepest dungeons for Karoline Leavitt & her blatantly offensive gaslighting about Trump's rape of young women & little girls. She knows. She knows that little girls were raped. She knows they were trafficked. I hope the stress & shame consume her life.
Aggressive ignorance
Someday we’re going to invent batteries that can store energy and it’s going to be awesome. 🤡
Is that just so Trump can pardon him?
Baghdad Barbie
The new answer here ("I'm not saying the documents are a hoax") is getting close to the "yeah he did it, so what?" phase of the Trump narrative cycle.
New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do: www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...
King George: "I cannot for the life of me understand how my loyal subjects in the American colonies think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let my troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced"
That would be a record
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans are ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees and will move to speed up votes after months of Democratic delays. https://to.pbs.org/3I2E6LG
WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
Every once in a while it’s worth highlighting how there is an extreme amount of heinous shit on Instagram that the company knows about but that they obviously don’t care about fixing. One could write an article like this every single day and never scratch the surface www.404media.co/instagram-ac...
Somewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. "Makes money for who, exactly?" is a question that is never asked.
We got the soft landing, and inflation fell from 9% to 3% without a recession. But someone put rocks on the runway, and we may not make it back to the gate, even though that's meant to be the easy bit.
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
They do love their middle infielders
The people who say "any adult who wants a baseball should be ashamed of themselves" can go to hell. Some people go to ballgames all their lives, they never get one. If you've wanted it for 30 years, keep it and hold your head up.
The relentless dishonesty is revealing. This was a meeting of the *academic advisory council* of the Chicago Fed. Think: Nerds around a conference table. No, academics don't set rates. No, the Chicago Fed doesn't set rates. No, the Chicago Fed President didn't even vote on rates that year.
From a Dan Carlin podcast 16 years ago. Presented, uh, without context.
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.
Jesus tapdancing Christ
Paragon Park
This happened during Trump's first term, but I believe under Pete Hegseth we are about to enter a new golden age of the SEALs being told "your mission, should you choose to accept it: take these amphetamines, fall out of a helicopter, and drown."
The last 100 years of US politics
Must-read thread
The best revenge is to win the game
I'm guessing journos are going to stop asking me why the "hard data" are so good, given the economic news has been so grim. The lesson I hope they draw is an eternal one: Bad policy leads to bad outcomes, but the actual economy doesn't move at the pace of the political cycle.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Arsonist says there is no problem with house burning down.
What stage of capitalism is this?
Ypu had me at "when football's back"
What the hell does that even mean?
something that drives me nuts is how legacy media will write that "scholars question legality" of a trump administration action when there is not a shred of evidence that it is in fact legal. it leaves room for the federal government to manufacture a legal justification when literally none exists.
Ossoff: Absolutely RFK JR should resign. He should have never been confirmed to begin with. He is utterly unqualified. This is someone who has embraced every piece of quackery and pseudoscience that he’s come across.
I agree with Rand Paul... *Shudder*
The Venezuelan cartel Tren de Aragua has struck a deal with the Trump administration where the president and his family will receive 10% of the cartel’s stock of cocaine and other illegal drugs.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
this dude looks like the “after” picture in a “before and after: i joined the sith” photo album
JFC
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
I think Stephen Miller just puts on a wig sometimes.
Eric Gagne was pretty awful, but the Red Sox won the World Series anyway, so maybe there's hope
Man, they REALLY don’t want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6. @acyn.bsky.social
Trump Is using U.S. Space Command as a political pawn. Trump does not like Colorado because Coloradans have rejected him three times in our free and fair elections. He seeks to blame, so he blames mail ballots instead of looking at his failing policies and then tries to punish the state.
REP. MASSIE: “.. there’s over 200 Republicans who have not signed this discharge petition. We only need two of them to sign it.” @politico.com #Epstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
De Georgiou: And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing. You have a choice: stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
I was at a movie with my family and stood up and ran out of the theater when a trailer for The Force Awakens came on
Anyone paying attention knows this is a power grab, an attempt to intimidate and another distraction from the fraud, theft & corruption going on at the highest levels. Anyone sending me Chicago crime stats as if to defend the invasion is intentionally or ignorantly choosing the side of fascism.
Well I was excited to have tickets for all of six hours
The dumbest people. It's been true every day of both terms, but orders of magnitude more obvious this time.
There's a lot going on, and a lot to argue about. But we should all be able to agree that the shocking levels of incompetence shown in the leadership of our federal government is both historically unmatched, and it hurts all of us.
Porch State of Love and Trust Rearviewmirror Alive isn't even that close to the top
Real evil shit.
Six years ago today, the Pawtucket Red Sox were officially assassinated by @redsox.com. Nobody knew it at the time, but the PawSox's 5-4 win vs. Lehigh Valley would be their last game, and the last game at McCoy Stadium.
She wasn’t elected. But she was confirmed with a vote that included 17 Democratic senators.
The first 9 MLB debuts I saw: #remembersomeguys
See, I traded for him at the deadline one year and he completely tanked. He's my fantasy succubus (honorable mention to Guillermo Mota, Pablo Lopez, and my entire rotation this year)
"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!
Oh, you had me until Markakis...
Last ten guys I saw get a walk-off hit (Devers did it twice):
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Sports talk radio mentality, as demonstrated by guys like Stephen A Smith, Pat McAfee, and Skip Bayless is really terrible and y’all need to tune out & stop watching them
it wasnt covid restrictions that turned people crazy, it was a group of immoral cynical right wing media grifters who took advantage of their scared followers to get clicks and subscribers and make money
It does not seem good that a sizable portion of the political and media elite would rather cook their brains on a white nationalist website than have to engage with criticism from the left.
They actually didn't
"President Lomax" needs to stick
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Someone please kill me right now.
Happy Labor Day!
Equality!
The United States killed American Indians and drove them from their homes in order to steal their land. Could it work in Gaza?
Three Scottish brothers who embarked on a 9,000-mile row across the Pacific Ocean completed their journey Saturday, setting a new world record.