empty seats can't melt supreme court justices

Helen Keller died in 1968, she isn't Tom fucking Bombadil. Also DC con moment

The divide right now is, is someone a fighter? Or are they not a fighter? If they’re not gonna fight, don’t take the people’s money, stay out of the ring. We’ve had 10 years of this shit. Fighters only.

To be fair to the editorial page, this is a pretty slow news month, so maybe cardboard boxes are top of mind for whoever reads the Washpost opinion section

This is hilarious. And WaPo for quite a while now has refused to say who is on its editorial board, maybe to spare them public humiliation? These are the only people listed as being in leadership:

I've noticed this trend of AI-written PR emails where they try to pull a recent article I've written and start the email by trying to link it to whatever they're pitching. Not always with success

bold words from imperialists whose sailors are jumping off aircraft carriers to avoid the indignity of serving on them

Ads during the 1996 World Series: awe look baby, the frogs are saying "Budweiser" Ads during the 2026 World Series: white genocide is threatening the master race

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

Will Chamberlain of the Thiel-backed Edmund Burke Foundation (which organizes NatCon) says that “The Brazilian regime should look carefully at what has happened to Venezuela and Cuba, and remember that this hemisphere belongs to the United States of America.” 1/

The fact that there was no substantive response when Hasan’s lawyers reached out, no retraction or take down is wild. I feel like proving damages feels like the hardest part of the case, which is pretty wild for a public figure defamation case

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Can you please explain why the NYT's reporting about the new rape allegations against Trump *didn't include the word rape even once*?? That might help readers assess the NYT's veracity.

There are zero commercial breaks without a gambling ad. Then you tell everyone that liberals are racists. MLB outdid themselves with the World Series commercials. Top notch viewing experience

*sigh* thanks Billy

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

Magneto tries to bring my house down but I built it Japanese style. I don’t have long to laugh before my wallet chain is choking me.

We uh needa talk more about how Arizona GOP’s entire party is very possibly going to be sent into the wilderness Yee losing destroys their competent statewide bench

No one is buying what the hollowed-out DOJ is selling.

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

Meet the guy Republicans are hoping to gerrymander into Congress by diluting the voting power of Black people in Memphis.

>a farmer doesn't like a handout i don't think that's true

The OG Cheesecake Factory comparison—-

my mom's first husband was weirdly into the looney tunes and it's the only connection to him i claim. anyway we had a big print of this in our house and I'm thinking about it a lot this week

Obama’s Cheesecake Factory decor joke is going to continue to get far more play in the media, days after it happened, than RFK Jr being openly racist. Draw your own conclusions about the press based on that.

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

It takes four days to read Cheesecake Factory’s menus, so it makes sense that they’re still hung up on this.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Watch my stream (or as the kids call it: "Enter The Bone Zone") at 3p ET today twitch.tv/ktabz2

Some context around this, from a markets person. Historically in LatAm, leftist victories have led to sharp losses over the ~3 months after an election where the left wins. Stocks also typically underperformed into those victories. But 3y post-election, returns for leftists have been *higher*.

Live scene at the Argentina-Brazil border

Following an absolute farcical trial that makes a mockery of the rule of law, an Egyptian court has fined Lina Attalah LE 3 million and ordered the closure of Mada Masr, Egypt's leading independent media outlet, relied on by the world's diplomats, researchers, and scholars.

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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Amazing work throughout this election by photographers at @thelocal.to led by @chloeellingson.bsky.social. These contrasting images from last night are really something. Nic Hotchkiss at the Chow party. Laura Proctor at Bradford HQ. thelocal.to/olivia-chow-...

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Also we’re a very distinct Jewish community from most of American Jewry. We are actually East Europe, really Eurasian, culturally as much as Jewish. How many US Ashkenazi will eat syrniki or pelemeni.

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact