Coal haver

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Anyway I know every journalist here has pounced on this today but let me just articulate: if the piece needs to be long, you make it long for the people who do want to finish it. Not in the hopes that everyone does.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

you're going to have jake tapper whine about how president AOC/pritzker betrayed the troops

Look, I think the correct way to view this whole submarine thing is to ask it this way.

Are the Iranians currently under any obligation whatsoever not to sink a troop transport in the Mediterranean carrying U.S. troops right now if they could?

A corollary to this, it would be a legitimate use of force, not terrorism, for Iranian regular forces to strike a US Navy base (including Newport), or the Pentagon.

The eventual Nuremberg-style trial of Pete Hegseth for war crimes is going to be must-see TV.

The White House just tweeted "Touchdown" and showed a bunch of clips of guys getting hit trying to catch the ball. Literally the opposite of a touchdown. The only people who write that sports are right-wing coded are people who don't understand the right wing and don't watch sports

Blanka from Street Fighter 2

"That dude Takahashi is Brazilian? He don't look Brazilian"

(my sole data point for what Brazilians look like):

At least they gave us the term “fuck plane.”

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

If being socially conservative was a good reason to kill people we’d be dropping JDAMs on megachurches

writing long pieces that require readers to go under for a long time before coming up for air is an act of defiance against the efficiency economy and grindset maxxing. it’s a fuck you to AI summaries and headline reactions. it’s rebellion. we are fighting for a world where long reads are the norm.

you don’t write because people will finish an article. you write because there’s a story to tell.

that beer that's too big? when he goes imma need 2 at least

rushing into battle in my dress uniform

F - The stanford tree -- prolly into some weird shit
M - The Cavalier -- presumptively a gentleman
K - The blue devil -- i mean its a devil

this is not incidental!

to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.

this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.

Mexican PFM agent during the aftermath of the 2026 Jalisco operation. She's wielding an Italian Arx-160 assault rifle

tell me how I’m supposed to be against gambling when things like this exist

lots of hard working people show otherwise poor judgement, and that the work ethic itself says nothing about class at all re: working class.

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

ive seen a gram/lb of body weight to gain muscle (which would be 200 if you're 200 lbs); weight gain or loss based on total calories. even that first part has been disputed often enough. this is dumb.

Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

I think it's worth remembering that the pre-2022 Russian military was designed around a professional expeditionary force with the expectation that it could generate mass via partner forces or conscription and a major reason why they failed in 2022 is because they could leverage neither of those

The Fanatics Flag Football Classic featuring Tom Brady and other stars is being moved from Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles, with the likely location being BMO Stadium, which is set to hold flag football in the 2028 Olympics.

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

that green nut ice cream

gotta get some of