Dijon Bernthal
@blakesquest.bsky.social
Husband of @wendycat.bsky.social. Chicago lawyer. All views are my own. Annoying politics stuff, sports posting, occasional gaming stuff, goofing around, etc. Chi DSA. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Solidarity forever. He/him.
the fuck you mean the sex purge “what if you could only fuck one night a year” movie is, according to the writer/director, secretly an “I lost my mind over having to do the smallest thing to help prevent others at the onset of COVID” movie
9 Very Specific Questions With the Director of ‘One Night Only,’ aka the Purge but for Sex Movie
polygon.com
A therapist once told me to pull an all-nighter in order to reset my sleep schedule
A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
mediaite.com
I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.
I hate sounding like a conspiracy person but there’s a reason that this Sophie Cunningham thing is on like day 7 of discourse and how there’s absolutely very little trans staff writers driving the news coverage of it.
Anyway, Karl Rove mentioned, so I need to share this comedian's bit about working at Fox News: www.youtube.com/shorts/z76kW...
Fox News vs. MSNBC | Jonathan van Halem #politicalcomedy #dailyshow #standupcomedy #jokes #msnbc
YouTube video by Jonathan van Halem
youtube.com
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
To put AES’s win into a sports perspective, imagine a hockey game where one team outshoots the other 27-3, but the team with 3 SOG wins 2-1. Utterly wild
Israel said the war was about the hostages. All 251 were returned by January 26, 2026. Hamas hasn’t fired a rocket into Israeli territory since April 2025. Sixteen months. Israeli strikes on Gaza haven’t stopped for a single day. So what is their excuse now?
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
A Muslim with a very Arab name running on a left-wing platform winning a statewide Democratic primary anywhere — let alone the Midwest — would have been unthinkable even a year or two ago. Now comes the hard part but this is still an incredible victory.
Abdul El-Sayed: -Spent: $15.5M - Votes: 740,950 votes - Cost per vote: $21 Haley Stevens: - Spent: $72M - Votes: 726,057 - Cost per vote: $99 Organized people > organized money
Anyone who spins AES's victory after getting outspent ~9:1, including ~4.5:1 by AIPAC alone, as anything less than stunning is lying to you/is Politico
no matter the margin this is one of the worst, most disgraceful campaigns in the modern history of the democratic party. abdul can't say it because he has to make nice with these racist freaks so I fucking will.
the el-sayed win shows yet again that centrists are now everything they always claim the left is when it comes to israel: ideologically rigid, in hock to extremists, mistaking online beefs (ie hasan) for mass politics—and toxic to the electorate.
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
One way to be safe is to never write an electability take
Dropped some cash on a PFF+ subscription so I have somewhere to go for deep fantasy football insights that isn’t The Fashletic
Zero sugar sodas (sorry, “pops”) are good. But zero sugar maple syrup is awful, watery trash. Don’t buy it unless you physically have to
there were not one, but two revolting state house Dems who tried to sue trans women off the ballot because they did not use their deadnames. they've both lost.
oh, this is great to see—Liberati is a gross socially conservative dynasty pol who tried to get Whaley, a progressive, disqualified for not filing under her deadname. Harris+1.5 so she starts out favored
I just rolled out of bed, and WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY STILL HAVEN’T CALLED IT AAAAAHHHHHH
AES’s lead down to 5.9, I’m getting a little nervous
Sad to see Cori Bush and likely also Hartzell Gray going down