Okay, I wasn't sure I wanted Ted Lasso Season 4. I was wrong. I did. I was just afraid of it. Helluva season opener. I'm in. We're back.
It's "Electability" season once again so let me just remind everybody possessing this incredible power of foresight to tell us something useful like November stock prices.
Gotta love a cop car with US G license plates just rolling through a red light so they can take a right on the next block to just pull someone over.
Nobody wants to talk about those things… because they don’t exist? The current average price for a dozen eggs is $2.14. For a gallon of milk it’s $4.32. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00... fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00...
Average Price: Milk, Fresh, Whole, Fortified (Cost per Gallon/3.8 Liters) in U.S. City Average
Average Price: Milk, Fresh, Whole, Fortified (Cost per Gallon/3.8 Liters) in U.S. City Average
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h agoTom Emmer on Republicans trailing Dems by 8 points in the generic ballot: "Right now there are great things happening in our economy. Nobody wants to talk about 78 cent eggs, nobody wants to talk about milk that's under $2. No no. They want to focus on gas prices."
If your immediate response to this isn't "fuck you, old man," you should just leave journalism entirely.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
All of my fantasies lately are that people who are in power and who are deeply and abidingly bad at everything except being money-grubbing jerkfaces get what's coming to them, in public, in ways we can all watch and appreciate. I want that catharsis of watching them fall. It never comes.
The District of Columbia can - and should - do what Montreal has been doing with the REV: a connected and protected arterial network of low-stress bike/micro-mobility lanes. DC has some glaring disconnects and all-too-many substandard builds. This can be fixed! 1/ #bikeDC youtu.be/jTTIqyPVxLA?...
More cities need to plan bike-lane networks like this
YouTube video by Shifter
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you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. people have seen it; someone would notice
Craig is right: Every team in baseball that needs someone like Skubal could have put together two iffy post-Tommy John arms and an unproven power prospect. The problem isn’t that only the Dodgers could do the deal; the problem is that only the Dodgers would do the deal.
Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3d agoGet me working on a Sunday www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
It has been an absolutely heartwarming evening watching Stars, Broken Social Scene, and Metric. These are amazing humans who love each other and love performing.
It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it
This is beyond the pale, and should have consequences.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
If I suddenly disappear from Facebook, this is probably why
Helder Gil@hgil.bsky.social · 5d agoWhole lot of schadenfreud for the former local reporter who’s been breathlessly covering the “vandalism” story on her facebook page.
This is a distressingly good and relevant meme.
Nick Kodama@nickkodama.bsky.social · 5d agohere we go again
Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
Breaking: GOP is for federal involvement in local schools.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 5d agoNEWS: Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Florida) has a new bill to require the U.S. flag be displayed in all D.C. school classrooms and mandate the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the day, though students could opt out. "We should be teaching kids why America is worth loving," she says.
I cannot decide if having a new Jira Board in my life is progress, the opposite of progress, both, or something new.
Brendan Carr, he's a dummy.
Berin Szóka@berinszoka.bsky.social · 6d agoOur deep dive (73pp) into the FCC forcing ABC to apply to renew its broadcast licenses, the most egregious abuse of power in the 92-year history of the FCC. This is Carr at his most shameless, ruthless, and dangerous. techfreedom.org/fcc-cant-use...
If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d agoLooks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...
Page me if someone makes this service. I need it. For science.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 7d agoPolicy advocacy by the deed: if someone stood up a platform that specialized in generating photorealistic AI videos of Donald Trump getting the living shit beat out of him, it would break the Internet on day 1, and an AI regulatory bill would be on the floor of Congress day 2.