twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

The game doesn’t survive without more casual fans. Things that would make it more compelling to you are certainly worth more revenue than things that would make it more compelling to me.

The experience of watching a baseball game on tv is a Homeric journey of endurance and perseverance.

Isn’t this just the back of a quarter?

What game!?

When better to hold our first-ever pledge drive than during October? We've set a goal of 75 new subscribers this month - even if they don't stick around, that means we'll be able to afford one (1) more new piece of original writing.

Something something MEDBED something something ABORTION something something UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN.

When you speak to parents of young children about whether their weekend was relaxing and restorative.

Well don't I feel stupid

Is Rodeo the place I am thinking of?

“…but when you start to follow the money, you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.”

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"Collaborative forces have cut off government access to trade with Asia, hindering their artificial intelligence targeting capabilities."

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

It is possible to condemn political violence without venerating objectively bad people who made America worse. Let's try for that.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.