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Mixed Team Skeleton, obviously, sounds like some sort of Cronenbergian body horror.

A little surprised that the Women’s Skeleton event doesn’t consist of each athlete stepping into an x-ray machine. How else can we figure out who has the best skeleton?

"We know enough." Watch this.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.

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To be fair she does look like a chicken.

This is going to cause so much unnecessary misery.

Beverly Crusher on the TNG Enterprise bridge saying “if there’s nothing wrong with ME ….” (continued on next image)

immediately after the previous still “…. maybe there’s something wrong with the universe.”

with a side order of

NYT headline which reads: The ICC issues arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu, a former Israeli Defense minister and the Hamas military chief. There should be a comma after Defense Minister to make it a list of three people. It has no Oxford comma before the and so it reads as though Netanyahu is both a former Israeli Defense Minister and the Hamas military chief.

Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.

I feel no need to protect any Democratic sexual predators. This seems like a good deal

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.

"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."

Melanie Zanona @MZanona NEWS: I’m told Speaker Mike Johnson has committed to Nancy Mace that he will not allow biological men in women’s bathrooms & locker rooms in the Capitol next year, by adding a provision in the House Rules package. Mace is still reserving the right to file it as privileged resolution or amend it if that doesn’t happen though.

would be great if reporters did not simply regurgitate transphobic phrases like "biological men" that right-wing republicans pass along to them

Highly recommended. (I was worried it would be too overwhelming to read, but the audiobook was great for me. Read extremely effectively by the multitalented author!)

Cartoon villains around a long table, from "Super Friends" TV cartoon

If Trump's first administration was stocked with Bond Villains, it seems like the second one is going with more of a Legion of Doom vibe.

A brief thread...

One of the challenges of doing civil rights work is that it's like if, once a week, you met Bigfoot for coffee. You can plainly state the facts under which qualified immunity was granted and people simply won't believe you, it can't be true. But it is.

if busta rhymes was british he’d be called borcester rhymes

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r. Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

"this is fine"

British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech

Hey, ever notice how Republicans don’t wring their hands about how they need to move towards the middle blah blah blah when they lose elections?

Be fucking serious with the American people. Tell them that the Speaker of the House wants to hide the fact that Trump’s nominee for Attorney General engaged in sexual misconduct. Tell them that Republicans want to force another sexual predator on the country. Fight for a better country. My God.

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012

Did Bad Economic Reporting Doom Harris? Unraveling the impact of bad economic reporting on the Harris campaign and how the portrayal of the economy affected the election outcome.

Did bad reporting on the economy destroy Harris' chances? cepr.net/did-bad-econ...