The Likely call is honestly one of the worst of the whole season. Just so silly to catch a ball, take three steps, and pretend that's not a catch.

Modern people have lost the art of hosting, being a community member, and inconveniencing themselves. Throw the party. Host your relatives. Ask the person on a date. Treat your friends to dinner. Learn to cook for others. Meet your neighbors. Talk to the person at the grocery

Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul - The New York Times

"We must still ask ourselves a fundamental, private question that, at scale, has broad political implications: Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?" A powerful @PhilKlay column on the Trump admin blowing up boats and crowing about it:

https://t.co/zumxZZlwTc

"The Biden White House 'had no strategy, because they had no goal,' said Scott Shuchart, who joined the administration in 2022 as senior adviser at ICE. 'All they had was wishing the problem would go away so that they could focus on the things they cared about.'” A damning piece:

Fuck the NFL. Fuck Roger Goodell. Fuck the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fuck every official who worked this game This is a TOUCHDOWN and the NFL wanted the Ravens to lose Ravens season is over because of the worst call in NFL history. What a fucking JOKE

@AlecMacGillis @annbauerwriter Every day, every month, every year, brings new instances of progressives undermining support for vulnerable groups because progressive leaders are uncomfortable with the optics of holding those groups to public norms and standards.

https://t.co/829ikoHbbu

"My experience has cemented my view that when wedlock no longer feels right or healthy later in life — and if, like us, you’re fortunate enough to have careers, adult kids and a willingness to do the work of a good split (not unlike being in a good marriage!) — then unlocking,

"The Somali citizens I spoke to were appalled. They wanted the bad actors out. They wanted safe streets, good schools and better, fairer, more honest governance. They wanted lawmakers to stop the fraud and ballot harvesting and crime."

ACTUALLY something is stopping me: nobody fucking comes!!

New "not missing middle" development going up in Stockholm. These are small, SINGLE STAIR multifamilies going up in a dense, walkable Stockholm neighborhood ***and being built for $165/sq ft***

A Small Illinois City at the Center of a Seismic Shift in Abortion Access - The New York Times

Carbondale, wow: "Last year three clinics in this city of 21,000 provided close to 11,000 abortions, almost all for women from other states. The numbers, provided by the clinics, account for nearly a third of all out-of-state abortions in Illinois." And 1/15 of all in entire US.

County Highway has made its long piece on Somali fraud in Minnesota available via the internet. It's a must read, every word. (I am quoted herein). @countyhwy @walterkirn https://t.co/9Fyb2oVeTd

Such an important point in ⁦@gingerthomp1⁩’s Sick in a Hospital Town Part 1 story: https://t.co/uH8Zk1vrmx

https://t.co/enOA2jmjZQ

Quite a letter from @annbauerwriter in this weekend's WSJ on her decision to leave MSP.

This actually made me physically shudder.