Austen Double U

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Occasional reader, bad runner, ok friend, Karl’s human. DC via NV.

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In its own way this is a very good bit

Learning that my brother and his girlfriend have a system where she gets to retire one of his bits per year

Extremely same. My 72 year old mom who supported Biden in ‘08 and ‘20 is apoplectic

My aging family member who’s never said a harsh word about Joe Biden in his life called the White House to tell him to quit. “He stood there like a corpse. I was fuming.” They’ve lost the boomers

Retvrn

A lovely variation on a vernacular midcentury Chicago region three-flat in Blue Island. This was completed in 1966, and has been in the hands on one family since 1972. I believe it was built by Nowry Construction, a south suburban developer who was active at the time but not usually this elaborate.

No more clear example of how liberals hate leftists more than fascists

Biden became president because the party came together around the pressing necessity to make fucking sure it wasn't gonna be Bernie, and they did it pretty effectively. The dread is that feeling you have that stopping Trump could never inspire the same organized urgency.

Monkey’s paw curls and Fetterman emerges from a brokered convention

first person under 60 to get the nomination from a major party is going to do reagan numbers

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When the Democratic Party establishment consolidated behind Biden to stop Bernie in 2020, how could they have known there would be another election in 2024. It must have just slipped their mind!

On the one hand, this is a terrible take. But, tbf, all the customs houses built in that era are 🔥

PLEASE SEND ME ALL OF THE ALCOHOL.

Supreme Court Rules Supreme Court Rules

Tim Duncan: An NBA Legend Rides Into The Sunset At A Safe And Prudent Speed

“The Anjin enjoys Ritz crackers”

“Might”

This is the perfect post to me

KENDRICK: [releases Euphoria, 6:16, and Meet the Grahams] LADY MARIKO: The Anjin dislikes Drake.

Donald Trump seemed to fall asleep, before jolting back awake, at a lengthy pre-trial proceedings on Monday in Manhattan, where he also flashed his irritation at times. Follow live updates from the courtroom.

A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trialwww.nytimes.com The former president flashed signs of irritation at times, but also seemed to fall asleep, before jolting back awake.

They’re the same picture

It’s the hot new app your friends are telling you NOT to use, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Impressive choke job by Nevada. Can’t even fathom how the lads pulled that off.

You’re allowed to say the test failed!

SpaceX’s powerful Starship rocket completed most of its latest test flight but didn’t survive re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. Here are the latest updates. nyti.ms/492OMl2

It’s incredibly galling to think how many times in his testimony Hur will also claim to not recall or remember things

so basically biden had the kinds of brain farts that everyone experiences and hur spun it as if the president were senile www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/u...

How the Special Counsel’s Portrayal of Biden’s Memory Compares With the Transcriptwww.nytimes.com The special counsel, Robert K. Hur, accused the president last month of “significant” memory problems. The interview transcript offers context to his report.

Hope they gave Joe the good drugs tonight

You might think this is cute but Russian warships only do this when they’re VERY DISTRESSED

Ukraine has sunk the newest warship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Sergei Kotov, confirmed by the Ukrainian military intelligence. It was attacked by five Ukrainian waterborne drones. Since February 2022, Ukraine has destroyed a third of the Russian fleet, totaling 24 ships.

Ukraine’s drones sink another Russian warship, Kyiv says | CNNedition.cnn.com Ukraine’s military on Tuesday claimed another successful attack on a Russian warship, marking the latest in a string of naval defeats for Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet that Kyiv says has reduced its number...

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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

Behind F1's Velvet Curtainweb.archive.org If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

Boop for more snow

If I were a chef, I’d think all my dishes were special

Dying thinking of what AI prompts they used to generate this one

oh c'mon.

Earnestly love the idea of Taylor Swift getting a private rail car like some Victorian-era steel baron

She flew from NJ to Baltimore. Even if she generally feels like she cannot fly commercial for safety that is less than a four hour drive. She could have hired a car.

What fictional lawyer — besides Lionel Hutz, who’s a gimme — could you see taking up Trump’s case at this point?

It me

I listen to Taylor Swift a normal amount and enjoy it in an ordinary way. I care not to over-identify with her, hate on her, nor to be informed about her at all. Join me in Normal Behavior™

“Defense of equality under the law? No, racism!”

Better Call Goebbels

Must be exhausting being the biblical Lot of the NYT.

it really is striking how much of the anti-anti-trump apologia or downplaying of january 6 has to rely on just ignoring the factual record as gathered through thousands of hours of investigation, interviews and fact-finding

The writing on Reacher is so damn bad and cliched…and it works?!

If you see this, post a robot

I legit just have a cold right now! Because I had Covid three weeks ago 😔

Like half the people I know either have covid right now, or “some sickness that definitely isn’t covid no I haven’t tested for covid why do you ask?”, or “oh I just have bad allergies (affecting me in non-allergy ways) (in the middle of winter)” Take this how you will 🫠

Christmas time is great because you can have pie for breakfast and no one can say shit to you. It’s the law.