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Bred in San Diego, led to Kansas City. @frictionbeer co-owner, copywriter, @Arsenal, drummer, cyclist, malcontent and aspiring bon vivant.
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“we will work to stop something that isn’t happening and then take a victory lap because the thing that wasn’t happening still isn’t”

submitted 15 minutes ago • 45 comments

This was outstanding reporting, suggesting that the Trump administration chose people to deport to dungeons in El Salvador largely based on a misunderstanding about tattoos and gangs. The great majority of those we are paying El Salvador to brutalize appear to have no connection to gangs.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

When you see the word “regulation,” replace it in your mind with PROTECTION. Deregulation means removing worker, consumer, and environmental protections. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Probably not worth thinking through financial implications for churches of opening this particular front in the culture war *TRUMP: PERHAPS HARVARD SHOULD LOSE TAX EXEMPT STATUS *TRUMP: PERHAPS HARVARD SHOULD BE TAXED AS POLITICAL ENTITY *TRUMP: TAX EXEMPT STATUS IS CONTINGENT ON PUBLIC INTEREST

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

The Trump administration wants to send anyone it wants, including U.S. citizens, to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan. At Law Dork, I go through it all:

submitted 4 hours ago • 39 comments

While major news outlets have been corporatized and bought by Trump-friendly billionaires like Bezos, this is the purposeful sledgehammer on invaluable, unbiased, non-profit news and programming. They want all barriers to state propaganda gone.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

or Lindsey Graham

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

"But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far-right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount." Unsurprising when the Secretary of Defense has white nationalist tattoos.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 454 comments

We praise entrepreneurs in ads and speeches while punishing them in real life. Two years into launching a craft brewery /taproom, I’ve drastically downscaled my life, have marketplace “insurance” that covers nothing and am taxed / regulated beyond comprehension. With a kid about to hit college.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just described today in domestic productivity terms to my traveling wife and am now awaiting a lightning strike from the weekend gods.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Edgar Vegas Joan Miso #SpoilAnArtistByChangingOneLetter

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Let's revive these hashtag memes! Andy Warhog Edvard Lunch #SpoilAnArtistByChangingOneLetter

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

when i left NYC for a couple years and had to drive everywhere i found myself increasingly reactive, angry and distrusting. it sounds like leftist parody but i genuinely believe now that car culture has been the most effective tool of fascism ever created

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Spurs are just a delight this season, give Ange a lifetime contract.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr's always going on about "healthy" and what he means is a mixture of nihilism and eugenics, that public health and medicine are pointless because "unhealthy" people are going to (and deserve to) die anyway. Never mind the kid's death was easily preventable. Call them "unhealthy" and move on.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Goodbye global tourism to the US. Who in their right mind would risk this?

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Headline and sub-head say it all. Total scam that is steamrolling institutions and lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Recessions by nature come from calamitous situations. A global pandemic. A war. A stock market crash. If the Trump tariff debacle indeed leads to one, it will be the first to be entirely self-inflicted.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just rode a 50-mile gravel race in the Flint Hills of Kansas and now look like a powdered donut.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 227 comments

Like with targeting and over-emphasizing trans people (1% of the population), this is making something out of nothing to inflame the base and give narratives to Fox News to amplify. It's the new "War on Christmas," they just hate alternatives to their orthodoxy.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments