Dudes only put thousands of hours into Crusader Kings II because there is nothing hotter to the typical woman than mastery over grand strategy games from Paradox Development Studios

Oh look the Mothership did another crappy thing.

Social media is good, actually.

Please, we are 129 years old #NoCutsToLibraries

Oh my God this Community Note.

the Minneapolis they warn you about vs Minneapolis when there’s a country artist in town

Calais Campbell with his hands up.

This scene - “send them back, send them back” - is eerily similar to hate group marches that I’ve covered in recent months! (See below.) 1/2

Here's the official NBC link to our story. Thanks to everyone who has reached out with comments/congratulations. Now time to dig into the overflowing email inbox....

April 9, 1997 Dikembe Mutombo has Clarence Weatherspoon in hell with three straight blocks and then hitting him with the finger wag. Rest in a peace to a literal giant of basketball.

NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/

Men voting for Trump are taken seriously when they say it's because "the economy" and the price of gas and eggs, while women voting for Harris because abortion are "single-issue voters" even though having a kid means more gas, more eggs, and roughly $1 million in other expenses.

Listen, I'm a huge Ducks fan, I'm born and raised in Oregon. We don't want to go down this road with a midwest school. There's a certain kind of alcoholism that is only possible when you know you might never see the ocean.

#Florida teen raped by adoptive father is accused by cops of lying & prosecuted for filing false police report. So when it happened again, she gathered evidence on her own to prove that it DID happen. theledger.com/story/news/loc… via Gary White

This isn't an outlier. I've covered several cases where SWAT teams got the wrong house—and when the victims sued, they were told they had no recourse. That's absurd. The monopoly on force & power should not be above making victims whole when their agents mess up in shocking ways.

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

Reupping my list of reliable numbers crunchers to make sense of election results as they happen. Each person on the list is smart/reliable. Low on commentary, high on making sense of results as they come in. x.com/i/lists/706696…