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  1. There’s a deleted scene that explains why the other potential rat/maybe a cop didn’t out Costigan. Also, the whole thing is showing how gangsters are dumb and paranoid. Costello has moles upon moles and is also an FBI informant. It’s even possible he knows who Costigan is but has decided it’s better to keep an eye on him. The bigger plothole is a high-ranking state trooper overseeing organized crime gets thrown off a building in broad daylight and the FBI doesn’t haul in their local kingpin informant and change the terms of the deal. Even in the height of post 9/11 terrorist hunting, that shit isn’t going to to fly for the FBI, especially if Costello has really only been feeding them bullshit.
  2. And maybe Nordic pagans. Frankly I need this administration to make a call on the whole Valhalla issue.
  3. Dems need to run on just the stupidest shit they can: - Five dollar footlongs - Right to Jack: No more ID for PornHub - Ending the War on Milkers: Put topless scenes back in PG-13 movies - Healthy Cigarettes - Mandatory school prayer Then after you’re elected you just say “we’re working hard on the sandwiches, it’s tougher than we thought. But you’re going to be seeing cheaper meatballs very soon and also we did single payer healthcare. I hear Sydney Sweeney takes her top off in the new Transformers.”
  4. My issue with the Bananas is simply the proposition that a summer evening at a ballgame needed to be optimized.
  5. I promise you that you’re not ready for how insane the website is for the Trump Card. This links directly from Commerce’s landing page.
  6. The “radical left/Democrat shutdown” messages are proliferating. Last I checked War/DHS had the old fashioned language about a lapse in appropriations. Honestly surprised.
  7. Stabbing and (per some reports, car ramming and failed bomb) attack on a synagogue in Manchester during Yom Kippur services. Three dead including the suspect. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/02/world/manchester-synagogue-stabbing-uk
  8. Hater’s Guide to William Sonoma Holiday Catalog is awesome.
  9. I lost my shit when Hegseth was trying to do shitty wordplay about being the M in DIME but he fucked it up because he is so used to just talking about DEIA.
  10. I speak Inka: COIN: Counter-insurgencey. ANA: Afghanistan National Army ANP: Afghanistan National Police
  11. I’m really enjoying this recent thing where SCOTUS makes a semi-decision that it can still take back and gives no explanation, and then passive-aggressively hints to all the other judges that they shouldn’t HAVE to explain themselves if they’d all just pay attention sometimes. They’re working really hard here! Thinking here that my wife is well-positioned to snag the next vacancy.
  12. Several of those spots in the pros he wasn’t retained (typical) when the HC got canned. It is a brutal career when you’re trying to break in.
  13. Understanding the universe by having LLMs train each other to be racist.
  14. Creative rephrasing of “money doesn’t smell.” He’a changing his bank account for the better.
  15. Well but DJT is leaving the parks open. They’ll illegally spend funds if it means making this unnoticable to their voters and they’ll kill essential services to hurt Dems. I think the argument over health subsidies is weedy and less important long term than the pocket recission shit. “The Constitution gives us the power of the purse. It’s closed until the Admin understands that” is clear and understandable. There is no point appropriating funds as long as Russ Vought has a veto over where they are spent.
  16. We absolutely need to kick government agencies off of social media.
  17. Shaud was a stud. Came out of Andrews in West Texas a bit small and under ranked. He had a great freshman year at Tech and then got injured and transferred to Bama after his second year (back when you had to sit a year). I think he also hadn’t signed up to play for Leach and wanted to be at the center of a rushing attack. Under Spyke Tech had some really, really solid RBs. Bam Morris, Byron Hanspard, their own Ricky Williams. After his freshman year folks thought Shaud would be the next one and he was- for Bama.
  18. Tech’s billionaire is the outlier and he played ball there. Phil Knight made his name in athletics and is getting all kinds of return by making Oregon into a powerhouse. Most really wealthy people are going to find better uses of money than putting a nickel-back into a G-Wagen. You want your name on a building, you want to be toasted for funding scholarships. Here’s why the SEC bag-game worked: it was tons of decently wealthy but not tremendously rich folks who enjoyed the hunt and feeling a bit like a big shot. They could afford to part with meaningful but relatively modest sums of cash that, when pooled with other wannabe sports tycoons, were tremendously impactful to the mostly lower-income black athletes and their families. You could stretch a few tens of thousands of dollars into helping to lure a future All-American to the school. You felt like you saw a real return and enjoyed seeing it play out. And by and large these are the folks who are getting hit up for NIL. Actual titans of capital are just not interested in this stuff.
  19. Without disagreeing, the question is “what does non-capitulation mean.” What is the target and who defines it. There is a great book called “Every War Must End,” it’s a thin tome about war but is equally relevant to politics, business, even relationships. It examines how nations will fight wars long past the point where they could ever hope to achieve when they started. How they’d shift their concept of victory to be more and more expansive even as prospects of winning got dimmer. And how both sides eventually collapse worse off all around. So, yesterday “not capitulate” meant that the Rs added back in healthcare subsides and breaks to the CR. Today, do you also have to add in “and restore the infrastructure funds Vought canceled.” In two days, will you add “also hire back all the Feds you fired?” I don’t have any faith that there is anyone on team D who is thinking about this in a real way and the other side continues to add costs. If two spouses are quarreling and one is willing to accept “murder the whole family then kill myself” as a potential settlement— that’s a negotiating advantage.
  20. Honestly if anyone is looking for parallels the best I can point is maybe Mobutu or Idi Amin or Mugabe. Just pure strongman extortion justified by shifting national populist vibes and stripping the country of anything valuable for yourself and friends. We have a lot more to strip and residual functionality but that’s where this is going.
  21. Hey libs, these companies aren’t being socialized. No one’s distributing ownership to the workers or running them for the benefits of the state! They’re simply being forced to surrender interest and some control for the personal benefit of the leader. OWNED, LIB!
  22. Pretty unimaginable stuff to hear from a Speaker of the House in any context. I can’t recall a single instance of one saying how awesome it would be if the President could do stuff without Congress at all. We are basically gone as a constitutional republic, as 2/3 branches just…willingly handed over everything to the third. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/johnson-shutdown-ultimately-could-benefit-162049837.html
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