This is the first time I haven’t felt bitter after a Rays playoff elimination. Every other time it either felt like a close run thing that slipped their grasp or the run was a disappointment altogether relative to expectation.
Don’t really feel disappointment as much as gratitude to the 2026 Rays, who were the most fun team for me personally since 2008. Hope to see them win it all someday.
This postseason is absolutely killing my ability to be a respectable adult with normal hours. But if 2am starts are the price to pay, it’s one I’ll gladly keep shelling out for.
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The funny thing with this is you see right-wingers make this argument with genuine sincerity. 'Musk and Trump would never be corrupt, they have so much money!'
Have we considered that this guy is just a crackpot?
At his third Antichrist lecture in Nashville, Peter Thiel talks about the International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, the United States, and the Iran War.
He describes the ICC as part of the emerging ideological architecture of the Antichrist, likening language on the ICC's website to the antichristic talk of peace and safety in 1 Thessalonians.
Thiel notes that the ICC's arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have limited where they can travel. The ICC warrant meant Netanyahu couldn't visit Poland on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp; though Poland's president said he wouldn't enforce it, Poland's authority to defy the ICC wasn't clear, and so the Israeli PM didn't come.
While condemning what he describes as the neoconservatives and George W. Bush people—we "made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East wars," and "you're not supposed to torture people"—Thiel says the ICC was already emerging as an issue under that administration, citing a 2003 memo from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on what he called the judicialization of international politics.
The investor interprets former VP Dick Cheney's condemnation of Trump as an effort to buy favor with the ICC, "probably too late." He says he's come to suspect that the threat of an ICC warrant is a sword of Damocles over the Trump administration amid the Iran War. Thiel describes himself as skeptical of that war, saying it is possible the US will lose the soft power war before outlining a mildly esoteric interpretation of US policy on the ICC.
Thiel says that, on the surface, Secretary of State Marco Rubio's condemnation of the ICC might look like a favor to Israel. In his reading, though, it could be a means of protecting Rubio or War Secretary Pete Hegseth from potential future warrants that could be enforced by a left-wing president.
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My physique is top 0.1% for people who have the McDonald’s app on their phone.
One of the (not very) subtle amusements of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is seeing how many different adjectives Shirer can use to describe Goring’s weight. “Corpulent” is favored but sometimes he can’t be bothered with anything less direct than “the fat field marshal.”
For my money, Eve Marie Saint was the all-time best female lead in a Hitchcock film. What an outstanding actress.
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The K67 Kiosk, an iconic piece of modular urban architecture designed in 1966 by Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig and found all over former Yugoslavia and beyond.
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VIDEO | Mucca finisce in una piscina di un hotel benessere in Alto Adige #ANSA
We are governed by the least able and least scrupulous among us.
Say what you want about Trayon White, but the last people in the world that have any standing or credibility to inveigh about corruption are MAGA Republicans.