Hasn't been sent to the Tower . . . yet.

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At a certain point you have to wonder what is supposed to be distracting from what in this administration. Wars to distract from Epstein? Epstein to distract from soft coup? Soft coup to distract from rampant corruption? All of the above to distract from. . . ? Maybe they *aren't* masters at this.

Through a spectacularly ham-handed series of moves, the Trump administration has ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.

If nothing else, the Epstein files prove that people who email too much are dangerous sociopaths.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Jean Phillippe Charbonnier, Girl and Cat, Roubaix, France, 1958

Its been one of those days.

Congrats to (52692) @scalzi.com from (4589)

@grok make the enemy’s tits bigger

The Black Hawk Nightclub, San Francisco Leigh Wiener, 1961

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

As the year end draws near remember this.

AI in a nutshell

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

"Open the pod door, Fluffy."

The internet is essential to how people speak, learn, and participate in public life. When access depends on flawed technology or hard-to-obtain documents, we deepen existing inequalities and silence the people who most need these platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fuck my old boots, look at the price of milk!

Just politicians manipulating lazy voters' gullible propensity for reacting to undefined terms. "Oooh, my representative is calling this '*****ist' -- must be bad!!" Demand precise and accurate political language!

Here:

"undocumented features"

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Choose your own adventure.

Always a wise option.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

ok who did this? ☹️

Mood

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Frits Thaulow’s Peaceful Night en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_T...

Great thread.

This is a flex. He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it. Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Pantogram’s miniature binary typewriter spoon-tamago.com/pantograph-i...

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com