Always a comfort to listen to Glen Hansard.

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

But Hegseth’s wife and brother in law were notified ahead of strike and unlawful kidnapping of foreign head of state so

Trump took this blatantly illegal step without a word to Congress, even though Maduro publicly announced that he was ready to sit down and discuss anything. Trump is totally out of control. This madman is going to provoke a world war.

Democratic Sen. Andy Kim on capture of Maduro: "Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress"

This is a strange way of saying “we’re complying with court orders now that we failed to get #SCOTUS to stay them.”

Wakeling said that call from Townshend was « Probably one of the greatest honors in my life » (via the interview in @avclub.com by @noelmu.bsky.social ) interview is loaded with gems, including the double entendre I had missed for my first 40 yrs of listening! www.avclub.com/dave-wakelin...

Saw👆after posting👇elsewhere: ❤️ the Pete Townshend story: “Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here &I’m sitting with David Gilmour,&we’re trying to work out your song ‘Save It For Later,’ but we can’t work out the tuning » @theavclubgames.bsky.social www.avclub.com/dave-wakelin...

& Here’s Pete Townshend doing it live, confirming that he got the tuning from @dave_wakeling (who apparently said the Velvet Underground used the tuning) w Pete offering « prizes to anyone who can tell me what it’s about » youtu.be/pQ0zMDJKkbg?...

Jean Dubuffet, Man with a Hod, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123392

Christmas in the Brothel 1905 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25419

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4942

« We go from being an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state » Sharon Alfonsi! Well said. Bari Weiss is not a journalist and lacks integrity.

💬 Viewpoint: The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy to address chronic diseases in children relies on weak, voluntary, and unsupported initiatives while neglecting proven, evidence-based public health interventions. ja.ma/4qiHfax

Gift link to this NYT piece on pervasive corruption and bribery at the core of the Trump administration. If you can’t read my correction, it says “the astounding haul hints at a level of transactionalism for which ‘no comparisons exist’ in modern American history.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why am I not surprised? NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.

NEW: @sherylnyt.bsky.social and I dove into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to dismantle vaccine policy, telling the inside story of how his allies from the vaccine activism world and political appointees embarked on a crash course with government scientists. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

forty-one minutes is a long time to spend premeditating

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

"The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went. "The other source with direct knowledge of the briefing called that rationale 'f**king insane.'”

Then becomes secretary of war….

Hegseth can spin this atrocity and murder of two men clinging to a part of the bombed boat, but he's not reporting news on FOX, twisting it to suit his story- he knew, he ordered it, he's guilty. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks #https://wapo.st/4457oRB

US judge blocks Trump from cutting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in 22 states reut.rs/4pOvHvF

What did we learn about from the shutdown? Democrats should press a focused message (don’t hate on Healthcare Hakeem) to shift the agenda against a weak Republican Party in disarray.

Jacqueline Humphries, Beat the Devil, 2008 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137241

Maybe Trump is mad at the New York Times for some other reason? 🤔 NYT: "For Trump, Epstein is the Story That Won't Go Away" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Trump attacked New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, calling her 'ugly,' because he's mad about her story: "Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office" bsky.app/profile/just...

Katie Rogers' story for The New York Times here: Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office: President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

🔥 NEW: A spokesperson from The New York Times messaged me today about President Trump's post attacking the reporting of NYT journalist Katie Rogers and calling her "ugly."

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

The Trump administration will raise prices and add new fees next year for international tourists visiting U.S. national parks, the latest change amid steep cuts and bureaucratic turmoil at the National Park Service and a decline in foreign tourism. Here's what to know.

“Today, family separations are back, only now they are happening all across the country.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

We found that a company with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly got money from DHS contracts. “It’s corrupt, is the word,” a contract law expert said. “Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer.”

Can we all agree never to book Larry Summers on another news show, ever again? Unless the topic is "What Did You Know and When Did You Know It?"

You have to be astonishingly full of yourself to think that INSIGHT is the word you were looking for here

MORE consciousness of guilt on the part of Trump and his lackeys: www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

i am starting to think larry summers should not be listened to

BREAKING: House Oversight Democrats release never-before seen emails from Epstein's estate. @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social has the latest. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released several emails from the estate of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that refer to President Trump. n.pr/4p7hqKa

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

Trump is a pedophile and rapist.

46 years ago today, "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang becomes first rap song to hit the Billboard Hot 100, entering the chart at #84.

“If we’re not about inclusion in this country than what are we about.” - @maya4rights.bsky.social President and CEO of civilrights.org Today LOVE won, again!! https://cnn.it/4nLf7eo

We don’t have to imagine

Are we invading Poland

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

"Terrific entertainment" re Pauline Kael @newyorker.com. Today (Sat) at 12pm + Mon at 5:40pm — one of Orson Welles’ greatest accomplishments, the towering masterpiece of cinema TOUCH OF EVIL — in a new 4K DCP of the uncut restored version > bit.ly/Restoration-Roundup-Nov-Dec-2025