Footlong and fancy free

600,000 people killed already by the Trump/Musk aid cuts. 2/3 of them children. Millions more to come. The scale of the cruelty is unimaginable. This short documentary personalizes it. Excellent. Heartbreaking. Devastating. Don't look away. youtu.be/Oj0PsaP2ZqQ

The Colorado Rockies are hiring one of the main guys from Moneyball to head up baseball operations! Finally, recognition that analytics beats nepotism! Moneyball was published 22 years ago.

"The Trump administration expanded its campaign of summarily killing people aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs to a new geographic theater" "Summarily killing" accurately describes it. Way to go, NYT.

Gotta love the zaniness of prediction markets. Most likely to be elected president in 2028: 1. JD Vance 2. Gavin Newsom 3. AOC 4. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?! polymarket.com/event/presid...

This should be interesting. If they turn out to be just Venezuelan fisherman, the regime will have to accuse them of made-up crimes, like they did Abrego-Garcia. Lies upon lies, upon human rights violations, upon murders. We'll see.

One of the funniest things I've seen recently: Kermit leads the frog resistance!

The Colorado Rockies are bad. So bad that they're using the Savannah Bananas to try to sell season tickets. 😂

"The companies might be getting a handout, but the miners ain’t getting none" The Trump administration in a nutshell. Pretend to support workers to get their votes. Then let them die of preventable diseases to juice corporate profits.

"The practice uses a range of techniques in an attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It surged in popularity among evangelical Christian communities in the 1980s and 1990s." I'm so confused. So evangelical Christian support = automatically good? Sounds really "woke".

"American democracy needs ... grand experiments like those of a century ago" "MAGA’s America First ethic bids, fitfully, to establish a cross-ethnicity and cross-race nationalist solidarity" Project 2025 "matches in scale and insurgent energy the ambitions of its left-wing predecessors" Huh?

This is what a police state looks like. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, where are you? You should be on the scene, at this protest. Either calling off your ISP and Cook County cops, or explaining to your citizens and the world why what they're doing is lawful and somehow pro-democracy.

Chris Murphy nails it right here: "we’ll never be able to raise the minimum wage by $10 if our democracy disappears" Voters care about the basics of a decent life: healthcare, housing, a job with a living wage. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we should all have these things. 1/

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: What is happening? Illinois State Police collaborating with ICE to quash a peaceful protest? Illinois, and you in particular, were a shining beacon for the rest of us around the country, showing how we can resist tyranny. Please explain this action against protestors.

WSJ's top story: Regime concerned about fallout from doubling millions' of Americans' premiums. Preparing to negotiate. Dems winning shutdown. Look at that! When you stand up to a paper tyrant, you often win! When you appease, you always lose.

OpenAI becomes the world's most valuable private company, ahead of SpaceX, ByteDance (TikTok), and Anthropic. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rape, assault, kidnapping by ICE impersonators skyrocketing. Feds not prosecuting. "Among the two dozen incidents identified by CNN, criminal charges have been filed in 10. Only one case has resulted in federal charges for imitating an officer" Great detailed reporting www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

This is really bad. Kudos to CNN for rising to the moment. Meanwhile, NYT? Nothing. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...

Thinking more about this graph from the Atlantic showing right-wing extremist violence is way down this year. The obvious reaction is, duh, their guy's in charge now. But it's more than that. Far-right terror has skyrocketed. It's just not being counted. 1/

"Trump has complained that prosecutors were willing to bring numerous criminal cases against him... repeatedly said that the Justice Department should bring the best case it can when it comes to his political opponents and let the court decide" Criminal just assumes criming is what everyone does.

Trump's UN speech was all lies, all the time.

Best NYT homepage in a while. Dare I say, finally meeting the moment. Took 'em long enough.

I stand with @jimmykimmel.com

"Many in MAGA land are trying to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk." Obviously. But @jimmykimmel.com is now cancelled. In recognition of Charlie Kirk, the great champion of free speech and debate.

J6 insurrectionists would have never gone to jail if they'd "filmed themselves having gay sex" in the Capitol. You can't make this stuff up.

Outstanding explanation of the right-wing oligarchy disinformation machine. Read the 🧵 before and after. But this is the money post. They fund right-wing influencers to rant about culture war BS and keep the majority lined up behind Trump. While the oligarchs continue to gain wealth and power.

WSJ does it again. "'It’s very clear to us and to the investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,' [Utah governor Spencer] Cox said in an interview with the Journal." No evidence. No explanation of what "leftist ideology" even means. Reckless reporting

As we fly our flags at half staff to commemorate this man's life: "What needs to be said ... is that Charlie Kirk mightily helped foment the rage and division that seems to engulf and define our nation today. Kirk helped create this toxic, poisonous stew we are drowning in—he fed it and profited"

Shamefully, Colorado flies its flags at half staff today, through Sunday, in celebration of the life of notorious racist Charlie Kirk. Re: Michelle Obama: "You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot." - Charlie Kirk

Heartbroken here in Colorado today, to see flags flying at half staff in celebration of the life of virulent bigot Charlie Kirk. Our governor Jared Polis, himself a gay man, issued the order on Thursday. He could have made a real statement. He could have said: Here in Colorado... 1/

"After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong" "the country seemed to be spinning out of control" I mean, yeah. Obviously. But why did it take this particular atrocity, out of thousands, to wake people up?

School shootings are horrible. And for every school shooting, there are probably dozens of false alarms, while students sit silently in lockdown, praying that an assault-weapon-armed killer doesn't end their life. "The individual was wearing a weighted vest and carrying his cell phone in his hand"

Fairview High School and Southern Hills Middle School in Boulder, CO: Lockout at 10:43. Lockdown at 10:49. www.bvsd.org/parents-stud...

Extremist violence is *absolutely* one-sided. @mattyglesias.bsky.social is recklessly wrong to "both-sides" this issue. Excellent analysis by @pbump.com from a couple years ago, based on ADL data. From 2018 through 2022 right-wing extremists killed 176 people. Left-wing? 3.

"Political violence" is how the US escaped the tyranny of King George. "Political violence" ended slavery. The stupid takes here, from otherwise intelligent people, condemning political violence without qualification, are incredible. The Dem party needs new leadership. But it's too late.

Bluesky now part of the elite establishment? Takes down posts and doesn't tell the author what their offense was. Kirk's killing was horrific. The attack on a Colorado high school, putting three teens in critical condition, was horrific. Gun violence is horrific Do you just want to disappear me?

"violence in small towns is driving some of the nation's highest crime rates" Alaska "led the nation with the highest violent crime rate of 1,194.3 per 100,000 residents. That's more than three times the national average of 359.1" Alaska and McKeesport, PA, need help www.axios.com/2025/09/01/v...

"Trump did not a sign an oversized check featured in a photo showing Jeffrey Epstein joking about selling him a 'fully depreciated' woman." "'Did you see the signature on that check? It is not Donald Trump’s signature,' ... Karoline Leavitt said." Sure, just like the pubic signature.

"One analyst said the move shows how Trump is taking tariff matters more and more into his own hands" Trump's plan was always to enrich his family with bribes. Tariffs cost your company $1 billion? Give Trump $100 million. "Invest" in "cryptocurrency" or "donate" to the "presidential library".

"regular cadence of operations in Massachusetts. In March, ICE arrested 370 immigrants in the state, of which 165 were so-called collateral arrests" Rather than sterile statistics, why don't you tell me about the families torn apart? The American dreams cut short? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

Trump didn't mean civil war. Rather, something much more sinister. He plans to kill off the wokies by infecting Illinois Chipotle's. Chipocalypse: Death from eating a tainted Chipotle's burrito.

Oh, I finally got it! It's Chi-Town! So that's a long I in Chipocalypse! Pronounced Shypocalypse! Makes total sense now! Or at least as much sense as "panican" -- remember that one? 😂

"'They were authorized to work in the US under a visa waiver,' [their attorney] said. 'Each was pursuing activities consistent with the visa waiver program.'" Makes you think that striking terror into foreigners and immigrants is more important to this regime than bringing in foreign investment.

The exterior driver's door handle on my van failed on Tuesday. Not under any tension because the connection to the latch had broken. Took the door apart on Wednesday, ordered a new handle from Amazon for $35 with 2-day shipping. Installed today, and all is well. 1/

"It's Caucasian icon genocide... All the white men are gone from the logos! Except for..." @jimmykimmel.com is so good. Glad he's back after his summer vacation!

"the president appears to be invoking his amorphous constitutional authority to kill low-level drug couriers on the high seas, with no due process, arrest or trial" "It is a war crime for troops to deliberately kill civilians — even criminals — who are not directly participating in hostilities."

It's unfortunate that Hillary Rodham Clinton, a woman I respected and supported for president, comes out as anti-science, not so different from Trump and RFK. Our country desperately needs new leadership, to replace the Clintons and Pelosi, who had their time, and served the American people well.

GOP senator "deeply concerned" about RFK Morale "falling fast" in the National Guard CNN's not perfect, but it's doing a better job meeting the moment than NYT or WaPo.

Just happened upon some really excellent realtime fact-checking from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social during RFK's testimony. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Excellent piece from Thomas Friedman (with heavy assist from Craig Mundie) on the critical necessity of international AI regulation. My 🧵 below.