You give Americans a viable, safe and comfortable alternative to driving and they like it! The Amtrak Mardi Gras continues to be a smash hit with riders recording an over 95% customer satisfaction rate and local leaders eyeing expansion. More trains for more people! youtu.be/XK1XMrniaRM?...

NEW FROM POGO’S INVESTIGATIONS DESK: Hundreds of documents in the newly released Epstein files shed light on Epstein’s connections with a private equity firm formerly led by Dept. of Defense Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg. Read @ziembavision.bsky.social's latest: https://bit.ly/46sUWMD

"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

It appears that Democratic Party leadership has finally emerged from the Triangulation Room, another strongly worded statement in hand

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

You laugh but this is all McDonald's had to do to keep the food safety regulators off their backs for at least 3 years

The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old. Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

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• Winner receives a trophy made of human skulls and is named Secretary of Education, a title they must defend every year henceforth

The only people in the world who looked at what the Demcratic Party has been doing over the past decade and thought "now there's a winning strategy" are the British Labour Party, and that's a lot more sad than funny but you do have to admit it's funny

car commercials used to be scored by Modest Mouse

I *knew* he was gonna talk about it 😜 #TreyIsFromTexas

Mamdani should win but he's the latest example of the Democratic Party closing ranks to keep anyone young and exciting and full of energy out of the party - and then they spend countless millions on consultants trying to figure out why they're struggling with young voters

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

J.D. Vance rose from venture capitalist to vice president with millions in backing from tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Now he shapes national policy while Palantir, Thiel’s firm, is reaping billions in federal contracts. Let's break down his fundraising history. 🧵

NEW EPISODE: The Moody Center w/ @dianna2ns.bsky.social ! It’s rare that Phish is in TX, and more rare that they play in Austin–it’s been about 15 years since the capitol city hosted the band and its fans. Dianna gives us the ins and outs of Austin and The Moody Center. linktr.ee/attendancebias

I am truly ashamed. I am a Trekkie that went to college in northern New England in the 90s, surrounded by Phans, and I had no f-cking idea until now that Frakes played on a Phish track. What the hell was I doing back then? Oh...

If you are a Phish fan and your mom is a Star Trek The Next Generation fan, you should know that Jonathan Frakes (who played Commander Riker) is doing discounted Mother's Day cameos and he WILL tell your mom he played trombone on the Phish song Rikers Mailbox if you ask him to

You know Trump's staff is just bad guys top to bottom because not a single one of them has slipped an executive order banning Microsoft Teams on his desk despite having ample opportunities to do so

I could not have asked for a more spectacularly beautiful week in Washington. The weather has been absolutely wonderful, I cannot convey how lovely it has been to just be outside these past couple of days. So grateful to be able to spend time in this part of the country ahead of these shows! 🙏🌷🥰

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

The only "free speech crisis" on college campuses is the one where students are getting abducted by secret police for writing op-eds and participating in protests.

remember Medicare for All? Wish that was still a thing

“People are calling them The Disco Biscuits of Australian psych rock.” - @samdarcangelo.bsky.social about King Gizz just now 🤣

New polling shows that 60% of Americans think billionaires advising the President is bad. Just 12% say it’s good. apnorc.org/projects/alt...

For All Mankind is a decent show that gets a ton of points for its portrayal of a simple fact that people rarely talk about: America was a better, bolder country when it was forced to compete with the Soviet Union

Thank god Radiohead ignored the haters

🚨NEWS: How a Trump FEC commissioner is pushing to move the agency under the control of America’s most extreme right-wing circuit court, where it would be able to eviscerate all anti-corruption laws and expand Citizens United.