Whoaaaaa

Coincidentally, this is what @profgalloway.com — not a journalist — says to me before every @pivotpod.bsky.social except he just wants to talk about news ABOUT fucking and dick jokes inevitably follow. Same idea, I guess.

Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s

update: "video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her" chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

I will explain exactly what Merkel said and what she meant, Before you verbally abuse me, think. See you at 5pm ET. Everyone harassing me will be blocked, I am not here to be abused by anyone. Neither should be you. DECENCY, manners, dignity. Even if you disagree.

I've seen actual clowns with more tasteful dresses.

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

Another year, another vicious snub from the Nobel Prize committee.

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

I wrote about the challenges American social media poses to European democracy earlier this year www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

This. Is. Brilliant.

What’s a true shithole country? One that zip-ties children’s hands and puts them in cages. One that sends people to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. One where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wear face masks to conceal their identities. And so on...

Antifa membership perks for 2025 are available now! ✊️

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Violent thugs are terrorizing Americans and they were sent by the White House.

Oregon AG Rayfield: Huge win at this moment in our democracy right now. This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country. So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.

NEW: Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon. "The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing. Overnight, at Law Dork:

They largely want the studios & sports and don’t care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.

New cases of drone sightings across Europe and NATO territory: ‼️Hybrid warfare isn’t only about “unknown” drones,but also about anonymous calls&warnings,which are now taken extremely seriously. ◾️ Belgium: October 3:Around 15 drones were spotted over the Elsenborn military training area,a NATO base

Yeah, I go pretty hard.

“Pro-life” MAGA sure does love dictators who indiscriminately bomb innocent civilians daily, kidnap children, rig elections, plunder resources, jail journalists, torture and murder political opponents, and poison dissidents.

Dems should be letting Americans get a taste of what they voted for, while demanding longer-term de-Trumpification.

1400 km from Ukraine, another refinery goes up in flames united24media.com/latest-news/...

Hey, folks at the White House and the Council of Economic Advisers! You guys ready to issue a correction yet? This isn't controversial: It's arithmetic. Indeed, it's your arithmetic, but I fixed your errors.

🇩🇪 Munich Airport was temporarily closed due to the appearance of unidentified drones, the BBC reports. Seventeen flights were canceled, and another 15 planes were redirected to Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Vienna.

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

🤡 "He will do something crazy there if he doesn't get the Nobel Prize": Putin's talking heads laugh at Trump and advise Stockholm residents to leave the city #пропагандисты

Just had the pleasure of citing two of my former grad students' work in back-to-back footnotes and damn if that's not cool.

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

But our efforts will only be complete if we link up with our partners in our broader region. 29 EPC members are also NATO allies. We must build a stronger security architecture, together.

Quajanac, dear Prime Minister Nielsen. Europe and Greenland will always be each other’s trusted and reliable partners. We want to deepen our cooperation. That’s why we aim to double our financial support to Greenland. So we can deliver clean energy and create the technologies of the future.

Angus: American farmers who bought into Trump, thinking tariffs would help them—their markets are gone. Canada’s not making noise about it; we’re just moving in. Canadian corn is now being sold in Ireland, Spain, and the UK. Those used to be guaranteed American markets. Not anymore.

The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday

Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is pure macabre mythology. "My maker told his tale. And I will tell you mine." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

I have been riding the DC metro, alone, since I was in middle school, and brought my children on it when they were even younger

Yup, the financial payoff from Qatar to the Trump family must really be something! By the way, shouldn’t Congress have something to say about this? And I suspect there might be a coalition of Reaganite hawks and skeptical-of-force doves that could defeat it.

"What Trump and Hegseth want, in a way, is to turn the US military into an institution more like ICE: an internal police force, unconstrained by many laws or norms, bullying and intimidating people here at home on behalf of the current administration in Washington." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Why can’t we have nice things, too, instead of more spread of preventable diseases?

Shocker of all shockers...

The Secretary of Defense who only got the job because the president saw him on the teevee is complaining about military leaders who were promoted "for the wrong reasons"

A TV talk show chatterbox elevated to Secretary of Defense talking about standards is an undiluted lack of self-awareness.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

from @brianklaas.bsky.social, "a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns" www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...

Moldova's democracy is presently more impressive than ours. www.bbc.com/news/article...