The long 2010s are finally over

You should hear what doctors have to deal with.

GREAT NEWS.

Don’t threaten me with a good time. 🤣🤣

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

Agreed, but would go a step farther and say she needs A LOT more practice. I was surprised at how inelegant that was; given her recent campaigning experience I expected more polish. But live TV is Very Hard, and I’ve no doubt that every consultant and pol was pushing for their edits up to the last.

we do love our Olympians!

All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

What channel is the Bad Bunny SOTU on?

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

GOOD TROUBLE: Call your dem members of Congress and tell them to boycott the State of the Union *unless* they’re one of the members escorting Epstein survivors.

Spent hours cooking a pot of butter beans yesterday, and forgot them on the stove while washing up. You can tell a lot about one’s childhood and general risk aversion by discussing whether to serve them for dinner or toss them out like nuclear waste.

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

THIS THIS THIS THIS! (You should follow Histead — one of the few top scientists who really truly understand the news-politics nexus.)

I don't think it works that way.

I enjoyed this so much! I can read all the entries through 1300 without difficulty (I still read Chaucer for pleasure), can parse 1200 with some effort, and after that it’s picking out stray words and phrases.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

You don’t have to be a “cat person” to love this chef d’oeuvre.

“That’s right, take the picture. Take the picture, take the picture, take the goddam picture. Take my soul too while you’re at it.” Carol needed a cigarette. “I give and I give and what’s left of me at the end of the night isn’t worth the nylon fibers of a bargain basement chew toy.”

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My epic wait for retirement benefits from OPM after being RIFfed back in July is over! A deposit arrived — for $359.00. 😂 No explanation. I wish on Russ Vought a lifetime of bureaucratic misery.

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

When Trump said he wouldn't take questions from CNN, every journalist with integrity should have walked out of the room. Is it really worth it to get these rambling, disjointed answers from sycophantic questioners?

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Driving by Bldg 1 on the NIH campus this week, I did in fact check to make sure they hadn’t draped a fucking banner with that jackass’s glowering AI face on it from the iconic columns.

Really lovely tribute to radio host whose archive I now want to dig into. Read at least as far as Silverblatt’s consideration of stammering, and you’ll read the rest.

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

If Trump were innocent in any capacity he’d be suing the life out every single person for defamation and libel. He does LOVE a lawsuit he knows he can win. BUT that’s not what he’s doing, now is it. He’s deflecting, distracting, and delaying at every opportunity.

I do love a hot mic moment. 🔥 🎙️ Keep talking, Les!

Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs." Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow." Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Oh this one got me hard. Thank you, Haven Watchers, for showing up.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Substack, as expected, escalates toward hyper-disinfo. Remember, folks: The tech bros tearing down our country are the major forces behind this monstrosity. Choose your future wisely.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

New level of American exceptionalism unlocked

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

When a member of the British royal family is more accountable to the law than the President of the United States.