The goal should be to repeat it so often that some reporter slips and asks Leavitt about the "Epstein Ballroom."

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

The normies are very upset

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

No Kings Day, Oct. 18 — Anti-Trump “No Kings protesters assemble in Burlington, Vermont

The best part of the Burlington protest was the inflatable capybara, who makes a cameo in the video below. #nokings

The no kings protest is Burlington Vermont is amazing!!

#nokings New north end Burlington Vermont

Trump clocks in at 37%-61% in new AP-NORC poll. It’s the worst poll of his rancid 2nd term. Happy No Kings Day!

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

This is so true.

Full-throated defense of trans people is a good thing.

Definitely having an "oh noooo!" feeling after hearing about Diane Keaton, followed by thoughts of Woody Allen, followed by thoughts about how hard she defended that man

Um, they want to activate the parents of special ed kids and put them at the center of resistance? Really?

Since the album came out, I've been wondering what the character of Ophelia means to Taylor Swift, and whether it's just a misguided gloss - as your average English major/music critic on the internet seems to think.

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters. irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

My current theory of Taylor Swift is that there is a reason Paul McCartney sees himself in her & champions her work. But this includes both the heights & the cringier aspects of his songwriting. Now there's even the fact that love & happiness may have dulled the purity of the artistic vision.

Funny how the media turns on the GOP riiiigghhhtt about the time they detonate safe flights.

The escalation is not great but it feels like the shutdown is going badly for them. I expect pressure will ramp up the more air traffic control melts down.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

“Plenary” will haunt them in court and Miller realizing in real time

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

Realizing my main feeling about Charli XCX is envy of her friendship with Troye Sivan.

We are in a golden age of morons failing upward. Even inbred hapsburgs weren’t doing it like this

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

I think there is textual evidence that #Taylor Swift understood "Sympathy is a Knife" and did not necessarily hear it as a diss track. In the New York magazine cover story about #Charli XCX, which comes out two months after the release of Brat, Taylor Swift is quoted:

fwiw I don't think the Charli diss track is a response to the song off Brat, it's more likely a response to the photo shoot with the severed hand with the friendship bracelet. Don't think the lyrics make sense except in that context.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

The WH seems to be feeding the president fake video about Portland. Are they also feeding him fake video about miracle cures?

The press know how to turn this into a news event. Combine it with the president whining about a stopped escalator for half his speech to the UN. With him wandering around on the roof of the White House. And yet we're still at the hmm??? stage.

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

What's so remarkable about this is how it acknowledges Sanger's turn into eugenics, and explicitly rejects it, and then pushes for alternative caregivers like doulas and midwives. As someone deeply interested in how male politicians talk about bodily autonomy, this is REMARKABLE.

This is the way

Keeping me from seeing Jessica Chastain on-screen hunting Nazis is violence.

Tim Cook's email is public

After Columbine there was a Buffy episode that was supposed to air that dealt with what appeared to be a school shooting. The themes were similar enough they delayed the episode. In delaying The Savant Apple TV+ is saying that the themes are similar. That Kirk was facilitating an online hate group

The explanation for our media landscape:

Feels important and notable that Kimmel repeatedly mentioned he was a small part of a much bigger story, because as silly as it is this is a thing people could immediately see and understand and give a shit about and if they can do it with him they have a better chance of doing it with everything

I stayed up to watch Kimmel's monologue last night and thought it was pretty good for what it was trying to do. I think because we had reached the white guy comedian as backstop for free speech, we were not in the realm of identifying the real causes for what's going on. But it was not bad.

The insistence on arguing about “both sides” while our country descends into fascism is a real choice.

I was thinking of the Karen Attiah situation as a parallel for Kimmel. The thing about the WaPo situation is that people did leave, in droves, and attempt to punish the paper. But it was in response to leadership changes, months ago, and nothing seems to have changed as a result.

I would now very much like to see this

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Keir Starmer: “we hate immigrants they’ve caused incalculable damage” Also Keir Starmer: “why don’t immigrants want to come and work here? 😌”

My poor mother - who is 82 and well above the age restriction - could not get a Covid vaccine in Florida. No pharmacy near her was giving them, despite the guidelines supposedly making it widely available for 65+. She'll be in NY next month and will have to get it there.