One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

They did most of it on their own but Trump's GOP has gifted China the greatest technological advance of the century Like abandoning the shoe industry because we're so devoted to giving ourselves gangrene

The right to life is not a matter for debate.

The head of the American Healthcare System saw someone collapse and immediately ran out of the room, and the president waited to see how long he could go without looking at the guy lol

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

I hope we don’t come to accept this like we’ve come to accept politicians lying.

www.reuters.com/world/china/... nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/saudi-a... www.arabnews.com/node/2620842... <sigh>

Brad is 100% correct!!! #USDemocracy

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

That's it. That's the post.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - George Orwell

The founder of No Lives Matter, a violent nihlistic violent extremist group, faces multiple charges including child abuse and terrorism in the Netherlands. via @globalextremism.bsky.social globalextremism.org/post/founder...

Willful ignorance is an act of aggression, and MAGA keep proving it.

The institutional problem of (mostly) sorting accurate from false news is, weirdly, one that liberal democracies had essentially solved and then I guess just decided we didn’t like the solution anymore.

This list was 1,476 long this morning. docs.google.com/document/u/1... Trump's spiritual advisor is number 1,313. He's in prison for raping a 12 year old girl. The TDS guy is number 1,381. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_... Funny how it's only ever local news even with 1,500 documented pedophiles.

“Dems moved too far left” means BLM and trans equality—and for some, taking COVID seriously—and many Dem politicians really do support those things. There’s tons of noise and euphemism, but that’s the core argument. And it is a misguided one, since Dems won the election after that move, in 2020.

“I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.” Reader, they are for creeps.

The people on the right who have been accusing liberals of practicing "moral relativism" for decades are now failing the easiest morality tests ever put in front of anyone.

"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened". Dwight D. Eisenhower

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.” Read the full investigation: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.” --Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

I remember growing up in a conservative household I was told about how in communist dictatorships, the people starve while the leaders build opulent palaces and ballrooms. Anyway, not sure why I brought that up.

The UN has had enough American bullshit.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

“[COVID-related cognitive damage] involves areas [of the brain] with these responsibilities: Managing…fear and aggression; Empathy, emotional awareness & social interaction; Decision-making; Integrating prior and current information to anticipate choices…”

I live in a country which will let children starve to death by the million rather than hold a child rapist accountable.

I fuckin' hate that this nation is in the grip of boring, awful, shitty, boring, evil, boring people.

Can we make "surface tension-level understanding" a phrase? It feels so right to describe the engagement of the billionaire class with works like Tolkien and Blade Runner.

I did of course know about Tom Tomorrow’s very successful Kickstarter, and happily await the forthcoming book, but was struck today by the idea of it as video.

I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them

Treating myself

Newsom is following the Traditional Party Advice of cleaving to the Center. And that's killing trans kids.

A display of pure power from Hurricane Melissa today. Remarkable satellite imagery.