“My ‘The 90s in Palm Beach were a different time!’ t-shirt is raising a lot of questions about my extensive, decades-long relationship with a prolific pedophile and sex-trafficker who considered me his best friend. But these questions should have already been answered by my shirt!”

Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.

A Spanish naval vessel will join the Global Sumud Flotilla to provide assistance and, if necessary, conduct rescues, says Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. Italy earlier announced it was dispatching a frigate after a night of drone attacks on the flotilla opposed by the Israeli gov't.

NEW: China's president Xi Jinping unexpectedly joins the UN climate summit, by video, to offer his nation's 2035 climate pledge * Cut GHGs to 7-10% below peak by 2035, "striving to do better" * Raise non-fossil share of energy to at least 30% * Boost wind/solar to 3,600GW

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month. marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

MONDAY: US throws Argentina a financial life raft TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers. @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a tradition that continues to this day in some cultures

It’s rare that one clip can both be grounds for a massive corporate lawsuit and grounds for the 25th Amendment at the same time.

NEW PODCAST FROM ME👇👇 So excited to bring you Coining It: a 6 part documentary series telling the extraordinary story of the Blackpool bitcoin millionaire, James Parker. It's a fusion of politics and true crime. A tale of tech, morality and justice. It must be heard to believed. Out Sept 30th.

The logical culmination of Gove’s ‘we don’t trust experts’. Now it’s ’we don’t know anything’.

This makes total sense when you realize that in halls of power and on platforms of influence, "bias" has nothing to do with facts or equality; it only ever means and can only ever mean "contradicts white supremacist narratives."

also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Arizona votes to send its first Latina to Congress 19thnews.org/2025/09/adel... via @19thnews.org

-Perkins Coie (+ other firm that didn't back down). -Harvard (after momentary false start) -"Lower" fed judiciary. (Not Roger Taney "supreme" court.) -Local grand juries. -Govs like Pritzker and Newsom -WSJ and NYT, when sued. -Millions of protestors -Now Jimmy Kimmel. Our tapestry of resistance.

1/ Today's Farm Policy News Summary covers how "#Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of #Argentine #soybeans after Buenos Aires on Monday scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers." farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/09/chin...

Been listening to Cubs-Mets while doing a moving-out clean of an apartment I’ve been in for 8 1/2 years. I want to thank this game specifically for keeping me highly entertained during the most mundane of chores. Preaching to the choir but I’ll say it anyway: Baseball on the radio: undefeated

"Autism is not a disease. It is not a sickness. It's a category of neurodivergence so broad that there’s a running joke about it in the community: 'If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.' But the MAGA/MAHA alliance does not like autistic people; it finds them unsettling."

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.

They should have the Politico office set up like a zoo and people can go walk around and look at the reporters in their little habitats.

"It was just sex"

The thing with Japan is that the government *tried* for inflation for decades. It was a mainstream economic objective. And then when they finally got some the public was like “I don’t like this” foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/15/j...

Heading off to get a tattoo that says “I regret to inform you that i have not been raptured”

a page of Trump's UN speech, as captured by Getty

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This is a great thread. Particularly how the Secret Service’s eagerness to tout its find probably effed up a great opportunity to study this network’s operations.

I’d like to speak with the rapture manager, please.

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad? Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK. Superb thread.

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

New podcast on the Trojan War with Dan Snow on History Hit has just dropped. It's fun; take a listen: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

Libertarian until you need the government to bail you out

That dead fish in your mailbox was Safeway’s way of telling you that they’re running a 20% off special on frozen cod.

You know you’re the good guys when you’re using children as hostages.

He betrayed his oath as a physician and sold out the country when he voted to confirm RFK Jr, knows damn well he’s a dangerous quack, but keeping Trump neutral in his primary is his highest priority.

100% unscientific not justifiable empirically in any way take is that you do kind of feel a vibe shift today. Something in the wind. Kimmel, UCLA, the obviously shambolic atomism press conference…something in the wind.

The McRib is back for a limited time

Does anyone know in Tuesday's Rapture if these folks get lifted right out of their cars or if the vehicles ascend with them? This is my first Rapture and I'm trying to plan my commute.

Doesn’t matter if you teach it all as history.

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Pictured - a large group of antifa on their way to commit severe acts of property damage

like i was saying