When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we’ve squandered may take a generation to rebuild—if the world still believes we’re capable of it

Scenes from the Texas Capitol in Austin

Here’s what Oliver did today

SpaceX launch from Rhode Island #spacex

👀 RI Senate Resolution No. 2417 Creates a commission to study and provide recommendations to safeguard Rhode Island against use of nuclear weapons, and who would report back no later than August 6, 2027, and whose life would expire on November 6, 2027. webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/Bil...

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed. Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can. - www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In the early afternoon, ET, the Kennedy family announced that JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg had died from cancer. A few hours later, President Trump re-posted some social media garbage attacking the Kennedy family.

We have really enjoyed Eugene Levy’s travel show on Apple TV, especially the newest season. tv.apple.com/us/show/the-...

Local Subaru dealership changed its name from Patriot Subaru to Imperial Subaru. Fitting for 2025.

Rhode Island has not sent a voter list maintenance mailing to all active registered voters in over 15 years. That changes as early as Monday, Nov 3. rhodeislandcurrent.com/briefs/all-r...

The 5th Annual Erika's Ride! Saturday, Oct 11, 9 am! erikaniedowski.org/erikas-ride/ @johnmarion.bsky.social @dariaphoebe.com @wjdennen.dev @sueanderbois.bsky.social

No cheating, post your lockscreen

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. blog.cloudflare.com/content-inde...

All across the country, this is what is happening. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

Infuriating economist.com/science-and-...

This is so depressing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

Here's the changelog for Pixelmator Pro. You can see when Apple purchased it... and what happened to the changelog since then.

Destroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here

Trump is ok with empty shelves.

How many ride-on lions are we allowed?

The new American dream: 3 dolls, 5 pencils. How many golf courses can one own?

Pretty sure Trump did not run on a promise of lower living standards

Things are looking up.

Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.

When FDR said "the only thing we have to fear is... fear itself" he really meant "Don't be weak! Don't be stupid! Don't be a PANICAN!"

Everywhere you look, a new disaster

Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.

This administration is ridiculously petty, and stupid. “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, wrote to a New York Times reporter. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”

🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸

I feel pretty confident saying that more thought went into deciding what kind of wet cat food to buy for our new cat Oliver than Trump's team collectively put into formulating these tariffs.

From Trump's order on tariffs: "He is the first President in modern history to stand strong for hardworking Americans by asking other countries to follow the golden rule on trade: Treat us like we treat you." Sounds good, but reads differently when you look at how they calculated the new tariffs.

Obama is speaking at Hamilton College tonight. "Imagine if I had done any of this," he said about recent actions of the Trump admin.

Economic Suicide by Dipshittery

Trump Where's the nationally-televised address to covnince us the tariffs are a good idea?

"Trump showed a willingness to dismantle a global economic system that the United States helped to build after World War II." This is so remarkable, and frightening.

Honestly, this isn't surprising.

Either TikTok has a bot problem, or I'm more popular than I ever realized.

Happy birthday to Oliver the Cat.

Among the many errors this administration has made: 2019 was not the Biden administration. The VP tweets without first checking for obvious errors. If they make the easy ones, they're making the more subtle, less obvious ones too.

wait, what? “The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security,” Navarro said on Fox News Sunday. “Tariffs are great for America. They will make America great again.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/e...

The Atlantic might get a lot more subscribers today if they offered a temporary discount. @theatlantic.com

Would be nice if companies like Dunkin promoted and sponsored anti-litter campaigns and cleanups.

"Trump is using antisemitism as pretext to attack higher education, undermine democracy" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/21/o...

Going to be a long wait now.

“Many times when Putin and Trump are interacting, Putin’s actually making fun of him…or he’s goading him and urging him on to something, because he’s trying to see how he’ll react…All of this is amateur hour.” www.huffpost.com/entry/fiona-...