"austistic people shouldn't exist" and "aspie supremacists should rule us all," the unstoppable political coalition of our times

The tariffs are the least popular thing Trump is doing. It's a unilateral trillion-dollar tax hike on Americans that raises prices on items they buy every day.

i'm just a simple man who's watched a lot of Justified, but "$50,000 in cash" seems like the type of thing that does come with a pretty serious paper trail

he's gonna come out with his own testament and a fundraising page to go with it

A line that stuck out to me (and I think nobody else) in yesterday's NJGov debate: Ciattarelli (GOP nominee) describing the turnpike as a "mass transit system."

"Her team has even recommended a throat lozenge brand, Grether’s, passed down to her after Senator Bernie Sanders found it effective" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

i've come around to andrew yang's governors island casino. everyone who wants to go there gets locked on the island overnight until the first morning ferry. let the chips fall as they may.

All summer, I’ve been speaking to a Nigerian mom of two kids who won fear-based protection in an immigration court. Under a previous admin, she would have likely been released, but ICE refused to let her out and tried to deport her to Ghana -> @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A guy on tik tok onside kicks into random things

a quick status update, vis a vis extending the light of consciousness www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

In case you missed it last week: A profile of the man sending armed Americans into Gaza—who went from selling a drink for ravers to the center of Israel's catastrophic aid in Gaza www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

they want to turn everything into a stroad

almost time for christmas music

When you're trying to come up with a fake name to tell the mall cop after he caught you stealing from Spencers

arsenal have to be doing better than a point against a middle-table club like city

what new york is missing, that other cities often have, is an easily accessible mountain within the city limits that you can just go up and down at the end of the day. that's why i'm proposing we build one.

it is not the part of the 1936 Olympics people tend to remember, but the guy who designed Marine Park got a silver medal in Berlin for his his design of Marine Park

extremely "emil bove impeachment proceedings" voice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

solemn mike gundy took ill on friday grew worse by saturday fired on sunday and that was the end of solemn mike gundy

amazing stuff www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

important American scene: dudes—I would go so far as to say "dads"—who bring folding chairs to the cell phone lot and hang out while they wait for delayed flights to land

people are bending the knee to this shit

you're cancelling your ABC-affiliated subscriptions. I'm tuning in Australia's ABC to show my support for real journalism.

zucchinis are cucumbers that haven't been saved

nothing like returning home to "the right water pressure" after a long trip

Albuquerque: the Good Phoenix

still three stars, tho

not great out there

it's kind of incredible that even within the contours of a family like the trumps, you can still produce a neil bush www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

also, i mean do whatever opsec you want, but I think it's just worth internalizing that "Indivisible" is not a fed

Andrew Cuomo picking up some big name endorsements

i'm sorry the "free speech" discourse of the last five years was just very funny

failed state

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

"According to UNICEF, one child has died every hour in Gaza. These are not the accidents of war. They are acts calculated to bring about the destruction of a people." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Here is some of the history of the former Green Beret now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza. Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wish the energy people bring to fighting for lanes of traffic could be used to power homes.

sucks that we're just doing this really shitty "post-9/11" reboot

always great to spend some time on a great american stroad. people spend like a quarter of their lives on these!

it's not great www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

new mexico has two of the top-tier license plates—the yellow and the turquoise—and then a third one that is like the City Connect jerseys of license plates

amid everything else about that day, stephen lynch was elected to fill joe moakley's vacant seat in a special congressional election.

Now on Sid Rosenberg's radio show, Adams goes even further, saying "the hate that took down our towers" on 9/11 is also responsible for Kirk's death. Again, there has been no arrests in the Kirk shooting yet.

love that the Church of England was invested in Hipgnosis www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

one of the best things you can do here is mute people. i never miss a chance to mute someone. it's usually pretty clear, pretty quickly, when someone's thoughts are just not worth being casually exposed to. you can just get on with it!

this should be an ad www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

add it to the list of things that crash tests don't test for: doors that work when you absolutely most need them to work www.bloomberg.com/features/202...