To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

Bad Bunny didn’t just ask for a seat at the table. He flipped it over and brought in a bigger one. A new America is emerging with a more expansive view of patriotism, love of country and Americanness. It’s coming! It’s here! Whether you like it or not.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.

Singing toilets? Really?!

I’d actually like to see the ASL interpreters.

I got new slippers!

@susanita61.bsky.social 😀

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

A quick, spontaneous video for you who are heartbroken right now. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-he...

I must be bored if I’m organizing refrigerator magnets.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Turn off CBS. Listen to the @dailybeanspod.com.

I didn’t know hockey had penalty shots.

The US is now responsible for the governance of Venezuela. Toppling the regime of a smaller country is always the easy part. The hard part is what comes after. Neo-cons always expect a pro-US nirvana. It rarely works out. But I suppose the oil companies can seize some assets.

My word for 2026 is COMMUNITY

Happy Meeow Year ! 🎉

Not sure if “Walking in the Air” at a funereal tempo is necessarily all that relaxing.

This is so great.

Did…a cat write this?

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

Apparently I iron so rarely, my iron stopped working! Guess I need to brave the Black Friday nonsense after all.

I already hate the Greased Lightning Santa commercial.

Polleras in the Macy’s parade!

Angelica! Eliza! And Peggy! [Her name is Catherine.]

I developed temporary insanity and started going through the storage space. *backs away slowly and locks the door*

I see we are in the cinematic perfume ad segment of the holidays. Soon it will be the cars with giant bows segment.

Wut?

Highs and lows of another day. Earlier I watched the Butera press conference, and it made me cry. Just now I got word that my application to adopt Tiramisu has been approved.

Just my luck to get the new doctor in the practice who “always runs late.”

Today is definitely a Cocoa Puffs kinda day.

I’m as white as Elmer’s glue, and my husband’s cousin’s kids would call us aunt and uncle.

Sitting on the patio drinking coffee and watching squirrels because my couch is covered with bags to take to the thrift store.

We actually get to see O Canada performed at the World Series.

My feelings, exactly.

I’m watching the game for the (very) occasional shots of London and not for any football reasons.

The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.

It’s October 16. Why must you know TODAY the address of an event that’s happening November 1?

Ads for Seeking Sister Wife are killing the vibe of the LCS.

Don’t hit Alex Call!

Beer snake at Wrigley Field. Amateurs!

Ya think?

Are the Tigers and the Guardians closely matched or what?

Are they going to investigate J Edgar Hoover?

Also—as ever—it enables them to pose as the victim of evil attackers. A handy way to try to justify threats and extremism. “We’re defending ourselves.”

Speaking at Charlie Kirk’s memorial on Sunday, Trump said to the assembled, “I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them.” He said it with such vehemence that there is little question he meant it. Therefore, Trump hates over half of America. Presidents are suppose to work for all.

Did roll-up keyboards ever become a thing?

everything is not all bad. look at this little grey kitten under a grey blanket.