Mars was the Roman god of war. That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.' Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices. That’s why we have Marshall’s.

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

lol "part and parcel" sure, Mexican gang member Ramon just happens to have the accent of a white guy from Seattle/Vancouver. gtfoh

"We will fight these deployments in court" Sir, respectfully, I think you'll have to fight it on the roads. Protect your border.

Here is the Trump administration targeting Judge Goodstein specifically last month

Immergut deposed Monica Lewinsky for Ken Starr, was a US attorney under Bush, and was appointed to the bench by Trump during his first term. This is not some left-wing judge.

Have still never seen Titanic.

This is such a fun interview

Donald Trump is plotting to cut Social Security benefits for older Americans — after he promised during the campaign that he wouldn’t touch Social Security. We must call it out and stop these cuts.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Year 3 of raising $ for Napier Fall Festival. A community in South Nashville. Giving kids a Happy Halloween. $ goes to: pumpkins, cider, donuts, & face paint. If we raise more it will go to other community needs like field trips for the kids. gofund.me/385e89877

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently. But also such a smarmy so and so.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Tangent: I tried to explain goons, gooners, and lowtax to my kid and got too in the weeds (and there are too many holes in my brain), so I gave up. Also, daaaaaang.

4 years younger than I. I hope I look better than this (because today, a woman pushing 70 made a comment to me suggesting I was close to her age. 💀)

One can only hope that she's so mired in bureaucracy that she can't do much harm.

Will this kid--at some point--ever use words in a way that I can understand? She and her father both speak in fragments and with vague language and then get frustrated when I ask for clarity.

“AI is gonna replace all funny/unhinged social media managers” I’d like to see AI replicate the formative experience of being weird and lonely as a child

Can we please stop humoring the pretext that this has anything to do with a “crime crackdown”? You can mention that’s the CLAIMED purpose in the article, but don’t treat it as fact in the headline.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

The federal employees know that Trump will fire them eventually anyway, right? Regardless of what Dems do.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

MTG is finding her way to a winning populist message on subjects like health care and Israel while the Democrats sit on their hands.

Five Tennessee stations could be shuttered.

The Tennessee Attorney General appears to have improperly withdrawn and surreptitiously revised two recent formal opinions about constitutional limits on Tennessee National Guard deployments. The AG now takes no position on whether the Guard is even subject to TN constitution.

@diedrichbader.bsky.social meanwhile on threads 🧵

Him: he actually looks more like Ryan Seacrest's dad Me: I know, but I wrote uncle because his dad has cancer. I didn't want him to feel bad if he saw it Him: 🤣 you think Ryan Seacrest is going to see what you wrote on the internet?? Me: mane, shut up. You never know. The internet is weird.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Completely missed this. So did much of the lame-ass media. US added to Human Rights Watchlist due to sustained attacks on civil liberties. And the fucker thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. 😡😡😡 time.com/7306493/us-h...

US: two major hurricanes headed right toward the east coast The rest of the world:

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

This man is moving his corporate headquarters to Nashville.

If you’re going to commit heinous acts, please, for the love of God, clearly state your political beliefs so we can begin the finger-pointing as soon as possible.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Before we move on to today’s shooting at a Mormon church, let’s not forget that this man killed three people and injured seven when he opened fire from a boat in North Carolina yesterday.

there's a common construct in dating app profiles -- "when I'm not (doing fabulous thing) or (doing other fabulous thing) you'll find me at (the gym, yoga class, the beach, etc) that you see a lot, that always makes me think they've asked ChatGPT to write their profile.

Spent too much time being surprised that Weird Al Yankovic was in Trump’s medbed video.

I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*

Blues Cat #cats #kittens #caturday

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable. “There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.” (Pub. Oct. 2023)

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Wish I was at the NashvilleSC game tonight to see this glorious TIFO in the supporters end. Amazing.

Oh, good. Apparently people are just cruising the app trying to get mad and because they don't know me, don't realize this was completely facetious. Intent being to show the ridiculousness of all the blame on Tylenol and vaccines (and, therefore on mothers).