Full speed astern wapo.st/4rdDQew (gift article)

Heard on the car radio this morning. Here is David Gray with Sail Away #music #musicsky youtu.be/Kq-jLjCVx_Q?...

The guy in the green sweater is hanging on for dear life.

A federal judge on Thursday halted for now President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington D.C., dealing Trump a temporary legal setback to his efforts to send the military to American cities over the objections of local leaders.

Don't give up the ship.

If you are telling me that being a working class candidate means you are an "authentic, anti-establishment alternative to traditional politicians," son, you are not working class. You are an affluent man's idea of working class.

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

Un hun.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Oh come on

A very useful and timely thread from a very, very, very good defense attorney

If you don’t find this sickening and disgusting, you are in a dark place. Listen to what he says. It’s right there. It’s who he is. It’s who he’s always been. And therefore it’s who we all will be if we keep down this path.

they're not reporters, really, they're paparazzi. the most famous man who has ever lived is making a clown of himself, they're not going to interrupt him, it's great content

Water and sewer departments with their own accounts? Pure genius 👇

Song from over 50 years ago still relevant today. The Temptations with Ball of Confusion #music #musicsky youtu.be/D5P7x4vh_ts?...

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

"Immigrants are the scapegoats they need. Everyone else just needs some humanity and help. Otherwise, we will remain strangers in a strange land – foreign to ourselves and to each other."

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

In 2022, Diane Reitz tried out to be a Broncos cheerleader at age 64 in pursuit of a great story for her obituary. Here is that obituary:

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

There are still people who will tell you Trump didn't defend the Nazis in Charlottesville with his "very fine people" comments because of that bad-faith snopes article, but all you have to do is watch the way he can't stop defending Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Enrique Granados: El pelele: Escena goyesca There are two categories of classical music that use visual art as the subject of the composition. “Inspired-by” music takes a work of art as a notional starting point, whereas “ekphrastic” music aims to comment on or illuminate the visual artwork. This…

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

As the old journalism adage goes, if a man accidentally shoots a dog it is not news but it is news when

Was this message directed at Trump or Speaker Mike Johnson

In honor of Neil Young’s birthday on the12th, here is Patti Smith with after the Gold Rush #music #musicsky youtu.be/_5vqQiv-4UA?...

Sara Bareilles with Brandi Carlile singing Salt Then Sour Then Sweet #music #musicsky youtu.be/mJccPYV7UGA?...

The Giant Gila Monster (1959) TMDB score 40% A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase

Monet hated giving titles to paintings: “To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at,” he said.

Sick to my stomach that the President being mixed up with a horrifying global network of pedophiles is considered a 'voter issue' and not something the whole world needs to know about and people need to be prosecuted for. Only reason anyone would want people to ignore Epstein is if you're involved

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Republicans: “Trump will be the peace President” Trump:

1. Will Bunch’s recent column in the Philadelphia Inquirer has stayed with me, because it weaves various threads of history and politics into a clear and compelling tapestry with which ordinary people can act. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

At the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, Van Gogh painted from memory and imagination—fields, stars, and wind. From his bedroom window came The Starry Night (June 1889): turbulence turned to vision, the sky alive with motion and faith.

Important time. This was a few weeks after the Skripal attack when May called out Putin, and Johnson went scuttling off without his security detail to meet Putin confidante* Alexander Lebedev in Umbria and plotted with Temerko to topple May * by then he was aiding Putin’s puppet regime in Crimea

Let’s be clear: This has NOTHING to do with the shutdown. SNAP already has strict renewal rules and almost NO fraud. Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry. It’s bullshit. It’s cruel. And it’s indefensible.

Good thread 🧵

No one brings this up enough: -Acosta gives Epstein a sweetheart deal -Becomes Secretary of Labor -In that capacity tries to gut anti-human trafficking funding It's like a poorly written paperback legal thriller

This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.

The Great Mavis Staples with her new song Human Mind from her appearance on Colbert's show. #music #musicsky youtu.be/93iJcfvkdYw?...

"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."