This is absolutely real. The current HBO Max version of this "Mad Men" episode "remastered for 4K" did not include an updated visual effects shot, which originally painted out the crew and equipment. Not just that, the HBO Max episode titles/order is jumbled for s01.

ADP shows private hiring has essentially ground to a halt overall in recent months led by job losses among small firms

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. This suit confirms that American businesses pay American tariffs. .. And Costco’s suit is one of many that will be filed as the .. businesses robbed by the president seek their just recompense.” @postopinions.bsky.social $COST www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“You have an easy target in judges, because most codes of judicial conduct prohibit them from responding to criticism in a public way,” said Wallace Jefferson, a Republican former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court (You could make a similar argument about journalists...)

When the worry is “the fox designing the henhouse.” Via @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is exactly what you do With presidents who coup

“..Trump in his second term has started scheduled events in the afternoon on average, at 12:08 p.m. .. The number of Mr. Trump’s total official appearances has decreased by 39 percent.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

Trump’s Dept. of Transportation has: • Scrapped possible limits on train/bus driver hours to keep them from falling asleep • Delayed a rule to help prevent 9/11-style cockpit takeovers • Proposed exempting school bus child-restraint systems from crash-protection rules

This past week showed once again that: - everyone needs an editor - no one knows what will happen in US politics in 2025 - journalism remains the immune system of democracy - Russian influence on American foreign policy in Ukraine merits far more public debate - vaccines don’t cause autism - ?

This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime

A Thursday in U.S. courts 1) "This Court has grave concerns about the government’s apparent willingness to disregard this Court’s orders, even after previous admonition." - Judge Stephanie. Gallagher, Trump appointee, Nov. 20, 2025

Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?

America 2025.

Everyone has a take on whether Gen Z is “screwed.” So I asked them. www.theupandup.us/p/is-gen-z-s...

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

The Epstein scandal is a symptom of a larger disease The capture and corruption of American politics and institutions of power has created a criminal, abusive, and degenerate class of elites who believe they are untouchable and don’t care who they hurt jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-rotten...

NEWSWEEK: “Chinese immigrant found hanging in ICE detention with his hands and feet tied behind him… Chaofeng Ge died 4 days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania… deaths in ICE custody have gone up under Trump…” www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

The Comey case ‘is dead,’ fmr. Trump WH lawyer says after legal misstep www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Remember when the Trump administration ignored a judge's order to return planes deporting 200+ "alien enemies" to El Salvador in March? In DC court just now, that judge said he'll force DOJ officials to testify. And maybe top Trump admin officials. @notus.com: www.notus.org/courts/feder...

Remember MV Dali, which crashed into a bridge in Baltimore? A single wire caused the crash, NTSB says www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/u...

here's most of one from when I was getting distance. (I have dual Achilles tendinitis and have been off my runs for months, which is very hard for me. Trying to do the gym. Miss the trail so bad.) Two songs are missing at the end. "I Feel Sanctified" by the Commodores and "The Charade" by D'Angelo.

"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" has done a lot of time on my running playlists over the past several years so I love this comparison

This is almost unreal incompetence. Here's how this area of inquiry was discussed in Monday's opinion. In short, this is the afterthought, the ~it couldn't be this, could it?~ moment in the opinion: "If this procedure did not take place, then the Court is in uncharted legal territory ..."

This new album from @themountaingoats.bsky.social, Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan, is so enjoyable. Constantly propelling forward, with echoes of Townshend, Traffic...Very layered, yet tight production

AI may be great at many things but here's what it struggles with: reading analog clocks correctly spectrum.ieee.org/large-langua...

JUST IN: Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board amid Epstein revelations

Stephen Miller is scared because Democrats are calling on U.S. military service members and intelligence professionals to honor their oaths to the Constitution. Miller knows they can’t do that and enforce Trump’s unconstitutional agenda - which Miller himself has shaped.

Dictionary day is finally here! The first new print M-W in more than 20 years

Sad variety.com/2025/digital...

This GOP notion that people are dying to have one on one negotiations with their health insurance companies is so tone deaf it sounds like a democratic proposal

It’s amazing that after 15 years, the GOP is FINALLY coalescing around a healthcare plan of sorts and it essentially amounts to “fuck it, you do it.”

wow. not the worst thing that's happened in this white house. but a literal tate fanboy/former tate lawyer intervened to get tate off the hook. sex predators have to look out for each other.

An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old. "Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"

Folks, I don't think the lawyers can make anymore sense of this. But what APPEARS to have happened is: 1) They no-billed one count. 2) SOMEONE IN THE GOVT LEARNED THAT. 3) They put together a 2-count indictment and, w/o re-presenting the case, got them to vote for those. The whole thing is cooked.

NEW: Lindsey Halligan apparently told the grand jury in the Comey case that they should indict on promised future evidence, and that Comey is guilty until proven innocent. Check out my chat with @klasfeldreports.com about this incredible ruling today: www.muellershewrote.com/p/halligan-i...

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

A surge in hate on X: Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/u...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) says that his push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files is “not about Donald Trump” and instead about fighting for “transparency.” www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"

TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

ICE vs the clergy

Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene

New: Maryland residents are seeing higher electricity bills driven in large part by new neighbors in Northern Virginia: the world’s biggest cluster of data centers. “We shouldn’t be subsidizing [AI companies],” one MD ratepayer told me. “They have enough money.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/c...

what the actual fuck