This is incredible editor work.

WAPO: “.. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times ..” @washingtonpost.com #GildedAge 🥇 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

I expected once the shutdown ended, that @dieworkwear.bsky.social would publish his "Excited to Wear this Fall" post. I figured he was probably just holding out as a negotiation tactic...

lol “moist little psychos.”

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Caring who you’re in a room with is such a 2014 thing.

It’s 1999 and every company on earth is throwing millions into “putting a dot com on the end of it and ship it!”

“Gentlemen, with these GPUs we are at last in a position to achieve a scientific goal that has eluded this company for decades. We’re finally going to crush those white-coated Garnier bastards and their goddamn Laboratoire.”

I want a Culture story in which a Mind running an orbital goes rogue and drives its population of post-scarcity utopian socialists to fascism. How does the rest of The Culture react?

New Dril just dropped.

The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.

So something this article mentions that I want to footstomp for folks that don’t work with the military: it’s an “up or out” institution where if you don’t get promoted, your career is over. To get promoted you need to have specific types of jobs on your record. This move effectively ends her career

Motherfucker really got too deep into The Culture without understanding its basic ethos. He's proposing Slap Drones, but as a fascist.

I am an attorney; I know other attorneys whose capacity for reading comprehension is... suboptimal.

Read “firefighters” at first and spent a long moment really trying to wrap my head around this fact.

“They have agreed to give us what we want after we give up our leverage. We see no tactical issues with this.”

We are the richest country in the world. God forbid we ever act like it.

Revoke charter, dissolve corporation.

100% true. Stupidly.

Women, the great destroyer.

These people are trying to privatize the future. They want Blade Runner and Dune, not Star Trek.

Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner. www.space.com/space-explor...

Milwaukee Sewer Socialism is the path. Stay focused on what you committed to. Don’t be drawn. Make things work. And, of course, never stop telling people what you’re doing.

Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things. we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures

You know, for all the attention Mamdani’s platform gets for being “unrealistic,” can anybody name a single thing Cuomo wants to do as NYC mayor?

“I could smell the onions and mustard.”

For the longest time, I sincerely believed that once Sire Trump expired, we’d never have to hear of another Trump. I now realize how mistaken I was. This family is going to be a herpes upon our politics and we will suffer generational breakouts of their putrescence.

I struggle against a sense of doom born of the fact that we have elevated the absolute dumbest people imaginable to positions of cultural significance. (Stupidly enough, I’m not referring to Sean Duffey here). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

It’s the Sartre antisemite quote all over the damn place.

Jfc. You’re not performing it in your personal capacity, you’re a vessel for state authority, which allows these marriages!

Y’all acting like the Marian reforms didn’t have obvious and predictable consequences!

I think “safe” and “clean” are largely stand-ins for “no visibly unwell people” and “nobody playing annoying videos on their phones.” There’s not really a policy solution that transit can deploy here. There are larger social problems/annoyances that people kind of have to get over.

Do we have any reporting on whether Hegseth is capable of growing a beard…?

Credit to (can't believe it) People dot com for running with it people.com/donald-trump...

This guy acting like he’s not jonesing for his own cache of family atomics.

Really reminded of how rapacious 19th C imperialism was downstream of excess wealth looking for investment opportunities. PE is going to try devouring and destroying the economy until nothing good remains.

Trump is just murdering people and the Supreme Court gave him immunity to do it. Democrats need to start being louder in reminders that while Trump has immunity, murder is not legal for those who carry out his orders.

There is nobody the contemporary Republican Party will not betray.

Really want a sign-up list of follows that consist of leftist/liberal carpenters. I left behind a custom furniture business to go to law school and become a public defender. Want more ideologically congenial sawhorses.

I’ve long made the analogy of Goldwater (‘64)—Reagan (‘80) :: Sanders (‘16)—AOC/Mamdani/??? (‘32). “Politics happens over time.”/“slow boring of hard boards”/“overton window” type stuff.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Siri, can I get through Character & Fitness if my racist texts show up in a Politico article?

Correct.

They’re straight up Captain Planet villains.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Same playbook that the Chinese Communist Party has been using to disrupt any constructive academic discussion of its human rights abuses on American campuses: sending provocateurs with party or military backgrounds to disrupt class or event proceedings and recording the faces of every attendee.

Saw One Battle After Another last night. Easily best movie of the year. Probably best I’ve seen since Tar. Possibly best of the decade.

Georgia spent $54.2 million in less than five years to administer the country’s only Medicaid program with work requirements – more than twice as much as it spent to provide health care to enrollees, according to an analysis released earlier this month. From @chatlanis.bsky.social

We’re just not a serious country anymore. www.politico.com/newsletters/...