Is it the future of war (waged externally as well as internally) or is it the past? slate.com/news-and-pol...

It’s well-known Nixon was talking to the portraits on the walls by 1972

This is a very, very, quite surprisingly dead canary in Stephen Miller’s coal mine. I’d say the violence and cruelty of ICE/CBP is most definitely a kitchen table topic if this is where the backlash is reaching.

Call them the Bondi Youth

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That WaPo management apparently didn’t anticipate a post-layoff exodus of remaining staff says a lot about who they are. They’re talking about data and “story units,” and didn’t expect the humans who do the actual journalism to be upset that they destroyed the livelihoods of 400 of their colleagues.

This explains history

….Mans looks like a former winner of The Hunger Games

Goes back to the beginning of TV production btw! Wasn’t an accident that Dragnet, et al became cultural heroes

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

I miss Metro DC

So I have been using Claude Code pretty extensively for work and side projects for the last few months, and I’m pretty certain this tool won’t go away but equally certain the damage it will do to the tech industry is going to reach its maximum pretty soon.

I’m watching the movie Nuremberg and the idea that another country might someday charge Trump administration officials with crimes against humanity gives me hope in March 2026

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EARLY MORNING! LOOOOONG FLOOF AND FLOOFY FLOOF!😻😻😻

sometimes people say it’s good that we know who the racists are but i have some degree of nostalgia for when more fucking racists hid under fucking rocks

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill." What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

lol. CBS had been trying to get Zohran Mamdani for an interview, but Bari Weiss' deranged tweeting caused him to turn it down link.vanityfair.com/view/5df1007...

What???

If you're wondering how AI managed to render a building consistently from two angles, it's easy: the building is unchanged, that's just the literal Kennedy Center. It didn't get the plantings consistent, of course, because it was making those up.

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside. And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

A really good piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social abt the normalcy bias with which the press is covering Trump's utter failure to understand what he has done with the Iran war. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surp...

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written. Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

it really just comes down to entitlement, they feel entitled to winning wars because they represent “western civilization” and theyre fighting against “shithole countries” and thats about as much thought as they put into it

My interview with Jane Fonda on Hollywood mergers, her friend David Ellison, and saving the First Amendment from her friend and his dad, Larry, up now @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

300 in less than 24 hours. But we’re aiming even higher. Sign and circulate to everyone who values Ohio State, in any capacity. We need a transparent and inclusive process. We need to turn this ship in the right direction. actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Where NewsCat ended up, decorating the Nine Lives Lounge

They lied about their shoe size and are now forced to wear floppy clown shoes around the president ahahahahahaha

Hell yes, Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed a repugnant bill that would have honored neo-Nazi propagandist podcaster Charlie Kirk on license plates in her state. Love it.

Under the stewardship of an alcoholic TV host, this is how the Department of Defense is spending our tax dollars:

every dipshit is like “you only think he’s a nazi because you’ve never listened to him speak” and then you listen to him speak and ALL HE DOES IS LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

1989. I’m 30. I watch the Berlin wall fall with astonishment and joy. I am not given to rosy optimism. When Fukuyama’s End of History comes out I do not read it, because some titles are just too stupid. But I have hopes. Some great things happen, like peace in N Ireland and the end of apartheid.

my “I have no reports of mines in the Strait of Hormuz but Iran must remove them immediately” tshirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by the tshirt

They steal from us then call us stupid. Soulless monsters.

Among the things that's going on is Mamdani is being judged against the WILDLY inappropriate practice of Trump, Bondi, Kash, Noem, et al, publicly weighing in on matters that involve criminal charges. A political leader SHOULD NOT get ahead of investigations. Trump routinely does.

Finally watch Stranger Things final season and the Duffer Brothers never learned from the Game of Thrones guys about NOT filming a documentary where you admit all your personal mistakes while being a showrunner.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

It's even a genuinely bad example of the point he's trying to make... you've been able to get thousands of flavors of ice cream and gelato (often customizable with sprinkles and suck) all over the US and Europe for at least 60 years.

I can't compete with this.

my translation is vc wants to see the money

The idea of standing on the streets of central D.C., with little to no shade, and watching a grand prix race in *late August* is absolutely preposterous. You'd likelier find me in Maine enjoying cool seas instead.

interesting data point i never thought of, had no idea june was flush with inheritance cash

donald trump showed up to the dignified transfer ceremony in this stupid hat. Totally disrespectful. And why? Because he’s deathly afraid that the without it, the wind might take control of his gigantic combover and send it flying in the opposite direction. Pathetic and sad #USDemocracy

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

I had a relative who started giving people ball point pens when her dementia got really bad, don't know what made me think of that just now