This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

Another pardoned January 6 attacker arrested and charged with other, new felonies (in this case, kidnapping and sexual assault). And don’t miss the part where he got caught firing off a gun on Jan. 6. You may recall the argument that it couldn’t have been an insurrection because it wasn’t armed.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

1. cat 2. cat

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

This explanation is ridiculous yet likely true. Millions of people did not conceptualize Trump the way we do (e.g., "bad person who did a bad job and wants to do bad things like X, Y, Z") but rather as a TV character, an avatar of prosperity who would somehow bless them economically.

In a free market, their competitors would be running ads with this quote.

These two blew up a bomb in a building at the Harvard Medical School. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Loving the Wyrmspan: Dragon Academy expansion 👍🏻 @stonemaiergames.com

Wtf are we even doing anymore?

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis. Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Q : Congress is shut down what exactly are you doing all day if not keeping up with what the President is doing in your absence MIKE JOHNSON : first of all Trails Through Daybreak II is a very long game and I had to restart the third chapter because I missed a critical game item

Another exciting round of Lying or Dementia

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Me at 7: Monopoly says you pay to get out of jail. Me at 18: Monopoly gives kids odd ideas about criminal justice. Me now: Monopoly was correct all along.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

When someone tells you they aren’t into politics or that they aren’t affected by politics… (h/t NATO Green) #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

This person is a bigot and her bigotries matter more to her than her own family. Many such cases in this country these days, sadly

We need more people that hate the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns...

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

The political alliance between prudish moral scolds and entitled pedophiles is one of the weirdest ever.

Lovely write up of the Apiary Expansion! Spot on! [And ahem, it's possible that we tried to decrease seed cards just a wee bit :-)]

I've got a little write-up of 'Apiary: Expanding the Hive' from @connievdc.bsky.social @kwanchai.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com It's the rare expansion that adds content without a lot more rules overhead. geekdad.com/2025/10/apia...

Y'all Hasbro made me a BEACH in the novelties area. With ACTUAL SHELLS

You could literally speed walk this test. The sit-ups and pushups take you a minute, at most. The rest is a 6mph pace.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

There's a pretty common theme among the ostensibly "pro family" crowd, where they actively harass and demean their families. They don't want family - they want subservience.

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

If the consequences to violating the rules are "nothing", then you don't actually have rules: you have a wishlist.

Gotta replace all those kids about to die from measles.

For a boat to be responsible for that magnitude of American deaths, it'd have to be carrying RFK Jr.

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

ICE is probably causing an increase in crime. I’m not referring to the many crimes committed by ICE officers—though one certainly could—but to how they’ve enabled criminals by giving them opportunities to impersonate masked ICE officers and by pulling cops off of police work to do harassment.

Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵 If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.

The problem isn't that he said that. People say wildly untrue things all the time. It's that people heard many such statements and then chose to make him President.

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Weiss is a shameless opportunist and troll whose 'expertise' [...] has largely involved trolling everyone left of center for engagement clicks with culture war dogshit and dangerously shoddy reporting, then crying like a full-diapered toddler when people criticize her for being generally terrible."

Why assume CBS under the Ellisons aims to make money, rather than sees financial losses as an acceptable price to advance political goals, like the Washington Post under Bezos or RT?

I know we've talked a lot about the total capitulation of the American elite in government and civil society and how little respect they seem to have for the power they and their institutions wield but it's genuinely baffling how many of them also have no respect for their families

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.