Tis the season. 🎅 Try not to get snookered everybody. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. If you think the US' largest warship is parked there to intercept drug runners, I have an aircraft carrier to sell you. thinc.blog/2025/11/19/f...

Just saying, TenBlueLinks.org is a frigging miracle if you want to reclaim Google searches from AI slop.

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Absolutely not surprising. www.propublica.org/article/port...

DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

Nobody I know is happy about it. #canschumer www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.

Think about it…

Giuliani, Eastman, Cheseboro, and Powell are all unindicted co-conspirators in Trump indictment for the election crimes. Smith kept them off to streamline the case, with it always seemed future plans to indict. A total whitewash. Possibility remains of state charges, esp in Georgia. What a travesty.

Love me some unheimlich!

Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:

Nobody warned the Eli Lilly rep that participating in the Fearless Leader's self-aggrandizing spectacles is an endurance sport.

Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

The women politicians of this generation from California accomplished many things. It has been thrilling to watch. But it is time. Barbara Boxer realized that and created room for others. Dianne Feinstein did not and left a mess. Proud of Nancy for her choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Fresh madness from Google News. This group was included in the feed with the news of Judge Amir Ali's requirement that the WH use ASL interpreters. Caving to Trump? Doxxing? Just garden variety enshittification? Or all three?

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

Yeah, right. 🙄 "Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the cancellations were an attempt to 'alleviate the pressure' on air traffic controllers." So transparently blackmailing the Dems. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

Wow...I guess the moral of the story is redundancy. Accountability from the tech giants is out the window. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

Transparency made literal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Another sad day for journalism apnews.com/article/laur...

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

This.

The trial of the D.C. sandwich thrower is officially underway—and the testimony of the “assaulted” officer is harrowing indeed. The Border Patrol agent, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, testified he was not injured by the sandwich but that he could "smell the onions and mustard." trib.al/TKBbxXa

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Begs the question, why? www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

Can this be mandated for the entire country?

It gets more gross. Really more a convention center than ballroom. 🤑 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"the current administration’s approach has been to centralize legal authority, discourage dissent, and marginalize career legal professionals—including military attorneys with deep operational law expertise." www.justsecurity.org/123172/carib...

Can you guess which ones are red counties? www.oregonjournalismproject.org/snap-clock-t...

Putting the "ugh" in ugly. ☹️

"Wanton tackiness" indeed. hyperallergic.com/1052731/the-...

Ah, yes. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

The ripple effects of this on national and international travel must be enormous

Incredibly troubling violation of free speech rights. theintercept.com/2025/10/23/c...

Um, hello. Can we gain from damage that has already been done? www.zmescience.com/science/news...

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. At least two dozen citizens have reported being held for at least a day without access to a phone or a lawyer." They're blocking congress from ICE facilities because they don't want us to see how cruel this is.

“Whether the government is or is not lawfully paying the troops salaries can’t depend on this gift. It has to depend on whether there is another appropriation available for this cost...if there isn’t, then they can take the gift and hold it, but they can’t spend it without approval of Congress.”

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? - defector.com/what-job-is-...

“How DARE Cracker Barrel change their logo 😡🤬😡🤬 I’ll never eat there again!” “Destroy the White House harder, daddy 🥵🤤”

A primer on the latest self dealing www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Less than half of the MAGA cult approves of tearing down the East Wing. Do we assume this is progress? 🤷

I guess he feels he can do whatever the f*ck he wants. Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

"Teenagers who were stopped by ICE at the Dutch Bros Coffee told local police that it was the second time immigration agents had stopped them at gunpoint that morning." THIS IS NOT OK. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...