Amazon to replace 500,000 workers with robots. But don’t worry, those workers will be retrained to make AI poop videos for Republican politicians. Demand for AI poop videos is expected to surge under Trump.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

tl;dr Trump: "I don't know anything about Project 2025 but I did try to get its principal author laid."

In years to come, this image of the White House being demolished will become the emblem of the Trump administration.

Compare Trump’s (unusual) level of empathy for Argentina — vs. Ukraine. @atrupar.com

Tonight’s SNL was tedious and boring. The shopping channel skit and Tommy on weekend update were decent, but the rest of the show was awful. The cold open, snack homies etc were not funny. Nothing on “No Kings” or a dozen other political events that cried out for parody. Very disappointing.

You have a First Amendment right to wear a penis suit and hold up a ”No dick-tator“ sign. If you can wear it for a Halloween costume you can wear it to engage in political speech. It’s not obscenity.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

A play in three acts

#NoKings Miami!

This is horrifying, but I’m glad the Wikipedians are safe. It could have been far worse, given that the MAGA fascists have been trying to incite violence against Wikipedia editors, and trumpists are defenders of pedophiles like the gunman. gothamist.com/news/gunman-...

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and Mike Johnson would say he hadn’t seen that and so won’t comment on it.

Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups Effort would install Trump ally at agency’s criminal unit who has drawn up list of investigative targets WSJ gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Are you wondering “what can I do to help put a stop to all of this?” Supporting @lambdalegal.org is a good start. Lambda has an excellent record of winning against Trump. Your donations make a real difference. lambdalegal.org/allrise/

South Park taking on Republican fake Christians. It is fantastic.

Bette Midler is just fantastic. Here she is singing to Stephen Colbert.

The masturbation monitoring app Speaker Mike Johnson shares with his son went off 17 times that day.

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists." Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.* newrepublic.com/article/2016...

What’s amazing about these comments by Trump is they show he does have a tiny, very tiny, amount of self-awareness and he knows that he is evil.

Tina Fey as Kristi Noem on SNL: “that makes me laugh more than the end of Ol‘ Yeller."

Imagine that

Library director who was fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books from the shelves gets $700,000 from county. Terri Lesley was wrongfully terminated by officials in Gillette, Wyoming, for refusing to bow to their demands for censorship. Gift link to Washington Post article: wapo.st/48WBx8Q

This man in Austin scours thrift stores all year to collect Halloween costumes for kids. Christophe Waggoner mends and repairs each garment and wig, and then each year he hosts an event for kids to pick out a free Halloween costume. Gift link to an uplifting story. wapo.st/3WwM7vP

This is super cute. I think the new Washington Post has found its calling. It should just do animal videos and leave coverage of economic, political, and social issues to real journalists with ethics.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

Bondi's note to self: "Kiss the bosses (sic) ass. Cover mine."

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

You know Carr has egregiously violated the law because there are signatories to this letter that would never agree with each other on where to go for lunch.

This is the greatest thing ever. Stephen Miller’s deputy called Kash Patel a “giant douche canoe.”

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

Go get him.

The Trump administration is treating Apple's complete control over large-scale iOS app distribution as a single point of failure it can exploit to punish apps it doesn't like. Who were they more inspired by in adopting this pressure tactic, Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin?

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Trump fired Todd Arrington, head of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, because he refused an administration request to provide “GiftGirl2025” with a sword from its collection for Trump to give to King Charles. The White House is hilariously incompetent NYT Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Trump’s FDA approved a new abortion drug today, a generic version of the mifepristone pill. The FDA has little latitude to reject generic versions of approved drugs, and thus had no option but to approve the drug. Anti-abortion activists are livid. Gift link. wapo.st/4nI1Cx1

I think this is a warning that Kristi Noem is about to kill someone’s puppy.

Warning to Tourists: Stay Away from New Orleans. The Gov. of Louisiana admitted his state was unsafe for visitors and asked the federal gov’t to send troops. Travel experts urge tourists to stay away from New Orleans and other parts of the state. They recommend NYC, LA or Portland as alternatives.

Sports Betting Apps Have a Powerful New Tool to Keep Users Gambling In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

(Battle Hymn of the Republic continues playing)

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is