Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.” Get their ass, Werner.

Finally, a black market on the remaining detritus of my grad school years!

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Who's your favourite Jedi?(wrong answers only)

Any definition of the working class that defines out woman dominated occupations like nursing and teaching is a mistake

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

that “it may be popular” is a tell

tfw the void looks back at you

Cartoonist Jesse Duquette honored the guy who escaped ICE on his bike with a new cartoon.

try to read this without involuntarily sniffing, as if your sinuses had become inflamed by some unknown irritant

They won’t be funded because the party with a majority - the GOP - won’t vote to keep funding.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice. When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

again its truly astounding how presidential mental fitness was The Most Important Issue but only for Joe Biden

"bipartisan" should become a dirty curse, as in "You're appeasing fascists, bipartisan asshole."

They want Marco Rubio to revoke Bad Bunny's visa. 😂

We are currently clean on OPSEC

pardon the glare from the train window, but the sunset in Springfield Mass was *spectacular*

Yeah, I think this is the key point. If Rs won't stop the recission/impoundment, there's no point in any deal. Dump would just abrogate it once signed. It's not a real deal.

Fun fact - Olive Oyl once wiped out a sentient race because they were immune to violence but she found a way around it, all because they were enslaving the Goons. ... and now you're wondering if that's true or I'm messing with you. (I'm not. RIP the Oids)

So that would be a violation of Federal law for me and would cost my company multiple hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for a data breach.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Boston Critical Mass

Jesus fuck, does Chuck *trust* Trump?

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Siri, what is a self-refuting sentence?

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

America could use an organization opposed to antisemitism. You know, the sort of group that says it’s bad when the executive branch hires antisemites and the president’s biggest donor does Hitler salutes. We could call it the League Against Defamation, or something.

Stares in Armistice Day:

Says CSIS, "the sudden decline in right-wing terrorism is both more striking and harder to explain" but actually it's not; right-wing kidnappings and attacks on civilian transports have increased dramatically but aren't categorized as "terrorism" because they now occur under the aegis of the state.

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma. This government is committing war crimes.

JD Vance made jokes about this woman's husband being dead.

Boston’s new “Better Buffers” initiative plans to replace flexposts with cast-in-place curbs. Somerville has started using pre-cast curbs recently. I assume pre-cast is cheaper/quicker to implement and just as protective as cast-in-place. www.boston.gov/departments/...

Again: I do not see any way the Ds, the party of multiracial democracy, can avoid what will likely be a divisive and difficult conversation — among themselves — about what the next D president is going to do about ICE, especially when ICE is being run by people like this

I think a safe assumption, considering the Administration didn't actually care who they really were.

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid"

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

This whole section really.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Knew what this was going to be before hitting play. Was not disappointed.

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low & this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.