That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity. And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

The delicious irony of a (badly made) poster on water scarcity made by the water guzzling death machine. If someone wrote that, I'd say it was too on the nose.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

A short and informative thread about the Bezos Earth Fund and how useless (almost anti-useful!) it is towards environmental stewardship.

Eventually somebody has to actually get paid with these endless IOUs circulating, right? All these companies are being paid in fake scrip, but like, the rest of the world deals in real money, not Altman Farts. When does this stop?

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Another great tale, serialized and suspenseful.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Fred Warner might be the best player in the entire NFL. And that is not hyperbole. What a brutal injury for one of the classiest men I've ever had the privilege of covering in this game.

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

Happy Columbo’s Day

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

OMG... dying 😆

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Portland 🔥

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Because libertarianism isn't stupid enough, now we get the oxymoronic theocratic libertarianism? ugh.

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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

I am An Old (mid 50s). My ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE I was promised a utopian existence where manual labor and drudgery were eliminated by technology so I could be free to read, write, draw, make music, or whatever. Instead the tech will do all that while I labor in the mines (Amazon Fulfillment Ctr).

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

Antiphibian 😆

He’ll never pay for a cup of single origin pour over again

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

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

this was fun : )

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota. we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

If they come to San Francisco it’s gonna be 50% people dressed as Santa and 50% people being fully nude.

same

A concise list of all of the questions Bondi dodged today.

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

love it!

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.