Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

It’s his day.

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

27 Oct 2025

do you think cigarette companies are SO MAD that they got regulated before people in power stopped caring about kids dying

lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

New newsletter from @edzitron.com hit just now, right as AWS is having a pretty huge outage. Good timing! www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

lol. LMAO, even.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

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It’s tomorrow now.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

I regret to inform you that Nemik's manifesto is the new Tom Holland “Umbrella.” You have to repost every time. It’s just where we are. #ihavefriendseverywhere youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4?...

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Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

"The only good thing about your terrible country was Sacco & Vanzetti and you white slaving devils killed em. Might kill me, too, idk, idc. Sucks to suck! 😜" o7 Nothing but respect for MY Columbian president

In any other time, any other country, these pictures would be front page news.

What a fucking G.

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

my friends and i constantly quoting this post to each other whenever we feel bad about productivity

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

It's pretty clear that they got their Reichstag Fire with the Kirk assassination. Democracy is dead. We now have a fascist dictator.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @magnumicecreamco.bsky.social #FreeBenAndJerrys

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

please fly the mcdonald’s flags and only the mcdonald’s flags at half mast when the day comes

Fucking hell.

I owe an apology to Etsy witches, I was unfamiliar with your game

lmfao www.inquirer.com/opinion/lett...

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.