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Money also rumored to be involved in ransom, bank robbery...

Thank you Nick Pinto for spotting this. If you don't know, this is Andrew Cuomo's long-time spokesperson reposting a post calling Mamdani a "terrorist".

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

Thoughts and prayers, please, for everyone in war-torn Portland, OR. Fortunately @wyden.senate.gov is re-skeeting all the devastation his constituents are sharing. Horrible, so horrible.

>TUTTLE<, not "Buttle"!

If his whereabouts are unknown, he has been disappeared.

REMINDER: new Thomas Pynchon comes out next Tuesday, October 7. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

I retired before covid struck so I never really did the WFH thing on a continuing basis, and never figured I'd need my noise cancelling headphones at home. But the big building two doors down is replacing (?) a wall, the power tools are incessant, and it will go on for weeks. Glad I still have them.

12 Angry Men Can't Jump

Dems absolutely should filibuster any relief unless it is combined with legislation to end the tariffs that caused the problem in the first place.

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These sick bigots are not enforcing laws or executing warrants — they’re just pouncing on anybody who isn’t white because in their little heads that means those people don’t “look American.” Lawless thugs. Bad neighbors. Unconstitutional, anti-American rat bastards every one.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

NEW: Almost immediately after Gov. Kehoe signed Trump’s gerrymander into law, Missouri voters filed a lawsuit to block it. The plaintiffs say the Missouri GOP’s redraw is unconstitutional for splitting Kansas City and being enacted at Trump’s direct order. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...

@radosh.bsky.social you might enjoy this Dylan cover, not sure if it’s on your radar at all. He has an entire album of them, this is from a different one. youtu.be/vvld5o6j3Jw

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

Middle School art project show and tell

Waiting for Godot 1988 with Steve Martin, F. Murray Abraham, Lukas Haas, Robin Williams, and Bill Erwin Hirschfeld also did a drawing for the Unlikely Casting series in 1964 imagining Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson in Waiting for Godot! 2/2

Era of Swagger to end

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Playing Calvin Ball with people's lives.

Wife liked it. People who like this sort of thing will like this -- Vincent Canby, channeled

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While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

“What accounts for the dramatic difference between the lower courts, where the President is losing in the overwhelming majority of cases, and the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket, where the President is winning virtually every time?” democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

I'm waiting for PSALM

Wanna know why Trump imposed 50% tariffs on India? Cuz Modi undercut his claim he solved India/Pakistan “war” Wanna know why Trump did about face on Ukraine winning? Cuz he was cut out of the Putin-Xi-JongUn dictator lovefest. Fee-fees hurt America is run by a petulant Mean Girl

"One Battle After Another" is a great movie, truly.

It’s the Reichstag Fire without the fire — just an unhinged fascist pretending there’s a fire.

It is no small thing of me to say that I have, over the past ten years, revisited and reread Kaleb's piece numerous times as I could. I think it one of the greatest explanations not just of a famous musician's passing but a society and its many lives. Kaleb was just that good. Just that good.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

One of the best pieces by Kaleb Horton ever is no longer easily available, because of course MTV wouldn't maintain actual good music writing done for its site once. Thankfully I found it again via some digging: his 2016 memorial to Merle Haggard on his passing. Link here, screencaps to follow.

I AM SUFFERING IRREPARABLE HARM BECAUSE THE NY LOTTERY REFUSES TO CALL MY NUMBERS. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

She won by FORTY POINTS

SCOTUS has given Trump the line item veto.

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(Begins programming bots outraged by Alabama’s methods of funding public education)

Scoop: Trump fired a U.S. Attorney in Sacramento less than six hours after she told his California border patrol chief to abide by court orders and the Constitution while conducting his immigration raids. With @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.

Got COVID vax at Walgreens on Broadway (Astoria). Mother with kids ahead of me. Walk-in or online appointment. Got same-day appointment. Very easy.

RIP, separation of powers

Leading the dissent, Kagan laments that her colleagues continue to use the shadow docket to decide novel issues. She called Trump's actions "essentially, a presidential usurpation of Congress's power of the purse." @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Yes.