The evil genius of crypto is that it creates fake ‘money’ that trades for real value. Keep the scam running and you can swallow the world. That is the endgame.

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

I think its great this administration is invested in doing everything it can to demonstrate that it hates this country, its citizens, and their traditions

I cannot believe we have to deal with *waves arms around wildly* and it is STILL mosquito season.

It was a year ago today that @51st.news sent out its first newsletter. Since then, my colleagues have been working to build a sustainable local news operation to cover D.C. the way we always wanted to cover it. Thanks to everyone who has read, subscribed, and donated! Onwards!

This GOP move does several things: + No votes in the House until at least October 14 + No swearing-in for Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ + No 218th signature from Grijalva on the Epstein Files discharge petition + Continues the House 'jam' of the Senate on the CR

Bilge Ebiri asks Jim Jarmusch a question we've always wondered about when it comes to indie filmmakers: “How do you pay the bills?”

Reopening the government isn’t a Republican priority. Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.

How the hell is this shutdown our fault if Republicans can’t be bothered to show up

Eff this guy forever.

Sen. Warren illustrates the way public figures should answer. Dokoupil illustrates the way journalists should *not* handle both-sides-ing, "how will it play," reluctance to call out lies, etc.

sorely tempted to have a full blown Reaganite tantrum about welfare queens about this

Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump is in the presidential witness protection program. No one can find him."

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

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The man who looks like a non-denominational youth pastor seconds from being discovered on Grindr wastes all of our time this week lyz.substack.com/p/too-sauced...

Did you know that the Trump Presidential LIbrary Foundation (run by Eric Trump, of course) was given a piece of Miami real estate likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars this week. Like, just donated to them. By the state. For nothing. On which they can build anything.

🎉 The Georgetown Library is turning 90! Join us on Sun, Oct 5 (1:30–4:30 PM) for music, crafts, trivia, karaoke, cake & more at our big birthday bash.

It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

Honestly the perfect coda to the cancel culture panic is one of its biggest promoters being actually so thoroughly uncanceled/unsilenced that she assumes the helm of a major news network

Stephen Colbert - JD Vance Sombrero Meme

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

Skeeting into the void here but I feel like a 30 min wait for a northbound 14th Street bus is really not ideal, especially considering it is before 9pm on a weeknight. (Yes, @wmata.com, I know it is an operator availability issue. It always is.)

This doesn't even mention the language immersion schools that use visa programs to bring in native speakers of Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Chinese, among other languages.

“Even after the D.C. Council set aside additional funds to continue green card sponsorships, DCPS says it simply won’t spend the money.”

Someone shutdown these mosquitos already 😭😭😭

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

maybe it's just because I watched THEY LIVE today but I'm loving how every nostalgia slop horror reel involves going to a store and buying stuff

i know it's not the point, and i will acknowledge that 14 years *is* a pretty long time, but, man, the decline from this video to now is remarkable

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

every republican president of my lifetime has completely destroyed the economy

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Never has a group developed so complete a hearing problem as Republicans confronted with actual words that Trump has said over the last decade.

This whole section really.

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

AOC: And when Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it and to fight for it.

In the event of a federal government shutdown, the Smithsonian says museums and the National Zoo will remain open to the public until Monday, October 6.

This is, quite simply, a lie. Government shutdowns have never triggered layoffs before because government shutdowns have nothing to do with layoffs.

Boy I would love it if they would spend a tiny bit of that $120 million on hiring more bus drivers so I stop seeing alerts about “bus delays due to operator ability” literally every day of the week.

If you were in doubt, beneath all of this, the corporations and billionaires are calling the shots.

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Anyway Trump is right that WWII battleships are objectively cool. I am just not a complete idiot and understand that naval warfare in 2045 is a lot different than naval warfare in 1945.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email