Take the time to read this thread. Shame on Heritage and everyone who will not condemn their erasure of American service and sacrifice

The service of one million Americans — erased for what? To tell lies about what America is and its history. The real story of what America is is in every one of the stories of people who had to fight to *be American* and wanted to defend the possibility of what America can be anyway

This scorching obit of James Watson features a narrative & cast still referenced by modern eugenicists—quite eerie His obsession with challenging “the establishment” meant he couldn’t stop blowing up his own legacy What a warning it should be to all today’s goons www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

The problem with political movements that think they can use fringe extremists to activate fringe extremists and then hide them all in a barn in between elections is eventually one of them sidles into town like they belong — which they do, in fact, since they belong to whatever movement used them

Finally got around to ordering groceries and I feel like I came out on the right side of the “do I get 5 $.30 onions or the $3/3lb bag of onions” gamble Perhaps from a field adjacent to tomacco

The roses are certainly happy it has consistently been 70 in November.

Here's a feel better story and one that resonates...I think for many of us (teachers) would love to see our former students doing this www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

The people who supposedly care about the well-being of Venezuelans have allowed TPS to expire for more than half a million Venezuelans living in the US www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

It’s almost like a bunch of people who have been hanging out with the Kremlin while in Congress and/or taking making from Kremlin propaganda funding are running this thing. Oh… wait.

Happy “not sure if the President or the Supreme Court has proven themselves to be more wretched” Day POTUS will celebrate by peeling the backings from a dozen more fake gold decoupage and sticking them to the *outside* of the WH SCOTUS will have a normal venal weekend You+me: Help someone today

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This podcast seems like a really smart idea.

Can we make this “an elon” — an absurd measure of wealth awarded by other wealthy men — just as “a Scaramucci” is an absurd measure of time?

This is the real reason the Chinese sold Norway electric buses they can control remotely from abroad. They are just waiting for the day they can jam every roundabout as the lulziest hybrid attack of all time.

No one should have any illusions about how all of this is going to end

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

From next year, the UK’s Special Operations Maritime Task Group will provide NATO with a maritime force capable of recapturing vessels, securing offshore infrastructure, and carrying out covert coastal raids. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-comm...

Sounds kind of like another country I know with a President obsessed with oil

I have questions.

*Taps sign*

Scams undermine democracies and free enterprise by eroding general mutual trust. Meta’s business model incentivizes people to financially exploit each other.

Running scams is a great way to find your AI empire and the politicians you need to buy along the way, I suppose

Just a reminder, this was in 2022 www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1...

It was never going to end well once these companies figured out they can conjure money from the air by eroding people’s cognitive defenses

Apropos of nothing at all related to this, of course, the current admin is really funny (not ha ha) because we know there are all these men who have jobs because the president thinks they are pretty — a thing we do not comment on enough, if I’m honest

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I just feel it necessary to explain that if this one line were true, what he’s saying is American consumers are paying a tax out of their own pockets to keep the global economy from collapsing.

A wind came. It blew across the land.

There will be 12 gazillion columns this week but the real takeaway is that the strategy of people with all the money + power telling everyone to shut up & wait in line isn’t delivering as it once did because they got so drunk on their own hype they starting using cruelty and violence for the lulz /1

I love it when former students email me years later about something totally random. Nothing makes my day more than that.

I was just reading thru some stuff and every time I see this photo I have a laugh that this is the main public photo of a guy that peeps around the secdef have been trying to smear as not tough enough.

They will paint the exterior columns gold before the end of the year at this rate

🎶🎵 Some days you’re up at 4 am and chocolate scones just need to happen

Of all the stuff, it’s the school boards and the free lunches that are beacons of hope for me The most vile narratives have been used to weaponize the well-being of children in America and I really hope that were on the upswing from this — at least for now

In Mississippi.

Nerdy/extremely cool piece on potential concussive injury from shooting at indoor ranges This applies newer military findings about accumulated blast damage to the brain over time (as especially reported re special operators) Much additional research needed /1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What a time to be alive

20 days under the Atlantic in a homemade submarine full of cocaine that could sink at any second is like a Netflix series waiting to happen.

Alas, the destruction of the wrong RFK has been manifested

Nerdy/extremely cool piece on potential concussive injury from shooting at indoor ranges This applies newer military findings about accumulated blast damage to the brain over time (as especially reported re special operators) Much additional research needed /1 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They should just hang up a banner in the pentagon “press” room — NOW WITH 7000% MORE JADE HELM www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Having come home from long trip, eating random things from freezer until I can muster will to grocery amidst eyepopping prices Today is “yellow lentil pumpkin curry 8/23” — and I really want to congratulate my two-years-ago self for making a damn fine bowl of soup! Tomorrow is new frozen treasure

It’s worth remembering that Nigeria has a population of 233 million in a country about 1.5x the size of Texas — up about 50 million in the past 15 years. Roughly 1 in 4 black Africans is Nigerian. It contributes about 10% of the sub-Saharan African economy.

What a spectacular day for the block party here in “war-torn” DC

HUR destroyed all three lines of Russia's Koltsevoy fuel pipeline near Moscow on 31 October, disabling a critical facility that supplied the Russian army with fuel, the agency reported. The 400-kilometer pipeline had an annual capacity of up to 7.4 million tons of fuel products.

Happy Halloween, America! In 2025, it’s tricks aaaaaaaall the way down 🎃 🦇 One of my neighbors is handing out groceries for trick or treating —which kind of tells you where we are as a nation

When it’s all in a list of “moving toward autocracy” indicators, it’s super bad. Now if only these newsrooms would match their reporting to the dangers of the list accordingly www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, & Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Finland 🇫🇮 💪

My mother’s mantra: you can never go wrong by feeding people. It’s a small act of generosity that shows care for another person, for their nourishment and wellbeing. It opens you to their story and understanding who they are 👇