Buy the book at your local, independent bookstore! Better yet, buy three!

Oreoboros

Opening shot, interior MI5. M: Well, I guess that's it for Bond. Q: Quite. But he's a Time Lord, you know. M: Fascinating! I had no idea. (CUT TO:) Daniel Craig glowing with regeneration energy, morphs into new actor. And then never mention the Time Lord thing again.

Graph of intense pain and suffering (this is after the 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee)

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

A timeline cleanser.

Marketing Dept gets to add "creator of one of Time's Hundred Greatest Podcasts of All Time" to my bio now and forever so that's pretty nifty time.com/collections/...

I did Nazi that coming . . . .

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

WTF?

I told you we’d be back

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Harvard has enlisted Lehotsky Keller, the pro-business-with-impeccable-conservative-credentials litigation boutique, to lead its litigation against the Administration. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

With everyone focused on whether Trump will fire Pete Hegseth And the death of Pope Francis The Dow is down about ANOTHER 1200 points-with the dollar at a 3 year low And Kilmar Abrego Garcia languishes in El Salvador as his allies fight for due process What a debacle this administration has been

Sincerely I mean this, Nero never did anything this stupid

One of these things is not like the others

Alsupp issuing a PI from the bench. Finding that OPM engaged in sham terminations, claiming they were performance based in an attempt to avoid the procedural requirements of the Reduction in Force Act. Oh holy shit, quote in next post

I have appeared in front of Judge Alsup and can hear him saying this quite clearly.

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Thanksgiving 2024: “can i has?”

Pleased to announce the newest unit of time: The Gaetz. Just a day over a week and a little short of a Scaramucci. wapo.st/3AQSnHM

I'm a <squints> "certified . . . elder"? Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #139,787!

Absurdly high res graphic of the day: Orbit Map of the Solar System! Click the image and zoom in all the way 🙌 All the usual suspects re: planets and moons are there, but also almost 20,000 other bodies like asteroids. Super cool

i really want to start collecting actually published books written by fictional characters. i think its so fucking fascinating. do you know any?

Among the first people to shell out $200 to have the disgraced former-Rep. George Santos send a personalized clip through Cameo on Monday was Sen. John Fetterman, who requested that Santos send a message to Sen. Bob Menendez.

Also a good time to re-up this:

THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE. YES, I KNOW I’M MARRIED AND HAVE TWO KIDS, WHY DO YOU ASK?

Me: “The next time we go to Starbucks I’m going to” Wife*: “No.” * - Not an actual participant in this conversation.

Elon Musk is a good example of the Rule of Goats: if you fuck a goat, even if you’re doing it ironically or to own the libs, you’re a goatfucker. Does Musk actually think Jews or ethnic minorities are sinister or evil or inferior? I doubt it, even to the extent he accepts other people as real. /1

I have been yelling about this for *years*. (Still probably won’t work.)

can’t strongly enough recommend having posable skeletons all over the house

Me: “I need about 8 d8s for my paladin. But they don’t sell quality sets of just d8s. So, I needed to buy two 20-die sets of matching dice which come with four d8s each.” Wife: “. . . . We *need* to work on your definition of ‘need.’”

Me: <points> <nods vigorously> Wife: “Grounds for divorce.” Me: ☹️

A strange and sad tragedy in Alabama. www.al.com/news/2023/11...

⚖️🧵 1/ This story about the folly of predicting jury timing was recounted to me by the District Court judge for whom I clerked, Judge Herbert N. Maletz. I can't vouch for its authenticity, but I can vouch that this is exactly the way I remember him telling it to me in 1995.

if you elect four Speakers of the House you get to trade them in for one Speaker of the Hotel

I like stopping traffic.

Seems legit.

This opinion piece about Jim Jordan in the Ohio Capitol Journal goes really hard “The Ohio Republican is devoted only to defending and protecting a burgeoning neofascist running a campaign of promised retribution, wholesale government purges, extrajudicial killings, targeted media investigations…”

Hear me out: Beeker of the House

Sure, he prostrated himself to Cheese Jesus. Yes, he humiliated himself through 15 votes to become Speaker. And of course, he just became the first Speaker voted out of the office—quite the history! But consider what he accomplished during those nearly-twenty-seven Scaramuccis: Absolutely nothing.

Must. Watch. Every. Time.