A tear rolls from Cheryl Hines’ cheek and stains a faded poem in her hands: “I mean to grab your cheeks And do you in the Cheryl Heinie, My Love”

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NY TIMES: MBS has been behaving more cautiously, rebuilding his reputation. HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS: Saudi Arabia is executing record numbers of people, including journalists, kids who are tortured into confessions, and alleged drug traffickers who are disappeared into Saudi jails, then killed.

A dozen better Kennedys were sacrificed to give RFK Jr this power to kill.

Sounds like the classroom video today went over really well with the Harvard administration. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I’m also struck by a media-savvy adult noting that coverage of Israel didn’t used to be so negative and blaming it on TikTok antisemites and not—also—decades of Netanyahu and the far right. “Back in the days of network news, they were more respectful of Rabin” is not a hard idea to unpack.

“Deion Sanders wants more time to prove he is the right man for the job,” and I think he’s earned the time and consideration he gave the 53 kids he dumped when he got to Colorado.

Gianni Infantino has taken FIFA to new depths of greed and immorality. Threatening to move cities less than a year out for bullshit “safety” issues? After letting Russia host and Qatar kill scores of workers? Absolute joke. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Summers didn’t actually coin this, but he’s proudly associated with the idea that a person has no incentive to take care of something they don’t own, only use. It’s supposed to be a shorthand for economic theory but now it seems to be a mantra for sex offenders.

“I loved his brain. A brain that in 60-plus years had only managed to drive his first wife to suicide, kill scores of Samoans, and cash in on the fact that his beloved father and uncle had been murdered a long time ago.”

Damn, need to find another white guy whose only qualifications are fat tie knots and an ability to say, “We’re gonna work the problem with private sector alpha mentality.”

Step right up, folks, prosperity is always just a quarter or two away!

I’d love to see a functional regulatory government look into airfare pricing because I think every airline has decided, post-pandemic, “fuck it, no one remembers what a normal ticket should cost.”

“A hilarious schism has hit the Catholic Church.”

Bluesky: the reasonable expectation of actually being fed into a woodchipper app

“They put me in the IQ machine and it said I did very well. Maybe the best they’ve ever seen.”

I’ve never looked that good in a photo.

What happens when Trump discovers that Don Jr and Eric have been approached by concerned stakeholders who think it’s time to retire the old man for “health reasons,” give him a hero’s send-off/pardon, and put JD in. And that the boys thought it made a lot of sense and cut their own deal.

As someone who was credibly trafficked by Epstein, Melania could get some of those questions, too.

For years we’ve been asking what will cause his GOP wall to crack, and Epstein may do it. Like, you absolutely do not gotta hand it to MTG, but her math says Team Trump isn’t worth it anymore; that he can’t bring you down if you break away. She may come back; Ol’ Donnie may wriggle out again, but…🤞

Me too.

I bet a couple times a year Ted Cruz sees the name “Virginia Foxx” and gets excited until he remembers.

WRITER: What if one of Epstein’s clients also owned Michael Jackson’s creepy theme park? STUDIO: That’s insane.

If recent events have caused you to lose trust in The New York Times, might I suggest a subscription to @us.theguardian.com.

Judith Miller must be happy to have some fresh competition for Most Destructive New York Times Reporter.

It’s fun to watch a career criminal desperately try to patch leaks in realtime while also deciding if millions of people can eat or go to the doctor or not get grabbed off the street and sent to Somalia by his roving gangs of racists.

No one has ever not read news harder than Mike Johnson today.

Hey someone call US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack, I have some questions. 2016: Also 2016:

not irish just boosting for awareness

“What if his good friend, the notorious pedophile, refers to him behind his back as a dog?” “Is it too on the nose?” “No more than everything else.”

Every #VeteransDay I re-read the Medical Report of Action written by my late grandfather, Abraham Lenzner, about the events of September 25, 1943. He was the Senior Medical Officer on LST 167 when it was attacked as it unloaded supplies on the island of Vella Lavella. 1/

It’s not like someone snuck in and killed Bond at the end of the last movie. There were literally years of development, production, and post where “how do we keep the franchise going if we do this?” was discussed. There were options. This feels like a dumb Amazon PR story.

This is fantastic and we should all just be able to enjoy stuff like this without worrying about health insurance premiums or masked Gestapo in our cities or whether our plane will crash because of Sean from The Real World.

It’s like a nice tip for the valet using someone else’s wallet.

The split in the Democratic Party is between incrementalists who saw the shutdown as a way to pressure the GOP to negotiate and existentialists who understand the GOP is a broken party that has no interest in negotiating—that the shutdown was/is their only leverage to force the GOP to govern.

Yeah, the people who plastered “the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault” on every government website are eager to dig into some good faith negotiations next month.

“Lucy made it clear: she wasn’t going to hold the football until I promised to kick it.”

8 Democratic Senators signaled that the shutdown wasn’t extraordinary Republican evil and incompetence, just typical Washington gridlock that could be settled for nothing.

This guy lost a VP debate to Mike Pence.

“Despite us not fighting now, the fight continues! For you guys! And we are with you! Not literally, of course, we’ve actually just voted for a ton of new security for ourselves but…[fist raise]”

Documentation of erasure is so important, and there should be a progressive think tank funded to track “Stuff we can fix immediately and not quietly.”

Ok fine I’m a middle-aged person.

Feels like a crossover episode where real Trump had South Park Satan sit on his face.

Trump knows his followers live vicariously through him, but his lifestyle porn goes down easier when he’s coasting on his predecessor’s economy. When he’s driven up prices and wrecked the safety net, I’m not sure people are so excited about his new bathroom or his name on a football stadium.

The world’s first trillionaire cannot stop screaming to the world, “I’m so lonely, I’m such a loser.”

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"Toyota... did you hear this? Toyota has just cut all the prices of their cars by many hundreds, in some case thousands of dollars. They're calling it a 'Thon,' which I think is Japanese for 'Trump.' You're welcome."

Coney-Barrett: Destroying women’s rights is super-feminism, actually.