This is a small thing but the sheer pettiness of it is driving me fucking mad. There is no corner of the institutions he inhabits that he will not fully debase. What a disgusting shame.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

CHOTINER: So. Good to see you again. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: Is it? CHOTINER: No. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: So how's this work? You ask a bunch of dumb questions and try'n make me look stupid? CHOTINER: Basically. CHOTINER'S CHILDHOOD BULLY: Okay, let's DO this, Chotinerd.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"So, do you have that illustration of human and equine bone structures ready for the textbook?" "Sure, boss, just like you asked."

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room for medical treatment.

I hope that there is, at some point, accountability for Trump’s enablers (like Vought), although my suspicion is that there will never be any meaningful consequences. To me, that’s a major story behind our downfall. We’ve had a crisis of accountability going back decades, and it’s landed us here.

130 immigration judges have been fired or forced out since Trump took office, a figure which doesn't even include the count of those who have retired or quit (quite a few). The Trump admin is systematically moving to kill a fair day in court for immigrants facing removal.

They joined the government, my dudes.

"[A]nalysis funded by the [NIH] determined lowered levels of segregation decreased the odds of stillbirth for Black people, but had no effect on stillbirths for white people. The researchers estimated decreasing segregation could prevent about 900 stillbirths a year for expectant Black parents."

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

I don't usually go here but this guy's face reminds me nothing so much as a last generation Bethesda NPC.

The reason I take the time to educate people about this stuff is to let people on here know that when people don't respond to this administration precisely the way you want them to, they might have a good reason. Our chief export around here is outrage, so we should point it where it belongs.

As always, the most dangerous place in the world to be is between me and a microphone.

Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:

They Might be Process Servers.

When tech bros make AI Lawyer startups, they check under their beds for Kathryn at night. The BabaYaga of Ai Lawyer scams. bsky.app/profile/kath...

Past Me put a Crunch bar in the freezer and promptly forgot about it. It is definitely Present Me's gain.

This man is a national treasure and should be protected

Tick, tock. Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out. Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options. Spoiler alert: they all suck. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining ProPublica to cover voting issues nationally. I am so excited to work alongside some of the most skilled investigative journalists in the country at such a respected organization. I start Monday. www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

I would propose that he be featured on the three dollar bill.

This is perhaps one of my five favorite replies I have ever read (not to something I post mind you), notwithstanding fantastic dunks.

Me only very belatedly connecting dots: wait, is Bjork is a furry?

Kash Patel is the head of the FBI because he wrote pro-Trump fanfic for children. Keep this in mind when he is giving out briefings.

Important to remember: Luigi Mangione has *two* simultaneous criminal prosecutions against him, one state and one federal. The order referenced here, and the sanctions it threatens, only applies to the federal case.

It’d be really nice to have a government that doesn’t claim Tylenol makes you autistic and Haitian cat-nappers will eat your pets when initial reports about a high profile crime come out.

"Fuck ICE" I could believe. "Anti-Ice" sounds like a stroke victim trying to describe road salt lol.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

Destroy car dealerships and you save US democracy

Federal district court judges are almost UNANIMOUSLY rejecting the government's new interpretation of a 1996 law to bar release from ICE detention to millions of people. Yet the Board of Immigration Appeals, fresh off a purge of Biden appointees, made it official precedent.

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

Holy forking shirtballs. Note that this is not a cure. But holy forking shirtballs.

The lessons of Carpe Jugulum are that every generation must kill its vampires.

I want to remind everyone that ICE has been grabbing -legal residents -people in asylum proceedings -non-white U.S. citizens -visa holders who are not violating the terms of their visas Do we know how many of them were at this FL concentration camp? No. Do we know where they are now? Also no.

CHOTINER: And you said you’ve had trouble sleeping. ME: I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything. CHOTINER: But you also said that you stare at the horrors, as you call them, online all day. Surely you’ve seen the studies that staring at your phone before bed… ME: Hold on just a second.

If Apple’s thinking is that they can’t release the show in the wake of horrifying gun violence in the USA, I guess the show will stay mothballed forever.

"Until our reporting, top Pentagon officials said they had been unaware of Microsoft's digital escort system, which the company developed as a work-around to a Defense Department requirement that people handling sensitive data be U.S. citizens or permanent residents."

So in South Korea they are arresting their right wing Christian cult leaders for bribery. Isn't that different.

actually very clear if you look soberly at the data that the Democratic decline in swing states like Ohio and Iowa is directly correlated with Mara Jade not being canon anymore. The path to the Senate is clear, for a candidate who is willing to shift the platform on this key issue to swing voters

Another Reason Why D.C. Needs Statehood: The Vaccination Edition Some good news for D.C. residents on the COVID vaccine front (boldface mine): D.C. adults and most children should have an easier time accessing the coronavirus vaccine at pharmacies, after the D.C. Council on Wednesday voted to ease…

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

Horrifying, insane scoop from @vivmccall.bsky.social . Five beatings of trans women have occurred in Seattle so far this year. The suspects have all been men. In at least one case, random men—strangers—have joined in on the attacks. Depraved shit. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Certainly makes more sense than reading it more generously.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game. YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want. PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

Every day I have to learn about a guy with untold power and influence who I would not trust to fill up my car

get ready for some of the worst filings you've seen in your life *JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PRESSES AHEAD WITH JAMES MORTGAGE FRAUD CASE