i was taught Jesus would probably come back specifically on a Jewish holiday in order to stick it to the Jews. i had no idea how antisemitic this was until i was an adult.

I wasn't even thinking about how the latest rapture date is coincidentally timed to make Christians the center of attention during a Jewish holiday because god forbid anyone else be the protagonist for 5 seconds but now I can't unsee it.

gonna write a response piece to this about Rabbi Eliezer: “by not letting reason get in the way of his emotions, Rabbi Eliezer showed 2nd-century cancel culture that it could FAFO, burning up 33% of its olives, wheat, and barley with the sheer power of his tears. contra Brooks, this is the way”

that is to say: he rejected the number one grift of people who never shut up about cancel culture, so please keep his name out of your mouths

Spinoza died at the age of 44 because he inhaled the dust from the lens grinding that he had to do for his job because he got excommunicated and refused to profit from it by joining the enemy party of those who excommunicated him

No big deal, just one of the most famous right-wing influencers on a stage shared with POTUS, at the GOP mega-event of the year, going full mask-off Protocols of the Elders.

Happy Fall

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

here's just another random reminder that Caroline Kennedy warned the country that her cousin was psychotic and a killer.

The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at oops wait hang on aww crap

Speaking as an astrophysicist, I would not take scientific advice from a guy who stared directly at a Solar eclipse. YMMV.

Even for how Pritzker has been talking lately, this is an extraordinary statement from a sitting governor.

"If your goal is to cement your power, then it’s rational to pardon your most ardent criminal supporters who have been convicted of carrying out violent acts on your behalf. They will be your civilian army."

"And if that causes the majority of the public to want to vote against your party, thwarting their will in the 2026 elections requires forceful intervention in the election process."

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Very important 🧵!!!!!

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

*some of this *has* materialized in civil forfeiture and stuff like small-town speed traps where the three-person police department is basically splitting the money

we're lucky - and I don't think this will necessarily hold - that the remarkable levels of political corruption in the United States have not yet produced a culture of *daily* low-level bribery. you don't have to give your surgeon a red envelope or pay off traffic cops*

it's not 'an official act' as long as you're merely *taking the actions that are how power and connections actually work* but it stays behind the scenes. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

for instance, you can bribe a public official as long as you do it *after* they do something for you, not before. www.bakerlaw.com/insights/bri...

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

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(Reuters) - South Korea's economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Median Democratic voter also just wants to pretend the whole thing didn’t happen, so there ya go

… it’ll just make us do what we always do and just make things even worse, largely for no reason, and I recalling thinking over and over: I hope I’m wrong but I think I know the answer; I knew the answer

I still think back to mid 2020, more than half a decade ago, when I can still vividly recall thinking: this experience— which is turbo charging and front loading every awful thing about life in this country and its politics — will either force us to confront them and perhaps fix some things or…

who was president in 2019, ross

They've decided that if you want them to do their jobs, you'll have to take them to court. www.joemygod.com/2025/09/hud-...

Link without paywall: archive.is/SRTY5#select...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

A wooden barracks at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Each one was used to hold more than 400 prisoners: men or women. Watch our short video: a walkthrough of a historical building: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QJdw5A7chXg --- Photo: https://www.instagram.com/petrakyller/

This one followed every child born in Denmark from 1999-2010, with more than 650,000 children. No association between MMR vaccine and autism was observed.

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

It's ironic that Glass saw the Fed as a pro-segregation institution because generations generations of segregationist conspiracy theorists have fixated on the Fed as the evil financial infrastructure that enabled the modern centralized, activist federal government they hate.

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The knitting witch #sketchbook #fall

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The man found dead in a Long Island jail cell on Thursday after being detained by ICE has been identified as Santos Banegas Reyes. According to his family, county and federal officials have ignored them as they demand answers about the circumstances that led to his death.

4th deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -arrest low risk -no legal rationale -violates international law -no evidence of who US hit If really traffickers—very much an if—the move is interdiction. Would get evidence and intelligence.

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

This was two boats ago, or really only one boat ago but the news of the third boat had been tossed off so casually and without video that most outlets hadn't even picked it up defector.com/how-do-you-s...

It's particularly the case among the Americans who are paid to decide which news is important, and who despite everything still can't bring themselves to accurately describe the fact that the president is serially murdering people and our systems are unable to stop him

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

It is a book by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook – which is a fabulous thing in itself – at an event run by Stu Hennigan. If I was in the area, I'd be attending.

Sorted my plan for this today. Gonna be a cracking event and the book is brilliant. Any @hookland.bsky.social and @scarfolk.bsky.social peeps in the area might wanna join us 👀👀👀

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

An article about at PWS last week about how fishy this whole thing is www.piratewireservices.com/p/us-claims-...

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...