In case you're wondering what Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is up to this flu season... they're policing the cookie intake of federal workers. From @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-...

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Outstanding piece by @davidjroth.bsky.social on the conservative perpetual grievance machine.

ICE Barbie With The Face That Was Left Too Close To A Hot Stove is living rent-free in a house she stole from the Coast Guard commandant, so who's really an "entitlement junkie" here

Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.

There is no demonstrable difference in crime before and after the Guard came to the District. They were made props with big, fat targets on their backs.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

The debate over whether he means things like this literally is tangential to the reality that this guy has spent over a decade wondering aloud into the world’s largest megaphone whether anyone among his violent, unstable followers will rid him of these turbulent priests.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

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There's way too much NYT discourse on here already but re: The Big Olivia Nuzzi Feature, I am pretty squarely against the Times thing of doing a long feature story about someone disreputable and doing it in that kind of arch "get a load of this asshole" tone. It's still a big feature about them!

Going to war against Iraq in 2003 was a clearly bad idea, but those in favor made the effort to justify it. With lies, yes, but they felt some obligation to the public. Trump's desired war against Venezuela is purely his own, and he doesn't need to justify it beyond his feelings.

i just realized what hes describing here is a fundraising email, they sold us out for for the promise of dope ass fundraising emails

The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

The only way to argue against this is to imagine there are voters who will walk into a polling place one year from now with “the Democrats ended the shutdown last year and saved my Thanksgiving travel plans” at the forefront of their minds, which, I’m sorry, is not a real thing.

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

98% thrilled for the future of our beautiful city; 2% savoring delicious schadenfreude at Cuomo getting his weenie loser ass handed to him twice in one election

Not only is Jay Jones winning, but Del. Carrie Coyner, the Republican who shared his text messages with National Review, is currently losing her seat. youtu.be/OlqRGJeiUiw?...

The ketchup has to be flying tonight.

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

The mass coordination effort to make Charlie Kirk a saint was always going to fall apart immediately but shoving his freak widow into the limelight where she has somehow been 100x more weird than anyone could have imagined is actively backfiring in the funniest possible way.

One party is enacting an explicit program of racial hierarchy and ethnic cleansing while stealing from the public and grinding civil society under a Nazi boot. The other party is trying to figure out its message.

today in DC i saw National Guard troops picking up litter and standing around aimlessly 🫡

Last night I watched over 100 pelicans feed just off the coast after sunset. Here's one of them. 17 frames taken from a sequence of 44 over 2.5 seconds. Incredible dinosaurs!!! 🪶

My god Playoff Kershaw looming out there like Checkov's Gun

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

Via Soul of Thoughts

WaPo: “The texting scandal barely registered as a top issue as voters considered their choice for governor. Just 1 percent mentioned Jones’s text messages, " even as "Earle-Sears has repeatedly pushed her rival to disavow Jones" bluevirginia.us/2025/10/new-...

Cracker Barrel’s logo change was egregious/unthinkable to MAGA Demolition of White House - MAGA a collective “eh” Makes total sense

"We should consider why Platner speaks to people. People don't want candidates from central casting anymore. They want people who look and sound like them. Who acknowledge the pain of getting by day to day. It so happens this one is ill-prepared and has a serious problem." That took 20 seconds.

The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Editor1: How should we handle kinda demented behavior from the leader of the free world, styling himself as a king dumping shit on his detractors? Editor2: Mild bemusement? Editor1: See that’s why you have the CSJ degree

/11 Amidst a time of thuggery and corruption and sordid betrayal of American values, the crowd is jubilant with hope and shared defiance.

LEFT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to deride Donald J. Trump with a protest. RIGHT: Citizens assembling in Washington, DC to celebrate Donald J. Trump with a military birthday parade.

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

People tried marching but the 12-block route just turned into a circle. Too many people. Cars honking, driving by with their signs, crowd going apeshit when a semi blew its horn. This is a very blue area. I have never seen anything like this.

Arlington VA

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Important reporting from @propublica.org: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

As long as we don't think about all the people who lost jobs for tweeting, "hey, this Charlie Kirk guy seems to have been a racist?"

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."