COMMUNISM!

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

Tomorrow's my birthday, so I'm thinking about treating myself to this little number (and supporting High Five Books in Florence, MA by buying it through bookshop.org). A little fun summer reading.

Pretty big story here. First on it. LAPD officers accused of discrimination and unlawful searches, according to internal disciplinary records that also identify them as participants in what California law defines as a law enforcement gang. latenfour.com/2026/06/25/l...

Yeah, that tracks. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

Yeah, that'll happen

there should be no reaching across the aisle with these people. there should be no meeting of the minds, no splitting of the difference, no finding a third way. these people have to be destroyed, root and branch. they must be driven so far underground they never come out. no mercy, just war.

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours?

With all the heat discourse going on around here, I'm going to mention a good popsci primer for folks new to the topic or as a rec for friends and family new to thinking about it:

90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this

Not the main point, but Islam is part of "Western civilization". It's heir to both the abrahamic tradition and the Greeks.

My cab driver in Staten Island was a Reagan-Bush-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that by nominating Mamdani-aligned candidates, Democrats had just thrown away any shot at getting his vote.

Starlog and Fangoria, leafed through at the Cumberland Farms at the end of Maple Street down near Pulaski Park, are why I am the way I am today (complimentary).

Not letting people's kids die is a good way of making friends in the world.

wait, i've got something for this...

Trump literally drove a presidential motorcade through the reflecting pool while it was still being refurbished & before the new liner even dried properly. if you drift a bunch of armored SUVs around inside of a dry pool, it damages the liner. it isn’t difficult to figure out what happened.

Despite tonight’s setbacks, Schumer and Jeffries will continue their principled stance against Democratic candidates that Democratic voters actually like.

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

The president can not be wrong, he can only be wronged.

Los Angeles:Orange County :: Barad-Dur:Cirith Ungol

wow that’s a crazy headline how did rodents cancel the monitoring program

Hey Grok, how should I answer the trolley problem?

Setting up to do a full relisten to the Podcast to the Curious series. I hope those guys are doing ok, haven't had a new episode in years.

Over at Criminal Element, you can read the first 8 pages of Nightjars! Sit down with Luke Oshel as he experiences one of the worst first dates ever. Nightjars will be calling on September 29 from St. Martin’s Press. www.criminalelement.com/featured-exc...

Gonna open a Greek restaurant in a protestant neighborhood in France and call it Jason and the Huguenots

Me, hooting and hollering as I'm approved to receive an ARC of this book

31. They did not like him because he has a star wars name

Between this and the giant John Brown mural, I'm feeling proud of my old hometown. www.nepm.org/regional-new...

Guy at the farmers market wished me a happy father's day. Would have Made A Scene® except my wife was there and doesn't care for it when I do that.

He says he's acing every cognitive test his rapidly expanding cadre of doctors can throw at him; that must count for something.

I grew up without a male presence in my life and I don't have children. If it weren't for the fact that my wife's father is alive I would be totally free to carry out an audacious heist while everyone else was distracted with the giant Fathers Day parade.

Had a dream last night that my wife and I had run off to a city I was calling Athens but it wasn't, it was one of those unconsciously constructed places that was equally made up of every Mediterranean city I have experience of and the city of Lake Forest, CA. Still felt nice, though.

Fighting soldiers from the sticks Craven folks, a bunch of hicks They're here to stop the ones who see A fucked up pool that smells like pee

If you'd like, post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands

That kind of money and access in the hands of anybody will turn them into a James Bond villain. When they start morally defective, you get Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Hegel remarks somewhere

"Men make their own history, but not of their own free will; not under circumstances they themselves have chosen but under the given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted. The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living."

"Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. It is so uncannily green and visibly slimy that it feels inevitable that video will soon surface of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. splashing around in it with jeans on."

@michaelwehunt.bsky.social Was this line in Nightjars, "The flat idiot eyes of an animal, but alive with avid intelligence. Less than human but far beyond it" inspired by this from MR James? "There was intelligence of a kind in them—intelligence beyond that of a beast, below that of a man."

When you say "I don't know" and get hit with a shower of green slime, you experience episteme. But when you understand the truth of why you were hit with the green slime, that's gnosis

Those crazy bastards actually did it. Phenomenal season finale. Holy cow Dippold did it.

It's Widow's Bay time baby

Only another seven hours or so until I can watch the Widow's Bay finale. I've avoided specific spoilers so far. Can I continue this luck?

Somehow Tom Atkins returned