The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought "those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem".

Really we shouldn’t hate on the NG. Who are the least of the guilty parties in our national nightmare. And dude here is giving the thumbs up. We should be ON their side. This is an abuse of power. A waste of resources. Taking them from family and home and not able to do other vital urgent work.

All time top 5 prediction.

Commentary: It takes an astonishing lack of awareness about the volatile present tense, amid rising political violence in a country awash in firearms, to propose legislation that would let politicians carry concealed guns into the Ohio Statehouse.

I’m always amazed at how smart people can read the exact thing I just read and think it says something very different than I think it does.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Yes. As everyone knows, telling people they have to like some group of people or else face dire consequences is the best way to get people to like other people.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Here’s a powerful Pulitzer Prize winning report on the cruelty of Huntington’s, by @amyharmon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/h...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

This only happens to you once

a lot of funny people doing the least funny thing possible

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

A list of people who would have played Sun City in the 1980s...

If you’re not willing to lose it all, you will never defeat evil.

Naming a museum of capitalism after Mike Milken is like naming a museum of literature after Clifford Irving, or an art museum after Elmyr de Hory www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

Many people are saying Trump has rabies.

I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

War-ravaged Portland

War ravaged Portland.

Time for Savoy Hotel Special Cocktails (no. 1)! #FridayCocktail

And as @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social and I reported two years ago, Thiel was scheduled to have several meetings with Epstein in 2014, long after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostituion from a teen: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/b...

This is one of the more chilling things I've read in recent weeks. I can't believe Just Security had to publish this, but I'm glad it did.

The Trump gang has been busy trying to help herd grandma into private equity, an insane move that reflects the desperation Trump’s private equity pals are feeling these days. @timothynoah.bsky.social @chuck77.bsky.social #inequality newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Yeah, but he’s got the tough guys tats.

www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrest-g... Only the finest. Truly the elite. We are being terrorised by fools, incompetents, and madmen.

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

I had a conversation with a former AUSA earlier today who said he didn’t see how any lawyer with integrity could work for this Justice Department.

“It’s true the framers gave the power of the purse to Congress. But they also believed the president could just burn the purse.” Originalism!

Brian Kilmeade still has a job.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Tony “Will Do Anything for Money” Blair? Perfect.

All over the western world we are creating a lot of young nihilists.

Next, dashboard statuettes. www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/p...

The Ohio legislature at work. www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/p...

This, by @noamscheiber.bsky.social, is perceptive. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

"Populism" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Please note that walking through the woods and writing poetry are weird things and behave accordingly.

Seems to me that @nytimes.com is finding its feet, rediscovering its voice.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Buster Keaton.

“What we are seeing is the almost wholesale collapse of the Justice Department as an organization based on the rule of law,” said Alan Z. Rozenshtein, a former department official who now teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Staggering amounts of money. “An MIT report found 95% of organizations surveyed are getting no return on their AI product investments.”

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Solicon Valley is completely discredited.

NEW Quinnipiac poll of registered U.S. voters: • Half now say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza • Only 47% see backing Israel as a U.S. interest, down from 69% in 2023 • 60% oppose more military aid to Israel • 58% favor UN recognition of a Palestinian state www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

She actually looks pretty good there. For a goofy foot.