I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The first stage is denial.

"no more superficial individual expression"

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

if all games were like this I would be better at games (try it! it's a nice way of testing the reliability of your conceptions about the electorate)

Naturally, as they have no idea how to administer a government or any kind of large organization, Hegseth and Trump default to stupid livestreamed peacocking instead of doing literally anything to improve the efficiency or lives of our troops.

This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

newsflash: driving in rural Ireland’s one lane roads is a little terrifying.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Wentz vs. Tomlin in these last two minutes is gonna cause a permanent misunderstanding among the Irish public about how this sport is supposed to be played

Apparently London also has flocks of feral parakeets which i only learned about due to their rather pleasant chirps from Argyle Park across the street from our hotel.

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

I'll say this once more: @kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly. Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk. The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

A bit early for my first Tottenham match IRL. #coys

after becoming a fan of Bath Rugby when i first started playing 30 years ago, finally got to see them in person! felt a bit weird to be an away match, but The Stoop and the Quins fans were A+!

Not the first law-abiding natural-born citizen that ICE has kidnapped, but this does seem to be an escalation in their brazenness considering that he's a school superintendent and community leader.

Trump and this Court are straight up eviscerating the Constitution. Emoluments Congress' Power of the Purse 1st Amendment 5th Amendment 6th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment 22nd Amendment

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

i need bagel-knowers to weigh in on “Beigel Bake” (or its competitor 2 doors down “Beigel Shop”) in Shoreditch, London. Tbh, it was A LOT better than I expected from the looks of it. Chewiest crust I’ve ever had, but the inside was sweeter and a bit fluffier than I like. Still, quite good!

I've covered multiple wars. I don't recall anything like this ever happening.

Off to see my first PREM rugby match Friday (away to Quins) as a @bathrugby.bsky.social fan. Any pre-match tips, Pubs to hit, or things to eat on the way to The Stoop?

“Say what you will about the tenets of MAGA… at least that’s an ethos.”

Each time I come to London I talk to taxi drivers about what they’re going through, and what’s really striking is that several of them mention the racial hostility and violence from passengers. Not new I know but it seems like there is a greater intensity to it.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CEPHALOPOD UPDATE: first ever video of a giant squid being eaten by a sperm whale!!

Ok, i love Slow Horses far more than the next guy. And, despite being deep into my Jackson Lamb era, not that I am finally visiting London I can say Jaffa Cakes are kinda bad.

Steve samples the potato of London & Ireland. A smol 🧵: Potato 1: M. Manse pie & mash

English placenames rule. Been here like 12 hours and have already taken the Tube toward Cockfosters, and am currently on a bus to Nunhead.

What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales

anyone who tells you there are non-criminal reasons for accepting $50,000 in a pita pocket is probably: 1) a member of the Trump administration 2) a Supreme Court justice 3) effectively both ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Find yourself someone who loves you the way this Administration loves taking Ls against ham sandwiches in front of Grand Juries. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

The bot has become self aware.

Hands-down the best scene in the film adaptation of "Left Behind" was the golden retriever laying patiently in the grass next to the empty suit that was walking him before being raptured up. THE CAMERA LINGERED ON THE GOODEST BOY (who doesn't get to go to heaven. DON BLUTH LIED TO US!)

Oh fam can we keep politicizing the Disney adults because they apparently applied PRESSURE

I think a better way to look at this is Trump wanted a way to control the same algorithm that President Xi uses to suppress content about Taiwan and disparaging Winnie-the-Pooh content (a ref. to Xi) so that he can target, suppress, and retaliate against dissent(ors). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

I've said this before, but IMO we need to spend less time OBSERVING that Trump is engaged in authoritarian corruption and more trying to use language to build pressure to stop it. Same with Tom Homan's bribe. Yes, it was a bribe. Who can we embarrass politically for letting it happen.

good bot.

oooh. that earthquake was bigger than usual. first data is a 4.6 near berkeley!

good morning, bay area earthquake!

samsies.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

wait, mamdani is a gooner?! Well, still far better than Cuomo. #coys

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.