TIL that quisling is eponymous! After Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling, executed by firing squad on October 24, 1945.

1800 missing from one site. The word atrocity comes to mind.

this seems like something people with authority should be screaming about, maybe louder than they screamed for jimmy kimmel

In concentration camps, human life is worthless. Close them all.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

L’shanah tovah tikateivu

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

what if trans people were worth as much as a talk show host, collectively if not individually, as a treat

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

RIP Humphrey's Executor. Stare decisis who?

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Tried to accomplish the smooth top sandwich loaf and ended up with this monstrosity.

That clear enough for you?

Am I going to have to watch They Live this weekend? I think I might.

Impressive. Via xcancel.com/The_x_Truth/...

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

the H1-B thing seems unlikely to withstand a court challenge, but it's still deeply funny that it's basically a nuclear warhead aimed at businesses and executives who've been grandiosely and publicly kissing his fucking ass for nine months

I've been meaning to read this author for a while but this pigs devouring jello in an abandoned pool saga has really spoken to me—I just up and bought the entire Southern Reach Series.

Reading the Trump v. NYT dismissal as an afternoon treat.

EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Lots of cheerleading for Pritzker standing up to Trump (good!) and less awareness that it didn't actually stop the terror (bad!). ICE killed someone and it feels like it barely broke through!!!

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Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

The details of the ICE raids in Chicago just straight up broke me. ICE blowing down doors and dragging people out in handcuffs under helicopter spotlights for PR stunts, breaking into terrified people's cars and tasing them in the face, straight up killing a father Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

"If bills like HB 4938 are the future of the conservative movement, then the true obscenity isn’t pornography—it’s the authoritarian urge to strip people of their rights under the guise of protecting morality: No one is protected; everyone is a criminal."

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

I keep seeing the giant golden Trump Bitcoin statue (which is apparently real) and I truly cannot tell if it's a satirical jab or sanctioned. It's so tacky, but that doesn't clarify anything!

I'm so dang excited

Reading through One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This a second time with a pencil in hand and I really gotta say it’s standing out to me even more this round that this book is saying some piercingly real shit about much more than Gaza and genocide

Not gonna lie, as a Catholic apostate that isn't particularly patriotic, I did not anticipate myself being such a fan of First American Pope. (he has also continued Francis's vocal support of Palestine)

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one. trib.al/RdNHhC6

The corps don't care about anything but their bottom line. "There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars."

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Seems important! Like maybe Dems constant hewing to "centerism" is perhaps misguided 🤔

I like to imagine this iteration Democratic politics like showing everyone "Aliens" and the audience says they think Ripley, or Hicks, or Vasquez, or whoever seem cool and then a bunch of multimillionaires pay consultants to be like the people have spoken and they want Paul Reiser.

Note well that this is a rousing call for journalism -- as it was and as it should be.

Two high schoolers wrote a love letter about their high school librarian and the banned books club they're part of. This is really moving and thoughtful and a reminder that kids know exactly what the hell is going on right now. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/09/09/s...

We've had the pleasure of working with Garrett Reisman on For All Mankind, where his expertise as an engineer and astronaut is invaluable. His opinion piece in TSR on NASA's decline is deeply disturbing. NASA was once a shining example of US excellence. www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

I highly recommend that you read @leximcmenamin.com's latest: "When the WSJ reporting came out, I knew it didn’t matter if it was true or false; the damage was already done. It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric."

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.