The US is an authoritarian regime so I guess Brazil can bomb Florida and kidnap the fascist in chief now? This is how it goes, right?

Trump team workshopping insulting name for new NYC Mayor, but Trump keeps suggesting “sexy Mamdani” for him; has to be wrestled away from phone before he invites mayor to sleepover. Aides rush to assure public “he’s still super racist but he does does have a thing for people half his age.”

I have been informed that Toyotathon is still going on. The sales crew are beyond pair and exhaustion now; they stumble across the showroom floor, desiring only the sweet release of death, but how to stop is one of the many things they have forgotten, along with family, God, and joy.

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

I used to say that this was my head shot for "Beetlejuice: The Musical" but then they actually MADE a "Beetlejuice: The Musical" and people thought I was being serious, also I currently have nowhere near the amount of hair to pull this off anymore

Just watched It’s A Wonderful Life so imma need about 3 liters of saline to replace those tears.

Hallelujah! New Bishop of NYC, a Chicagoanvnamed by Da Pope Leo: "Bishop Hicks roots for the Chicago Cubs, not the White Sox."

bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Just read this, an intriguing history of how Truman grappled with basic questions about how to manage the control and use of nukes. Very thoughtful and detailed reporting, and very well told by @wellerstein.bsky.social

December 15th ... a date which will live in infamy... the air and naval forces of the Empire of Venezuela attacked the United State possessions of Greenland, Canada, and Christmas Island... occupying them and seizing the inventory of the Calgary West Side Jiffy Lube....

Turns out the second boat strike happened because Jeffrey Goldberg didn't hear something on the Zoom call and said "come again?".... whoosh!

Canada—North America’s gift shop.

Just re-watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in light of the news. I had totally forgotten about the post-credits scene with Samuel L. Jackson.

Dammit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

My lazy eye often makes me look like I’m apprehensive about objects in the background but it’s an illusion. I think. Is that the same tree that was two rows ahead of me on Southwest???

This Epstein/Larry Summers Cinematic Universe stuff is like the Sandy Hook shooting. If we can't take action in light of this blatantly evil dysfunction we never will. Name, shame, and blame them all. Now.

The film #AHouseOfDynamite ends before the bomb hits Chicago, where @bulletinatomic.bsky.social is based. They asked me to describe what it would happen to the Windy City, so I dropped 20 KT and 4 MT bombs using @wellerstein.bsky.social's Nuke Map. (Hint: it's bad.) thebulletin.org/2025/11/vide...

Two woman are stranded in Florida before Thanksgiving (ATC issues). They both need to get to Atlanta. Kate McKinnon is a denim-clad gator-wrangler. Generic costar is a corporate executive with a temper. "Planes, Trains and automobiles"? No! "Air Boats, Drug Submarines, and Stolen Police Cars."

Nutriadamus left us hundreds of specific, 100% accurate predictions from around 1300, but they’re all about where aquatic rodents can find good plants to chew on.

If the entire crowd outside that ICE Gulag in Chicago isn’t wielding foot longs tomorrow I don’t even know what to say.

The 2003 Iraq war remains the worst and most costly US foreign policy decision ever. Let us never forget that Dick Cheney was the driving strategist, bureaucratic enforcer and chief anchor behind it. www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...

Musk thinks Gondor won the War of the Ring? What a chucklehead. That’s like saying Mr. Pibb won the cola wars.

If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a successful business.

Dems would support both halves of a AOC/BHO ticket overwhelmingly. GOP/Maga would be tepid at best over a Vance/Trump ticket. So bring it on.

New from me: Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong. This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

If there isn’t a The Pitt/Artful Dodger time traveling crossover episode by the end of their respective season 2’s, then there is no justice in this world.

Everyone keeps talking about the Trump Ballroom, but all my brain can see is “Trump Bathroom,” where attendees pay him homage while he sits on his golden throne, not just a functional toilet but a wide-bore, clog proof model. Fortune 100 CEOs abase themselves to press the flush button. He smirks.

Trump declares Capitol will be razed to make room for dogfighting pavilion, with demolition starting at 5:00.

Looks like somebody invoked that “no sex after 30 years of pretend marriage” clause in her prenup, and a certain President went bonkers after staff tried to calm him down with some construction equipment videos.

2029 News: former President and current Assisted Living resident Trump said to be “furious” that “an appropriate memorial to his memory” that was guaranteed as part of his severance package/plea deal is just the half-demolished East Wing. Staff at Mar a Lago said to be using rain gear again.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

The essential mendacity of referring to “Trump’s peace plan” is laid bare when the alternate formulation of “Trump’s 20 point plan” is used. All leaders use staff for details, but to believe Trump created, read, comprehended, or even stayed awake through a briefing on any 20 points is ludicrous.

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

This is some of the best journalism news I've heard since forever. Radley is absolutely indispensable for pulling back the curtain to show how the carceral state works.

If you kinda think you saw an elk in the woods, until you get confirmation it’s just a hypothemoose.

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

As someone who grew up in a state like this, I have to tell you: the *real* secret police is always your friends and coworkers, the professionals mostly sit back and watch people eat each other's faces.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

If you know about Korea, you know that people will tell this story for generations. Given the scale, tech savvy, cultural sway, strategic importance, and national pride of ROK, this might be *the* most lastingly damaging, idiotic move team MAGA has made. Blessed by SecState Marco.

Saw a woman walking a pig on a leash -- full size pig, not minipig, but not one of the gigantic state fair monster pigs either; a mean pig, if you will. On 5th Avenue off Central Park in NYC. Given how much space and food pigs consume, that's ... committing to the bit.

Bruce Springsteen is said to be releasing the full E Street Band versions of the Nebraska album songs. If I listen to them as often as I listened to the originals in my college years I will be seeing you in 2027. Also, apparently I will retire with a mediocre GPA, if that's possible.

RFK jr worried that offshore wind farms will harm whales, endangering national supply of whale juice, which he …. ummm … look, it’s not important WHY the overtanned raspy-voiced man needs the Juice, OK? He just does. Unlike vaccines, the Juice is important.

If Trump dies and SNL doesn’t bring Kate McKinnon back to play an uptempo version of Hallelujah then why did I spend all that money on voodoo dolls?

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

Sure, Trump is a diabolical, hate-fueled, fat, flatulent, violence-worshiping, evil-sucking toad of a wannabe dictator whose early death may be our best hope to preserve the Republic. But also, Conan O'Brien is not funny. Just saying. No reason to build a single-use guillotine.

Ugh. No. Not bacteria. Not special prosecutors. Not electrolyte imbalances in his shriveled, cold, cardiac system. Not Snipers. Neither the Senate nor the 25th Amendment. Not charismatic governors. Us. Resistance. Feet on the street. Non-violent people power. Votes.

School shootings aren't as obviously part of a political program as, say, campaigns or bill passage, but like the firebombing of abortion clinics they function to constrain the safety of those deemed undesireable, to rob freedom and peace, to force all life in defiance of shooter to be lived in fear

They know that, and that’s why they use that term.

not traditionally what is meant by the idiom "cash in one's chips"

"The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish"