Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

I appreciate all of you who are making serious argument against it but can we just for a minute all admit that the unitary executive theory is pure unadulterated horse manure masquerading as constitutional interpretation because there's a cabal of people who want a Republican dictator.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Doing war crimes on video to distract from your pedophile past while you swap Ukraine for a deal to make Trump Vodka, and the holiday tours of the White House are minimal because you knocked half of it down. Go TN 7.

Is Witkoff an idiot, a traitor, or both ?

Trump is trying hand Ukraine to Putin. I don't think it's going to work. He's at 38% approval in the latest polls, the GOP think they're going to lose horribly in the midterms, all the Dems and 2/3 of the GOP support aid to Ukraine.

It's hardly news, but Larry Fucking Summers fucking sucks.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Seeing the East Wing torn down. Trump's all about loot and pillage.

It takes some fucking brass neck for the political right to implement ruinous austerity for 14 years and then turn around and say "the reason public services are shite is because there are too many immigrants using them." Fuck off into the sun.

Every photo I take is done practically with very little digital work, using household items to create special effects like cotton wool for fire & foil for water. Each set is meticulously set up for just the one scene then dismantled so I can set up another scene. Thanks for helping me keep going.

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

This makes it sound bad, but it's worse. Ukraine is increasing production of current drones, and ramping up new designs. The rate of successful strikes will surely increase, and the next 3-5 months will be terrible for Russia. kyivinsider.com/at-current-r...

Modern camera gear is absolutely amazing. I'm getting started with Micro 4/3, picked up a used Lumix G5 w/ 14-42mm zoom for $200, just scored a 45-150mm zoom for $90, and with auto-focus and in-lens image stabilization it's doing all the hard work for me.

From Reuters: "Drone strikes at various refineries on various dates have idled a cumulative 3.1 million tons this month, accounting for 48% of the total impact, the calculations show. They have knocked out around 17% of Russia's refining capacity, or 1.2 million barrels per day, this month."

The emerging elite consensus policy is to support recognition of the Palestinian state once all the Palestinians are dead.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Watching the long-awaited Ea-Nasir / Gilded Age crossover.

There are lots of front-page stories about how Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle ad for American Eagle jeans - you know, Sydney Sweeney, the actress ? She's in the ad *everyone*'s talking about, for American Eagle jeans ? Well, that ad - for American Eagle jeans - seems to have Gone Wrong ...

RIP Tom Lehrer. My parents didn't have many records, but they had a couple of Lehrer's, and we listened so many times, and laughed, and memorized most of the lyrics. And I learnt that no matter what awful shit is going down, satire and mockery are good tools to have at hand.

I just heard a Gracie Abrams song on the radio, and if Tay isn't getting a piece of it she needs hungrier lawyers. Influence is one thing, impersonation is something else.

I'm a Boiled Egg and Caramelized Onion Truther. They're all lying. It takes much longer.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

this is amazing. he might think harder about faith than practically anyone in public life

My diagnosis of Trump's medical condition: whatever it is, it's much worse what they're saying. Because they always lie.

What it took to get tenure in the Batman Studies Department in the 1960s, and what it takes to get tenure in Batman Studies today...

Right-wingers in 2024: "Ideology doesn't exist" Right-wingers in 2025: "We're spending tens of billions of dollars to build an AI saturated in our ideology"

Left Image: John Fetterman's website about his wife Gisele and how she was an undocumented immigrant who spent "15 years living in the shadows." Right Image: John Fetterman's tweet praising ICE as they terrorize undocumented immigrants and traffic them into concentration camps & out of country

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Did Linda Yaccarino do anything as CEO of Twitter ?

Right-wingers (which now include every editor at NYT) absolutely incensed that Zohran Mamdani has a national origin that doesn't neatly match his ethnicity the way they think it ought to. Because right-wingers in the past encouraged (and sometimes forced) a lot of people to move between continents.

It's our 9th largest export! 2.5% of total USA exports are comprised of literally the blood of poor people.

Just reminding everyone that the Senate GOP nuked the Byrd Rule by calculating the deficit impact of their horrible bill against "current *policy*" rather than "current *law*", so that extending the 2017 tax cuts is treated as neutral. This ought to need 60 votes, but all rules are dead now.

There are plenty of things I would criticize about Jeff Bezos. But he gave his wife a decent deal in the divorce (25/75 split of his Amazon stock), and now he has married someone he evidently loves and I hope they'll be happy together.

A lot of people are going to try to obfuscate and minimize what just happened, but let me tell it straight. The USA is now at war with Iran. Trump chose that. Congress wasn't asked.

The American 13-tonne conventional bunker buster can't guarantee to penetrate deep enough to reach Iran's buried Fordow site. Much as he wants to be stupid and violent, even Trump probably doesn't want to use his biggest conventional weapon and fail. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Karen Read retrial is done. Not guilty on all the murder/manslaughter charges, 1 year probation for operating under the influence. This second trial should never have happened, it was a waste of resources and if you can't prove it first time, second bite isn't likely to be better.

Big turnout for No Kings in Brookline MA. Must be over a thousand. Every car honking as they go through.

Today closes with ICE looking like biggest pussies on earth. Less than 100 Paramount Angelinos kept ICE agents trapped at a stand off for 8 hours. The civilians were unarmed and only called ICE agents names.

either these immigration tactical squads have ammo in those rifles or they don't, and at some point either answer is going to be a big problem

Don't understand this Mexican Navy ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge. Those masts were *way* too tall, tidal swing there is about 4ft 6in so it it wasn't going to be low enough even at low tide. Clearance is 127ft at mean high water, the problem is obvious. How did it even get upriver ?

I don’t need a career, I need to be sent to the seaside for my health like a Victorian lady

Two nuclear-armed powers are at war, yet nothing about that scares me more than Trump claiming there's a ceasefire. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Trump's latest EO tries to cut off federal funding for NPR and PBS. This is around $550M total. We have a lot of billionaires, many of them could put up this kind of cash for 4 years and hardly feel it: Bezos has $204B, Buffett $166B, Gates $108B, Ellison $100B, Page & Brin $90B each, Cuban $6B.

People are not ready for the now-inevitable economic chaos when the ships that didn't leave Chinese ports because of tariffs start not arriving at American ports about 20 days later. Whims have consequences.

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

Trump and Witkoff are trying very hard to give Russia a win in Ukraine. Russia being Russia, they still might manage to lose.