"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This entire thread is one of the reasons that social media can be defended as a Good Thing.

Nancy Mace employing Trump’s posting tic helps clarify its meaning. “Thank you for your attention. Please give more attention. I crave your attention. I need it like a vampire needs blood. Your attention. Give it to me. To me, me, me, your attention, all of it. Please don’t ever look away.”

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

Fucking SAY that shit, my dude. Everybody means EVERYBODY.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Yes! (And, also, phew!)

Oh — the situation has escalated. Pope Leo has spoken out: says "spiritual rights" of detainees should be respected and calls on the "authorities" to allow "pastoral workers" in. "Jesus says very clearly … we're going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=taCi...

Go fund me: Feature remake of Twelve Angry Men, but it is the D.C. Sandwich Toss jury and instead of jurors at each other's throats they have the most unbridled fun that any 12 American adults locked in a room can have short of group sex. $2M gets it to a streamer. $4M with above-the-line actors.

It is not accurate to report that “millions will pay double what they are paying now” for health insurance. That is impossible. Those millions cannot afford to pay that and will not do what they cannot do. Millions of Americans do NOT HAVE an extra $1,200/ month just lying around.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

So I, a retail employee, have to change my work password every two months just to be able to sign off on my time cards, and the Louvre gets to keep the same password for its surveillance system for 11 years. This is what class privilege looks like.

Me: "Doc, it hurts when I do this!" Physical Therapist: "OK, so I want you to repeat that 12 times, and hold it for 15 seconds each. Do that 2-3 times a day. Here are 4 other things that will hurt just as much, maybe more: same instructions."

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

vote to retain, kids

Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"

I know it's an opinion column, but how did "St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews" get past the editor?

i will discuss biological sex with you AFTER you have submitted one (1) five-page, hand-written essay answering "is a virus alive"

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

A good day, as always, to read up on the history of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Wearing desert camo to “patrol” the streets of Chicago is always going to look ridiculous. It’s like seeing a beat cop in a tuxedo. Who is dressing these idiots?

New theory of atonement just dropped, and it's a doozy: cbn.com/news/us/jesu...

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

"Biya's long absences and his government's tightening grip have fueled anger and uncertainty. Cameroon's crisis reflects a broader pattern across Africa: youthful populations ruled by aging leaders clinging to power through managed elections and weakened institutions." www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Mexican WWII poster: “ AMERICANOS TODOS LUCHAMOS POR LA VICTORIA.”

This is ass-backwards. It’s like saying the Flushing Remonstrance had “a religion problem” and needed to learn to compromise with Stuyvesant. www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-democr...

I’ll be honest, I’m pretty jealous of New Yorkers right now. I wish Austin EVER had a mayoral candidate that loves our city half as much as that dude clearly loves his. As someone who loves his city and evangelizes often for it, we need more politicians who would love to double as local tour guides.

100 miles from the border is clearly NOT a "reasonable distance." It is an UNREASONABLE distance. If CBP is to continue to exist, then the "reasonable distance" from borders in which they are allowed special rights needs to be limited to an actually reasonable distance of FAR less than 100 miles.

This certainly SEEMS to have a “Tomorrow Belongs To Me” Nazi vibe, but it’s also possible that somebody at the DOL just really, really, really wants to fuck Tom Brady.

The optimism and audacity of the little pop-up reading “visit advertiser.”

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Scott Bessent always looks like he’s wearing a monocle even though he isn’t wearing a monocle. Just such intense Mr. Moneybags energy that you’d swear he’s got both a monocle and a top hat.

This certainly SEEMS to have a “Tomorrow Belongs To Me” Nazi vibe, but it’s also possible that somebody at the DOL just really, really, really wants to fuck Tom Brady.

In fairness, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees regularly “hallucinate” bogus facts without using AI. The praying coach ruling shows that Gorsuch doesn’t need a sloppy robot to make shit up that’s directly refuted by the record!

We desperately need a study of wealth madness but I can't imagine who would fund it.

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

"We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drumlines. Drumlines in the street. An Elmo moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming. ..."

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are obvious, evident Good Things. The attack on DEI -- being "anti-DEI" -- means advocating for their opposites, which are all obvious, evident Bad Things. The opposite of "diversity" is forced, enforced conformity in all things. All. Things.

Jeebus. But I guess Vermont is a border state and Bernie wants to make sure nobody from St. Johnsbury drives to the beach at Lake Memphremagog without showing multiple forms of identification to armed guards at checkpoints. This is folly and shameful, hot, steaming garbage.

Repenting and re-branding are not the same thing.

Religion angle on the Poop Tape. (Not to be confused with the Pee Tape.) Of Course It Was Shit in Trump’s No Kings AI Video — Calling it ‘Brown Sludge’ Misses the Religious Significance religiondispatches.org/of-course-it...

granted i haven't talked to them directly about this but like, from spouse's reports it sounds like they imagined this to work like getting a fishing license or driver's license: you do the thing, hand over required paperwork & fees, and the bored office worker prints your permit on the spot.

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

How are reporters quoting HHS Spox Tricia McLaughlin w/o noting she routinely fabricates lies about ICE's interactions with citizens and noncitizens alike? McLaughlin *just* invented a convoy of cars, when it turned out ICE rammed the victim and shot her unprovoked. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

We don’t talk enough about the utter blasphemy and stiff-necked sinfulness of the way that the white-supremacist backlash to Reconstruction tried to steal the word “redemption.” It’s just so gross.

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

Told my kids that if you want to get a tattoo, print out the design and mail it to yourself. One year after the date on the postmark, open the envelope and look at the design. If you're still thinking, "Yes. I want to wear this on my body forever," then go ahead and get the tattoo.