Instant all-timer here:

If you can’t live the rest of your life out on one THOUSAND times the money that a normal American brings home every year, then don’t fucking run for office or accept an appointment or do the bullshit Elon Musk shadow running a department thing either.

Elon Musk Amendment: Congress may pass a bill taking all the wealth of anyone who serves in any office of profit or trust under the United States, less 1000X the median yearly income. Put it out there and dare Republicans to vote it down.

By the end of the ratification debates, everyone understood that the 14th Amendment would grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. The only live question was whether that was a *good* thing. Some senators argued it wasn’t. But they lost! applyliberally.substack.com/p/birthright...

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

you'd think Republicans who have enjoyed uttering "freedom" and winning elections off it would show a little gratitude towards the liberalism that gave them the rights that are the foundation to that freedom

He certainly puts the 'SS' in 'Ssecretary of War' [sic]

guy who names his kid maxibillion

LEAVITT: THE PRESIDENT'S FLUIDS REMAIN MOIST, VISCOUS, WITHIN NORMAL PARAMATERS, AND AT APPROPRIATE PRESURES

a character actor like John Goodman or Stephen Root could be clutch. either way you get O Brother Where Art Though, and that's pretty swell.

you can do it with Claude. try prompting ChatGPT. you could probably do it running Claude in Copilot. have you seen what Sora can do? Auto-GPT might be able to. generate content with Nano Banana. make stuff up with Midjourney. use Nano Banana. you can definitely make it with Nano Banana. Nano Banana

NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court. More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

This one is pretty damn unique. Been a good many years of looking at automated sunset pics and the color and coolness of that color is pretty distinct. Intuitively looks like winter and the waves and reflection off them in the lower left is amazing

it's crazy that there are senators representing fewer people than house members. seems off!

I just wanna clear the air: I don't think victor shoulda done those things

there are no video games that appeal to me rn. literally launched and closed like four out of the steam library, as well as osrs. maybe it's the change in weather, but absolutely nothing is catching for me

Reminder for no particular reason that it is prudent to refuse illegal orders and to obey the rulings of judges

@markey.senate.gov at #BearingWitness #BurlingtonMA @universalhub.com

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

excited for three more years of groyper cleveland

my social media hot take is you should like more things. not as in "you should enjoy more things," but you should press the little heart button more often. even if I'm arguing with someone, as long as I think they're doing it in good-faith, I'll like their posts as encouragement.

HUGE IF TRUE

"the most important thing about housing is land and the most important thing about land is that its supply is fixed" fact check: false

Trump vs US may not be Dred Scott in its effects, but it is clearly Dred Scott in intention ie a Chief Justice arrogantly thinks to solve a political question by putting it outside the reach of politics and thereby inflames the political question ten times more.

my problem with gyoza is that they normally come in an order of about 6, but what I really need is 100 of them

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

What can I say? It sucks to suck.

Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

My even more unpopular opinion is unless you have personally experienced the thing, you should probably refrain from having an opinion on it. We need to return to shaming people for parroting YouTube/TikTok with stuff like "When I want your opinion, I'll just find the YouTuber who gave it to you."

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

in actuality, that was Aonishiki's second-to-last bout. this basho (tournament) they needed a playoff for the champion. so Aonishiki had to wrestler THE OTHER yokozuna, Hoshoryu Aonishiki just beat Hoshoryu the day before for the *third* time

this last bout, Aonishiki was against one of the top champion wrestlers (yokozuna), and won by pull down after breaking a lock-up by darting a hand for the opponent's knee. insanely impressive understanding of balance and strength

there's a genuinely prodigal talent of a sumo wrestler, Aonishiki, who is from Ukraine. the three years he's been a pro sumo wrestler in Japan has been a meteoric rise to the very top as of the Nov tournament, which he won last night

Today is the final day of Grand Sumo! It’s always worth tuning in early on the final days! Things happen a bit earlier to stay on TV schedule. They also have a pretty drawn out awards ceremony today, which includes giving a giant macaron to the tournament winner. Also a year’s worth of beef & beer

Yeah, you're a rich girl, and you've gone too far 'Cause you know it don't matter anyway You can rely on the old man's money You can rely on the old man's money

I've advocated the dismantlement of DHS since the degeneration of Secret Service became clear during Obama's presidency. Every DHS agency uniformly worse-more incompetent, more poorly trained, more thuggish, and more dangerous to liberty-than it was. Until now, USCG was the least-damaged.

Like I think we need a nuDHS that scraps a lot of the rent-a-cop functions (what actually gets DHS funding now) and goes all in on emergency management and infrastructure security. Department of Resilience and Recovery or whatever

But my takeaway from a decade in the federal space, much of it with DHS, is that splitting one job among a bunch of agencies fails and so does splitting one agency among a bunch of unrelated missions

Like I think you can feed TSA back to Transportation, feed the financial crime part of USSS back to Treasury, and potentially CIS to State. NSA does a lot of the CISA grunt work already. By transportation security, anti-fraud, naturalization, and cybersecurity need to get done regardless

The problem with DHS from the beginning has always been that it's a semi-consolidated mass of dysfunctional agencies that have been swept under the same rug. Independent enough that it's not anybody else's problem to fix, not independent enough to get cabinet-level focus

Reading through Haiku by R.H. Blyth This haiku caught my eye for the blue hills, coincidental with the same phrase for referring to Massachusetts The blue hills are of themselves blue hills ; The white clouds are of themselves white clouds

This Day in Labor History: November 22, 1909. Approximately 20,000 garment workers in New York City went on strike against the horrendous conditions of their sweatshops. This strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was the largest strike led by women in American history to that time!!!

yea I just saw a string of words that I never want to see again

unfortunately, the imges just got shared and oh boy its uh something

something happens to men between the ages of 20 and 35, where silently there is segregation between those who can clearly answer this question and those who cannot

lmaoooo inject it directly into my veins