"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!"

Montgomery County Council approves $7.7M for food assistance, mental health nonprofits

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I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

Today we won a big victory in Texas but the fight for democracy is not over. We all need to steel ourselves for the battles ahead. We won't win them all, but we can never lose sight of what we need to do to prepare fee and fair elections.

"He’s scared. He’s old. He’s in terrible health. He’s mentally unfit. He’s weak. He’s being laughed at by world leaders. He can’t finish a sentence. He’s tired alll the time. He falls asleep a lot during briefings. He can’t remember basic facts.” ➡️ It’s time for Article 25 or Amendment 14(3) ⬅️

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

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The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

Revolting.

The Trump administration will provide a HIV-prevention drug to countries most affected by the disease in a push to end the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, but won't provide it to South Africa, which has the world’s largest HIV-positive population.

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Epstein’s brother Mark tells Chris Cuomo that the reason the Trump administration is finally releasing the Epstein files is because they’ve been “sanitized.” Quoting “a pretty good source,” he says “they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.” “Jeffrey definitely had dirt on Trump.“

It will not go to the 5th Circuit. By law it goes straight to SCOTUS. Ron DeSantis is a moron. For accurate information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

When the revolution comes, private equity sharks will be second or third against the wall.

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

From stonewalling at every turn for many months to rushing it into law in a matter of hours isn’t at all suspicious or sinister. Not at all.

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

yeesh www.theverge.com/report/82244...

GOP Rep. Salazar won't criticize Trump calling a woman reporter "piggy" -- "President Trump is a very different type of politician. But I always say I look at his policies and not his personality. Nobody is perfect."

The good thing about Trump having the absolute stupidest DOJ of all time is that they might not even redact the Epstein files correctly in a way that absolves him

Even republicans work to make this guy look foolish.

My prediction is that they redact it but do it so poorly that 404 media will blow it open by just adjusting the images’ contrast

Trump on MBS: "He's investing $1 trillion into the United States." (The entire GDP of Saudi Arabia is $1.1 trillion, so yeah, this isn't happening)

Feds stopping naturalization ceremonies?! ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...

Conservative men are very worried about the growing trend of young women generally who don't want to get married, yet constantly communicate that they don't actually like young women. What an odd paradox.

I am, however, pretty disappointed that all her colleagues stood there quietly and said nothing in response, and no, I don't think "journalistic distance" or whatever the hell is a sufficient excuse for that.

I'm not surprised that Trump said "Quiet, Piggy" when an unnamed woman in the White House Press Corp asked him if there's anything incriminating in the Epstein files, and my lack of surprise is because he's a misogynistic dickwad. But... (1/2)

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

You know who is great? @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

it has been a long weekend with my mama. she's home on "home hospital services." MDs, NPs, RNs and paramedics have been in and out like clockwork all weekend. calling at all hours. and now hospice wants to meet with the entire family.

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

He’s losing it.

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The whole thing was confidently directed by Matt Ross (great actor, I had no idea he directs), and he did a marvelous job bringing the screenplay to life, adapted by Mike Makowsky. The series feels like a cross between tomato soup on a snow day and a horror flick. Fantastic combo, it turns out.

And Mr. Bradley Whitford, playing Secretary of State James Blaine, is charming as ever. It's pretty remarkable to me that @bradleywhitford.bsky.social's hallmark mannerisms translate so well to every role he has. The exasperation, the casual incredulity, the easy "fuck off" energy... so good.

Shea Whigham, playing Senator Roscoe Conkling, the boss of the New York Republican political machine, with such compelling obnoxiousness that one hopes he will be punched at some point during the series. Always the sign of a great performance.

I'm now convinced that Nick Offerman was born to play Chester A. Arthur, and we deserve an Arthur biopic starring Mr. Offerman now-ish. At turns hilarious and calculating and ridiculous, he's the warm blood of the flick.

Betty Gilpin, always a compelling actor, is brilliant as First Lady Lucretia Garfield. She really deserves her own major vehicles, preferably with more scenes of her slapping the shit out of clownish men.

Michael Shannon, playing President Garfield, has channeled his usual intensity into a glowing, restrained gravitas here. He is so good in this performance that it'll likely catalyze a resurgence of interest in Garfield's career.

Matthew Macfadyen is deliciously unsettling as Charles Guiteau. He plays him as a sociopath with a heart of gold (the 10k variety, to be clear). He is shameless, he is funny, he is scary, and I both wanted to hug him and also not be alone with him in a dark alley. Or really anywhere. So... no hugs.

The casting is so good for this that it made me look up the casting directors: Jeanne McCarthy and Nicole Abellera Hallman. Take a bow, ladies. My goodness, what an exceptional job finding the right actors for these roles.

My brief thoughts on "Death by Lightning" -- the new Netflix series about the assassination of James Garfield, based on the book "Destiny of the Republic" by Candice Millard, one of the most entertaining historical novelists of our era. Top of my mind: superb casting. (thread)

I cannot recommend this enough. Excellent in every aspect. And really brings home how bad Garfield’s medical care was, due to one doctor’s pride and refusal to take sanitary precautions.

Paul Giamatti reprising his performance as John Adams for Ken Burns' The American Revolution is just... *chef's kiss*