also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay? bsky.app/profile/maxk...

This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.

10 minutes with Mamdani and he’s changing the name to Truth Socialist

Again, does everything have to be SO on the nose?

New Aggie Code of Honor: An Aggie does not lie, cheat, steal, discuss certain race and gender issues, or tolerate those who do.

Etta James released her debut album ‘At Last!’ 65 years ago on November 15, 1960 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/EttaJamesAL

A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power. Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to

“Some Love for Rodman’s” www.popville.com/2025/11/some...

E.G., if your position is something other than "people have a right to migrate" "asylum is a human right" "our society has an obligation to welcome the stranger" "every human deserves the full protection of the law" then you are not in accord with Catholic teaching and you better fix your soul!

Thank you. Seeing WaPo among others saying that Epstein likened Trump to the dog that didn’t bark. No. The fact that Trump hadn’t been caught up in the investigation was the dog that didn’t bark.

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

OK, fine: my take on the Bond Continuity Discourse is that he didn’t get blown up, it was an elaborate ruse and he’s alive but got sent to Slough House.

If you’re asking (tho who is?) my opinion *as a voter with no actual power* what my shutdown position was, it would probably be: Dem electeds will say that Trump and his party unleashed a lawless, authoritarian orgy of historic cruelty, militarism & destruction against millions, so even when the …

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

a super funny thing about this is that the only reason this looks like some too-clever-by-half gambit is that thune, johnson, and trump have played this so badly, in any normal universe, this would look like a normal, uncontroversial, unobjectionable offer from the minority party in both chambers

One way you can tell that Dr. Oz is a serious man of science and not at all a quack is because he gives ranges like 125,000,000 to 135,000,000,000

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

This is yet again a jurisprudence that refuses to accept any criticism.

Remember that time Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and then the guy had to go on TV and apologise for how being shot in the face made Dick Cheny look bad?

Mike Johnson is less interested in current events than my 11 year old.

The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it. They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.

Yamamoto absolute baseball legend now

Empty Pages is that anything

Handin' out pocket-sized Constitutions to trick or treaters this year. Go get a Snickers bar next door, Waldo. Uncle George is hooking you up with the Separation of Powers and whatnot.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Ah yes, "We the Democrats" is definitely what a Republican official in a Republican administration meant when she said "your government is failing you...we have failed you"

Amazing

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Simple, it’s not *a* travel it’s 2.5 travels

The coat is bad, sure, but what is that perched atop his head?

jake tapper byline the first 10 grafs are an open mic for the gop-led committee with the exception of "biden disputed" the findings and "the democrats are likely to criticize" the findings come on

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Mike Johnson not knowing any of the details with Yakety Sax

“My misspelling was off the record, do not quote”

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021. The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

On Friday, Trump asked SCOTUS to let him invade Chicago, relying on declarations already deemed unreliable, to disprove Chicago's claim it was abt animus. On Saturday, he posted AI slop showing him dropping shit on America. On Sunday, he bombed SoCal.

Totally normal administration we have here.

mike knows all about the children it is also why he is blocking the epstein vote

Cardiac age of a 65-year-old, vax history of a Democrat.

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

They don't want Dem votes because they need them to keep going on a tyrannical crime spree. It's because they're useful to pretend it's all normal and legal, that it's something other than a tyrannical crime spree. They want the appearance of legitimacy. Nothing is worth giving that to them.

Dutch late night TV has its take

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.