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When you’ve lost People magazine: “She witnessed agents dragging residents, including children — some naked or improperly clothed — out of the building and into U-Haul vans. Children were separated from their mothers, she said.” people.com/ice-agents-o...

You’re an unpopular president. How do you turn things around? A. Help more people? B. Hurt more people? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/c...

Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.

If you are an American taxpayer, you might want to know how the government is spending $20 billion of your money.

The Trump regime wanted to give King Charles one of President Eisenhower’s swords. The head of the Eisenhower Library objected and suggested a replica, since the swords are owned by the American people now. The Trump regime got pissed and the head of the Eisenhower Library has now resigned.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Pope Leo: “Someone who says that, ‘I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

US witchhunts over the years: Salem - Suspected witches (women) McCarthy - Suspected Communistsn (without proof) Trump - The 75 million Americans who voted for Harris.

Watching “Inherent Vice” tonight and a powerhouse is described as “technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi.” Apropos of nothing: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

"Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

“I’m just very curious,” Billy Wilder said at 91. “That’s the one thing that keeps me alive.”

Hate pundits who reduce US to D’s v. R’s. It’s Trump-fearing R’s vs. Independents, D’s and pissed-off “Beekeeper” Republicans.

When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.

Putin’s disastrous war on Ukraine means that Russia will pay billions to rebuild Ukraine from the senseless damage he has done. www.ft.com/content/3ac0...

I kind of love this option: “The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office will hold a one-day free flu shot clinic from 2 to 6 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Lehigh County Forensic Center at 4350 Broadway, Allentown. Besides shots, tours of the forensic center as well as hot dogs and light refreshments, will be offered”

The Bible: Do not bow down to false messiahs and golden bulls. 2025: Do not bow down to false messiahs and golden bullshit.

What brought Billy Wilder to America? In his words, “I came here because I didn’t want to be in an oven.”

Never forget: Trump-Epstein BFF statues (they’re holding hands) appeared overnight on Washington’s National Mall. wapo.st/4gFthvN

After depleting his country’s treasure and sending hundreds of thousands of Russians to their deaths or serious wounds, why is Putin still fighting to destroy Ukraine? Because he’d be first to go to prison if Russia also became free, writes Anne Applebaum.

In Dave Barry’s autobiographical “Class Clown,” he recalls when humorist Art Buchwald was honored by an audience that included Ronald Reagan and Nancy Pelosi. Barry also offers these five tips for life:

Incredibly powerful and timely interview with Nobel Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social last night!

Wealthy Americans, fearing authoritarianism at home, are hedging their bets by getting citizenship abroad. archive.ph/EHYCL

This week’s @newyorker.com cover by Barry Britt.

“No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets, that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.” - J.M. Coetzee, “Waiting for the Barbarians”

The miraculous hepatitis B shot has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the highly contagious. liver-damaging disease in the United States. The Trump administration may restrict the vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

Jimmy Kimmel has many options, here and elsewhere. In June, he said he got Italian citizenship. www.ansa.it/english/news...

We've been retained by the family of Demartravion "Trey" Reed — the 21-yo Delta State University student whose body was found hanging from a tree. Trey was a young man full of promise and warmth, deeply loved and respected by all who knew him.

A good time to re-up one of my favorite movie scenes ever. There's so much going on here in a single six-minute take of a guy on a phone. Notice how the camera slowly closes in on Redford as he ignores the commotion in the background... /1 youtu.be/Qeemjaosp-E

The government says most domestic terror attacks come from rightists. Here’s the report the administration is trying to hide. archive.is/2024.10.24-2...

“To be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well,” Karen Russell, quoted in Tessa Hulls Pulitzer-winning memoir, “Feeding Ghosts.”

It’s a photo of something that really happened in American history. The president doesn’t want you to see it. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Lisa Cook did nothing wrong. A Trump aide gave information that documents have shown to be false. The Federal Reserve official is due an apology. nypost.com/2025/09/12/r...

You try to overthrow the government, you go to prison, Brazil rules.

Years after 9/11, I sat to NPR’s Bob Edwards on a train out of DC — and got to thank him personally for his steady, sober voice as he covered the deadly, scarring attack on America.

Thank you sunshine! Global solar installations surge. In the first half of 2025, the world added 380 GW of new solar capacity, a 64% jump from the first six months of 2024. It took until September last year to surpass 350 GW; in 2025 we crossed that threshold in June. https://f.mtr.cool/nrdrfwxwej

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Ethically challenged @washingtonpost.com publisher Will Lewis in trouble again. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This headline makes it seem like Satan himself is appropriating Tom Petty www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...

New contribution to this piece from @malachy.bsky.social and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago. nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u... The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6). Compare with a 1997 photo here:

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Young love.

Today's #Epstein news: How America’s leading lender enabled the century’s most notorious sexual predator. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Anyone know if “South Park” is on in Ukraine, Moldova, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, or Norway?

Wayne Shorter often composed with the TV news in the background. Why? “I need to know,” he said, “what I’m writing the antidote for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...

“The US is demanding investments from South Korea but is asking us to use Americans only to construct factories there. In reality, that is just impossible. They need local technicians during the construction period.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two heartbeats away from the presidency—and deeply embarrassed. wapo.st/46erJUZ #EpsteinFiles

2025 White House language preferences: 1. Gift, not graft, grift, or swindle. 2. Law and order leader, not 34-time convicted criminal 3. Testing norms, not acting illegally 4. Hoax, not 15-year tie to notorious pedophile