It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas....

"the documents were so restricted that top Justice Department security officials reacted with surprise to the code names: They had never heard of them before. Some involved special access programs that required the president or a cabinet member to grant approval to view."

Honestly, I don't think Trump's incomprehension of political asylum has anything to do with his serious personality-disorder-related psychiatric afflictions and his seeming dementia, which both raise 25th Amendment questions. I do, however, think it reflects his utter stupidity ….

Uh I guess Costco sells Nazi chips now

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

This man is clearly deranged

Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Halloween.

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

A remarkable smackdown by Sen Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of the head of the Heritage Foundation

“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.” Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social 📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

This is big. A South African court has ruled that anti-apartheid leader & 1961 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Luthuli was murdered by the apartheid state's security forces & that the inquiry into his death was a cover-up -- as many had asserted all along. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls. But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

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🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

Approximately 1/3 of those with jobs at Amazon are receiving SNAP benefits-and half suffer from food insecurity Now billionaire Jeff Bezos is laying off 30,000 of them How much longer will America continue to subsidize Bezos-and let him accumulate even greater wealth by sucking dry US workers

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Are you obsessed with archaeological or historical questions and easily get into coding? Or a computational scientist that want to understand biology and disease evolution, and curious about the ancient past? If you have these or other burning questions that fits into our programme, apply below!

It’s inconvenient to have a publicly edited fact checker if you want to rewrite the past using Grok. #wikipedia #ai

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

This is such a horrifically bad idea that I don't even know where to begin. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Oh wait, yes I do. I wrote a whole article about it last year: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/a...

🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4

This also totally fails to account for different fields having different norms. In astronomy, the last author slot is meaningless (and is almost certainly someone who didn’t contribute all that much). 🔭🧪

I wonder if Sarah Pochin ever gets as worked up about the overrepresentation of multimillionaire, privately educated elites in her own party…

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Reform is a racist party, and everyone planning to vote for them is planning to vote for racists. For some reason we are supposed as a society to pretend that people seeking to get naked racism into power are not thereby racists themselves. They obviously are, and we should relentlessly shame them.

As many others are saying, WHY isn’t this glimpse into the heart of Reform being reported on the news?

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Might be the most vacuous person of the last decade. An empty vessel for lobbyist cash.

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

No one with any judgement at all believes it, Donald. Because they know you lie about literally everything. Everything. And maybe they’ve watched the full Reagan video, & more importantly know that every single credible economic expert says your illegal tariffs are a dumpster fire for the economy.

Remember when ‘White House Down’ was a far fetched action movie?

🙂

My eyes are bleeding.

If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.

"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.