ICYMI: The Army announced late last week that it has suspended in-progress permanent-change-of-station moves by soldiers for the entirety of the federal government shutdown, leaving some families in limbo. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)

things bullets say

I memorized my daughter's # before last No Kings because I didn't want to have my cell phone on. I have now forgotten it and will have to memorize it again before No Kings this weekend.

this picture is messing with my brain

Wonderful day yesterday among the remarkable modern architecture of Rotterdam. Today, Utrecht and Amersfoort may be a little more restrained...

Troopers say one woman has been found dead in Kwigillingok following this weekend's devastating storm. Two other people remain missing.

Before you yell at me, consider I explicitly put “don’t yell at me” in my bio

A Very Short Introduction of Stuart Britain is one of the best books you can read to understand America’s founding rationale.

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Aid workers said it was now a race against time to rush humanitarian assistance into Gaza. It has been reported that, under the ceasefire agreement, Israel will open five crossings into Gaza, including one leading from Egypt. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the frogs of war;

OBAMA: “Better’s good… we’re not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive would’ve been smarter? Absolutely.” President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didn’t have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll

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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

When did we successfully develop fission power? Dumb. Ass. Duffy.

the thing they don't tell you is that once you're past 10k you only get more followers by beheading a larger account holder in single combat.

Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.

Does anybody have an extra set of guard rails? Asking for an abused country that is being pounded into the ground harder than Ivanka on Fathers Day.

Sea roaches of any sort Reds Back in Black

leave it at home > double bagged faraday pouches > turned off w/ dead battery > airplane mode, no wifi, no gps, no bt

“We’ve seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less,” a neighbor said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

Mike Johnson is as if "I haven't seen the tweet" was a muppet.

"One has to be impressed by the courageous and peaceful resistance of so many Americans..One has also to be impressed by the protesters’ use of humor and ridicule. I especially like the inflatable costumes. I trust we’ll see lots of them at No Kings on Saturday." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

You gotta give ‘em hop.

I absolutely loved having this long conversation with Tim Curry, whose memoir comes out Tuesday. He told terrific stories about, among others, Meat Loaf, Ivana Trump, John Huston, Truman Capote, and Miss Piggy. What a life! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In related news, Donald Trump says that the photographer called him up and told him that he was accepting the award in his honor, as he should have won. Seems legit.

Hopefully there is a way I can help fight back other than the Naked Bike Ride but if it comes to that so be it

Immigrants stole all the Portland calculators

Every JD Vance interview: REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree? JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

Hear that, Pam Bondi! Trump wants you to arrest whoever was president on January 6, 2021!

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Jude Law is amazingly good at an American accent. I don't think I've seen him have to don an accent very often.

just to be clear: if Turning Point shows a Hee Haw episode as the alternative SuperBowl halftime, I'm watchin'.

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski probably have some immigrant sex slaves locked up in a basement somewhere.

Do you say eether or eyether? Because people on TV say eyether and it drives me fucking crazy.

We're going to start accepting payments in cryptocurrency, which the owner's nephew assures us is "definitely not a scam."

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

huge payout to fire someone doesn't make sense to me even if he's the worst coach in the history of college football, wouldn't it be a better bet to just let him coach until his contract is up?

I, too, am terrified of the ... looks again ... yep, the Cookie Monster.

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

He know he bad

Imagine being one of the soldiers who thought they dodged this shitty assignment, but then got tapped in because some dudes got fat-shamed on social media.

If you like really intense shows about people that, in the first episode you think you kind of like but then you end up sort of hating: Black Rabbit with Jude Law and Jason Bateman.

Trying to imagine 60-year-old me, on a bike topless, with my (definitely not enhanced) boobies flapping in the wind. One has "Fuck" and the other has "ICE" written on them.

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.