If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

@cantwell.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

It’s a little intimidating when smart people follow me.

Oh www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

There were lots of takes this morning because it’s the 2020s Internet. It’s takes all the way down. But @hcrichardson.bsky.social brought the frame I needed: brutal, clear, and focused through her well-polished lens of perspective. A worthy 32 minutes of your day: www.youtube.com/live/7JXQhff...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

OOH! “Unwise!” That’s some strong language! Boy oh boy… “Unwise” is like, what? A 2-alarm fire? That’s some strong stuff right there! That’s one stiff shot of 2% milk you got there, NYT! What an impressive show of truthiness from the Paper of Record. They should win the FIFA prize for journalism!

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

On those rare occasions when I find myself on LinkedIn, I always feel a little dirty

Matthew Lillard’s performance as Bill Hastings in 2017 Twin Peaks, The Return, was one of those moments of absolute, unexpected genius David Lynch could inspire from actors like no one else

Who benefits from this? Here's an archive link you can use to avoid the NYT site: archive.today/Ii6qS

It’s offensive for personal friends to put you on their real estate mailing list after getting their license. It’s offensive and it’s gross. I can think of few more effective ways to say that they were never a friend. It’s also a way to guarantee denial of a client lead or recommendation.

The deleted report was archived in the Wayback Machine, which once again makes the case for contributing to archive.org. We will desperately need them to recover a civilization that MAGA is trying desperately to erase. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

I play a ton of Klondike because it engages my busy little monkey fingers while not distracting from the hundreds of hours of audio podcasts I ingest every year. Sound is from the EOY episode of the invaluable Amicus from Slate with the brilliant @dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @mjsdc.bsky.social ❤️

Project 2026.

Just rewatched this and I couldn’t agree more. This is a true masterpiece but more importantly, a timeless one.

A billion percent this

LOL xkcd.com/3184/

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Sic semper tyrannis

I've been following Drs Patrick & Attia for a while, and I got this message loud and clear. Everybody who cares about maintaining quality of life should be following this guidance. My goal is to never become frail as I age. So far… this is working amazingly well. youtu.be/LziQmw3eWa0

Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social for this point. When I was born, my family wasn’t part of the “white” franchise but today, I benefit from all that sweet, sweet white privilege. But his point matters too because perceptions & beliefs are everything. youtube.com/shorts/b4Jh6...

This. Is. Nuts. I’ve heard from reputable sources about the proliferation of mass surveillance but holy crap! This tells the story in a way you will understand right away. Apologies for raising yet one more alarm in Dumpster Fire World. This is pretty fucking urgent. youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

Another vital letter from HCR open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

oops

Pam Bondi just released a new batch of Epstein files.

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And may every day be another wonderful secret.

There’s nothing stopping the people in Washington DC from naming their own things after the president The Donald J. Trump Dumpster The Donald J. Trump Port-a-Potty The Donald J. Trump Municipal Waste Disposal Facility

What is Donald Trump talking about?

My job is alternately seen as either a black box full of mysteries and secrets or nothing more than clicking a button. That weird misunderstanding exists both inside and outside of my industry. Even recruiters and agencies have no idea what I do. It’s like a secret society. 🤫

In a subtly transgressive betrayal of #Seattle, I opted for an umbrella today Just because

Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader? This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking

Lindsay Mendez will one day be an amazing Mama Rose. Just a decade or three. I hope I live long enough to see it!

Nine fundraising texts swatted down yesterday. Seven so far today. Every one gets the "STOP" response and a spam report but they just seem to proliferate like some unholy chimera of rabbit and fruit fly. Seriously wondering when I will have to change my phone number. Seriously: STOP!!! 😡

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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

Trump’s horrific outrage of the day just underscores how there is nothing that happens in the world, for good or evil, that he can resist pissing on it. I’m sick of his reek in every corner of American life. We urgently need to be rid of him so we can fumigate and rebuild the wreckage he’s wrought.

How the hell did we end up with this monster?

PDX time: whatever

This And it should go without saying that this applies to everyone in this administration, or “The White House,” or other regimes following his lead. It’s not one person. It’s a metastatic cancer on all traditional media. Know the symptoms.

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.