Job openings rate just reached its lowest level since spring 2020.

Owner of the legendary Washington Post has killed it to please a clown who can barely read

I had seen the "hold me in contempt so I can sleep" line, but the whole transcript is striking. Julie Le she tried to quit but then stayed so she could get more people OUT of detention; and expressed concern that her own family might get picked up. www.lawdork.com/p/the-minnes...

I never understood how people of faith could vote for this degenerate scumbag.

"Bezos could fund The Washington Post well past his own death, but he clearly has zero interest in doing this. The news business is hard, but we simply cannot keep relying on the idea that journalism can be funded by billionaires whose personal interests are at direct odds with accountability work."

Why I barely look at X anymore except for sports stuff, and even that can be dicey.

Brian Kilmeade from Fox literally just said out loud that ICE pulled out of Maine to protect Susan Collins’ re‑election campaign. I can’t believe he would just admit that.

Currently preparing for a client meeting later this afternoon with the soothing sounds of Olympic curling on my PC. Never has the sound of sweeping calmed my soul so much.

Meanwhile his paper, the Washington Post, is laying off more than 300 journalists.

I once interviewed with the Post’s online operation. Worst interview of my career; I was catatonic during most of it. Fortunately the Tribune came along and I landed there. The Post’s demise is a gut punch. Finally pulled the plug on all my Amazon subscriptions. Done with enabling crap like this.

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Every time there is a mass layoff I hope people remember that newsletters cannot save us. The Free Press started as a newsletter but came to influence as something more like a newspaper (without the journalism). We need to somehow invest in media infrastructure, not a thousand little ladders.

Agreed. What is it with evil rich trolls destroying American newspapers?

Finally got to a dentist today for The Toothache of All Toothaches. Now amped up on antibiotics, Tylenol/codeine, and generic Ora-jel. Whee. Anticipating a 2-tooth extraction in the coming weeks. Happy February, friends! 😬

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

Just watched: “Arco” (2025). Phenomenal and sad look at humankind’s near future, with a kinder and more peaceful look at Earth beyond that. 🍿

Matthew 19:14: “Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'” John 11:35: “Jesus wept”

Grabbing a Jumbo Jack from a northern Illinois Jack in the Box while listening to the Ben & Woods livestream from Padres FanFest. Doing my part to support my team.

For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again

SCTV is the greatest tv show of all time, there I said it, and today it has to be said very loudly

Happy General Strike Day for those who observe. If you’re looking to kill some time while fighting the regime, feel free to read me. fluffbucket.substack.com/p/hope-is-a-...

Life sucks enough without the loss of Catherine O’Hara. I’ll become consoling myself with “Dr. Tongue’s House of Cats” if anyone needs me. youtu.be/SMQ8qSEVFo0?...

As a former Tribune staff member, I appreciate and endorse this message.

Can Minnesota pay Tom Homan $50,000 to get ICE out?

Lot of things going on here, and lots of blame to go around, but one I think about is: more evidence that extreme racism is a form of mental illness.

The country didn’t wake up for the lesbian mother, or the 25+ brown folks who died because of ICE. It woke up when a white man was shot. No disrespect to him, but an indictment of us. Our outrage is selective, & empathy hierarchical. Until every life triggers action, this violence won’t end

Okay, I’ll say it! It’s hard to ignore what finally jolted everyone awake. Not the murdered lesbian mother. Not the families destroyed quietly. It took a white man being shot to snap us out of our nihilism. If that doesn’t expose whose lives matter, then we’re lying to ourselves about who we are.

Are they supposed to keep U.S. team members from defecting?

I don't usually quote the Washington Post. But this is big. Don't f'k with Philip Glass.

Democracy dies on superyachts.

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

Because it worked for a year when the victims weren’t a white man.

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Got an unsurprisingly bland homily proclaiming a generic “Christ is the answer” at Mass, but I did appreciate the mention of “from Minnesota … to Venezuela” toward the end. Still a lot better than the guy at our former parish who quoted Candace Owens from the pulpit. 😐

You’re watching the administration lose control of the narrative in real time. The more they show their supporters that they don’t give a shit about their gun rights, the worse it gets. I’ve seen over a dozen right-wing commentators call out the propaganda. That’s progress.

The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not. Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down

Imagine your child murdered on camera for the world to see and then the most powerful people on earth lie about him and his life

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Breakdown of incident video follows. Zapruder would be proud.