THE MEME IS REAL

*staffs around the world logging into DTS to book flights* *website crashes* *direct flights sold out* Aide timidly knocks on boss’s door “Sir, you’re …uh…good to go. You’ll…um…you’ll be in a middle seat and will cross the dateline twice.”

Yes.

Vodka, homemade honey ginger syrup, lemon juice. Happy Mabon.

A really good friend of mine who got DOGE’d finally got a job and, man - everything is so bad for so many people I love that when she texted me about it called her back and all but started screaming with joy. Celebrate the wins, y’all.

Technologically advance a band: Bronze Temple Pilots

“I have been thinking of … the assassination in 1938 of a Nazi diplomat in Paris by a Polish-German Jewish teenager named Herschel Grynszpan. But what makes this parallel feel most apt is how nervous I am about drawing it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

this exists it is called thinking

This is the general dynamic of the hearing so far: Member of Congress: Long statement about thing I already believe, can [witness] provide proof to back up thing I already believe? D.C. official: Umm, well, it's complicated. Member of Congress: I reclaim my time. I'm done.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning.

WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it." www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

no price is too high to pay in this pointless war against lifesaving science!

You know you’re the working parent of an energetic young boy when, as he’s whapping you about the head and torso with his pajama pants because you are a horse and he is washing you, you think, “well, this’ll kill three, maybe four minutes.”

Another US strike on a vessel alleged to be smuggling drugs in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific entity and individuals targeted are not identified—simply labelled as "terrorists." 1/n

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

🇦🇺 Rising oceans and flooding caused by climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of more than a million Australians by 2050, while deaths from heat-related illness will soar, a landmark report warned ahead of Canberra's release of emission reduction targets this week. ➡️ u.afp.com/SPfA

Having a kid has thoroughly robbed my of my schadenfreude with these stories and ngl I kinda miss it

Precisely how one should treat a critical ally that houses thousands of troops and US’s largest overseas military base in a region that the first round of this administration made foundational to its entire National Defense Strategy. 10/10, no notes.

Morning Bluesky. Poland has closed its border with Belarus ahead of the joint Russian-Belarus military exercises.

Katie Ledecky has broken 17 world records and won an Olympic gold medal at 15, but ok

The psychology of airport zone lines is fascinating. Crowds around the empty lanes, waiting for one person to make the break, for anxiety to overtake composure, rationality, and decorum to stand in a demarcated row, all under the assumption their flight will be that much better.

And does it have anything to do with what must be the most confounding state motto, “Fatti Maschii Parole Femine,” which translates to "Manly Deeds, Womanly Words?” Because my brain has been in a Charley-horse for six hours since I learned this was the motto.

All of the U.S. military service academies are canceling lectures and ceremonies which feature speakers critical of President Trump. Dark times.

a friend and I went downtown this evening to scream in the streets with thousands of our neighbors. @theonion.com was also at the protest this evening and they were pulling no punches

Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies This is a really, really ominous development (AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.) gazette.com/military/air...

as I've mentioned before, Washington DC policymaking is an oral culture that believes itself to be a literate one.

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

This is incorrect: (1) Department of War was just the Army, not the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) the President does not have the authority, only Congress can make that change in the law. Be better, @npr.org.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

NIH whistleblowers say HHS manipulated the grant review process to undermine vaccines. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

Even before the start of President Trump's surge, D.C. had the most police per-capita of any U.S. city. By a quite a bit. And that's just counting the city's force, not the huge array of other police agencies here. The Capitol Police, also in D.C., is bigger than Baltimore's police department.

Poland has long been seen as a laggard on clean energy. That is clearly changing and fast. Onshore wind, solar and now also offshore wind are growing in Poland. An exciting opportunity for Poland to move away from coal.

The US is great when it is good. And its public education system, even with all its problems, is still good. I am proud and grateful to be raising my kid in public school. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

We should rename it the Department of Deterrence and then force everyone to read Schelling

“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

Big fan of voluntary organ donation. Not a big fan of “Never Let Me Go” becoming reality.

Every now and again I remember the best thing @rbreich.bsky.social ever called someone - “a whirling dervish of egocentric obnoxion” - and I’ll smile to myself. Sometimes I use it too. It gives my day a little boost.

Military officials raised alarms that using troops during a July immigration raid on Los Angeles' MacArthur park posed an "extremely high" risk, including the possibility of "miscommunication and fratricide." The Secretary of Defense ordered that it go ahead. www.reuters.com/world/us/mil...

“This is my rake. There are many like it. But this one is mine.” www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

During the peak of the pandemic, we had to special order body pillows that would help pregnant patients lay prone. This is an image I really don't want to revisit. #VaccinesSaveLives

Now would be a real good time for anyone in Congress who cares about warfighting lethality and military readiness to call an emergency hearing. COVID played merry hell with readiness until there were vaccines.

NBC reports — as of now — four senior CDC officials are out, in addition to the director. CDC director pushed out, flood of top resignations follow www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual. When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.