I know Kevin knows this, but the explanation for this is clear: It's racism. Racism and xenophobia and misogyny. A white native-born American, living in the parts of the country where white native-born men still hold disproportionate power, is the only fully "real" American in the eyes of many.

So long, legend. Thanks for the laughs.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

The kids are alright. #FOFI

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

With your phone in your pocket, practice hitting power and volume up at the same time for a couple seconds. Next time you go to unlock, biometrics are disabled and you'll have to enter your passcode. As would, say, a cop. support.apple.com/guide/iphone...

Oh please do! And then Trevor's lawyers should subpoena the entire, un-redacted Epstein files in discovery.

The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks!

Tonight's watch list: - After Hours - Best in Show - A Mighty Wind #catherineohara

I see we're entering the "I was just following orders" phase a bit ahead of schedule.

I want for you, whatever you want for immigrants, queer folk, and people who don't share your religious beliefs.

The Dandys covering the Femmes? Yes, please!

I've been ignoring news about the Melania doc because duh, but still, you can imagine my total lack of surprise when I read today that was directed by the grubby little rapist, and general all-round perv, Brett Ratner. (Bonus points: Ratner also appears in the Epstein Files.)

Apropos of nothing in particular, I thought I'd share some of my favorite extreme makeovers.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen, with WOMEN lead singers - Bratmobile - Heavens to Betsy - Bikini Kill - L7 - Tracy Chapman (also Sonic Youth, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dar Williams, Nanci Griffith, Sean Colvin, Aoife O'Donovan, 10,000 Maniacs, Sean Colvin, Lucinda Williams, ...)

Do this. It works.

JFC. Waiting to board the plane and it's a goddamn battle of people who can see who can have the volume turned up the loudest while blasting their phone & FaceTime conversations in speaker mode. I may need someone to come bail me out of the Burbank jail.

Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured. Trump then pardoned the attackers. He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.

October me: "This deal from the airline looks decent. I should book a trip to LA in January to get a break from the rainy Portland winter, and to start the new year out with a few days of sun, maybe check out some of the climbs around Malibu." January me: "Well, 🤬."

Canada might actually have more justification. After all Venezuela didn't threaten to annex us and turn us into their 51st state.

Smith: He was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on—and he still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol. That’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.

Oh no!

You've got to be the dumbest of all cockwombles to think that "I didn't really lose because I bet against myself and threw the fight," is something to lie and brag about. Nobody gave you odds of winning, nor took a $10 million bet from you. And Andy, NOBODY cried over you getting your ass kicked.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

This is breaking my brain with contradictory emotions. On the one hand the fact that some asshat bigot is using his official government authority to harass trans folks makes me incredibly pissed off. On the other, the fact that he did it to Nancy Mace amuses me to the point of giggling. 🤯

Hey, cut them some slack. After all, it's gotta be taking a lot of folks a lot of time to redact all the mentions and pictures of [we-all-know-who] from those files.

This made me chuckle: “He's making a database. He's sorting it twice. SELECT * from contacts WHERE behavior = 'nice' SQL Clause is coming to town.”

You will be visited by three spirits.

"You can't fire me. I quit!"

“I decided to not cite Bell because she was remorseful and apologetic for hitting the cyclist.” Different day, same bullshit. This is the same crap the cops pulled with the driver that took me out a few block up the road. bikeportland.org/2025/12/05/s...

Jesus Fucking Christ! How the hell does this guy have *anyone* who pays attention to the dumb shit that comes out of his mouth?

The only Black Friday we recognize here

"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering." Farewell, Mr. Stoppard. Thanks for all your silly, eloquent, funny, thinky words.

"Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, SAY NO MORE!"

Twitter implemented a new feature last night that displayed the country an account is in. So many of the ‘America First’ accounts were from foreign countries that they had to disable the feature within hours. 🙄

Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism

Gosh, I didn't think FIFA could be a bigger collection of corrupt asshats, but then they go and prove me wrong.

I hope it's respectful today to recommend Adam McKay's movie "VICE," a bio-pic of Dick Cheney with one more amazing transformation by Christian Bale, a brilliant choice for narrator, and some truly daring/nuts fourth-wall breaking.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Has anyone seen this woman near Paris recently?

Perfect.

Yesterday I ... * Had great coffee and chocolate pie * Had a good walk with my dog * Went on a bike ride with a great friend * Went on a solo bike ride and cleared my head * Caught some excellent live music (Nation of Language) with my girl

* Buddies up to dictators * Threatens to annex allies Canada and Greenland against their will * Changes Dept. of Defense to Dept. of War * Deploys troops against his own people * Whines that they won't give him a Nobel Peace Prize

It was not just Trump and Epstein it was also Trump and Casablancas and the teen models they groomed and booked for “career building” dinners with older men. I remember this. Does most of the press have amnesia? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Just a reminder: they told us exactly what they were going to do as far back as February 2024. The plan has always been to send troops to Democratic states, escalate violence, then use it as an excuse to seize control.

Turns out they don't make guacamole at your table here. No one knows who that guy was.

Somehow I missed that prophecy in the bible, but yeah, I'm down for whatever it takes to get convicted felon, fraudster and sexual predator Trump to release the files.