You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Parental scarelore becomes psychic cicatrix. All those tales of Wishbloods, Harrowhounds and Stay Belows become bone tattoos. Deep inside lives a dread, an internal voice of warning. The calling beauty of the river falters to old, parent-instilled fear. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore

Amazon Says Website Outages Ease After Disruption www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

"Ms. McMullen was detained.... After being questioned and remaining on a bus for hours, she was allowed to go back to her apartment. “My bed was turned upside down,” she said. “My mattress and stuff flipped over. My paperwork and stuff just thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

He's just a weird little dude

"Prosecutors, after failing three times to secure an indictment through a grand jury, charged Reid with simple assault. They say she thrusted her knee upward in a threatening manner toward a federal officer who was holding her back while she was filming." Assault for deep knee bends

"The Israeli government is weighing measures to penalize Hamas... could include limiting the number of trucks carrying supplies into Gaza and suspending the import of fuel and cooking gas, the two diplomats said." That didn't take long www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

This is super clever. This is definitely true for popular TV which falls into and out of favour in definite cycles

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Johnson, asked earlier Tuesday why he had not sworn in Grijalva and whether it was connected to a push to vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, said: “No, it has nothing to do with that at all. We will swear her in when everybody gets back. It’s a ceremonial duty.” Uh huh

"It’s touching to think of Lozano, sitting in the S.M.U. library, practicing an art so intensely private and rigorous that it needed no form, no audience. Had she reached some other plane? Or was she a prisoner of her own neuroses, "

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's California National Guard deployment in Portland a day after making the same ruling on Oregon's troops. https://cnn.it/48NC3G3

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Rupar is well-sourced, so I'm more inclined to believe this, but ¿how does one confirm this? I have to believe there's a registry or public schedule somewhere

Dad didn't leave; he's now just a Force Ghost in our basement

"AGrijalva, D-Ariz is expected to sign on to a House effort to make the files public [and] would provide the critical 218th signature to force a vote over the majority threshold. Speaker MJohnson has delayed swearing in the new lawmaker"

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A performative display faux-bravery and machismo only outdone by your average 14 year old swearing into a headset while playing CoD

(solemnly) You've had mail.

Some truly repugnant and scary pronouncements

Some truly repugnant and scary commandments

[the Court]" rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence.... Carrying on in this fashion, ICE bring indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it." O.O ¡Damn!

"The version of the Constitution delivered to Oklahoma’s classrooms for statewide instruction was 160 years out of date and excluded more than a dozen amendments. " newrepublic.com/post/201057/...

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

"There's this big gap where information should be,” Collins says. They thought “it would be very funny to fill it with complete fucking nonsense.” ¡All aboard!

Petty and childish. Par for the Trump course

Kagan: "the court’s emergency docket “should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. It should not be used, as it also has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the president" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

"Undercover agents posing as businessmen seeking contracts met with Mr. Homan in Sep'24. On the tape of that meeting, Mr. Homan seemed to agree to help the undercover agents secure contracts from the next administration if Mr. Trump won re-election" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

One of the things I really liked about S2 of “Andor” was how few Imperial Stormtroopers there were. Lucas put them in masks for two reasons, IMHO: 1) it made them terrifying, their inhuman faces frozen in frowns, with no pity, feeling, etc. Echo of his enforcer robots in THX-1138.

[Judge Merryday] criticized Mr. Trump’s lawyers for waiting until the 80th page to lodge a formal allegation of defamation, and for including, ahead of it, dozens of “florid and enervating” pages lavishing praise on the president and enumerating a range of grievances. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

"[HepB vaccine] is credited experts with slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20k before '91. Babies infected at birth have a 90% chance of developing chronic HepB, and 1 / 4 go on to have severe complications or die from the disease." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

Haha - Frickin' Normans

This article is amazing from start to phinnish www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A useful article in my ever-failing attempts at staying afloat in the rising storm of home ownership costs www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/r...

“We are not going to talk about the commercial terms of the deal,” Bessent said. “It’s between two private parties. But the commercial terms have been agreed upon.” Chinese officials have yet to confirm Bessent’s statement and were not present at the press conference."

"Nearly half of U.S. states have data privacy laws, but all of them contain carve-outs for law enforcement and national security. " www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"It's pretty indicative of general speech associated with the deep parts of internet culture, in particular the types that are very much into irony posting and edgelord humor.” www.wired.com/story/charli...

~270,000 per year down to near zero. And Kennedy wants to take us back to the Good Old Days

The Internet is not an archive, it's a flea market

"Kilmeade’s initial remark came hours before the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. An MSNBC analyst, Matthew Dowd, was fired for saying on the air that afternoon that hateful rhetoric can lead to hateful actions."

Oh, yeah. No way this couldn't go terribly, terribly wrong

This is systemic, coordinated, intentional. It's terrifying in scope www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The document, dated May 28, 2021, was issued to Cook by her credit union in the weeks before she completed the purchase and shows that she had told the lender that the Atlanta property wouldn’t be her primary residence. " www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

¿What the what?!

M-W is not the dictionary we deserve; but, it is the dictionary we NEED

"The briefers invoked the president’s authority under A2 of the USC to use military force when it is in the national interest, the sources said. The briefers said that lawyers had signed off on the attack but would not disclose which lawyers or what their reasoning was, the sources added.”

"According to the Center on Presidential Transition, the average time to confirm a president's nominee has nearly quadrupled from an average of 49 days to 193 days during the last six presidential administrations." Reps are going to use this for ill, but ~200 days does feel excessive

"It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals." [Freedom Eagle Screech Intensifies]

"But the overall impression left by the lawsuit is far worse: an FBI supine to the Trump White House, led by feckless loyalists who easily wilt under pressure from the likes of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller."