I need 30 people to subscribe to @garbageday.email right now. Please. We're so freaking close to 100,000. Please 😭🙏🏻❤️ www.garbageday.email

Some personal news: I have successfully bullied another friend into starting Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

This discovery would be one for the ages…

MOVING IS HELL

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.

To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit

4x Garbage Day byline today from me, @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, and @jlfeder.bsky.social. Here's everything the Epstein emails reveal about how he and Steve Bannon tried to unravel global democracy: Epstein helped build MAGA. Has he blown it? www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...

I’ve reported on so many regular people being threatened and villified by conspiracy theories and hatred for people, many times spread by MTG. It’s awful when anyone has to deal with harassment and threats and I wonder if the congresswoman can look inward, too

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

An absolute triumph for the "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards" set.

Everything I’ve learned about RFK Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.

Incredible things are happening on Facebook Marketplace:

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

I wrote about the TikTok social experiment that's gone super viral for @garbageday.email: A woman is calling up religious organizations around the country and asking if they can provide her with a can of formula for her starving baby — the results are shocking. www.garbageday.email/p/a-more-but...

I need more people to play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 because I have an almost pathological urge to talk about it. (Cough, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, cough cough)

I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.

As always, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nails it in his analysis of yesterday’s elections from the Very Online perspective:

Sorry to that man

I can feel it in my bones. Tonight’s going to be a great night for #content.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Cause of death: the Gestral Games in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures. [These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

PRINCE ANDREW HAS BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS TITLES AND EVICTED FROM ROYAL LODGE. In other totally unrelated news, more than 100 court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein’s finances are being unsealed today by order of a federal judge: www.courthousenews.com/judge-to-uns...

It will be interesting to see what will happen to the "Duke of York" title from here on out. Historically, the title has been given to the second son of the monarch. I wonder if Andrew's association with it means it'll be put back on the shelf for a few generations...

These are the days when I think to myself, "Maybe I should make a royal TikTok channel."

For those wondering, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will be moving to a property on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, UK. 📸: @Reuters

I wonder if we're a few hours/days away from a new Epstein Files story and Buckingham Palace was contacted for comment...

Buckingham Palace: Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles and will now be known as "Andrew Mountbatten Windsor." He will also be evicted from his home on the grounds of Windsor Castle, Royal Lodge.

I WAS IN A MEETING WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED

Getting off Substack is the right move. I would compare it to moving from an app like Garageband to Ableton or Logic. Or switching from clip art to creative stock images. My business has grown. My readership has grown. Substack fills your list with junk signups, takes your money, and holds you back.

No one is coming to save us but us.

Stayed up until midnight so I could get a few chapters into Virginia Giuffre’s “Nobody’s Girl” before bed and it turned into a few hours. (Warning: this book is exactly as rough as you think it is.)

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

NEW: Documents obtained by the Times show that Prince Andrew hasn't paid rent on Royal Lodge, his mansion on the Windsor Estate, for 22 YEARS: www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

IT’S OFFICIAL: Prince Andrew will no longer use his “Duke of York” title or any other honours. Full statement:

Question for the masses: How bad is the flu shot / COVID-19 booster this year? (By "bad" I mean "On a scale of 1 to 10, how much will I feel like hot garbage after I get it?" I recognize we all have unique bodies and we have different reactions each year, just trying to gauge.)

already heard from a couple people here! but want to talk to more!!!

Question for the masses: How bad is the flu shot / COVID-19 booster this year? (By "bad" I mean "On a scale of 1 to 10, how much will I feel like hot garbage after I get it?" I recognize we all have unique bodies and we have different reactions each year, just trying to gauge.)

I started at Notre Dame during the rollout of the HPV vaccine and it was a BIG deal that we could get the shots on campus (I think there was a bit of a controversy about that, IIRC). I can't tell you how many girls/18 year-old women got the shots without telling their parents.

Just popping on to say that “Mate,” by Ali Hazelwood (out this week) is a delight. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Phoebe does a very good impression of a loaf of bread.

Few things warm my heart more than seeing people who have me blocked share/cite my stories to prove their point(s).

Catholic followers! Does anyone have any experience obtaining records/proof of Sacraments from parishes/dioceses? Especially if they're super old records. (I was literally a baby when I was Baptized, how am I supposed to know where my certificate is?!?!)