The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Will someone more technically savvy than me tell me if this is real? “Fed pisses pants while shooting a protester in the face, with dinosaur-suit lady casually walking behind”. Somehow it just seems like too much. Ugh.

TIL that Todd Field, the director of Tár, was one of the co-creators of “Big League Chew” in 1980. They ran sheets of bubble gum through an office paper shredder to make it like chewing tobacco.

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

The only acceptable Super Bowl halftime show replacement for Bad Bunny would be Weird Al Yankovic performing in the style of Bad Bunny.

Portland No Kings was very chill and peaceful. The guys in the fried egg sandwich cart at Pioneer Square were not phased by the massive crowd. Lots of fun costumes and signs. Unpresidented Band ruled as usual. Nice to hear from my city councilor as well. Tons of kids and boomers.

#portland Cathedral Park Report: there appears to be some kind of Burning-Man-Adjacent dance party getting started. DJ is playing a mix of dub-techno and acid house. This is a little more activity than we usually see in the park, but I think we’re below the National Guard deployment threshold.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Cathedral Park #Portland dispatch. Very quiet out there on this overcast Saturday. A couple of people walking dogs. Light traffic on the bridge. Once again: no fires, no unrest. All of the shops in our little St Johns neighborhood downtown are open and it’s a normal weekend day.

#Portland on Friday night. Not burning down (at all).

Date night in Downtown #Portland part 2. Pho at Luc Lac. This restaurant is right across from the Federal Building. Zero unrest. Nothing on fire.

Date night in Downtown Portland. Larry Owens was amazing in “Primary Trust” at the Armory Theater. Buildings are made of normal stuff, nothing is on fire. Lots of people were out getting dinner. No signs of unrest.

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Every time I see a new AI feature that I didn’t ask for and will never use, I often think, “why can’t we use all of this technology to make a proper 80’s-style bucket brigade chip reproduction? That’s what I want.” Looks like someone did it! cdm.link/ssi2100-bbd-...

I’m surprised the WSJ printed this. Police reports indicate that most days, there are less than 50 protesters at the ICE facility in Portland. The max was around 200 a week or so ago. Not exactly Shays’ Rebellion. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I just drove to 45th and Hawthorne from the river. That is 45 blocks of mixed-use retail and residential properties. People were out shopping and getting dinner. No plywood on any windows. Plenty of stores and restaurants open. Events happening, theaters showing movies. Show at the Moda Center

Cathedral Park Portland unrest update: there is no unrest. The park is mostly empty except for a few dogs and their owners at the off leash area further down towards the river. #Portland

This is it folks. We apparently need the National Guard for this?

All of this stuff is crazy, but the Tom Holman $50,000 bribe-in-a-bag incident is so blatant. The boat murders are also beyond the pale… and of course the Epstein stuff…. This clip has “at long last have you no decency!” vibes.

wizard frog is insane

I just paid a $5 tariff on a $20 electronic components order from Mouser. I used to have a consumer electronics repair shop and that kind of fee on much larger orders would have been rough. I picked the right time to go from professional to hobbyist. Bummed for friends in the guitar amp/pedal world.

#WarRavagedPortland report. Another quiet day in Cathedral park. The squirrels are out and about looking for nuts. There are some crows as well. I went out for tacos last night and nothing seemed to be burning to the ground (at all).There was a guy in a Cadillac driving like kind of an asshole.

Cathedral park report from #WarRavagedPortland. Looks like the “Reign of Terror” might be more of a rain of water today. I saw some caution tape and thought it might be a crime scene, but they were just putting down some new grass. Otherwise it’s pretty quiet. A couple people walking around.

St. Johns Bridge Portland war dispatch: rush hour traffic moving pretty well across the bridge. There was an old man with a straw hat walking on the sidewalk. Someone has a shopping cart or something at the top of the stairs out of the park, but I don’t think we’re quite ready to call Special forces

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Cathedral Park continues to be quiet this overcast Friday morning. A couple of dog walkers out. No sign of battles raging. Not even any cars with loud exhaust. Just crows cawing and the the low rumble of traffic on the bridge. #WarRavagedPortland

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

A calm has descended on Cathedral Park in #WarRavagedPortland after dog walking hour. No more floofs and puppers for now, but if we zoom in we can see the dreaded Weekend Metal Detector Couple! No doubt looking for their buried cache of weapons.

Contractor: so how'd you want the tits? Perky? Big ole cans? Iowa state legislature: the what Contractor: me and the boys was thinking perky Iowa state legislature: this is for the war dead? Contractor: okay writin' that down as perky

"It looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of eighty different vaccines, I guess. Eighty different blends, and they pump it in... So, ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

We need you to infiltrate a notorious pedophile hangout. To make sure they don't suspect you, you will be a real-life pedophile. To do this, we are going to have you become best friends with the main pedophile for years, and then to ensure you don't get in trouble, you need to get elected president.

I fixed the Cracker Barrel logo if anyone is interested! #illustration #branding

Kill me

Educacioun that doth focus on 'workforce' alone wythout serious focus on the thrivinge and curiousitye of the individual and on the collective exploration of big questiouns about societye, knowledge, power, love, historye, and art -- that ys not educacioun, that ys just control.

It occurred to me that they are going to have to bring in foreign mercenaries to fully staff ICE. There will be no acknowledgement of the irony of the situation because the brain-melting dissonance is a flex.

Happy Jimmy Page plays with The Beach Boys and Mr T day to those who celebrate.

One of the funniest cat postures.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Working on a set of Hawaiian-style steel guitar electronic music. It’s a messy process but things are starting to come together.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Looks like we’ve got a stacked conclave people. I wish they live-streamed this thing.

Still true

Good luck gang. Jesus……