“Are you Haitian?”

“I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in this city, because what we see today is that it’s not labor, it’s not materials, it’s the weight that’s often costing so many, so much to actually build the housing we need." The Left YIMBY candidate we need!

Silwa really angling for the parade-lovers vote

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

happy sigourney weaver pumpkin photoshoot day to all who celebrate

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Jim Henson designed owls and you can never convince me otherwise

I've been helping Alison Fraser get her back catalog out digitally, but in doing so, we unearthed a demo from William Finn's unproduced musical of Mary Poppins, which you can stream today! Finn fans will recognize the melody immediately. open.spotify.com/album/5zykKj...

They also have DVDs full seasons of TV shows and movies. And if you don't have a DVD player you can get a DVD/Blu-Ray for under 100 bucks or an external drive for your computer for around that if you don't have a TV

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

I keep imagining an Always Sunny episode titled "The Gang Sets Monetary Policy"

So.... 1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz" 2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump. 3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order. 4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

Something about "they indicted the ham sandwich but not the guy who threw it"? I need help workshopping this www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

I like to imagine Vincent D'Onofrio just sitting in his trailer, thinking of all the things Wilson Fisk would and wouldn't do.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

quite literally yes, you fool

I love him

I believe the Americans will greet Nintendo as liberators

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity

the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”

the parent of a trans kid in missouri begged the new york times not to use an audio clip in The Protocol podcast of a verbal confrontation with professional transphobe Jamie Reed out of fear of safety for her kid and NYT management refused her request.

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

Obviously more important things are happening today but I just discovered that the girl who sang Komm, süsser Tod in End of Evangelion posts nonstop conspiracy theories on her fbook page, including that Mamdani is going to implement Sharia Law in NYC

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

Its resources will exceed the entire military budgets of almost every country on the planet

Interesting to hear supposed Christian Jason Smith called the Gospel of Matthew a bunch of hogwash. I have a feeling that Matthew 25:41 might become very familiar to him in time.

Also THE BILL IS BECOMING MORE UNPOPULAR EVERY DAY. It’s like they learned absolutely nothing from the Abrego-Garcia situation: the longer the conflict sits unresolved, the more attention it garners, and the more opportunities Dems have to make their case. Delay is their best friend.

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

Corruption is the brand

The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views. Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, emerged from his outer shell to condemn Zohran Mamdani. “Zohran needs to denounce his call for violence against the Jewish people,” said Lavos, as the doors of doom opened behind him

The Supreme Court loves taking away rights during the week between Juneteenth and Fourth of July

The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

Ocean’s 12-and-under

brutal thread

as a christian with a degree in biblical studies i have a lot of thoughts here but maybe the most relevant takeaway is just how far an interviewer — even an interviewer like tucker carlson! — can get with something as simple as "what do you mean by that?"