The CDC tried to remove remote work as an accommodation for disabled people. Working from home is a game changer when you’re chronically ill. It allows people to remain in the workforce who otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Big thanks to the unions who fought this, the CDC caved from the pressure

Didn’t he call Trump Hitler

yeah, but not so Christian he's getting caught up to heaven today, apparently

When they were banning my books, I found out who they were and disproved all their dishonesty and dunked on them so hard and so often both in their communities and to the world that they stopped trying. Try it, everyone! It's super fun and effective! If we all do it, maybe we can save ALL the books

Blinky Palermo, sung to the tune of Bitchin' Camaro www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v3C...

Frank Lloyd Wright Hexagonal weed vase estimate: $3,000–4,000 #weedvase

my kids even made me blue macarons for christmas that year, but i gotta say, that mandalorian trailer looks chopped af

like fifteen years in and seeing unexpected models of furniture from chandigarh i'm like, damn, they really did clean that place tf out

A reminder the day after Donald Trump fired James Comey, Trump hosted the Russian Foreign Minister and the Russian Ambassador in the Oval Office and laughed about it.

Ken CHESEBRO, an architect of Trump's bid to remain in power despite losing the 2020 election, has been suspended from practicing law in D.C. (he'd already been disbarred/suspended in several states) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The promise that the White House will engage in further illegal impoundment during a shutdown should not give Democrats thinking about voting for a CR any confidence that they will forgo illegal impoundment to undo any spending agreement (on Medicaid, for instance) used to get their votes on the CR

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on the many Roman bath discoveries made this summer—it’s a recap of an amazing excavation season and a deep dive into ancient flip-flops worn with socks. Thank you to @lisayinzhang.bsky.social for brilliant edits. May socks be worn with sandals without shame! 🧦 🩴

"The words of the most powerful man in the world mean nothing anymore." - The Süddeutsche Zeitung.

weird quote honestly for a story pointing out lots of historical analogs, although still true because people don't remember history

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief Wednesday in a redistricting case, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should significantly weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to block racial gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Someone needs to give EW's social media person a raise

A+ Greg

huge W

MONDAY: US throws Argentina a financial life raft TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers. @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

that they’re rushing to meet the statute of limitations and have already pushed out a prosecutor who didn’t think they had a case tells me there’s an enormous chance they eat shit in hugely embarrassing fashion if they actually bring this to trial

Three people in ICE custody killed is an atrocity, yes. But if we agree on that - and not everyone does as this administration is clearly fine with who in fact was killed - then what is this? We literally disappeared people. People with families, friends, lawyers. No one knows where tf they are.

My decision to ultimately cancel Hulu/Disney+ came down to the fact that they reinstated Kimmel but didn't say anything about ensuring it doesn't happen again or protecting the free speech rights of their news division.

🚨 BREAKING | Wes Streeting confirms Labour is actively working to BAN trans women AND trans men from female spaces, describing their presence as "unpleasant". Streeting confirmed to MumsNet that Labour aims to exclude ALL trans people from single-sex spaces. (Via MumsNet)

So they stole it

A drone attack killed 8 children and 3 adults at a party in Haiti where a gang leader was reportedly celebrating his birthday Haiti PM Alix Didier Fils-Aimé began allowing drones against gangs after he hired private military firm Vectus Global run by Erik Prince www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

No amount of better messaging, being nicer on social media, or having modest political goals was ever going to work to stop this backlash because the world's richest and most powerful people have all decided they don't want us to exist. How do you even fight blatant lies like this?

I mean, Trump just tweeted it out last night.

I remember when threatening a television network to replace their show or get sued by the President of the United States would have been an impeachable offense. (It was eight months ago.)

My dearest Martha, I write to you from the fields of Shiloh. We fought a grand & terrible battle here. The Rebs howled like furies out of damnation as they charged our lines, wreaking havoc beyond description. Yet amidst this slaughter, all I could think upon was that statue. You know the one.

I’ve always hated this movie. God, this is refreshing.

I already was enjoying this very informative article on watercolor pantings of fruit before they brought in an expert quote from Alice Tangerini

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

'Now look what you made me do.'

Reanimating Enron seems more like bro oneupmanship than satirical art www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TIL that the Tony Blair institute has 900 employees, dwarfs all other UK thinktanks thanks to over £257 million from Larry Ellison, and is foisting Oracle’s AI on everything and everyone in the world while eyeing the NHS data bank. Blair seems owned and operated by Ellison at this point

It’s not about facts: they have access to the same facts as you and me. They know paracetamol is safe. They know global warming is real. They know trans folk aren’t a danger to children. They know. But these facts don’t allow for the division and fear they need to take power. Hence their hate.

They want to label us terrorists for even describing what they're doing to us. It's the ultimate exercise in gaslighting and victim blaming. 19thnews.org/2025/09/proj...

Fortunately he found other funding sources www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Um...

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

Sharing for this strong opening graf. “President Trump, a slumlord at heart, is quietly halting enforcement of the Fair Housing Act...” newrepublic.com/post/200749/...

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Yeah, this is the key point: These bedrock principles -- free speech, reflexive aversion to sniveling authoritarian censorship -- still carry tremendous force deep in the culture, and Trump can't make that disappear with his Sharpie and its magical reality-bending powers.

the low point of US public diplomacy in our history so far

5 USC § 552

white-pilled

Money.

we can't say for sure that these aren't actually death camps

Trump/MAGA have baited media into inflating Kirk into a world historical martyr, thus exaggerating the cultural pull of Trumpism. The reality: It's Trump's authoritarian abuses that are provoking a massive cultural and societal backlash. (h/t @gelliottmorris.com) newrepublic.com/article/2008...