ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

Gee, ya think? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The only thing I regret about following this game is I missed all the real time skeeting. I'll know better next time.

Back when I was a lad, my grandfather would listen to ballgames on the radio. Now I watch play by play updates on Yahoo Sports. Improvement? No, probably not. But it's okay. LA has been going through hell of late, so right on Dodgers!

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Whistles! Let’s organize to give everyone whistles and teach the ICE alert codes! Whistles are helping Chicago resist. Let’s learn from their experience

This is the kind of clip that will have legs in our current economy.

I loved motels, still do. The plastic wrapped glasses, sanitized for your protection. The mystery of them--who'd slept in this bed before me? Criminals on the lam, new lovers? My dad taught me to swim in motel pools. Our dysfunctional family actually got along. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You can't un-ring that particular bell, pal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

It would be a shame if this photo lived on the internet forever...

More carnage from war torn Portland...

In case you need something to perk you up today, (and who doesn't)... www.thedailybeast.com/dog-practica...

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

Here's updated images of wartorn Portland. www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/w...

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AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

Obsta principiis: Resist the Beginnings

There's still hope, folks. When you push back, they move... www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

Nail, meet head...

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Hoo boy...

At the drab end of a very drab week, this was a shining beacon of hope.

Oh hell yeah. Please support the cause and repost. #WarrenZevon

Omigod, he DOES have a separate identity!

GIFT ARTICLE: How MAHA pulls vulnerable people into their rabbit hole (and then shovels it shut). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Anti-ICE/Gestapo protest - Chicago, IL Right now!

Doctors I trust more that RFK Jr.

Even lacking a shred of integrity, you'd have to be insulted for thinking you could be bought off that cheaply. www.mediaite.com/politics/eri...

Everybody gets to be Vampire! EVERYBODY GETS TO BE A VAMPIRE!

Here's part of the problem... www.thedailybeast.com/americans-re...

The phone is mightier than the Glock.

People often dislike when art isn't fun and/or comforting. They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them. They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous. In short, these are all good things for art to do.

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

If you're too much of an asshole for other two-percenters, you are a giant asshole.

If you haven't yet read this complete banger of a novel, now's the time!

Time to start my 2025 reading thread! Every year I post a short review of the books I read and enjoy, so you can check them out too. Warning: I read a lot (80-120 books/yr is normal for me) so follow if you don't want to miss them!

Well, that was suspiciously quick...no coincidence here, I'm sure. www.mediaite.com/media/breaki...

Grabagun. com? Are you fucking kidding?

GIFT ARTICLE. Just so you know how well your Congresscritter is representing your interests. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end—at least if Cloudflare gets its way. The IT infrastructure firm has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program.

Fixed

🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 *squinting* We had more people at the Lincoln Memorial for our Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! #StandUpforScience #FailedBirthdayParade

Marco's obvious misery and knowledge that in three years time his career will be a smoking ruin is cold comfort for everything else, but you take what you can get.

This might be the most unsettling thing you've read today. And yes, I know what's happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

what i see is a white house whose ambitions outstrip its resources, who did not count on facing mass resistance, and which is scrambling to escalate the situation in hopes that a display of force will make people shut up

I'm getting very tired of seeing the term "mercurial" used to describe our current leader, when the correct term is erratic and inconsistent.

Oh yeah. Count me in.