I bet you didn't know squids got this glamorous

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

CHOTINER: But you’ve had romantic entanglements in the past. For instance, Lucy Westenra? DRACULA: Tragic case. The poor girl. CHOTINER: Died of acute blood loss, I believe? DRACULA: Attacked by a wolf, I think. CHOTINER: You can turn into a wolf, right? DRACULA: That’s right. CHOTINER: Thank you.

CHOTINER: They call you Vlad the Impaler. DRACULA: It is a folk legend among the peasants. They are simple people. CHOTINER: Simple people, many of whom you had impaled. DRACULA: I don't think any of the people I have had impaled are accusing me of anything. CHOTINER: That's certainly true.

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...

It's remarkable that people still think of this in terms of large amounts of manual labor, when modern manufacturing is largely automated, with administrative and high-skilled jobs dominating the process to manage machinery. If you want to do the former, build housing.

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

If you ever want to make a case against “liberal elites” without sounding like/giving credence to far-right culture warriors, a few quotations from this interview will suffice.

And, as O&G prepares to enter its "terminal and irreversible secular decline" stage, the politics of both provinces/states have gotten progressively more unhinged.

Oil and gas owners are worse than normal rent seekers because the value of their goods is almost totally independent of the prosperity of their environs apply-liberally.ghost.io/fossil-fuel-...

"The most substantial social gain came from improvements in psychological wellbeing, contributing almost €80 million to total benefits." Great news! But I'm sorry to say that the sickness runs deep when even "psychological wellbeing" must be translated into cash value in order to count at all

I talked on MSNBC today about the corruption playing out at the FCC. This isn't just about Jimmy Kimmel being silenced. The FCC is planning to change the rules to allow the company that shut down Kimmel to have a monopoly-like stake in local TV ownership.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

I support the status quo of women are too weak to be Space Marines but are strong enough to become Custodian Guard who are significantly stronger than Space Marines because it is the funniest possible stance to have.

Pope White Sox sweeps New York

Sold it out, really

We are all this guy

During trump’s speech, he’s so real

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"Ultimately, peace and stability in Europe can only be sustained when Russia accepts the loss of its empire and consolidates a clearly-defined set of national interests as a post-imperial country." euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

The UK "finally remedied the problem in 1911 by compelling the lords to accept strong limits on their own power—not through persuasion, but by threatening to pack the lords with as many new dukes and earls as would be necessary to break the aristocratic grip on democratic governance."

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.

In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Now that’s what I call a pivot

lol fuck yeah

The boss level mob boss dream

"That gives us 32%. Under a third of American adults are Trump voters, and 53% are Trump disapprovers — with 48% intensely opposed." This is the math that matters for anyone consumer-facing. Culturally, we're miles from a 50/50 nation. One side is much richer. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"Elk graze in the distance. Servers pass what they say is crudités: two celery sticks and two mini carrots rolling around in a paper dish, with an optional puddle of ranch dressing. A drone zips above the party and a man drives his rental car into a ditch." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

dudes rock

Libertarianism once again proves its worth as a theory of governance

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

In the week after Trump was elected the first time, and well before he assumed office, someone at DoD published the unclassified manual for lawful airstrikes. It read as foreshadowing, a check for when those rules get changed or ignored, a document of what rules were. www.popsci.com/pentagon-tar...

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

the free speeching will continue until the free speech doesn't

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

this isn't my opinion, this is fact. this is what the department of defense's law of war manual says

Man, so many Dem consultants cut their teeth in the 1990s when the logic of abortion as a wedge issue cut in a completely different way than it has in the last 10-15 years and especially in the last three.

Worth it for the soundtrack alone

lol they reeling

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

I am horrified by how many things this could be referencing

“Unhoused” I can see; like there’s a line to it. You’re trying to focus on something different. “houseless” vs “homeless” is trying to self-alienate so normies validate your priors by ignoring you because You Sound Weird. don’t want power want to endlessly critique power etc

man he’s still got it