Minneapolis showing us how it's done!

Slightly diminish a band: Clipper Sisters

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

Everybody in the 6% is sitting in a diner in rural Kansas surrounded by Washington Post reporters

A few weeks ago it was "treason". Now downgraded to "we're cutting your retirement benefits"

Oh. No. Gail finally found the thing that will trigger me. I'm cooked.

Great to know I'm contributing to GDP growth by sending an extra $800 a month to an insurance company next year! Feels productive!

If the Epstein files law accomplishes nothing else, at least it got him to shut up early one time

Why aren't sun-dried tomatoes called tomaisins? Seems like a missed opportunity

My favorite amendment? I mean the 1st is the OG, obvs, and there's always a special place in my heart for the 14th, but I gotta say the 25th is looking better and better to me

Sounds about right.

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I struggle with what to call AI assistants, because we need to stop implying that there's anything intelligent about them. "Bullshit fountains" is the most accurate and evocative name, but you can't use that one just anywhere. "Text extruders" is also accurate but seems unlikely to catch on.

"Shaking hands? That's what we're going with? Really? <Heavy sigh> OK, let's do this."

Kavanaugh stop

Share a tv series you've watched from beginning to end more than once

BOSS: Okay team, we need to come up with a name for our new descaler product JRR TOLKIEN: I have some thoughts

Oh no! The face-eating leopards have started to eat each other's faces

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Every GOP speechwriter in DC has a tab open with a draft starting "Today I am shocked and deeply saddened to learn ... "

Remember how Elon said that Trump was in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t let them be released and he apparently knew all about that but then decided to be friends with Trump again a week later so he just deleted that tweet and doesn’t mention it and no one regards that as a bit of an issue

The Feds deceived them by conducting a green card interview, subsequently arresting his wife, and mocking them while taking selfies.

PHILLIP: Republicans are saying that Chuck Schumer is afraid of you. Is he? AOC: I don't think so. Sen. Schumer and I have worked together. I think Republicans are afraid of me and they project their fear onto him. So they're just telling on themselves when they say that.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

What's your earliest memory of anything "political"? Me: watching a Republican president resign on TV over his involvement in a criminal conspiracy Kids, 50 years from now: a Republican president tear-gassed me

Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?

Didn't expect that the first inning of the WS I would tune into would be the bottom of the 17th of game 3

Andrei Tarkovsky's Speed Racer

Headlines from David Brooks, 2020-2025

ICE lies. Surprise surprise.

Good to know that's how we deal with nazis at my alma mater

"i just use it to generate ideas"

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Buffoons, yes. But dangerous buffoons.

So, how much is all this costing us taxpayers, exactly?

"War ravaged"

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

I was with two other well-informed, politically engaged, college-educated adults over 45 when I first saw posts about the shooting, and neither of them knew who Charlie Kirk was.

One. Day.

I mean, are these weirdos really pretending that there's any question about whether or not it's his signature? And are we really going to pretend to take them seriously instead of just laughing in their faces? Just laugh at them. It's okay to laugh at things that are laughably dishonest.

Frankly I feel just a trifle disappointed

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

I find this delightful.

20 agents to arrest one guy? How much is all this cosplay costing US taxpayers?

Um ... how much is all this fascist cosplay costing US taxpayers?

In case anybody needed an update, it's August and AIs still can't tell you how many r's are in the word "strawberry"

Gen X finally getting our heads out of our asses?

Your tax dollars etc etc