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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

What is an “association health plan?”

Remember when Trump accepted a $400 million plane from the Qatari government earlier this year, raising some ethical and national security concerns among experts? Welp, there’s no such thing as a free lunch — or plane.

“Get off my Chicago!”

He said he’d do it on Day 1 of his first administration.

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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found. At stake are 5 congressional seats. If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

The 82nd Airborne is not a police force, to put it lightly. They arrive, assault and destroy. They fight in big wars. The idea that they would be deployed to Portlandia is so absurd that it’s laughable. And yet, this is where we’re at.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

I first read that as bathroom and wasn’t that shocked to see it was costing $200 million.

Meanwhile millions dealing with loss of jobs, cuts in healthcare benefits and higher costs. But go on about the 24 karat gold baubles in your office.

Kitchen table issues

Can I breathe now. Cardiac stress test at the end.

Where’s this war-ravaged Portland I keep hearing of?

This is the Justice Department report the Trump administration wants nobody to see. So whatever you do, don’t retweet it, or else more people will learn who’s really behind the majority of homicidal domestic terrorist incidents.

I miss the old days. 😩 Back when journalists asked REAL questions! 📝 #DanRather #WalterCronkite #BarbaraWalters #ReeseWaters

Elvis Costello Break Elvis Costello and the Attractions • Pump It Up (1978)

Tylenol gave me grey hair.

This is the governor of the most populous state in the US saying this.

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Back when Texans were giants.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

President Trump received thunderous applause during his second inaugural address in January when he vowed to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

Fox News host literally advocated for murdering homeless people on air, on the most watched television network. But Jimmy Kimmel......

What *exactly* did #Kimmel say that got everybody on the right up in arms?

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

UC Berkeley—where the Free Speech Movement began.

These guys just want your attention, which translates to clicks and money. Don’t give it to em.

Reporters should update their posts. This one is hopelessly out of date — two “suspects” have now been detained and released since this post went up.

A letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

Patel has proved to be.. the *Lowest Scum of the Earth*, like Trump! Giardina’s wife, Colleen, passed away from cancer in Fairfax, Virginia, on July 15 at age 49. A former professional ballet dancer and teacher, she is survived by her two sons with Giardina. currently.att.yahoo.com/news/article...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

"For Greg Abbott: California is the fourth largest economy in the WORLD. We contribute $83 billion to the federal government while Texas takes $71 billion." --@gavinnewsom Gavin Newsom, Governor of California

Woke

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

What’s the German word for when you go to Starbucks for a coffee and they tell you they’re out of coffee?

Such respect for women.

Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?

White House reporter Alex Thompson still thinks Biden is president, I guess.

Tom Hanks can hold his head up high.

Moon over our backyard neighbor’s home at dawn.

The Onion strikes again! Er, wait what?!?