Same energy, tbh

Trump is back to directly threatening ABC over airing Kimmel today

CHOTINER: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of the day. In this part of the country? Located entirely in your kitchen? SKINNER: Yes. CHOTINER: May I see it?

CHOTINER: And you call them steamed hams despite the fact they are obviously grilled.

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

How it started | How it's going

These findings in the new Washington Post poll jump off the page: Trump is underwater by 19 points on his handling of the economy (40/59) and underwater by 30 points on his handling of tariffs. By contrast, the same poll found him at +14 net approval on the economy in Oct. 2020.

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Patience is a virtue. #WorldBollardAssociation

this exists it is called thinking

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It really needs to be said how these “concerns” were literally the default compromise position by every major sporting body since 2015 and anyone arguing other is just looking for further restrictions. And politicians playing into that rhetoric are why the current moment is perilous for us.

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

PROVIDENCE: A new report in response the housing crisis states that without “bold action” in Providence, more residents will continue to be priced out. A city task force says the City Council should "explore" rent stabilization in Providence. www.wpri.com/target-12/ho... @wpri12.bsky.social

The key point I keep coming back to is that the Executive Branch is a spruce that needs to be pruned down to a bonsai, because Presidents never, ever give back power that their predecessors have seized. Congressionalism is the only way forward.

if you are making a joke about how this will never happen you are part of the problem, it's 2025 and we live in Extraordinary Times you are allowed to dream bigger

"You can go on vacation to Rhode Island. You can fly to Providence and be at the ocean in twenty minutes. Newport. They have a restaurant there that's all about grilled cheese. I went had a grilled cheese with mac and cheese right on top of it. It was great." [Short pause]

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

BONG

I dislike the new Android but also I can't remember the old one well enough to tell you why, specifically. The magic of UI design

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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

New York Times, 2025: Nick Fuentes has "no ties to the Trump White House" New York Times, 2022: Trump’s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist

openAI valuation: $300 billion openAI profit: $~30 billion rotatingsandwiches valuation: cost of a couple lunches rotatingsandwiches profit: more than that

But, let’s be clear what John Roberts did this morning: Roberts effectively overturned the Humphrey’s Executor precedent and both lower courts’ rulings in this case in order to allow Trump to fire Slaughter for now — on the shadow docket and through an “administrative” stay issued by him alone.

I concur.

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

real problem that democratic politicians fetishize being “responsible” and “the grown ups”

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

90% chance this is Schatz, right? (Also enjoy the implication here that there's a subset of Dem senators he doesn't respect.)

Donald Malarkey: "Hey, Skip! Where ya been? I've been lookin' all over for you!" Warren Muck: "Well, Don, I was at home in Tonawanda, but then Hitler started this whole thing, so now I'm here"

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, who passed away yesterday, organized the Greensboro Sit-ins at only 17-years-old. Within a month, four young men grew into a nationwide story that electrified the Civil Rights movement. #ncpol #greensboro #civilrights https://www.ncat.edu/news/2025/09/mcneil-passes.php

the new running man movie is, uh, arriving at the right moment

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

It's not enough, BUT the US publishes ~275,000 books a year (probably not incl. self-publishing) which is $825M/annual. Anthropic is worth $183B. Sizeable chunk, given there's literally decades of books covered by copyright.

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

Fun facts and definitions: - a BOG is a wetland that is acidic - a FEN is a wetland that is alkaline - a SWAMP is a wetland that can support trees - a MARSH is a wetland that cannot support trees Now you know!

the thing about the median voter having a completely incoherent set of policy views is that "this person is really likable" can get you extremely far those same voters will often be happy to go "well, sure, I like 'em, give 'em a shot"

These animals are not just a symbolic treehugger cause. They serve a practical purpose, helping to keep other wildlife populations in check, which in turn helps control the spread of diseases in deer and elk. They shape the landscape by preventing deer from stripping plant life from riverbanks.

Ran into Gov. Kathy Hochul walking up Third Ave, just as I left the PIX 11 studio. What’s happening with the mayor? I ask. “That’s what I just said, what’s happening with the mayor? She responded. “We’re not fucking selling out our city.”

How is this so wholesome all the damn time The wizard is seriously one of my favorite things on any social media, ever.

this fall, New York City voters are deciding a ballot measure that could turbocharge turnout in future municipal elections i wrote about it, and just how much it's transformed local turnout in other cities boltsmag.org/new-york-cit...

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Imagine being the pilots learning that's why you're flying over the Mall

BREAKING: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to fast track its appeal — skipping the DC Circuit — in a case over Trump's power to fire an FTC commissioner at will, an action directly in conflict with a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent.

Hmmm, Sean Duffy...

At least three of President Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. www.propublica.org/article/trum...