This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it? Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean. He served for 37 years.

this is literally what the nazis did. the nazis claimed that that 98 percent of prostitution worldwide was controlled by Jews.

I'm sure it's just prurient interest, but come on, now I need to know what obligation this is that Musk has in February 2026. 😭 s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Dollar Store and Family Dollar are charging more than the shelf price for items, and getting away with it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This sign raises more questions than it answers

“Several other people…said they faced the same line of questioning about antifa. Some said they were asked if they’d been “flown in” by a moneyed group to protest, and were pressed to share the name of their “leader.” www.opb.org/article/2025...

As of Monday, Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges, essentially on suspicion of them being judges, as opposed to sure-thing compliant cogs in the mass deportation machine ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The buck stops right below me.

Pete Hegseth is a coward.

Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits

@juliethecranky.bsky.social , the Winter Egg, my favorite, just sold for $23 million. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The headline I feel like is that all the philanthropic donations from billionaires typically have a shitload of restrictions. Mackenzie is like “you’re doing work to stop something horrible or to help something good? Cool. Here’s a few hundred million.” and the paper is like “wow… so novel”

While the administration has said it is cutting “woke programs” that “poison the minds of Americans", it actually funded fewer grants in every area of science and medicine. “They brought everything to a stop,” said Sarah Kobrin, a branch chief at the N.I.H.’s National Cancer Institute

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

With alt text.

1. This is not what fog of war means. 2. There is no war 3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over 4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.

Massive cheese recall! It’s a lot of shredded cheese sold under store brands so please check carefully. www.allrecipes.com/cheese-recal...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

My personal favorite is this quote: IT IS AN EXTENSION OF THE CLOUD OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS

There is nothing more dangerous than these “earned wage access” services that make you pay to get access to your paycheck a week or 2 early. Companies like Walmart are even calling this part of employee benefits. That is a payday loan. And now so integrated it cannot be regulated

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

Gift link. Hospital defense focused on how unfair it is to invade OR privacy.

the trump White House finally did it; they finally went too far

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

Swashbuckler has a wonderful scene-chewing performance by Robert Shaw.

Thus proving that he doesn't know his arse from his elbow

This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar. (From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

Nov. 5:

Trump's unhinged Truth Social posts raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.

My $600 Google watch had a one-year warranty. It died 18 months into its life. Google will do nothing; repairing it would be $250. I am, needless to say, livid.

yep www.theunpopulist.net/p/even-by-a-...

I can't tell if this guy is being Chotinered, or if the reporter believes in him.

So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank www.404media.co/unauthorized...

The extorter-in-chief is at it again. Brits should be pissed off at this. Read article for free. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/b...

"Each of the six preachers opposes women in ministry and teaches that men should be in charge of families." Important work done here by Brian, important read: ⬇️

News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me. In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

OF COURSE Flock is exploiting gig workers in the Global South to train and interpret data. Real people lie behind so many 'automated' things.

Gustavo Petro: ‘The United States does not have the right to close Venezuelan airspace. It can do so with its airlines, but not with those of the world. Colombia restores civil air service with Venezuela and invites the world to do the same. It is time for dialogues, not for

YIL the Beethoven violin concerto was disliked at its 1806 premier, then unpopular until Mendelssohn conducted it in 1844 with a 12-year-old Joachim as the soloist. Seems impossible, but true. Stumbled over this superb Hilary Hahn/Franklin Radio Symphony recording. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0B...

remember that your ring doorbell starts using face recognition on every face it sees today :)

You ever think the guy with the Tiny Desk just wants to get back to work?

once 'the pullman porters' started demanding a wage and asking for tips instead of accepting whatever they were given, they were presented in print, etc as being poorly kept, pants raggedly, shoes coming apart, looking like a beggar

Christian: Lo, How A Rose E'er-Blooming Secular: Vienna Teng, The Atheist Christmas Carol www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCEZ...

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

In 1989, HP bought Apollo, one of the earliest workstation companies. HP wanted Apollo's VLIM RISC processor "PRISM" and the compiler team who knew how to exploit it. At an early offsite, HP engineers described Apollo engs as "a motorcycle gang"; Apollo, HP eng. as "Stepford Wives". 1/N

sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.