"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Which really only applies to "luxury" hotels. The sort of mismatched apartments and minimal-expenditure commercial sites are a different thing indeed. Pretending to care or be human or be a space to live in. Waiting for the link between ruined gothic mansions and dead malls.

The Tariff King is learning that tariffs don’t work because they are a tax paid for by the American People. And we should have a federal law making taxes of any kind on food illegal.

Yes, a magat *did* buy Dominion. I've posted about it before, but nobody cares because I'm nobody. Please care! Share this shit..........!

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Listen to this BS from Duffy. (Whose aviation-world experience = zero.) I know 1000 times as many controllers as he's ever met. OK, maybe only 100 times as many. This is offensive beyond belief.

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection. The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Edward Hopper Locomotive, 1944

Every winter, thousands of birds died from something completely preventable. They would land on salted roads and sidewalks, instinctively licking the salty surface for minerals. But traditional rock salt contains dangerously high sodium levels that cause severe dehydration, disorientation, and often

"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."

Back in 2017, Trump revealed, in a friendly interview with the NYT, that he literally did not understand how health insurance works. The NYT editors bailed him out instead of following up. I wrote about it then, and I still think about it all the time: www.commonwealmagazine.org/man-who-knew...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Democrats: "We don't think hard-working people should go bankrupt paying their medical bills just to give tax cuts to billionaires." Republicans: "Then we're at an impasse."

Madre de Dios. A Redditor just asked for help identifying this obscure object.

Hmm, who’s autographed it though ?

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

This is amazing news. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Intelligence” added to “artificial” is simply marketing palaver to strut: “Don’t I look good in these words.”

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Down Cemetery Road is gorgeous photographed/art directed. The blues and greens in ep 1 and 2 are pleasing.

Farage: epic grifter

Tokyo’s so-called “phantom” stations no longer serve passengers and are often closed to the public👻 I explored a few of them — weathered, industrial traces of how the city has expanded, reconfigured and adapted to a growing metropolis🎃 www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10...

Erving Goffman as Social Anthropologist Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0. Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

8000 years of world history in one glance.

Jeffries: "He's found time to demolish the East Wing in the most horrific way possible bc he wants to erect a ballroom so he can be celebrated like a king. He's found time for all of these different things, but somehow can't be bothered to find a dime to extend the ACA tax credits."

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

Yes! Put some respect on her name!

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Slow Horses 🐌🐴 | tv #SlowHorses Gary Oldman and Mick Herron (author of the Slough House books)

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

My dad built a lot of long neck lutes in his life, and one of his masterpieces is a Turkish lavta. He just gave (!) me this instrument because 'I'm not getting any younger, son' (he's 82). It's gorgeous. Every piece you see is handmade.

I’m listening to this very interesting episode of the Legacy podcast about potatoes—thanks to @nelnelnellie.bsky.social for the recommendation! Thinking about the history of potatoes with an eye toward #PlantScience and what will happen going forward! On, 🥔

Richard Scarry’s conception of sanitary drainage systems (labeled here as “dirty water”) appears identical to how some of the earliest plumbing systems were installed in the US and UK in the early 19th century.

The Italian-style standalone bidets are the worst of the bidets, but are infinitely more civilized than not having one at all. And they (plus the window requirement) make the bathroom big enough that you can often chop one old-school Italian bathroom into two:

Today’s #1000postcards is the Raven, so much bigger than you think This highly intelligent King of the Corvids with its glossy black plumage and cronking calls has a phenomenal place in many cultural folklores From companion to Norse gods to the keeper of England at the Tower of London 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤