AS IT IS HALLOWEEN, It IS TIME FOR ME TO POST THE HALLOWEEN POLLING JOKE:

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Stretched thin air traffic controllers getting $0 pay stubs working multiple jobs. This is a safety risk, for anyone flying soon

I know a lot of people talk about "Ken Griffey's swing", "John Olerud's swing" but for my money there is nothing more beautiful than Alejandro Kirk: - 5'7 and built like a Welsh corgi - basically drops halfway into a splits on each swing - each swing is a Street Fighter "Shooooryuken" uppercut

This is the week I think we passed the last offramp. Maybe we were done a while ago, but I optimistically held hope for a democratic transition and now I don't believe it's going to happen.

Sometimes I feel I've got to Run away I've got to

Do you see the vision?

Lots of talk about this in the aviation community. A 737 over Utah may have been struck in the windshield by a meteorite. I want to emphasize that the safety design worked and the plane landed safely. If this turns out to be true it is an exceedingly rare, possibly unique event.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

My teammate Gary and I destroyed the competition at trivia night. Good times. Maybe next week I'll learn Gary's last name

Around this time of year just before Halloween I am reminded of E.T. getting stranded on this planet

A 32-hour workweek would result in 10x more books read for pleasure.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The Resurrection of Christ, by Johann König, 1622, 📸 by @Yannickpeterhan

Let’s talk about what real strength looks like—and how Trump’s MAGA “alpha male” act is the opposite of it. 🧵

The Pi Phone isn't real, med beds aren't real.

Don't forget: delete browser history

you need to admit your crush before the rapture

CVS in Florida is now accepting self-verification of eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine, so I'm scheduling mine now

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage. Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.

We say the cliches because they are true: Political violence consumes everything it touches. We cannot have a liberal democracy when people try to end political disagreements with bullets. I hope Charlie Kirk survives, for all our sakes.

For deck.blue users to turn off gifs

2x root canals I am not looking forward to tomorrow, so nobody start WW3 overnight please.

Age Verification? Quantum Link

Here's a glimpse of what diphtheria was like before the vaccine. My great grandmother lost 3 children over three days - she was pregnant with my grandfather at the time.

Fam, Dr. Houry is on BlueSky. She was the Chief Medical Officer at the CDC before she and several others very publicly resigned in response to the clear and present danger posed by RFK Jr. I highly, HIGHLY recommend that you follow this extraordinary woman and leader. @drdebhoury.bsky.social

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

*pointing upward and nodding sagely on Tiktok*

My mother grew up less than a mile away from this site. It should not be erased, but remembered and memorialized.

1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Alien Earth keeps getting weirder and I'm hooked

"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.

Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

From @markhertling.bsky.social — retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

Sting in Dune (1984)