When you don’t know what an ICE agent is…

Make it viral.

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

So glad we got rid of DEI and brought back the MERITOCRACY! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Top Trump administration officials told prosecutors early this year that tax investigations were not a priority... Participants concluded that the department’s new management was “very skeptical about white-collar crime and whether we should be doing those cases."

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

They contribute a lot more to this country than he does

What if he just.....paid more taxes?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Well I’m glad he apologized for… continuing to e-mail Epstein. Because that’s what people had a problem with.

"He said good things about me."

Roman helmet guy is the Hiroo Onoda of the Roman Empire

crazy IG em_clarkson

Fact-check: true 😕

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Epstein apparently got higher than anyone has ever been and wrote himself an email of all the cool shit he thought up

This is a contender for the dumbest thing I've read in 2025

Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Guy in private plane doesn’t like that he has to hire more security to address his personal concerns about crime so he is happy to have the president push guardsmen into the city at taxpayer expense. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Why is every scene in this season of English Teacher filmed like the lights in whatever room their in are off?

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25 9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

"In Trump’s second term, it is now the default position of the federal government that any speech he and his minions do not appreciate can be classified as 'pro-terrorism,' or material support for it."

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Your officers are being impacted. How will you help them? Otherwise they are merely warm bodies on the street for what purpose? Why are they not prepared for chemical agents to be used? DHS does not respect your city. Prepare & act like it

When you don’t know what a government shutdown is…

Today’s Connections was bullshit

Discrepancies in campaign finance filings for Trump's inauguration should concern lawmakers and the FEC thereformcompass.substack.com/p/trump-inau...

"If our judicial officers are not making decisions based on the law and the facts in a case before them, but instead are making decisions based out of fear for their family's safety, that means our entire judicial system is going to start to unravel."

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

For no particular reason, I find myself thinking today about the time that some boogaloo boys were convicted of murdering a Black security guard during a Black Lives Matter protest, apparently in hopes that it would foment a civil war.

"Welcome to 2025, where not only are Cabinet officials threatening to punch each other, but you can bet on it like it’s an MMA fight." www.citationneeded.news/issue-92/#re...

Guess which city Trump is threatening to send the national guard into? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jesus Christ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Disgusted by home state: "If passed, SB 323 would ban all abortion, stripping away exceptions for rape, incest, and fatal fetal abnormalities. Women who end their pregnancies could be charged with murder and subject to the death penalty. (Yes, really...)"

Okay, this lede from the NY Times coverage of Trump's dinner out is pretty great.

This is….good?