FREE STUFF DAY!

Good for Professor Bakken at West Point. Apparently their faculty restrictions now even include a ban on "expressing opinions" (how does that even work when teaching? We ask our students to express opinions!!!) apnews.com/article/west...

Did you know Donald Trump is an anagram of Lord Dampnut?

I have a bridge to sell her. There's far, far too much evidence of capital collaborating with (particularly right wing) government in the service of its own interests.

So that's a yes then.

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

Dick Tracy rogues gallery-ass administration.

Power outage at ze child's college over the weekend. Apparently the latest example of squirrel mayhem on campus, further deepening the blood feud between the squirrels and their head of campus security.

The Kimmel thing, that Palestinian recognition, other little details. This administration is weak, they're running out of red meat for the masses as the economy craps out, they've lost influence abroad. We have hit the Verkrapt portion of the admin a year before the midterms. Buckle up.

I dunno about the rest of you but I'm off to hoard Tylenol.

BULLSHIT.

Absolutely this. ABC can choose to discontinue the franchise relationship with the stations. Also folks, remember Nexstar and Sinclair may be in your market with a different network, for eg Nexstar operate Fox in Cleveland. Watch who's advertising during the local news and tell the advertiser...

Evil will show itself.

Everyone got their van rental booked? Tomorrow is free stuff day.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Nick "I worked for Facebook between 2018 and 2025" can fuck right off on the subject of bending the knee to Trump. BBC News - PM's 'knee-bending' to Trump is 'cringey', says Clegg www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than enough to buy a controlling interest in a team. BBC News - Horner, the £52m pay-off, and what next for ex-Red Bull boss? www.bbc.com/sport/formul...

The Walt Disney Company don't appear to be having a very good month on the New York Stock Exchange... I can't imagine why.

Delighted that I can revert to having no interest in Jimmy Kimmel.

"Thoughtful conversations" is a way of saying "having our ass handed to us by our customers" I was hitherto unaware of.

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Dear DHS. May I introduce you to the Streisand Effect? Love Badger

*Shakes head* You fuckin' idiots www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

He really is throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. Feels almost desperate.

This is, of course, wildly unconstitutional.

How very British. No muss, no fuss, no fanfare. Just quiet messaging.

America you done effed up by not having this as our VP.

Against defeatism.

Oh my god

It's worse than that. We have a people that punishes comedians but lauds pedophiles.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Gambling is a public health negative. If cigarettes can be taxed out of the wazoo in part to reduce the public health damage, so can gambling.

So Russia is unhappy...

I can say with some certainty that this is blasphemy.

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing. Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this? cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

NSFW a band. Trouser Snake

Pentagon demands journalists covering Pentagon don't do journolism, just act as stenographers for the drunk in charge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Oh fuck this six ways to Sunday

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Banned in various states for being environmentally undesirable? Yup

Dutch Savagery.

Nothing is worth your reputation.

Beautiful illustration of a slightly nerdy end of game theory where 2 equilibriums can exist at the same time in one game. When confronted with the same outcome for two different decisions paths, it's probably better to take the one that lets you sleep at night even if you don't keep your job.

Wouldn't want to be Dolan's secretary this weekend when his holiness finds out.