this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Ah, yes, the double standard. Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it. Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk. Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching." He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Correcting this: it is $28 billon in funds cancelled in blue states, not $18 billion. So 1.5 Milei bailouts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

These are murders, pure and simple. There is no other way to conceive of them morally or legally. It's no different than if he had 27 people brought into a room, handed a machine gun to a subordinate, and ordered that they be shot down in front of him.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

Jesus fucking Christ.

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

It's getting ever harder to break through and find readers even though there are so many avenues for discovery. But maybe the best one is serendipity. New or old, there's a good book waiting for you today.

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

The Speaker of the House isn't allowed to give that answer. He's not some guy who missed the local news that night. Anyone not following up with "isn't it your job to know? What were you doing instead of paying attention to services being cut for American children" isn't a journalist

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Racism, conquest, extractive and exploitative trade, rape; all of these have always been live moral questions. There was never a moment of enlightenment where human progress allowed people to finally see that they were wrong. There have always been those saying that it was wrong.

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

If these are the ads I’m thinking of — people in the midst of otherwise nice, fulfilling and communal activities, except they’re staring unblinking at their phones and muttering things like “more yards, more yards, more…” — then holy hell this person is sociopathic.

Ms. Diane Keaton. Dictionary, je ne sais quoi, her picture. I loved her. I loved her gorgeous work.

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

…I hate the admin. I’ll admit, that is one thing that I might be tempted to outsource to AI (as if it could do it). But the writing itself? Dearly beloved, no one can stare into the abyss for me. No one can examine and parse the filaments of my soul for me. And I absolutely would not want them to.

it does feel bizarre to me. and like it doesn't need to be an either/or? like i can imagine a speech, ad, what-have-you like, they're threatening your health and the health of our democracy. they could be taking care of sick kids but they wanna take away kids' parents. none of us can live like this

I didn't claw my way out of trauma breakdown back into creating to have a little plagiarism collage machine make stuff for me that is not my voice and not my creative decisions Creative people need creativity like breathing. We would rather the robot clean the house so we have mote time for creating

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Doubt.

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic. He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

My take on Roberts is that he’s a figure familiar to history, the credentialed and charming man who seemed so dazzling to his contemporaries, so plainly a bumbling failure to everyone else. A magnificent fool.

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance. And I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of its process." Can you fucking fathom that, Ari? (Henry James)

Of course he has

The replies on the editorial include many versions of “thanks for finally convincing me to cancel.”

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon. Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it. At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

this is an incredibly evil thing for fetterman to break party ranks on. like...maybe worse than manchin or sinema?

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

I gotta say: the papacy of a Chicagoan with the cultural competency to comment firmly, yet carefully, on U.S. events has been a hell of a plot twist.

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

Women: Hey, how's it goi— Men: So here's what I think your breeding quota should be.