If you are Border Czar Homans, and you did NOT take the $50,000 in a paper bag, wouldn't you been screaming at the top of your lungs that you want the FBI tape of the transaction released publicly in order to clear your name? Yet he isn't doing that. Hmmmm......

Does anyone know someone who was raptured yet?

Lmaooooooo

L'actrice Claudia Cardinale est morte à l'âge de 87 ans

Just an account of terrible depravity (alleged, but you know NYT is locked down or wouldn't be publishing). I rarely feel sorry for Elon, who has used his power to kill and harm children on a massive scale via DOGE and is spreading bigotry worldwide, but this is really a sorry father to have drawn.

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

I feel like a pretty good rule of thumb is don't take drug advice from someone who can't pronounce the name of it.

Just release all the Epstein files www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

"Elite colleges have convinced us that scarcity equals quality, that a lower acceptance rate means a better education. But their own behavior shows that many of their decisions are more about manipulating the market than academic or any other kind of excellence." 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

"Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. Geneticist explains analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

who was it that was arguing on here a few weeks back about how the right wing never writes history or whatever

You get a curse, and you get a curse!

Oreo feels strongly that not enough people realize that nothing -- nothing -- is too important not to be napped through

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

Meanwhile, in Thomas Circle news

As we keep saying: when the humanities are in trouble, the sciences are, too; generally, at UK universities, the sciences are cross-subsidised by the arts and humanities. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Vote out Muriel Bowser and the council members who voted for this boondoggle

Vaccinations have been so successful that “there's been a collective forgetting that measles, and mumps, and rubella—these used to be diseases that would kill people in fairly large numbers,” the Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna tells Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic Festival. bit.ly/46a5DUE

Eww

Kennedy : la fin d’une illustre dynastie politique ?

We have become Putin's greatest ally for some reason?

Saturday mood

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

The Constitution doesn't defend itself.

this exists it is called thinking

Joshua Bell playing Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto (exquisitely) at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra gala opener earlier tonight at Strathmore: program repeats Saturday night at the Meyerhoff www.bsomusic.org/giving/gala/

Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22nd September. Here in the margin is depicted the blowing of the shofar. l'shanah tovah u'metukah 🍯 BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.251v

First we get kissing bugs, now alligators wtop.com/dc/2025/09/d...

Absurd lawsuit thrown out abcnews.go.com/US/judge-tos...

Une université américaine lance une enquête sur un professeur d’archéologie suspecté d'être un « antifa » www.legorafi.fr/2025/09/19/u...

My thoughts (for Washington Classical Review) on "The Tragedy of Hamlet" directed by Robert Lepage (of the "machine" Ring Cycle at the Met) and seen at Wolf Trap last night (Photo: Rei Linam/Wolf Trap) washingtonclassicalreview.com/2025/09/18/p...

Cannot recommend Philip Kennicott's article enough (in today's Style section of the Washington Post) on the history of a chilling, celebrated photograph and the government's possible attempt to remove it from display

New week's cover of The New Yorker, "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

🎶 Cue "Hallelujah" Chorus 🎶

🇺🇸 Aux Etats-Unis, plusieurs figures influentes de la sphère trumpiste questionnent la trace laissée dans l’histoire par Hitler. On vous explique. ➡️ https://l.lexpress.fr/fdi

Pray for us, St Hildegarde

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

To celebrate, get a pizza, which is circle made up of triangles and is <wait for it> a pie.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

On the subject of violent political rhetoric against conservatives, notice who is suggesting the Secretary of Defense be executed. (Hint: neither leftists nor transgender people.) (If you guessed "white supremacists" then your prize is nothing, that's of course the answer.)

After rising to stardom in the 1960s, Robert Redford was one of the biggest stars of the ’70s with such films as “The Candidate,” “All the President’s Men” and “The Way We Were.” https://to.pbs.org/46mvirV

Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Musk and other corporate chiefs on.ft.com/46BkXd0

Regret. WHERE IS KRISTI NOEM? These were her officers and agents. The South Koreans were detained by DHS - not the State Dept. Why is she being shielded from accountability for her Department’s irresponsible raid?

The London Symphony Soloist