from your lips to G*d's ear Steve

That’s even better! A buddy of mine took an Early Republic US History (1788-1860?) class in undergrad at William and Mary. For the final the professor walked in, wrote “Tariffs” on the chalkboard and left the room. It was the 80s. Professors could do stuff like that and it was considered brilliant.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

More than a week after this story appears in papers across the UK and Europe, NYT decides to report it too. Pathetic.

“A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California.”

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

"The captain has illuminated the seatbelt sign ..."

Join us next Tuesday: "Gurs, Les Milles, Rivesaltes: New Perspectives on French Concentration Camps (1939-2007)", with Emily Marker and Terry Peterson (FIU), NYU, 53 Washington Square North, 6:30pm. More info: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

Is Tesla the Jonestown of Late-Stage Capitalism? Discuss

Dr. Robert Rohde: The explosive, exponential growth of solar energy makes it the fastest growing energy technology in history. Cheap to build and fast to deploy, solar installations grew 10-fold in the last 10 years and provided 6.7% of the world's electricity in 2024.

Bengst Holmström's dream has come true

Au lieu de pleurnicher, @lfi.bsky.social devrait plutôt se demander pourquoi son caractère antisemite est aujourd’hui en débat. La question ne devrait pas se poser et ne se pose pas pour les partis véritablement de gauche et démocratiques. La poser y répond. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

In other words: the tech folks keep saying that machines will have an absolute advantage over humans in everything, but we know it’s comparative advantage that matters. And you literally can’t have a comparative advantage in everything!

The US Army was telling active duty soldiers to get food from food banks in Germany. They removed it. WE aren't socialist, but certainly willing to mooch off other nations socialist programs. PATHETIC. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Ohio #Military #Veteran #UnitedStates #FoodSecurityForAll #Shutdown2025

this has J. Edgar Hoover's pawprints all over it

"I wonder where Barron is, the grass is getting awful ragged, time to mow the White House lawn" o o o

they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

compassionate conservatism

"The job will not save you Jimmy"

could someone bring me up to speed has Ted Cruz joined the Resistance?

that would make Mr Bovino a felon, no?

I will never stop being mad that the NYTimes continues to handsomely pay someone to write about American conservatism who was capable of being so obviously and egregiously wrong about it.

Delenda La Migra est

We’re going to need a decades-long Nuremberg-style tribunal when this is all said and done

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

How the Grinch Stole Thanksgiving

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

this is exactly what triggered the Sack of Washington in 1527

I've seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion

In this splendid photo from Valerio Minato three wonders were captured in a single shot: - the Basilica of Superga, located near Turin (Italy) - the Monviso, the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps - the setting Moon, captured in a crescent phase ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap23122... 🔭 🧪 #sciart 1/2

I’ve never watched a company kill itself in real time. This should be very interesting.

Any Democrat who didn’t endorse Zohran Mamdani should retire.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

with so many new overton windows now open it's a certified miracle there are still any walls standing

THIS IS SO GOOD

please make it stop gray lady

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

just tried to buy a $150 coat for my kid and was met with $103 in tariffs. is this because of the socialist mayor

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

"FIFA is an international crime syndicate that occasionally organises football tournaments" citation John Oliver

Today's crazy world, data point #473: My mom helps out in a food pantry in rural Germany. And they now got contacted by American soldiers and civil servants from a nearby US-army base, because people have not received salaries for months because of the government shutdown...

Based on an entirely representative sample (the people sitting near me at this conference) Italians do the black people thing of audibly vocalising agreement (lots of appreciative "mmm"s) during public talks. Fascinating.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

as they used to say in Louis XIV's day, "make war feed war"

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.