C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Accidentally correct that unpaid labor obtained through threats and coercion *is* the American way.

Going through my father’s things I found my grandmother’s report card, circa April 1916. She got a poor mark in “deportment,” which is what they called “Social emotional growth” then. Her parents were probably mad — at the mark, not at the concept of deportment, because they weren’t morons.

Ppl need to understand what's happening here. The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved. Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

Only Dartmouth teaches such rigorous interview techniques

Ugh, all of the animal videos on Facebook are AI slop now. I saw of a video of a cop just walking past a dog.

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Hair-raising story by @attackerman.bsky.social with new documents showing that a detained journalist is being held by ICE for his Instagram likes.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

being told “thank you for licking my boots” by your interview subject should be embarrassing right?

Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."

Everyone is dunking on poor Noah Smith for getting lost and frustrated at Heathrow Airport and blaming him, which is victim-blaming and I am quite disappointed in all of you. Put the blame squarely where it belongs: on whoever failed to pin his name and destination to his sweater-vest.

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Anyway one of the populations this place is aimed at is TAY, Transition-Aged Youth, young people aging out of the foster system, and you can imagine how THAT is going over. Most of the people there are going to be, like, teachers teaching the younger kids.

Good morning! Today we are featuring Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney who, on Sunday, signed an unprecedented blanket pardon to “all U.S. citizens for all conduct” related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, as well as efforts to expose “fraud” in the 2020 elections.

Breaking: Fannie Mae watchdogs probed if Trump appointee Bill Pulte improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democrats.

It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out! That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5 🗃️🧪

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

Aaaaaaaaauuuuuuggggh

Listen, I'm not saying I endorse brutal mockery of Avi Loeb's claims that every interstellar comet we see is an alien spaceship, but I will link to it because the aliens made me in order to sow doubt about their cometships. oddnews.com/article/this...

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

The latest in an endless river of corrupt Trump pardons for wealthy and well-connected Republican criminals.

Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive. Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.

wow. WOW.

Comey’s reply brief in his vindictive prosecution motion lays out in a one-sentence nutshell why the indictment—alleging leaks to Richman “at the FBI”—appears to fail. See @annabower on dates Richman was “at the FBI”: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

Trump: "We fired thousands of people who didn't take care of our great veterans. They were sadists, they were sick people, they were thieves, they were everything you want to name. When Biden came in he hired them back."

Only Donald Trump could assert, in all seriousness, that the most important factor in a superpower's military might is ... branding.

Completely agree

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

Everyone is dunking on Kim Kardashian. The truth is the California bar is notoriously hard, the pass rate was only 55%, the pass rate for people who didn‘t go to an accredited law school is way lower, and lots of very smart and dedicated people don’t pass the first time and become good lawyers.

I have a strong but uninformed sense this is actually really stupid. I should have paid better attention in Econ.

Some pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups closed out last week's NYC mayoral election by boosting hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories about @cairnational.bsky.social -- a Muslim civil rights group that supported Zohran Mamdani. Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...

"But the true message—the prospective message—is that pardons will be available to everyone who joins him in election subversion in 2026 and 2028. This wave of preemptive pardons is a permission slip, an encouragement for election subversion in the future." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."

On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores You can’t make this shit up, folks

White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!” That’s quite a legacy.

Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.

More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,

We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

Measles was once considered eliminated in Canada, but not anymore — there have been more than 5,000 cases in the last 12 months as vaccination rates have fallen. Here's how they got there, and why other countries — including the U.S. and Mexico — are also at risk of losing their status.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT