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Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that hanging out in mixed age groups is essential for being the most interesting version of yourself. This holds across pretty much every stage of life and it doesn't have to be a huge mix or wide range of ages.

You don’t get to accomplish anything good in the next two years. You need to be clear-eyed about that up front. It’s not on the table, and harboring the delusion that it is will only do harm. All you get to do until 2028 is block evil. That needs to be your singular goal.

Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Arabs are the foundation of our mathematical system including the decimal system, algebra, trigonometry, astronomy, optics, chemistry, diagnosed smallpox and measles, invented surgical instruments, astronomy, navigational devices, architecture including mastering the arch. The moron is RFK, Jr.

As you watch the video, keep in mind that all of this was over alleged *shoplifting* of a package of diapers, a backpack, and some clothing. Apprehending a shoplifter, Mississippi officials apparently believe, was worth the life of a 1-year-old boy.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

beautiful moment in Wawa today… older dude, probably 70-75, wearing a sharp tan suit with a crisp colorful button-up underneath, waiting in line with a coffee young guy, probably 20-25, walks up and taps him on the shoulder “yo, you look fresh as hell, man” old dude might still be beaming

2/ predictive they are operating off perceptions which come from polls. So they fail this test both empirically and logically. There are exceptions to this. Lightly polled races. Figuring in other factors besides polls. But big picture there are zero prediction market books on elections that …

Hard to get past this (among other things)

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

When you spend time with British defence experts, they’re completely convinced Russia will launch at the least a hybrid war in the UK. It’s almost baseline conventional wisdom for them This is not something the British public understands at all

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

did this for the first time last fall—I moved some of my perennial containers where I raked the leaves under a tree (not too close to the trunk), insulating them. not only did we get some forgotten bulbs popping up under in early spring, we had no aphids this year and lots more moths and fireflies.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

A bus collided with a truck on Kenya's main highway, killing at least 24 people.

The fact that striking Iran can be put on hold for weeks in an attempt to sway the midterms clear proof that Iran doesn’t pose an imminent danger and this war is an evil charade

All Democrats running in purple and red states trying to do the “I’m Republican-ish” campaign strategy should look to Tim Ryan’s 2022 Senate campaign in Ohio. The pundits totally loved it! He lost. And it wasn’t close. Voters will not choose Republican-light when the real thing is on the ballot.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

"There’s an inherent romance to a morality tale: the wicked brought low, the righteous rewarded. Iñárritu gives us not an ounce of that romance. Instead, he rubs our faces in the truth: when it comes to politics, at least, the morality tale is a cop-out." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-anti-pop...

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Week 42 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

#AMomentOfJoy from @kent.nishimura on IG! Anita Baker this time!

A reminder that when we’re told real estate dudes are “working for free” as US negotiators — aka not official US employees accountable to the USG — they’re working for someone else, and not in US interests In a normal country, Kushner would go to jail. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Strange to recall that in 1968 William Rees-Mogg’s Times led the way in denouncing Powell and sentiments exactly like this. What a disgraceful moral decline

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

Oh cool, Turning Point UK is dabbling in assassinations

Sorry I just need to keep making your timeline worse. They ruled it justified that police shot and killed a 1 year-old in his mother's lap because of suspected shoplifting of diapers. RIP Kohen Wiley. www.mississippifreepress.org/police-shoot...

I hope people see what Amy Acton's brother had to say about her courage in protecting him growing up www.instagram.com/p/DeP_TXQSr2Q/

A whole generation of policymakers is going to have to relearn how the creation of the welfare state was not some grand act of generosity (one of its architects was Bismarck FGS) but rather a crucial means to ensure social stability and state legitimacy that democracies and markets need to function

I got better exterior photos of this church the last time I was there, but stopped by to experience the incredible interior again. Third Unitarian Church Architect: Robert Paul Schweikher in 1936, with an addition by William B Fyfe in 1956 Muralist: Andrene Kauffman #OHC2026

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

as Vonnegut said we are who we pretend to be

ironically I think it tends to validate the old-fashioned George Will-style conservative stance about values and decorum. I don't buy the "they were always like this" line, that's too easy. what people permit themselves to say in public changes who they really are

The United States of America is bathing in shame.

I can't help but notice that J.D. Vance has descended precipitously into amoral nihilism ever since he claims to have found God.

Also I am sure that people on this website are going to fission mad at me over this, but voting is a social process. It's good and pro-social for us to all wander over to the neighborhood church or community center 1-2 times per year, joke with volunteers, and exercise our franchise together.

JD Vance had an opportunity to take the high road on the year’s most disgusting attack ad. Predictably, the VP instead flunked an important test of his character: Vance is “disgusted,” not by Ramaswamy’s vile commercial, but by Republicans “whining” about it. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...