Andrew Menotti

If you have an iPhone w/ the current OS, go into Settings, scroll to the bottom to click on Apps, scroll down to M & go into the Messages app, and flick this switch “screen unknown senders”. This dumps 99% political text messages into a folder you can separately check.

This should violate the Purcell Principle, which says you can’t change the voting rules last minute. But, the Purcell Principle really should be called the Purcell Prank, because it is a joke played on the American people. The prank actually only protects Republicans and hurts Democrats.

To Work With P.O.W.s, Ukrainians Suppress Feelings About the Enemy (Gift Article) f the nyt

Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

If you like your gender, you can keep it

the right doesn't reject empathy entirely, they selectively deploy it. when a white person is murdered by an immigrant, for example, they will call upon your empathy. but empathy directed at their enemies is cast aside as toxic.

Not surprising but there you go: The funders who were offering MI college Republicans $200 to heckle El-Sayed are tied to Christian Nationalist Tommy. If he was many to inspire other to follow his lead, it did not go well. Gonna need to offer more than $200.

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Please check this out. I’ll just say this: one of the dumbest insurance co. tricks when you file a personal injury lawsuit is to confuse one Latino, who filed a Worker’s Comp. claim with the Latino making the personal injury claim, because they both have the same first & last name.

lol are you fucking kidding me? I know hardcore MAGA partisans, I watched the World Cup final with several. They said, “of course he should be making money!” No one believes this shit.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

How did we skip the step where we made this illegal?

😂 I was just talking about this! I thought she’d make at least one Scaramucci. Good riddance!

Congrats to the Milwaukee Brewers. Best of luck in the World Series, you should be a shoe in.

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

Help Andrey X buy a new car after Israeli settlers burnt the old one chuffed.org/project/andr...

They’re all doing it, she just got caught.

Mauricio Dubón has been invited to LA’s New Year’s Eve party to be the MC. He is really good at dropping the ball.

Let them take out Dallas. Let them take out the northern suburbs of Atlanta. It’s a small price to pay.

If AIPAC wants to be the enemy of Democrats and the enemy of making our country better, then it is my enemy. 

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The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-accusation-reporting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.OYOV.8hGZI8N9VFAi&smid=url-share

Menotti’s Second Law of Trader Joe states that, “Persons who are not in motion tend to move the moment you try to go around them.”

Menotti’s Third Law of Trader Joe’s states that for every place you are, there is an equal and opposite person who wants to be there and is pressuring you to move from that spot.

Congratulations to the DNC, for finally inspiring me to find out a way to filter all text messages from numbers I don’t know. I was the happy recipient of 41 text messages asking me for money. Now I won’t be seeing any of your fucking messages asking me for money. 

It was meant to be a dramatic confrontation, a public accusation of perjury against Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump. Instead, Senator Eric Schmitt’s amateur sleuthing into basketball led him to the wrong game, league and state.

Let’s be honest, a lot of schools are essentially segregated. What this does do is make it easier to underfund black schools.

#Macklemore, the indie rapper who was kicked off #EdSheeran’s stadium tour over his pro-Palestine statement, and for accusing Israel of a genocide, has booked his own outing devoted to the cause. The Free Palestine Tour, which Macklemore announced on social media on Thursday... By Ben Sisario

On ancient Roman board games: "Researchers used high-resolution 3D scans that mapped microscopic imperfections on the limestone board, revealing telltale grooves. 'Those line indicated the most heavily played routes, Dr. Crist said." #archaeology #boardgames #gaming

Excellent essay in @nytimes.com from former @washingtonpost.com senior critic at large. “Now President Trump is out to destroy the Kennedy Center, and the magnitude of my rage startles me…Nothing has so thoroughly highlighted his indefatigable petulance.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

NYT - Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where immigrants are being held indefinitely. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/wo...

This is what corruption looks like. A Russian oligarch close to Putin spends hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling celebrations for the president’s son. And we’re supposed to believe it was just a generous wedding gift with no strings attached? #StopTrumpCorruption

I think this is fairly obvious, but when someone powerful tries to ban something, they makes it cool and subversive. Of course people are going to want to watch it. “Look what Trump doesn’t want you to see!” Has an irresistible appeal to anyone who doesn’t like Trump.

“I said, 'Sir, what is your order?!’”

Really excited to get random Facebook forwards about how AOC and Mamdani “were laughing” during the 9/11 commemoration (which didn’t happen) while everyone selectively doesn’t care that Trump fell asleep and actively didn’t care because he wasn’t the center of attention.

"You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."

9/11 represented a chance to heal the psychic wounds and replace the ignominous experience of Vietnam with a "good war" in which we were righteously attacked just like at Pearl Harbor. This time we would do it right and Respect The Troops and win a fight when we were unambigously the good guys.

To give you a sense of proximity: The ash cloud from the attack lingered for days, until rain finally washed it down. The next day, I got off the school bus, and my sneaker left a print in it. I remember thinking "I just stepped in the remains of 3,000 people." And then... had to go to class.

For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.

Meant to post this two days ago, but it has been a year (and two days) since JD Vance said after a mass shooting that it's outrageous anyone thinks calls for prayer are a way to deflect responsibility for taking action against gun violence. Maybe action will come next year.

Can we make these morons at Virginia CPS watch “Old Enough”, the Japanese show where toddlers are tasked with going to the grocery store or doing other errands for their parents? Is all of Japan negligent or are you all nuts?

A dog takes his first steps on a custom 3D printed prosthetic after weeks of fittings and physiotherapy, and his gait changes instantly.

I’m here to talk shit and propagandize, not actually answer questions, ok?

Chuck needs to go

Stepped outside of my air-conditioned car and my glasses immediately fogged up. It is humid in LA.

I have decided that Edwin Diaz should have his name legally changed to Edwin Diarrheaz until further notice, like when he stops pitching like shit.