Jef Hall

If I was a candidate this year, I'd run on seizing Starlink.

Pausa de Hidratación

Instead of hearing about this and thinking “how dare he take 3 months off!” consider thinking that 3 months’ paid leave for inpatient depression treatment could be available for everybody if people like Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) chose to pass a law that said so

Least surprising headline ever: "Guy on steroids gets mad." www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

I love the Colbert Show's focus on when to button your jacket.

Watching Colbert live, then cancelling Paramount+

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

Correct.

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Pretty much:

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

neiland's supper club sign, tigerton, wisconsin, 1988

The two most unpopular democratically elected leaders on Earth launched a joint war today. One is a convicted felon. The other is on trial for corruption. The day before, Oman's mediator told CBS News a peace deal was 'within our reach' and could be agreed 'tomorrow.' Who benefits?

The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

That tooth...

Who knew?

Gift article, short, read it: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Read the entire article, he understands why the Midwest was the wrong place to target. - If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Bovino looks more 1935 every day.

If they can do it to anyone, they can do it to everyone. If they can do it to everyone, they can do it to you. There are no "sides" just current and future victims. Unless we all stop it all now.

Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America. At least until tomorrow.

Cory Doctorow makes some great points: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Look who got a participation trophy! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

When someone asks why business needs regulations:

So, "AI Artists" are upset that people are "plagiarizing" the prompts they use to exploit the plagiarizing Real Artists work? futurism.com/artificial-i...

Wordle Bot understands these times.

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

Hey everybody, remember this: "the former president asked the industry for $1 billion to support his reelection bid — and reportedly said it would be a “deal” for them to do so"

Watch this, it matters. Then share it: youtu.be/c22MRS5uYIw?...

Every Confederate Statue is a participation trophy.

In a brutal abduction incident on December 18, 2025, ICE In Pittsburgh subjected a man to a horrific ordeal, involving beatings, pepper spraying, and choking.

Something to know: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

You should read this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tugboat can't wait to dig in ..

Today was the worst NYTimes Connections ever, and that is saying something.

Fun story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...

COD Name of the Night:

ICE detained the parents of a Marine as they tried to visit their pregnant daughter on the Camp Pendleton base. His father wore a red shirt that said “Proud dad of a U.S. Marine." The father has already been deported. #DearTrumpVoters help us stop this. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

And spent July 4th in Moscow.