Chad Geidel

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

White people calling the police on a Black toddler and police responding are why it's always and forever the racism, not "economic anxiety."

Every map is the same map

It’s 48 degrees F outside and I kid you not, someone has their A/C on

I mean, MrBeast IS always involved in anything like this 😂

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."

UBI is freedom to choose useful work over bullshit jobs.

Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

Sometimes, when you stare into the abyss... the abyss stares back.

quick reminder that “die hard republican voters” are not the only voters that exist, and that the ohio GOP’s success over the last decade rests on winning conservative and moderate independents.

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

It's so interesting that You Can See Everything's insanely high entertainment factor is directly related to the fact that it leaves you with less moral clarity around its subject than you had going in this is its central contrast with "MUSK," which is all about bringing its subject into sharp focus

But why would anyone need a good Halloween road safety video? Oh.

try to carefully use an LLM to do a thing -> "you're an idiot" try to carefully describe the ways you tried to be rigorous about using an LLM to do a thing -> "well you're clearly not an average user" try to carefully describe the ways you try to help average users use LLMs do a thing -> 😡🔪🔪 etc

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Trump Admin siccing debt collectors on as many as 10 million Americans: "The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, possibly as soon as November... the plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections" www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...

New: Last year, the University of Denver determined a professor had sexually harassed a student. The student wants to know why he still works there. www.denverpost.com/2026/10/19/u... via @denverpost.com

Conspiracy Theory: The "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" episode of Star Trek was an elaborate insult at scifi nerds who only communicate in media references.

We need a new version of @ianbetteridge.com law. Whenever an oligarch says something that makes a news headline, the instant response should be “no they won’t” or “no, that will never happen”

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

What new fresh hell is this? I got the X credit card email (after logging out of twitter years ago). Sure ok, click unsubscribe. It redirects to the App Store and wants me to download the app. In the sea of suck that man has created, this is merely a teaspoon, but 🤬🤬🤬

This probably hits really hard when you don't know anything about history. The main political adversary Hitler dealt with were communists. Liberals/Demsocs chose to rescue capitalism by allying with Hitler in order to defeat the "Red Menace". Liberals love these Faustian bargains.

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

In my experience, when you do reader surveys and ask people to self report their interests, they self report the interests of the version of themselves they want to be. Then you look at the actual data re: what they read, and they unwittingly tell you their actual interests.

I've lost count of all the times Teslas have crashed into emergency responder vehicles using Autopilot/FSD... we don't yet know if the system was active here, but who would be surprised at this point? www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Elon Musk's killing spree rolls on electrek.co/2026/10/15/t...

Penny Arcade for October 15th 2007, 19 years ago today! www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/1...

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

If Dems really stole the 2020 election, why did they not also steal the 2024 election?

Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

i have been following this (unbelievably stupid) discourse and it really seems like a bunch of racists think the world works like a game of civilization

ACAB! www.404media.co/watch-footag...

Why are Microsoft’s own high-profile products completely unaware of tiling? It’s been in windows since… 7? Vista? I’m sick of Edge, and now GitHub Copilot, forgetting they closed in a tiled size and location.

Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.

as a huge miami vice fan — both original show and Mann's 2006 film — i am a very excited for this. i do hope that these stills aren't indicative of the color palette for the film though. give me pastels and neon please!

feels like maybe we should have pushed harder on this at the policy level a decade ago, instead of just kinda assuming that Elon Musk would take care of it all for us, out of the goodness of his heart

Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...