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"The numbers make October 2026 the show's lowest-rated month among total viewers in more than 11 years, since July 2015. In the 25-54 demo, it's the lowest-rated month since June 2001." This is exactly what we saw at MSNBC and CNN after Trump beat Kamala 2 years ago - deflated partisans tuning out.

This is a great overview of all sorts of interesting races for persons and policies! Print a copy out if you are a political junkie like me!👍

Powering a car dashboard is more demanding on your handset than you might think. These tips will save battery life and help your phone chill out.

Everyone knows… #HigherWages #LowerCosts #SaveOurHealthcareSaveOurHospitals

I am not that stupid

New: Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an "October Surprise" or a "hoax," as prominent MAGA influencers have suggested, concocted to win votes My interview w/ the congressional candidate, for @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

5/5 Eight years ago, we published Why RussiaGate Matters to Our Democracy. With Russia's war against Ukraine continuing and Trump's latest (and ongoing) concessions to Moscow, it's a piece worth reading again.

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

Who did this? 😂😂😂💀

Statement from Robert E. Hall: Recipient of the Nobel Price in Economic Sciences.

Is there a cleverer way that Ukraine could have hit back at Trump doing a dirty oil deal with Putin to help him with gas prices in the midterms than turning off the army of Russian propagandists posing as heartland Americans with concerns about trans socialists?

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

The group meets once a week on Zoom to talk about dealing with shame, correcting their dogs’ poor behavior, and how the promise of pet ownership doesn’t always sync up with reality. www.wired.com/story/inside...

If this is confirmed then why shouldn’t she, like Swalwell & Gonzalez, be forced to resign? www.americanmuckrakers.com/p/breaking-e...

Love this. Love everything about this.

OMG

The California Legislature passed a bill on Monday night banning law enforcement officers from using electric shock gloves in an effort to prevent federal immigration agents from deploying them.

The smoking gun evidence in the hush money trial that convicted Trump on 34 felony counts included a $50K payout to Red Finch Technologies. Red Finch artificially boosted Trump's polls. Just making sure no one forgets Trump has been fixing the polls for a decade.

Massive landslide due to floods in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet. The amount of victims will be considerable

More videos of the catastrophe in China

Trump just now, making Dolly’s death to about himself: “She really liked me.” 🤔 FLASHBACK to 2017: Dolly’s ‘9 to 5’ co-stars reference a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Wonder who they meant? 😬🤷🏼

You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...

20 years ago @rosie.com had “snake oil salesman” Trump figured out completely, no wonder he hates her 👇🏽 (H/T @krassenstein.bsky.social )

“Jeremy Spurrier, 51, drives to Illinois to get ice to chill his insulin. "If I run out of ice, that’s several hundred dollars of insulin just ruined,” he said.”

Trump ballroom official held quiet Kremlin talks ft.trib.al/cK26yYH

I have 2 higher-ed related essays out today. In my @justiaverdict.bsky.social column, I wonder why the new U of Michigan policy of masking first-semester grades was national news. I suggest it's because it fits the rightwing narrative of colleges coddling "snowflakes" and the broader culture war. 👇

“Waiting to give a woman a chance to win is a risk, too. It creates the circumstances for another generation of women to mostly absent themselves from the process. This is the cost of “soon.” Must read from @anamariecox.com via @jillfilipovic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Drone port.

Get rid of this fucking narcissistic lunatic now!

A story about Trump’s cowardice.

Below Average White Band

It's always fascinating how weird our view of dangerous megafauna is, because the hippo is easily in the second tier of most dangerous megafauna (with crocodiles and elephants), well ahead of sharks and bears, who rarely if ever kill people.

“That’s a nice school for special needs kids your wife has, Senator Cassidy. Would be a shame if it lost its federal funding. So about that Todd Blanche vote...” lailluminator.com/2025/02/10/c...

The European Union has collected €1.4 billion in revenue from immobilized Russian central bank assets and will channel the proceeds to Ukraine, the European Commission announced today.

'Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul' - by Exra Klien www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

To which the next question should be: "how many Patriot and THAAD interceptors did we have before the conflict?" ~2330 Patriot interceptors ~534 THAAD interceptors (of which 452 were operational) Per CSIS numbers.

Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.

Smart stuff here from @gregsargent.bsky.social.....

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“The Mafia would not exist without the concept of family, of unbreakable bonds… Ireland and Italy are very similar in this respect and therefore recognise each other in criminal terms.” My interview with @robertosaviano.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

If you’re tired of sponsored and AI-summarized search results, Kagi gives you a curated—and human-centric—way to find what you’re looking for. www.wired.com/story/kagi-b...

"We Are America" My video on Barbara Shermund, groundbreaking cartoonist, for Heather Cox Richardson’s important project #WeAreAmerica250 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

NEWS: always read the federal register www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you would like to help Ukrainian soldiers survive, this is always an excellent place to donate. savelife.in.ua/en/

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Elliot Page was fantastic in #TheOdyssey. Little screen time but very important role with a big payoff. I hope he can appreciate the love and the hateful grifters can choke on it. Ditto Zendaya and Lupita.

Allbirds, a former shoe company, is rebranding into Smartbird, an AI firm. CNN's Clare Duffy spoke with Smartbird President and CEO Nadia Carlsten about the company's big bet on tech.

I said what I said. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯