El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
Every now and then on a Saturday morning, I am flipping channels and I catch part of The Pioneer Woman on Food Network. She's always saying something like "Can you IMAGINE a COWBOY eating a VEGETABLE?"
Ted Turner: a reminder that our billionaires used to do cool things like yacht racing and trying to manage the baseball team they owned and starting various cable channels devoted to things like endless old movies and 24-hour news. The man was too busy to go fascist.
Elderly Americans depend heavily on care work, and our entire care work sector depends heavily on the skills and labor of immigrants.
When elderly Americans cannot get proper care, they are at risk of harm and even death. Regardless of their preferences about politicians or immigration policy.
More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and Brian E. McGarry www.nber.org/papers/w34791
I'm convinced that someone could be completely covered in snow, up above their head, and they'd find a way to pop one hand out to post "This is nothing. You should have seen...."
Every once in awhile I see a headline that is so unintelligible to me it makes me wonder if it's time to just push myself out onto the ice floe now and just be done with it
This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)
I once saw a noxious campus preacher at Ohio State completely lose his composure when a guy wearing a tuxedo and a Yoda mask walked up and started staring at him. Same principle.
My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.
I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.
Trump deploys Federal agents across D.C. streets amid vow to crack down on crime. The facts contradict the pretext: Washington, D.C. has seen declining crime rates in recent years, violent crime hitting a *30-year low* in 2024, according to the U.S. Justice Department. www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
This is Stevie. He is annoyed by pretty much everything that happens outside. As you can tell from his boofs, today is no exception. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)
I know it's not being treated as a Nationsl Crisis like it was in 2022, but grocery prices are very visibly going up right now across a range of products (eggs being an ironic exception).
The Trump admin said the Everglades detention camp would be for the “worst of the worst.”
Four men sent there so far have nothing on their record other than recent arrests for diving without a license, and were likely only arrested due to racial profiling, as Adam’s excerpt shows.