Steve Middlebrook

Bluesky has 19 types of users with 37 subgroups along with 6 different valences and 2 rotations.

With three you get egg roll. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB

I’d kill to be able to look this good during the middle of the week.

The story of Trump lawyer Alina Habba getting $50 million to secure a Trump pardon for a foreign billionaire is just wow. What’s hilarious is the guy’s original crime was bribery and his first $3.5 million to a Trump PAC wasn’t enough to get a pardon. NYT Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

The Library's Liljenquist collection of Civil War photographs contains several images, like these, of veterans who fought for the Union posing with family members (likely their grandsons) who served in World War I. More of the Liljenquist collection. ⬇️ www.loc.gov/pictures/col...

Remarkable story here from @mtredden.bsky.social and others at @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nava...

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Seems like somebody important is missing from this suggestion.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

When JFK ran, they said the country would never elect a Catholic president. When Obama ran, they said the country would never elect a Black president. Michiganders care a lot less about how I pray than what I pray for: peace, dignity, basic goodness for all of our kids.

Trump’s presence and rhetoric could create complications for Rick Jackson??? Well then, by all means do come for a visit Mr. President. Sit a spell. Take your shoes. Y'all come back now, hear?

“When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE.”

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

God damn this guy is fucking stupid.

So Katie Zacharia falsely claimed to be a licensed attorney and then said she practiced law in China. But the funniest part of the story is this: “Zacharia's LinkedIn says she was "manager of fundraising and communications" for an organization called Compassion for Migrant Children.”

Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Dan Castelleneta's line reading on "Do I dare live out the American dream?" always gets me

More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the victory over Custer and his army at Little Big Horn. At the Black Hills Pow Wow, indigenous dancers from many nations reenacted the battle. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day youtu.be/9erBJ2V0lU0?...

Ruin a book by adding a word. Green Eggs and Fucking Ham

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

What a strange story. California woman finds a man, allegedly drunk, sleeping on her lawn early in the morning & sends her dad out to move him. The man wakes up & allegedly assaults the (elderly) dad, who shoots him Turns out the man is off-duty ICE agent David Gonzalez abc7.com/story/off-du...

I’m not surprised that he buys inexpensive suits (he probably soils and ruins his clothes frequently) but I am surprised he doesn’t have someone remove the labels and replace them with something that looks upscale. Or at least “tacky Trump” upscale.

It must have been a great joy for the “shithead at the pool camera” recording this to see it being broadcast and then go viral on the internet.

The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

President Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million in debt issued by SpaceX just days before the White House announced a new space-travel policy, the president’s latest financial disclosure form shows.

The only thing worse than being Trump’s enemy is being his ally.

Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.

Anyway, there's a particular irony here that Vance's definition of "socialism" is the free market being applied to labor.

NEW: A new attack ad by Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) uses a photo of MN small biz owner Beth Benike -- who says he's ignored her pleas for help with Trump's tariffs -- except he erased her + subbed in a fake image of Gov. Tim Walz. "You've got to be kidding me." www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-re...

Holy shit.

Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie

Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...

Another job lost to AI. futurism.com/future-socie...

Sen. Eric Schmitt after the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.