the mjl (michael j leblanc)

GOP Voters in Ohio, right now...

People are listening to this shit intentionally?

Today we learned that it was a 28-year-old DOGE operative who gutted USAID, and HR had no record of him working there. Totally normal stuff.

Updated map: @bloomberg.com

When the birds finally start attacking in the season 1 finale

am i having a stroke

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECtalk

Tory leader of the opposition being advised by an nationalist extremists with alleged links to Ulster loyalist paramilitaries? What year is this, 1912? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ has officially been submitted for consideration for Best Animated Film at the Oscars. (via @nextbestpicture.bsky.social)

Birds eye, Aniela Sobieski.

BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4zY7fwQ

BREAKING: New damning evidence has surfaced of the White House and DOGE directing the termination of National Science Foundation grants for congressionally mandated programs. 🔗 bit.ly/3Wcbw11

Half expecting Takei and Shatner to pass on the same day, like Adams and Jefferson...🖖

this is marco doing what 8 people in miami and a bunch of poasters have convinced him is a Grand Gesture To Save The Chud Internationale, not something grandpa cooked up or is even aware of

TiReD: Dual-Class Ownership Shares WiReD: Eternal, Posthumous Shares.

#RIP apnews.com/article/susa...

(Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme ​Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. @reuters.com 🇧🇷 $EWZ www.reuters.com/world/americ...

there's a country that knows how to deal with election denial

Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/gANTbMx

Guilty 😂😂😂

2/ Also of note: over history, elite tax evasion is a good measure of a failing state. At times of dynastic change in traditional China, for example, when provincial elites managed to escape central gov't tax collection, that was both a symptom and a cause of diminishing state capacity. /fin

Corralling the wealthy back into the tax system is vital not just for the $, but because the ability to dodge taxes severs their connection to the rest of us. It validates isolated-hero myth making while creating a clear goal for the hyper-rich: keep evading any ties that bind to state & society. 1/

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

Another bombshell result shows how artificial intelligence is fueling fierce competition at the frontiers of math and physics. sciam.com/article/open...

Ousted dictators used to flee to Moscow. Now, apparently, they flee to the United States. www.cnn.com/2026/10/27/a...

BlueSky has four kinds of users

This shouldn’t be legal. These fossils belong to all of us. These auctions are theft, denying us discovery opportunities. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Where do I go to collect my winnings.

"But I charge you luxury hotel prices and you clean up for yourself like you're staying as my free guest was my business model!" um who am I supposed to be mad at here

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

so there's no chance he's headed anywhere but florida, right

1. It's because the conservative press will talk about nothing else 2. The mainstream press likes how the conservative press sets the agenda, makes their jobs a lot easier