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RFK should look up the etymology of algebra, the fuckin' bigot.

Trump claims that thanks to Republicans, Mississippi's schools are "among the best ranked in the nation"

I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

vivek's hairstyle kind of looks like dessert at the cheesecake factory

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

THR really did a disservice here because the conversation could only add more heat than light with this framing. Were the tools used to cut out images from a background? To interpolate for tweening? It seems like it *wasn’t* used to generate imagery that didn’t exist? And the interviewer didn’t ask.

Yes, yes, the renewed accusations that the president is a serial rapist and was an active participant in Epstein's pedophilia and sex trafficking would seem alarming, but it doesn't involve the Cheesecake Factory so ...

Île Saint-Louis / La Cité - 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105222

So back on October 5, DOJ charged Jim Comey via information for information about a FISA story that Jim Baker tried to correct. They didn't get an indictment before the statute of limitations expired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Guys like Obama don't see it. They don't see dirt, they don't see filth. He doesn't see broken ornaments...The White House, President Obama is a symbol of America. It has to be clean." Feels like the focus on hygiene and cleanliness might be standing in for something here!

FFS, the case against Comey is that he directed an employee to talk to the press to correct reporting on national security. Look forward to the indictments of half of the Trump national security appointees on the same charge.

The same day a court threw out the Trump administration's firing of Comey's daughter, the Trump administration goes back, for the third time, to try to indict the head of the FBI who refused to swear loyalty to the President. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Bears repeating: the house philosopher for half of Silicon Valley and JD Vance is a racist who hates democracy

Retraining is not enough. The era of stopping buses and non-functioning fare validators has to end before they bring this back. The violence is the biggest issue with the EAGLE Team, but it’s far from the only issue.

Pix of the Oval going back to Ike. Surprised that I like Poppy Bush's taste best. (Also the Cheesecake Factory photo being used here is before even more gold crap was added.) www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Nothing about this currently on the homepage of the NYT; a brief article appears elsewhere. The Washington Post hasn't run anything at all. bsky.app/profile/mari...

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Mayor Mamdani and Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso visited the New York Aquarium to meet some seals and celebrate the impact of the administration’s $2 million investment in the aquarium.

a tantrum about bill maher for example

I think a lot of people outside of Alaska have forgotten that Daniel J. Sullivan is a real person. From the latest @alaska.bsky.social article on the election, this quote is a good reminder of how hard it has been on him simply to run under his own name. FYI - there are 9 Dan Sullivans in AK.

Fast Times in East Pennsboro Township – The Scott Perry Boogie Nights Story talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fast-...

This NTSB Board retirement flew way under the radar. He left the agency in early October - even though he was confirmed in May for another 5 years. Three members gone in just over a year. To say such upheaval at the NTSB is unprecedented is a vast understatement. avweb.com/flight-safet...

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

YOU GUYS! My short film Film That Never Begins finished its festival run yesterday, and but so today I'm making it public for the very first time! Film That Never Begins is easily my biggest hit with festivals--it got into an astounding 45% of festivals I submitted it to! youtu.be/u9efmjbtTFQ?...

get in, no time to explain

🚨🚨🚨 THE HOT ROCK is currently streaming on Prime Video. It's almost never streaming anywhere, and hard copies are often prohibitively expensive, so go watch it: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Everyone with a shred of objectivity already knows this to be obviously true, but it's still good to have data supporting the fact that transphobes are just bog-standard misogynist bigots, and the attempts to frame transphobia as some kind of feminist virtue are insultingly transparent.

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Hobgoblins, joyous skeletons, and truly terrifying gourds — Halloween picture postcards, ca. 1900-1920: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/halloween-postcards/

I should celebrate RIGHT NOW!

Very good news, because the DOJ was arguing that SCOTUS rulings allowed it to pervert the civil service system. Comey was arguing that internal appeals processes were simply no longer functional because they have been so politicized. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-art-an...

NEW: Maricopa County will restore 25 voters’ registrations after they were falsely flagged as noncitizens, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) announced. Mayes sued Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap (R) Thursday, demanding that he add the voters back to the registration rolls.

My second essay on how under Trump we’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable to us just years ago. Today: The corruption of the Justice Dept and *EIGHT* scandals on par with Watergate: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...

Imagine if Biden or any Dem said stuff like this. Front page headline gaffe for 3 days minimum

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.

a perfect sketch. so much to love here, especially the BYU kicker (kicker to the sketch, not necessarily on the team, that is.)

THIS is the kind of hard-hitting journalism I'm here for.

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

Really good and obviously extremely infuriating story here.

So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.