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An officer briefly became the face of Trump’s brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump. @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job. Our report:
We celebrate Labor Day in September rather than May 1st in the United States because the Grover Cleveland administration worried that celebrating it in May like other countries would strengthen left-wing movements around the world. Enjoy your day!
I love the notion of celebrating your mother on your birthday ❤️
I haven’t made bbq on a skewer in years bc it’s work. My SIL taught me her recipe, and I mastered it. IMO it’s the gold standard recipe, and there is no banana ketchup involved. We tend to just grill thin sliced pork belly with skin, then scissor it lol. BBQ marinade or bawang/suka.
"The bot we created did it by itself so we're not legally responsible" is a hell of a strategy.
True, but cable news is pumped incessantly into public venues from airports to doctor’s offices to gyms to elevators to restaurants and bars. It’s all over our ecosystem like lice.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada over the past few years. I’d never heard a single positive word about him from friends and colleagues (I choose well). The first time I saw him on TV I was shocked. This? This dude in the vest is Poilievre? Oof.
have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Dudes quite the Soviet.
Gun laws in Minnesota: No state permit required to purchase rifles. No firearm registration. No magazine capacity restriction. No owner license required. No background checks for private sales of rifles without pistol grips. State law preempts local laws.
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
I think the first 2 are now also on Prime. The Sympathizer and Julia on HBO are both good. Especially Julia.
McLeod’s Daughter’s is 8 30+ episode seasons. Offspring is 6 or 7 with fewer eps. Both on Hulu and maybe prime. Australian. For a real marathon, All Saints. 12 30+ episode seasons. Also Aussie and on Hulu.
another korean american has been detained by ICE, a violinist named john shin from utah. he was allowed one 30-second phone call to his wife and they haven’t heard from him since.
Notably, Medicare spends 98% of its funding for actual care, whereas for private insurers, that rate can be as low as 65% This is why universal health care, funded by Medicare is - by far - the cheapest option for Americans. Government excellence at work!
We are a nation of people doing mostly normal shit like eating meals and watching movies and going to sporting events and hanging with friends and helping our kids with homework, meanwhile the people who are in power are like “what if I gave 4 lectures about a Nazi’s ideas about the Antichrist?”
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
🎯 and Workhouses
One thing I see in comments is a lot of people still saying solar and wind are no good when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. People, there are these things called batteries, which have also experienced huge progress 2/
The VA is overwhelmed and understaffed, especially now that there have been so many staffing cuts. 20 years of Iraq/Afghanistan war on top of Desert Storm, Vietnam, WWII, and Korean War means multiple generations of veterans needing care. They need more funding but won't get it.
No pickup truck registration registration without a commercial or farm license. Get the air haulers off the road and out of the suburban subdivisions!
I love America. Still. And one of the worst things America has ever foisted on Americans is the lie of individualism. The notion that we are each of us floating in a sea of non-connection & no-context. That person yelling was once a promise in someone's belly. They were abandoned by their country.
The coconut water too. Usually from Vietnam, Philippines or Brazil.
Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how: Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up. Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
Neeley, Neeley O’Hara!
Wackness!
Gambling and investing officially merge. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fact
Mississippi guard goin to the wrong capital
There was a very high profile vote by mail scandal in NJ in recent years. Unfortunately, the person who was just sentenced to years in prison for fraudulent VBM operations worked for... Jeff Van Drew.
Something in a video of Jamelle’s jumped out at me, owning slaves was ASPIRATIONAL. People aspired to owning human beings!
Same
Same
look, do I think it is optimal that we have a whole social media website for criticizing the New York Times? No. But also they deserve it
Nailed it.
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
There’s gotta be an accounting or tax reason. Like I bought tix to a minor league baseball game. I was more than happy to be paying $21.50 each for great tix right behind home plate. When I saw they were $18.50 + $3 service fee, it annoyed me. They went from purchase to apple wallet.
When the Biden-era ACA subsidies kicked in, I was able to buy health insurance. I had been without health insurance for four years by that time. It looks like I will not be able to purchase my health care yet again. Thanks, Trump voters. This is on you. missouriindependent.com/2025/08/18/m...
Text from a friend just now: "Why are “travel disruptions” the only part of this Air Canada story the CBC deems worthy of coverage? What about union busting & expecting a whole cohort of women workers to perform unpaid labour? WTF. How do these people think strikes work?" #cdnpoli #aircanadastrike
“.. Yikes – @EliseStefanik literally got booed off the stage TWICE at an event in her district today. She hasn't hosted a #NY21 town hall in years. Now we know why.” (via Addison Dick)
Agreed, neither of those.
Actually, I’m thinking a bistek cheesesteak could be really good. With queso puti on a sweet brioche like roll.
It's a very short walk from here to "Anne Frank died of typhus, thus there were no gas chambers."
DENVER (AP) — Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims.
Shama, shama this must’ve been fantastic live on stage.
one "trick" i do think would absolutely change liberal/democratic/leftist politics is bringing in a culture of sharing links/info. the right is very good about amplifying their stuff or narratives that help them and we on the wide left spend too much time overthinking these things vs hitting "share"
Ok, I need to state the obvious here. The MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft. It was a joint venture with NBC. Why are they dropping NBC in this rebrand, but keeping the irrelevant MS? It’s like they watched HBO and said wait, hold my beer.
Yes. Absolute worst is when people you know IRL, or grew up with, reveal themselves on social media to be garbage humans.
This is just classic, age-old ableist eugenics. It’s the exact same shit sold to us during the pandemic. “Don’t worry, it’s only the already disabled and chronically ill that are suffering and dying.” It’s all the same playbook. “Nothing to see here. Nobody with worth to worry about.”
Wait til the (mostly) white American kids who’ve been receiving “merit” aid suddenly get less or none next year. Full freight foreign students fund that, among other things. Surely someone will demand to speak with the Dean!
James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
The affordable care act, Medicaid and SNAP MAKE America actually great.
I’ve seen folks mix coke in red wine since I was a kid. I’ll never get used to it.
if you are outsourcing any kind of serious decision-making to a chatbot at this juncture - i think you have lost perspective on your own self worth & importantly, on how flawed the outputs are from these tools no matter what your prompts are.
All of this is accurate 👆🏻
Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
A reminder how much I hate that Sinclair owns The Tennis Channel
Women messing w/ men's heads du jour: portrait of Olimpia Luna as Judith & Melchiorre Zoppio as Holofernes. Guess we know what she thought of him! By Agostino Carracci, whose day is today.
If you think you'd sound fucking dick doing that (and you would), maybe make different choices And to my fellow Jews: if holding the temple together means creating a shelter for genocide denial, maybe let the temple fall. If it is not a place that sanctifies life, it is not holy.
So I want to invite non-Palestinians to ask themselves how they'd explain "wanting to keep the synagogue/church/book club together" as a justification for silence or toning it down to someone whose family has been murdered
Yup bsky.app/profile/busr...
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri and Tom Lake (audio) by Ann Patchett
Oh look. And y’all let that white supremacist “genius” take a chainsaw to our government. Brilliant.
a mayoral candidate advocating for more people in America's largest city to become rent-burdened when there are mass layoffs in multiple industries and the cost of fresh food is expected to go up 7 percent due to tariffs is contrary to most of the things I learned and reported about economics
Beyond the disgust, I’ll start with why did they have that particular item on hand?
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
I once had a client a local prosecutor called a "career criminal." Tbh, client had multiple arrests. For stealing food. Because otherwise they wouldn't eat at all. Because they couldn't get a job because of previously being arrested for stealing food. A society has the criminals it creates.
Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.
I don't think it is fair or normal that ID expires. E.g., your driver's license should be valid for ID purposes basically forever, even if it isn't valid for driving purposes. You got a unique ID # from the state and that is who you are and it should not be necessary to re-up this document, which+
We will be observing the national two-minute silence at 12.00 today, Friday 15 August, as part of commemorations for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day. #VJDay #VJ80
I forgot to mention Single Drunk Female. Disregard the name. Ally Sheedy plays the mom in a performance I thought should’ve won an Emmy. Molly Ringwald does a cameo as the aunt. It’s a great show. Originally Freeform, it’s on Hulu.
If you’ve got BritBox Hope Street, Blue Lights, Karen Pirie, Shetland and (of course) Vera are all good. NGL, I watch Eastenders every day. It’s the main reason I get an annual Britbox subscription.
There’s a lot of great Australian and NZ TV with strong women characters. Some shows like the older All Saints and McLeod’s daughters have a gazillion eps. Others include Offspring, Fisk, My Life is Murder, Under the Vines, 5 Bedrooms
Last Tango in Halifax absolutely! Julia on HBO/Max, Recipes for Love and Murder on Acorn, The Split on Hulu, Annika, Unforgotten, Under the Vines on Acorn, Fisk on Netflix, Elsbeth on CBS. I could go on, this is my genre.
reading a 1979 article in ebony that says "actually, undocumented workers pay more in taxes than they receive in services. what's more, the government's own study bears this out." do you ever think time is a flat circle. the same conversation for almost 50 years and here we are.
An estimated 120,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. will begin losing their two-year, renewable status known as humanitarian parole today on a rolling basis, leaving them vulnerable to possible arrest and deportation. www.wsj.com/us-news/ukra...
Not a law person, but when my kids were in school even catholic school allowed this FFS!
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
Walking everywhere
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Um this is parked in the commuter parking section of a shopping center near my house. This crazy is in NJ btw.
On what data is Oz the Great and Terrible basing this? How many American households have a TV on in the background at 6-12 hours a day while they cook, clean, look after children, care for an elderly parent? In a 24 hr day one can have 8 hrs work, 8 hrs free, 8 hrs sleep, so 💁🏻♀️
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
Over the last 5 years, we've had examples of really good and really bad fiscal policy.
The fun thing about coauthoring a public health report to counter the MAHA nonsense is sometimes you get emails from anti-vax lunatics. Literally fucking cited his “conversations” with Grok about vaccine safety. I’m just a public health professor, I didn’t realize I was dealing with a REAL expert.
Think of data as a lighthouse: once it’s there, everyone can use it, and your use doesn’t diminish mine. That’s why we don’t leave lighthouse-building to the market — and why government collects & shares economic data.
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
Kodak, which made film photography accessible to the masses for more than a century, warns investors it might have to cease operations. Read more: cnn.it/4lvW6vz
If it’s true that Ghislaine Maxwell has been approved for work release, that is fucking insane. HER LAST JOB WAS TRAFFICKING CHILDREN.
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Dutch House was fantastic. Ann Patchett’s writing is both beautifully descriptive and witty. I highly recommend this as an audiobook. Tom Hanks is the narrator. #Booksky 📚
And all with a smile.
This is how you do it.
Oh Jesus Christ. CNN host right now asks Rep. Jamie Raskin, "We know that statistics show crime is down in DC. But does it 'feel' like crime is down?" Raskin: "Oh, definitely, if you compare it to other periods in DC." (He grew up there, and knows.) But obvs still a problem. FYI it's Kasie Hunt.
The house I lived in for the first year of my life was around the corner from the tiny original Mike’s Submarines in Point Pleasant, NJ. After we moved, my dad would still bring us subs sometimes. A smart kid who worked there years later bought it and built the Jersey Mike’s empire. Not Dominos
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
