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No, drug smuggling is not an "imminent, immediate threat" to the United States that would legally justify premeditated killing. Although I do wonder whether that formulation appears in whatever legal permission slip may have been concocted by the administration.
PSA: If you’re under age 65 in New York, and you want a Covid vaccination from a pharmacy without a prescription, you might need to have the pharmacist look up the recent executive order from the governor allowing this. They’re not all aware of this, and some are telling people they can’t do it.
LOL
Temple Grandin (first famous autistic person who came to mind) is 78. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Swayze Bozeman
Chico, Caetano e Gil voltam a marchar juntos em ato
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by Trumpian incompetence. But it is worth noting that, since 1975, the dollar has only seen a steeper year-to-date decline during the deliberate depreciation that followed the 1985 Plaza Accord:
More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.
Posting early 90s minivans as a timeline cleanse.
I remember walking into the gas chamber for the first time (25 years ago) and the company gunnery sergeant was in there in nothing but a gas mask and underwear and he called us all names until we were done. He was in there the whole day.
this is such an immensely satisfying, morally clear read. The screenshot especially, but all of it. Kudos to Adam Tooze. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Proud of my old friend Rev Micah Bucey, Pastor of Judson Church, rock singer, actor - we did Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest together - who was arrested this afternoon at Federal Plaza protesting ICE
So, for everyone who saw my flurry of Sinclair-related activity last night, I'd like to explain why.
Cesar Romero as the Joker, 1967
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
#OTD in 1944, the Essex-class carrier Shangri-La was commissioned. One of the few USN ships named for a fictional location, chosen after President Franklin Roosevelt slyly told reporters that the Doolittle Raid had been launched from the secret Tibetan paradise in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon".
BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* Trump's bid to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, allowing her to participate in tomorrow's interest-rate setting meeting. Trump's last hope is a quick stay from SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is the mugshot of a literal political prisoner, arrested, thrown in jail, then expelled from a public university, for yelling at Charlie Kirk supporters
Hanna-Barbera characters wore collars since it allowed animators to keep bodies static, redrawing only heads in each frame when speaking—one of the methods used to cut costs by reducing the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.
The Trump administration wants your kids to be run over by cars while walking to school
You knew this was coming.
FWIW, when I left the Post, Karen checked in on me. She's been a consistent friend of mine and I miss working with her. She risked her life and career to stand up after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Tramell Tillman wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the #EMMYs for ‘SEVERANCE’ He makes history as the first Black actor to win the category.
Tramell Tillman took home the #Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama series for "Severance." Follow live updates: bit.ly/46k7Wn3
Stop complying in advance.
13/ “Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory.” ht @davidfickling.bsky.social bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
1978 Star Wars vaccination ad
Sept. 13, 1925: Bicyclists whizz past in the 1-mile amateur race held at the Newark Velodrome in New Jersey. The national sprint championship is won by Freddie Spencer, who basks in his honors.
The best chapter of "Abundance" is the one on research funding. Nobody really knows what works, but the approach of "more detailed pre-approval by funding bodies" has had a fair go and really failed to deliver the goods. And that's research that is.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Downtown Arby's (Series, 2010 - 2015)
Whoever's scripting 2025 ... bravo for bringing back this plot thread.
critical support to the teens of dc, who i keep seeing filming tiktok dances in front of guardsmen until they abandon whatever post they are at
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Let’s do this, please.
"She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was.”
Probably to get the medical treatments that are causing the bruises on his hands, etc. When it dawned on him that he couldn't leave the WH as much, he started to recreate Mar-a-Lago (patio, the new ballroom) there
Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.
Stuff like this is where the whole Abundance concept (much of which strikes me as obviously correct and worthwhile) flies off the rails into faffing about that shouldn’t be taken seriously.
are his files As full as thy report?
Tiny Desk Brasil estreia ainda em 2025 e tem acordo para duas temporadas jnascim.info/tiny-desk-br...
Bolsonaro is experiencing a hiccup crisis as he watches his own trial on TV. And I am not making that up 🤣
I often bike past a Park Police station in Rock Creek Park. This van has been there the last two weekends and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before; suspect it’s used for ICE arrests
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Verdict and sentencing phase of Bolsonaro's attempted coup trial begins in Brazil. @apnews.com
Wishing all the parents out there good luck on their new class WhatsApp chats
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood
I remember the dorm room at Hopkins where I learned the pronunciation of both.
Rhetoric and communique…
Read those books as a kid. Can never find them again.
I can
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Fireflies in Central Park, by the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. It is a composite of over 100 individual images, each exposed for about 2 seconds. A colleague from work taught us how to achieve this shot. #photography #fireflies #nature #newyork #nyc #centralpark #naturephotography
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
Let me know when Truth Social begins broadcasting Swan Lake
is there a german word for 'opposite of conundrum'
After touring the battlefields where Grant made his name, culminating with a stop in Appomattox, I'm very here for the Ulysses Grant celebration/Lee put-downs.
“[Lisa Cook] was very vocal in a field where many people are sceptical that race and gender matter,” said Claudia Sahm ... “If you stand up and say it out loud, there’s a target on your back.” on.ft.com/45FGL6Z
The Minneapolis school shooter was seemingly inspired by a number of extremist attacks, involving the same hate, conspiracy theories, and tactics we saw today — a painful reminder that an attack on any community is an attack on all of us. Our statement: jewishpublicaffairs.org/press-releas...
After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Pope Leo retweeted this from Senator Chris Murphy: “Your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.”
Ruining art with Gemini 2.5 Flash. (These are all the prompts, in their entirety) "make this painting less gloomy" "it is still pretty disturbing, make it less gloomy emotionally" "even less gloomy"
It'll get worse before it gets better, but I'm optimistic it will eventually get better.
It is Wednesday and on Wednesdays we sign up to canvass. zohranfornyc.com/events
A federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and described another arrest as lacking “basic human dignity.” wapo.st/3Jyc2QI
I don’t expect markets, Congress, or the courts to come to the Fed’s rescue. My piece asks what can the Fed do now to try to protect itself from political control? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
Vatican City Railway: World’s Shortest National Rail System brilliantmaps.com/vatican-r...
Lisa Cook should also sue Lutnick for defamation
Buster Keaton borrowed Chiquita, Ramon Novarro's chihuahua, 1931
This will turn out well.
Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago. Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago. American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯
THEY ARE FASCISTS. WE ARE ARTISTS. WE MELT ICE. Seen in Mount Pleasant Northwest D.C. at around 6:15 p.m.
Yo, Baltimore, if you need or would like COVID tests Metta Wellness on 36th and Chestnut has free COVID tests.
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
Trump plots to boost unpopular mayor’s approval rating sharply
The full weight of the Trump/WH legal/propaganda apparatus has been bearing down on this one day laborer and his family for months, all because Trump/Miller decided defying the law would thrill MAGA. No one should accept how the US government has treated this man. An absolute disgrace. 8/8
They’re often at Astor Place.
"This is a big canary in the coal mine. If we’re not calling out the lawlessness of Trump’s retribution against Bolton, we’re allowing the permission structure for further lawlessness and fascism by Trump."
Extremely critical support for John Bolton.
"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever
Hey ICE, here's an ungrateful foreigner saying mean things about our country. Feel free to deport this one.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."