Astonishing.
Astonishing.
A blessing in that immense tragedy. Were any of your family members able to attend that surprise BBC programme that celebrated his work by packing the room with those he’d saved?
Is this going to stream?
Epstein files.
$1.40/hr, moving boxes.
We notice.
Grant was a fine writer, which surprised me so much.
I bet you get responses from the magaidiots like “Get a real job, hippie!”
You know they’re gonna want to encase his fetid corpse under plexiglass at Mar-a-Lago. They can start now, afaik.
Nice job on that turned in left foot.
Are the interns who run his socials also dead?
I’d wager Zuckerberg had a hand in it. He’s the kind of weak, pathetic phony whose every act ought to be accompanied by the voice of Sydney Greenstreet dismissively exposing his every idiocy and self-indulgent cruelty.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
It’s the details that have to be the most fun. He is so fucking stupid. Ignorant beyond belief and enthralled with power. So gullible, so dumb. You think they also talk about the stench? I mean, what else need they talk about, really?
University of Michigan prof David Dunning, one of the co-discoverers of the “Dunning-Kruger effect” that describes how some people with little competence in any specific field nevertheless overestimate their level of expertise, said he was hard-pressed to explain Trump’s belief… flip.it/F-bM06
Stanley Spencer was born in Cookham, Berkshire, and lived most of his life there. Through art school, war service, two marriages, the village was his centre; he painted this scarecrow in 1934, it 'was like watching a person slowly changing into a part of nature.'
The “smelly dictator” has a lovely charm.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
My daily affirmations begin thus.
That’s the point.
Has to involve hookers.
Wasn’t it just a week ago he was trying to go to t’other place?
As if…
Mary Beth Tinker is still around and kicking open the doors of repression. If you don’t know her, check out Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969.
This has to be a war crime.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Then when they get there, keep flicking further off. The fucking edge of the earth.
You are Superwoman.
On Wed Trump held a White House meeting with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair and Jared Kushner to discuss ideas for how to relocate two million citizens and profit off the ruins of Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
They WANT these shootings. Gun sales go up after each one.
I reiterate: www.theguardian.com/culture/2018...
Holy cow! How does someone manage to craft so original a construction?! Stunning.
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Which is the subject of your observation? Interchangeable.
Their governor never went to college.
Presented without comment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘My story will be that John Harvard gave it to me.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social’s Diary, ‘Insane after coronavirus?’, from 2020: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hard to find anyone who you might find less endearing than Ted Cruz. Except in this administration you could just cast your net and haul ‘em in. He remains a benchmark, though.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I hadn’t yet subscribed. Her latest, about visiting her father, was so wonderful. And this! This is extraordinary.
Well done.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republicans are trying desperately to consolidate power into a full-fledged dictatorship.
You could have a career as a sports psychologist.
And exclaim, “Mmmmmm… tasty, Sir!”
Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.
Justly famous.
It’s actually HIS mental health that’s the problem.
He always seems like there’s a vise on his wiener.
The writer Ginia Bellafante's Big City @nytimes.com column became an absolute New York treasure over the last 14 years. This final one –– smart, rigorous, heartfelt, altogether splendid –– is typical. Although the column's ending, I learned, her regular pieces in the Times are not at all. Lucky us.
Back to her real love: castrating hogs.
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
Dynamite
Good hair day.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Like things weren’t already sufficiently disturbing. news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...
via @acyn.bsky.social Daskalakis: Another important thing to ask the secretary is, has he been briefed by a CDC expert on anything specifically measles, covid 19, flu? Collins: What would the answer be Daskalakis: The answer is no. No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics
Multiple species regard this the same way.
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
They do indeed.
Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook? This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable from corruption.
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Co-Captain though.
Weird af
Fractionally smarter. But that’s all it took.
Hard to know how to react to that.
Ouch! Might want a little gravy with that.
Is this even legal?
Interesting.
Bones and all.
Yup
Wha?
Barbaric.
You need a porter to accompany you.
Petridishes.bsky.social
It time to repost this. From the brilliant Ms. Petri, who left the once-proud Washington Post for The Atlantic Monthly. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
Ridiculous.
A killer. And such lovely gloves.
I’m throwing up. Again.
I only wish it was because somebody left a flaming bag of shit on his doorstep.
god they’re all such delicate hothouse flowers
US CDC chief exits after weeks in role, three top officials resign reut.rs/4mDISOM
One measure of politicized systems is that civil servants become unwilling to provide information that their political principals dislike, putting those principals in an information bubble. This is exactly the mechanism that creates such bubbles.
I hate to show this, and I have to show this. substack.com/@vilniusscho...
What a portfolio he left us
I figured it was a Breivik act.
Rewatching The Crown, and now into the Third Season, which features Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret; I just discovered that her maternal grandfather, Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during the Second World War.
And just like that, $450 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars down the drain. All for this cruel spectacle that nobody asked for. apnews.com/article/flor...
No, man. They aren’t real. Nothing is real except himself.
BREAKING: In Atlanta, GOP operatives are trying to strong-arm Fulton County into installing two far-right activists on Georgia’s LARGEST elections board Both have ties to the national voter suppression machine & a record of undermining confidence in our elections This can't fly under the radar
I’m not laughing. These shits mean to enslave us.
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vance’s court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 “air-tag” monitoring.