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In the Vampire community there are annoying guys who microdose garlic
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stephen miller targeting mexican independence day celebrations, anything you want to say about this man is correct
the "boarding group" effect is everywhere and it's poisonous. except for God's country—the DMV www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
real heads remember www.buzzfeednews.com/article/benn...
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.
campus conservative raking in start-up cash to make little photo-gallery posts at the reading level of a 10-year-old...that was prime Obama era
it's annoying for the longtime haters that his plagiarism, fabulism, and generally disgusting personality have obscured just how terrible and stupid all his BuzzFeed work was
fwiw it should be Christie Whitman here. which adds to its quality as a fuck-up.
love it
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
i mean i think we're due at least an extremely ponderous, euphemism-laden news analysis at this rate. lots of "could raise questions" to could-raise. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
thinking of the founders, the hustlers, and rise-and-grinders today. the mom and pop landlords, the airbnb kingpins. they don't get a day, but they just keep going. even though no one likes them.
drove past a school pickup lane for the first time recently, and it was genuinely horrifying, buses were a good idea!
these two men are the same age.
Game’s probably over, post good TikToks
they should put this motherfucker in the tower slate.com/culture/2025...
("Catholics vs. Convicts" one of the great false choices, btw)
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
i'm really excited, they said they had a special room at the end of this tour just for me. it's something called the 'cask of amontillado' room??? sounds fun!!!
it's an extremely taut short story
first exposure to the cursed but extremely succinct handle, "BarstoolGruden"
inching closer to the day when the NRCC or the RNC Rapid Response will tweet something like "Mark Teixiera was a PROBLEM 😤 😤 😤" defector.com/mark-teixeir...
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
tottenham being felled by cherries like another institution beloved by a strange number of Americans, zachary taylor
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
"Paul. You don't know me but I have it. I have your Wilt Chamberlain biography. You moved. I had to dial every area code in America."
I’d pay money for this
me trying to guess where "Tarleton State" is
Joke tweet from Brian but it actually upsets me that you can blatantly do corruption in 2025 but the Army football players can’t accept NIL deals because they’re technically government employees and can’t use their public office for personal gain
"In recent weeks ICE officials have been working out an arrangement that would grant Sheahan limited customs-inspection authority to give her a firearm she could carry inside federal building, three officials told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
New from me: Meet the network state tech bro leading the CDC www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
anyway, happy labor day to all who celebrate
trading the gold standard in public health for beef tallow just kind of sucks, man. not a good deal. should not be approved by the commissioner.
Thinking about Brandi Hand, who lived through Katrina 20 yrs ago today—and Helene. What people don't realize about these storms, she said, is the "small stuff": "The very ground underneath your feet is not solid in the same way again, for the rest of your life." www.motherjones.com/environment/...
"I am extremely skeptical that Bill Pulte would come across 1/100th as well as Lisa Cook if his paperwork were scrutinized as closely as he has scrutinized Cook’s paperwork" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
it's gonna be Lee–Jackson–Babbitt day by next year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
fun fact, sergio gor used to be the spokesman for two different members of congress at the same time. and they were...michele bachmann and steve king www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
irl
they are absolutely coming after NYC, and it'll really be an all-timer of a "with us or against us" moment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
come on man
bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history
literally working in the mines to save money to be an influencer, love to see it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
it was a total dagger but also, in hindsight, really cool to be murdered in this particular fashion, by this particular dude www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ZQ...
*Fascinating* @samanthamichaels.bsky.social interview with Isabelle Brourman, the Trump courtroom artist who has recently been capturing scenes of ICE arrests outside immigration courtrooms—and who apparently painted Trump at Mar-a-Lago bit.ly/4g22Ksm
The local political story around the DC military takeover is rich stuff. The zombie delegate who refuses to retire or appear in public, the mayor who will assent to anything if it gets her football stadium...
"every writing problem is a reporting problem." nice sentiment! but unfortunately, sometimes it is just you.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
it's not fall yet. but it's basically fall. we're closing in on fall. we have it surrounded.
united's roster is just so funny. everyone on it costs like $80 million. everyone on it's shit. money doesn't mean the same thing there that it means everywhere else. it's like one of those stories about bringing a wheelbarrow of rubles to buy fish.
was trying to think of what Manchester United remind me of and realized it's "the United States of America"
the good news is that the DC US attorney, unlike the New Jersey US attorney, is in fact the real US attorney and not just pretending to be one. the bad news for the administration is it's the lawyer famous for not bringing to justice a guy who said "killed them all, of course" into a mirror.
it's all bad, but the running subplot where some of the worst legal minds the country has ever produced boldly fail in ways US attorneys have never failed before is quite funny
A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up. “He’s in a lot of trouble,” a senior NYPD source said. “It’s a serious case.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...
here's your soup. [loud crashing noise.] whoops.
the reality is you do not want your haters to be your waiters. it completely defeats the purpose of being at the table of success.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
the people's republic of woodbury county
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
www.motherjones.com/food/2019/07...
Will the Train Coming Out of This Movie Screen Kill Everyone in the Theater?
"She hopes to carve out a new role as the First Lady of Technology, combining her passion for children’s well-being with her tech-forward vision" nypost.com/2025/08/25/o...
"I even ask them, 'Is there anything you want me to say to prove that I’m a real human?'" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
these guys make a big deal about how you have to pass a fancy test to become a lawyer. doesn't seem to be working! maybe change the questions? something to think about.
not a lawyer, which gives me unique insight into things that I think are really dumb
gotta say I think this should be against the rules www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
bye!
just want to watch "Playtime" for the first time again
"Internal documents from the State Department show that the person approving these documents is Amarallyis Fox Kennedy...the daughter-in-law of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
"'I’m having sleepless nights,' she said. 'How can we have five people providing lifesaving H.I.V. services to 10,000 clients?'" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
Last week, lots of folks here had questions about @nytimes.com reporting intended for a story that published this morning. Here, @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social, Jay Root and Bianca Pallaro explain what went into their investigation.
they've just got to do like an omnibus impeachment that bars like 3,000 people from government on day one. like one of those unification church weddings.
i mean, true!
I believe in second chances, and also, "'Since his arrival to the United States...Mr. Chan has pursued and exemplified the American dream" is an amazing to say about a heroin trafficker www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/n...
i think they've got to keep the buoys, because they look cool: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
proper
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
“While the state’s largest public transportation system implements major service cuts affecting thousands of Philadelphia students on their first day of school, top Republicans in Pennsylvania state government aren’t in the Capitol. They’re hosting fundraisers.” — www.inquirer.com/transportati...
Like, remember this?!?! www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/n...
local 👏 journalism 👏 matters 👏
Don’t want my Bluesky pals to miss out so here it is, the OLE MISS SIGMA NU PLEDGE LIST. Choose your fighter. I am Willingham Ratterman.
easing congestion for new york city commuters is this administration's great passion www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
the former GM factory in Lordstown is now slated to become an AI data center finance.yahoo.com/news/foxconn...
new york's 17th state senate district mentioned! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...
and *that's* why the Times had all those photographers and reporters at various Chinese-American political events in the city before the chips story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
reminded for some reason of this earlier scene www.thecut.com/2017/01/a-sc...
"Mr. Blair is on the faculty of fellows at the Ellison Institute" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/b...
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
went to the aquarium. it doesn't smell as bad as the zoo, but when it does smell, it's a bit more alarming.
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BO...
building a time machine so I can watch the big fight in the audience at the Paris premier of "The Rite of Spring"
"HPD Detective Kyle Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks" Okay well someone should tell that to lots and lots of the current Real Officers
i always regret going to yankee stadium but not as much as the new york yankees did today
Idaho State's kicker is named TRAJAN SINATRA
