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folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Just gonna pretend the flags at half mast are for Robert Redford

Let's check in with The Argument, the magazine pitched as a "group of left-leaning writers and journalists... arguing in favor of what liberalism is for, rather than just what it’s against." Oh.

RIP Robert Redford, a brilliant artist and performer, visionary philanthropist and the star of one of the most resilient reaction memes on the internet, even if most people don’t realize this is him:

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

unjustifiably sinking ships in international waters near your shores is, historically, a top five way to create a world war

In Los Angeles a fire at a homeless encampment in 2019 got major attention, people blamed the homeless and it turned out it was actually started by the son of a chamber of commerce member in an attack on unhoused Angelenos www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhood...

Jeremy does not give a single shit

Stunning piece. A horror movie of sorts. Will be familiar to anyone on the left trying to navigate the centrist American legacy media, albeit made all the more difficult when your bosses and colleagues all assume your people are by default murderous barbarians. bidoun.org/articles/hou...

"Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone" is just a hell of a sentence to type about yourself

A question for politicians and pundits who talk about the need for unity above all: Whose unity are you trying to achieve, and whom are you sacrificing to achieve it?

Veterans are popping off on TikTok over Kirk’s military honors, as many of them are decorated soldiers and some are waiting on VA claims for hundreds of days while some civilian gets top honors for talking real fast.

SGURD YADSENDEW

I can’t recall who it was who offhand, but one of the French fascist sympathizers joked after WW2 how incredible it was that everyone he knew had apparently been in the French Resistance after the fact

If you don't know enough about these people to know that they use "empath" as an insult, than you fundamentally should not be talking to them. Someone literally should take your microphone away before you hurt yourself and others

If there was a fish detective, he could be named Hercule Poisson

Kirkland Signature All-In-One Molotovs

people will need tiktok alternatives, not even necessarily in a "here come the fascists" kind of way but in a purely "these idiots destroy everything" they touch kind of way.

Omg, y'all. 😭

🧵*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. * IL State Sen Villa, in heels, yelling for people to stay in their houses, yelling at ICE "THIS IS MY CITY." Not even a megaphone.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 10,1946

Three House Republicans just flipped their votes after having their arms twisted by GOP leadership, passing the measure which will surrender their power to block Trump’s tariffs. Final vote:

I randomly started rewatching The Dark Knight, and wow, it's still so good, even though it's been copied endlessly by people who didn't entirely understand why it worked. Also, tho? The Joker has magical powers. He's basically Mr. Mxyzptlk in his level of reality-warping abilities here.

BIG NEW YORKERS AGAINST ICE rally at 6 pm, Thursday, 9/25 at Foley Square in NYC, friends! Please do come through! If you've never been to a rally, why not start here? It's 2025 and it's time. We all gotta stand up for all of us.

This cactus, which I've grown since it was in a 2-in pot, has outgrown the largest pot we can afford. We are attempting to move it in ground today. Hope we don't end up in the ER

btw there’s no single group more fucked by this than the Virginia GOP. November is going to be a bloodbath.

Yes? It’s usually a woman and she’s mentioned right after the phrase “his first victim”

If those farmers getting crushed by tariffs and raids don't get a huge bailout I think we can paint the whole map red

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 11,1945

Can't make it up. Klein's response to criticism about his Kirk column not only doesn't address the core criticism that Kirk was a bad faith actor but it leads into an interview with Ben Shapiro.

There's one special election tonight: for the MN House seat previously held by Democrat Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

Coates coming in off the top rope

Today we went to a park to watch someone else's hummingbirds. Despite having perfectly good hummingbirds at home. It's an addiction.

Please cancel your deal to push "A.i." into schools, @rweingarten.bsky.social.

you know things are fucked up when health insurance companies are like "we would love to cover medical care for americans"

ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past spring and summer.

it's ongoing so i'm not going to say much but we got a plaintiff's verdict today for a case we tried in November. small failure to promote case with modest damages. about $5,000 in economic damages and then the full cap, $300,000, in compensatory damages. fees and other relief to come. very happy

Wake up babe, new Times euphemism for blatant corruption just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

they're helping us push the Overton Window to the left lol

We have ourselves another interesting rule vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. Significantly, this rule would again surrender, until April, congressional powers to block Trump’s tariffs. That may be at issue for Rs voting no Massie, Bacon, Obernolte, Kiley, Spartz, McClintock

Children are children. This is awful.

New favorite comment just dropped. 😍😍😍😍😍

Tim Walz launches his campaign for a third term as governor of Minnesota. Three notable Republicans are currently hoping to challenge him next year.

The key mistake Ezra Klein makes is thinking the Right ALSO believes we “all have to live together” How naive/coopted is he to think a conservative movement that proudly and publicly stands for exclusion, deportation, segregation, supremacy and eliminationism believes we “all have to live together”

Best headline clip ever

rip Shakespeare you would’ve loved the Windsors

Fritzi. Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller October 28,1938

Finally!!!

VA House Dems say they have outraised Republicans in 17 of 18 battleground districts and in 70 of 100 races overall. All 100 seats in the chamber (which Dems currently control 51-49) are on the ballot in November vahousedems.org/2025/09/16/h...

Reporters are all losing their jobs anyway, might as well tell Trump to eat shit and choke on it to his face when given the opportunity to do it live on air.

Trying to reconcile the vaguely 40-year-old-Victorian-gentleman-sounding diction in these texts that the FBI says Robinson sent to his roommate with the terminally-online memebot persona that aligns with the messages he inscribed on the bullets and the images in his social media trail 🤔

Zuckerberg probably was going for Risky Business but ended up with Groucho Marx I feel like the diemenswear guy needs to weigh in on why wearable tech often looks so bad

“we’re going to have to live here with one another” is a statement that lacks imagination

Democrat Xp Lee has easily won the special election to replace slain MN state Rep. Melissa Hortman, 61-39. Kamala Harris carried the district 63-35 last year, so it's a rare Dem underperformance (just the 6th this year, vs. 34 overperformances). The MN House will now return to a 67-67 tie.

i don't like to hand out dating advice but generally transgender women don't find it charming when you assassinate an incredibly high profile conservative political activist and then say you did it in their name

IMHO there is no need to register for a protest. I have never done that and find it a very weird thing to ask people to do

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

Huh. ANYway! I'm especially interested in the v first thing Schiff says: "You clearly won't tell us the cabinet members associated with Mr. Epstein." I've said I think Maxwell was issuing a threat when she mentioned cabinet members. But boy, Patel's hissy fit got the room off the topic REAL fast!

Important work by S. Baum and ErinintheMorning.

Business Insider —> Bullshit Insider

As it turns out, nothing is illegal when you control the judiciary.

Slop Insider. What really sucks about this is that whether you use it or not, now if you write for BI anyone can dismiss your work as AI generated because they’re not gonna label it.

What a thing. First-person POV footage as a Gaza City resident rides through what was the promenade. No blood, no weeping families, just: what it looked & sounded like last week, w/ pauses to highlight details: a water tanker, boys carrying aid parcels, etc. [1/2] 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I see this going around, and honestly? It's pretty routine. They interview anybody willing to talk to them. Family, roommates, friends, coworkers, classmates. I understand that this feels different, because the partner is reportedly trans. But it really isn't different.

This great piece from @mmasnick.bsky.social is a classic two-fer: First of all, a comprehensive argument for why staying on Twitter is fruitless. Best of all, it adds to the argument of why freeing ourselves from algorithmic chains is such an important mission. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...

this is obviously a tactic to undermine confidence in vaccines, but I also want to take this opportunity to remind people that the CDC tracked more than 1,800 Covid deaths of Americans 0-18 through June 2023.

this is also a little something called FASCISM

"In my nearly three decades here, I’ve seen many disturbing things. But I’ve also seen amazingly gentle behavior from people who are considered by many to be the worst of humanity. This tender behavior often shows up when animals visit our prison."

He was great indeed but

Tammy Baldwin, Senate Dems push for extending ACA tax credits in stopgap spending bill wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/09/16/r...

It would be really nice if a any respectable news outlet would cover the transgender roommate claims in the charlie kirk shooting because right now the New York Post and Daily Mail are flooding the zone with transphobic garbage

Yeah. I'm just a freelancer, so no reason to listen to me, but it seems like if you're in a media environment where you're going to get fired for basically no reason at any time, then a defensive crouch won't save you. Might as well do something and be a legend

"Gaza City today is no longer a city, but a scene of mass death and day-by-day survival. Residents who remained testify that Israel's intense strikes and ground invasion have only deepened the disaster." 🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... archive link: archive.is/eOZSe

Made Maida Heatter’s “East 62nd Street Lemon Cake” again for a family member’s birthday. It’s always a hit and evokes a lot of positive childhood memories for me.

Would politics be more interesting if conservatives were arguing in good faith and interested in clever compromise positions dreamed up by liberal columnists? Maybe, but that's not the world we live in and there's no fan fiction section in the newspaper.

Botello was jolted awake before 6 am by his home shaking & the sounds of yelling because masked & armed agents were calling out the name of another man in Spanish & had forcibly entered his house.

I will take your perilous wine

big day for Peter Baker’s kid to pick a side

I am losing it, some bitch just told me my translation of a very simple Chinese character is wrong because she asked ChatGPT and it gave her a different answer. I am so mad that I will probably buy a waffle maker to deal 😂😭

First thing I see this morning is Ezra Klein having a friendly chat with Ben Fucking Shapiro in the New York Times and I think I’ll just go back to bed before I lose my goddamned mind.

lady WHAT are you on about. surely this will go over great with the students at the women’s college she runs…

Despicable. If their 14 year-old got into trouble, it would be all, "He's a good kid. Promising athlete/student. Don't hurt his future/scholarship chances. Boys will be boys." If you wouldn't do the same for someone else's kid, you're a bad person. Shameful vote aligning with the fascist regime.

It does look like 36% of people who have had Covid have long Covid to some degree. governments should regard this as a crisis

I was just about to start figuring out how to master TikTok (would've been easy for me by the way) in order to sell books. But now I will not. Because of this.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea protects deep sea beds that, like the moon, are designated “the common heritage of mankind.” Scientists have learned oxygen is being created in undersea beds; but they still don't know how. Now corporations want to mine the beds for metal for EV batteries. 😬

the plot twist is that these people love the marketplace, not the ideas no idea can be banished because that ruins the fun

I realize too late that I should have commissioned a piece arguing that people who did not adequately praise Robert Redford's career today should be thrown in an industrial thresher

Does this seem like a sign of strength to you

conflating “crimes” with “wrongful acts” is not freedom

It's National Voter Registration Day (funny how it's the day before Constitution Day). Register to vote here - and/or send this link to friends and family to get them to register to vote. vote.gov

For the past week I've been thinking I need to watch this one again, odd.

it's really underappreciated among the political media just how corrupt Pam Bondi is, she is quite simply a crook, read CHAIN OF TITLE, you fucking nimrods

A formerly incarcerated writer argues that, as long as prisons exist, they should reduce their environmental impact.

BTW my piece for tomorrow is a bit lengthy, giving my take as a long-time reporter covering the right-wing marketplace, talking about how Charlie Kirk fit into it. I perhaps suggest he was a grifter. THEY CAN’T HAVE ME FIRED WHEN I AIN’T GOT NO JOB

“I asked ChatGPT and it said….” Why are you telling the world this? Why do you feel the need to communicate to us all you are lazy and dumb as shit

These utter clowns. This shows they’re knowingly lying, of course, but they seem to think nobody will notice.

Seven weeks from Election Day, & voters are still hard pressed to find any evidence that Cuomo has found the passion necessary to convey he actually wants to lead a city of 8.5 million people through a deeply uncertain, turbulent period in history. NEW MAYORAL SPEW! hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...