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Good Krugman post on how Xi humiliated Trump paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-numbe... (I might give a few less points to the U.S. as a benign hegemon.)

"For those courting cardiac adventure, there's the 911: six espresso shots with half-and-half and Irish-cream syrup."

What’s unusual about this story is that Tumwater HS has one of the best modern dance programs in any WA high school, which should suggest at least some tolerance for assigned-gender non-conforming behavior among the students.

Ouch.

But I’ve got my country’s 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped.

Someone should get Comer's thoughts on this stat.

OK people are apparently watching Coherence tonight and good for them; it's an awesome movie.

The country we fought our independence against because of their oppressive monarchy has done a better, more public, dare I say more noble job of holding a former prince accountable for Epstein connections than we have our own *president. We traded their king for a worse one.

@kamalaharris.com's interview on The Diary of a CEO podcast is now up to 1.4 million views in 3 days.

George W. Bush appears to have spoken this weekend to mark the naming of the Oak Ridge Boys Bridge...while he remains silent on our democracy. youtu.be/-UHIzxBHL4Y?...

Health care policy of personal petition to POTUS.

An Abundance of Brave Centrism

After Tuesday, Andrew Cuomo is never again in his life going to set foot in New York, a city he plainly loathes

Future opinion is uncertain, and conditioning too many of your decisions on current surveys will lead you to craft bad strategies that leave you stuck in the past (in this case, for Dems, that means losing) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-much-s...

Breaking: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorse Norah O'Donnell for Mayor of New York City. #Satire

All of our crime is soccer related

Experience under United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act confirms that laws age-gating websites and apps that might contain information deemed “harmful to minors” can cut into availability of information for grown-ups and open new dangers to privacy [Jennifer Huddleston]

No baseball tonight 😢 Only 99 days until pitchers and catchers report

Innumerate, given to fantasy or just stone liars? Trump claims his extrajudicial boat killings have saved 350,000 American lives, while Attorney General Pam Bondi claim the administration had "saved…258 million lives" during its first 100 days by intercepting shipments. [Jacob Sullum]

Somebody was mean to Marc Andreessen on Twitter and he got so mad he decided to deploy all the resources at his disposal to destroy our civilization

You can tell DST was invented by the government because it's basically just the whole income tax racket, but with time. They take an hour from you only to give it back 8 months later and make you think it was for your own good.

I’m still not ready to smoke the Sam Darnold Kool-Aid, but it’s getting harder and harder not to.

Saoirse is getting her whole bigass head of hair dyed purple, blue, and pink in the morning and it's going to be amazing but that whole "main anime character" vibe is gonna kill me. iykyk

Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this answer requires his immediate removal from office

Was taking a look at Kevin Roberts' bio at Heritage. Two things. 1) He's not "John Paul the Great"...that's a made-up term right-wing Catholics use & it's a key marker of their political biases. 2) Roberts violates Catholic tenets every day of his life. www.heritage.org/staff/kevin-...

Either of the only two possible reasons for him giving this requires his immediate removal from office

Food was plentiful in Neverland, but more so after Peter opened up his bakery. Pancakes thus became a thing in Neverland.

As you look at this, isolate your focus on the runner on 2nd (I forget who it was) and IKF. The runner on 2nd gets to 3rd before IKF gets to home, not just because of IKF's lack of a lead but also because IKF seemed to be running at about 90% speed/effort.

As you look at this, isolated your focus on the runner on 2nd (I forget who it was) and IKF. The runner on 2nd gets to 3rd before IKF gets to home, not just because of IKF's lack of a lead but also because IKF seemed to be running at about 90% speed/effort.

Thinking back to when Sally Jenkins vehemently supported Bari Weiss's takeover of CBS News recently on here...

This is an amazing clip. Trump basically says that he doesn't care what crimes CZ committed, because what matters is that he gave Trump a bribe

Ted Cruz has more character than JD Vance…

Yglesias started out as a data journalist but at some point became a toxic bro who doesn’t deal honestly with data. Virginia has a Republican Governor right now & in 2021 Phil Murphy won in NJ by only about 95,000 votes.

Take inspiration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...

From @wsj.com: The New Right’s New Antisemites Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation flounders in the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes fever swamps. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

My face when Cuomo’s “legacy” is mentioned.

@jaketapper.bsky.social

yes, what i look for when assessing the quality of a poll is crosstab errors that are at least 90 points. preferably more. if your subgroup estimates are close to the result, that’s actually bad

The Cubs won a third of the NL Gold Gloves! Nico, Ian, & PCA!

Congrats to Nico Hoerner on his Gold Glove Award!

Congrats to Ian Happ on his Gold Glove!

Congrats to PCA on his Gold Glove Award!

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Sometimes the only thing I can do is get away for a minute to breathe, reset, recharge. The stress this week was at peak level. Filled with gratitude to be able to escape, even if for just a minute. The road ahead is long and keeps getting steeper, and I need to find moments of joy amidst the fight.

A news organization that keeps Norah O’Donnell but loses John Dickerson isn’t much of a news organization. @cbsnews.com

CBS News under Bari Weiss and, increasingly, Norah O’Donnell.

The global damage this one election inflicted will be impossible to tally www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

Wait, CBS edited the interview with Trump?!?! @kamalaharris.com should sue them for millions for emotional distress.

When your bigotry is too much for the Sanders & Fetterman crowd, that’s saying something.

I’m seriously debating whether to keep my @nytimes.com subscription after Amy Quin’s disgraceful refusal to report on Vance’s clear rejection of the teachings of the Catholic Church. She should never again be allowed to report on the Catholic faith for the @nytimes.com.

Lindsey Graham calls Tucker Carlson antisemitism a ‘wake-up call’ for GOP Graham: ‘How many times does he have to play footsie with this antisemitic view of the Jewish people and Israel until you figure out that’s what he believes?’

Yet more reasons his pardons are garbage and no one should rely on them lasting beyond his administration.

It definitely won’t be Norah O’Donnell!

Back on my tree bullshit (smokey mountains edition) see yall in a week

Seat Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson.

Could be a reason that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t leave the decision to go to war to the whims of one man.

isn't that the argument for why biden's pardons are invalid

Listos! #AustinFC

I'm sympathetic to to concern that moving NYC elections to even-numbered years might make it harder for local candidates to break through, but the current levels of attention and nationalization aren't so great either

The Unitary Executive, ladies and gentlemen. Who is authorizing what in the White House seems like a great topic for congressional oversight.

Watched BUGONIA today with the wife; pretty good! Yorgos Lanthimos does not disappoint. My read on it is as a spiritual parable about the left behind people of the populist imagination striking back against the capable, powerful, inhuman agents of the world system. But all are ultimately guilty

Wish me luck tonight on @msnbc @theweekendprime and watch if you can in the 8pm hour!

Actually, what they almost did was rip health insurance from over 20 million Americans.

...and polls suggest if you re-ran the election today, all those shifts among traditional Dem voters would be erased

I'm watching the 60 Minutes interview of Trump but I don't know why.

Time to start jailing IcE agents

“Enhanced counternarcotics operations” are the new “enhanced interrogation techniques.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p...

NE, IND, DEN, and PIT are the top 4 seeds in the AFC because the standings are a lie.

So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria? Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.

Full ride to college, but you'll spend your remaining decades paying for transcontinental flights at Christmas

In local news: Cuomo is the worst.

Honored to be quoted here talking about war powers and the lawless strikes in the Caribbean.

The last gasp of independent journalism at CBS.

The signal feature of The Authoritarian Kakistocrats (Trump, Musk, the DOGE boys, etc.) is that they are too ignorant to understand ROI on public investment & government programs. They approach this stuff like the terrible nepotistic businessmen they are & make awful policy decisions accordingly.

Hakeem Jeffries is not the future of the Democratic Party.

I'm so sick of Ezra Klein's pontificating to the rest of us mere mortals on how things must be done. The man's quite arrogant.

No a mamdate is <phone rings> yeah, yeah, ok, fine <click> I didn't even know I *had* an HR dept

Here's their un-gated pie crust. I usually use this crust recipe or the Cooks Illustrated one. Nothing wrong with buying a pre-fab crust to save time. But I prefer the taste of homemade.

The two possibilities (1) they don't believe their own nonsense but are selling it anyway; 2) they have pickled their brains at the Nazi Bar for so long that they actually believe their nonsense) are equally likely. At this point, it really doesn't matter. It's performance art either way.

This election in swingy Virginia, which currently has a Republican governor, is going to much more telling for other races than whatever happens in deep blue NYC on Tuesday...even though the press won't cover it as such.

Breaking: Heroes have faces blurred out because we ought to be proud of them. #Satire

🥧 Hosting Thanksgiving this year. There is an excellent pie company in Brooklyn named Four and Twenty Blackbirds. Have decided to bake one of their pies instead of buying it, the salted caramel apple (their bestseller). Their cookbook is arranged by season, which is fun.

What about me? www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i...

Marketed as counternarcotics and counterterrorism. Both bogus narratives.

The scandal of the leaked video of detainee abuse by the IDF reminds me of Senator Inhofe proclaiming that he was "outraged by the outrage" after detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib was publicly exposed. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

This interview sounds appalling, with clips to be run and re-run via every media channel. I look forward to all the court filings tomorrow citing to it.

Almost vegan roasted cauliflower + broccoli w/ pistachio miso romesco sauce. Recipe for sauce www.foodandwine.com/steak-with-m... (which is good with beef, fish, chicken, & roasted veggies). I used a bottle of roasted red peppers in sauce.

Almost vegan. Made a small bowl of pistachio miso romanesco sauce & ate it with this cauliflower + broccoli roasted. Recipe for romesco: (which can be eaten with beef, chicken, fish, and roasted veggies). www.foodandwine.com/steak-with-m... For romesco, I used a bottled roasted red peppers.

Andy Reid looks like a kindly, wise, slightly befuddled walrus a D&D party would encounter on a beach somewhere.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals— the state's highest court for criminal cases—rules that drug detection dog's unprompted entry of his nose into suspect's car through open window was a Fourth Amendment search. search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia....

My son also got a potato

And also, the Dodgers are bad for baseball for precisely the reasons people say that. The world is large. It contains multitudes. This incredible World Series doesn’t change that.

Kid misheard the announcer in the Bengals/Bears game to say “the Bagels are on the march” and candidly that’s a great start to a short story

The fact that we cannot rule out them trying this is a big problem and sign of an even bigger one.

Was elite for a minute. But he's not elite again.

Illinois congressman John Farnsworth comparing the U.S. Supreme Court in Dred Scott to the Bleak House chancery court in 1859 is just *chef's kiss* [4 weeks out from my book deadline and still finding gems in my own research 🙃]

these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth

The Menswear Guy never misses.