Adam Weinstein

"The antivax guy with the brain worms who once staged a dead bear cub underneath a bicycle in Central Park and who also is the US secretary of health espouses a theory about the inferiority of Arabs" is a completely accurate summary of a news item today

In case facts still matter

Quelle surprise 🇧🇷

Liza Minnelli has outlived Flávio Bolsonaro’s revenge bid for President of Brazil. He lost to Lula, the man who defeated his father in ‘22. 🇧🇷

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Global fascists be like

You know who appreciates a joke about [chain restaurant]? Everyone who ever worked at a [chain restaurant]

Who couldn’t use a laugh when they’re sad? For Billy Crystal, that’s always been the way to do it. And he wants you to join him. “If I can find some relief in the pain it’s good for me, but essential for the audience.”

Undoing the Alaska Purchase to own the libs. Or possibly to own some dachas and overseas LLCs, not entirely clear

Shout out to the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium

Periodic reminder that Donald Trump is still almost two years younger than Joe Biden was when he left office. Trump would be more than 82 years and 7 months old at the end of his term

Guy with voter-fraud conspiracy theories may have been the linchpin in a conspiracy to commit voter fraud www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

Getting flashbacks from serving during DADT, when every unit had a sailor or three that we all knew, protected, and shut the fuck up about

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

"The episode became instant fodder for gossip and jokes inside the Pentagon, with some decrying the apparent brashness and affinity for World War 2 nostalgia that they characterized as common themes throughout Hegseth’s tenure as defense secretary." He's cooked www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"If Trump invokes [the Insurrection Act], the thugs plan to seize power" so you're saying this "literal coup" could be averted by Trump simply not deploying soldiers to kill Americans in the streets and "deletimizing" his rule? Got it

Man, I wish Rick Scott was up in this election cycle

WATCH: “They've always believed that someone of my background, of my faith, shouldn't be in Congress,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar. “I think that's ultimately the thing that they want.”

The news should not be sponsored by the gambling company. That's my feeling

i think it's good that You Can See Everything is prompting people to question the truth and ethics of documentary filmmaking and i really hope that everyone goes further and applies that same skepticism to literally every documentary ever made 💞

This is a disgrace, and it directly impacts our military readiness. Some 1,300 Navy family members were evacuated from Bahrain during the Iran war. Months later, families are still displaced, separated from loved ones, struggling financially, and waiting for answers. #SupportTheTroops 🧵

WATCH: “That ad is truly one of the most despicable things I have seen in politics,” says Chris Hayes of the Vivek Ramaswamy-backed attack ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother, who Acton hasn’t spoken to since 1978 after a childhood marked by sexual abuse.

Beyond the obvious problem here, also worth nothing that sea trials showed the Titanic was capable of turning 180 degrees in about three minutes

"White evangelicals were the least likely to name empathy as a foundational social value (42%), and more than half of white evangelicals (54%) said, 'empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God’s truth.'" religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...

Wild how GOP claim Dems pay protesters and actors but then actually pay protesters and actors! "Timmy Teepell’s firm, Breakthrough LLC, was paid $250,000 on 29 September by America Next" to "fund the canvassing and influencer marketing in opposition to" AES. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

"But how can we know what Muslims believe? By talking to any of the millions of them living in the US? That feels like a slippery slope that would take away my unflinching confidence to call for organized persecutions of other faiths that’s fueled primarily by my total non-understanding of them."

Back in the '04 campaign, there was a liberal group called Billionaires for Bush that did street theater and made parody posters with taglines like "Corporations are people too" and "Leave no billionaire behind" and "The environment. Can't sell it, who needs it?" Why do I bring it up? No reason