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Reminded of how tv news looped the images of the military equipment the Biden administration deliberately left behind in Afghanistan for weeks after the withdrawal as if they represented a huge scandal

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.

Spencer Pratt's supposed momentum as a candidate was an entirely twitter-created invention, propelled by MAGA and the Murdochs who relentlessly promoted his candidacy. But he never had any organic support where it mattered in LA.

Tim Heidecker might be my favorite Tim Heidecker character of all time.

“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange & different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.” ~President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965. Image: National Portrait Gallery.

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

All aboard our first ever Holiday Lights Train! This festive train, covered in holiday lights and special holiday themed messages, will run from Friday, November 28 and operate through New Year’s across our system.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on the AirTrain right now you can get 10 and 30 day passes that cap the fare, which are used heavily by airport employees. Metro cards are going away next month but there is no word of a similar program with OMNY. What’s going to happen with airtrain fares?

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Union-backed school board candidates in Durango, Colo. are beating their conservative opponents by 40 pt margins. Conservatives, including anti-furry fmr Gov candidate Heidi Ganahl, have made Durango the center of education culture war issues lately. #copolitics

This is a strategy we need to repeat. In the wake of Obama in 08 the Republicans invested hard in local races, including school boards. Starting their rhetoric at a hyper local level built a giant base that got us to where we are. Counteracting that requires exactly these kinds of victories.

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board. #copolitics

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Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage. Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Enough.

I started watching Long Story Short in @netflix.com and then the first three minutes one of the characters is describing the Paul Simon song Obvious Child as if it was hidden camera footage of me AND also a great meta pun. I am being seen in an extremely oddly specific way. Here for it.

this is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history and today's NYT didn't put it on the front page. today it's not above-the-fold on the website either (they do have a "grocery prices are falling!" story though lol)

This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.

I encourage you to read this great reporting by Ken Klippenstein on the buffoonery which took place in Los Angeles today. Even the "military" participants (if that's what they actually are) appear embarrassed to be participating in such a massive failure.

WSJ: “.. U.S. officials briefed by the Israelis weren’t convinced that the information pointed to a decision by Tehran to build a bomb, according to a senior intelligence official, another U.S. official and two congressional aides ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I mean. Just imagine fox if Biden refused to call DeSantis or something.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Seems at least a possibility worth considering that Trump is just bored and annoyed at having to be at the G7 and wants to go home.

Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone. He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

I made the mistake of looking at the comments on the latest video. There's something about people fixated on edge cases and refusing to look holistically at their situation in order to assess their actual needs which frankly hurts my soul.

"Direct File showed what real government efficiency is—identifying a need and delivering for people in a way that actually makes their lives better.” — @merici.bsky.social

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."