Kelly, hi.

It will never stop being shocking that universities are still allowed to run secret kangaroo courts solely intended to protect their own reputations as well as the alleged criminals.

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

Once again, the White House, Musk and the Kremlin all in lock-step that Ukraine must be destroyed.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, UAE & Saudi Arabia. No Paywall 👇

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

This is why I keep saying: if Dems are serious about accountability, they need to be ready to bull their way through the scolding & tut-tutting that is inevitably going to greet even the mildest attempts. It will come from Rs, from pundits, from journalists, from centrist Ds. It'll be relentless.

This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Musk is a national security threat

Imagine you call in Trump to campaign as a last ditch effort and he tells everybody you’re going to lose and starts talking about hot men’s asses instead

Hmm

"You've got to do the ass routine, the kids in the crowd love it!"

Oh dear.

Meaning: contact with a textured surface by even a single ridge is enough for the brain to register it. This paints a picture: fingerprints are an essential part of browsing, arboreal (tree-dwelling) species, explaining their emergence in the primate & koala lines, separated by 100 million years.

Believe it or not, if you’ve paid off your home you are still a member of society and still need to pay for society. Now if you want to ask why homes—the dominant form of wealth among non-rich people—are relatively alone in forms of wealth that are taxed in the US, that is a different question.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

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Dems should be announcing plans to track everything Meta does during election and subpoena Zuckerberg the moment the gavel is theirs. Put him on notice this shit is going to come under microscope & carry consequences.

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

we're reaching conspiracy theory singularity as Ron Johnson accuses Hunter Biden of being involved in Ukrainian bioweapons labs

This is both the funniest and most horrific thing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

So there currently a raging debate on X, Bluesky & other platforms where people are using a drop in Cloudflare's YandexBot traffic to claim that right-wing online engagement is falling. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... That conclusion doesn't follow from the data.

Needed all hands on deck for Hitler.

As Trump himself said, this entire campaign is about protecting Netanyahu.   Words of condemnation aren't enough, ICC members must take action to defend the rule of law. Remember, ICC prosecutors have the authority to open criminal investigations against ANYONE who obstructs justice.

A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan

One step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

He's really fuming. One epic Truth Social rant, another smaller one, a long diatribe at his rally last night, more whining in front of the White House and probably more today in Tennessee. (Why is he campaigning in Tennessee?) Such a deep cut. They gave it to a Black woman judge.

The trick he figured out (and frankly it's depressing so few other Dems have) is to not grade GOP on a curve or give them the benefit of the doubt. He treats them like the bad-faith scumbag hypocrites they are, doesn't call them "my friends across the aisle," equivocate or mewl about bipartisanship.

Dead. Amazing.

Tree as old as the country. If this isn't a metaphor.

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

this is where fraternity culture began. a bunch of second sons of nobles getting ungodly drunk and SAing peasant girls and murdering each other and not being punished for any of it because they were technically church employees and were thus seen as above the law. it all comes from that

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

A healthy community should produce a very strong social norm among young men that says: an incapacitated woman isn’t an opportunity; she’s somebody you protect. wapo.st/4AFQ305

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

There are 4 or 5 different possible examples of Ezra Klein doing something stupid the right way in this one article. Shouldn't AI companies be allowed to operate without regulation? If they doing anything shady, they'll get sued! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

Impeccable grooming here, Pete.

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.