Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb For Tax Purposes
CJ Lemire@cjlemire.com · last mo.Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore For Tax Purposes
tom lehrer nerds, they put his live Australian performances - a rare 1960 release - on Spotify et al a few days. No new songs, but new intros. @sarahweinman.com open.spotify.com/album/2FhxMZ...
Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia (And Vice Versa) - Album by Tom Lehrer | Spotify
Tom Lehrer · album · 1960 · 13 songs
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General vibe from NASA program staff at the post-Artemis splashdown press conference. People are asking if NASA is back…
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of the word yeah .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of the word yeah .
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If the Integrity capsule stays out on the pacific much longer it will switch from being a spaceship to just a ship.
To be shouted to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner:
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 12mo agoDOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
The East Wing Obscenity
Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House
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I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
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Donald Trump's Dumbest Suit Yet? (Suing the DOJ) ft. Liz Dye
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
The absolutely insane circumstances aside, any other president who had chosen to perform construction on this level would not have let this gaping wound in the side of the symbolic seat of national power to be so nakedly visible.
Greg Greene@greene.haus · last yr.Behold: Republican permitting reform.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last yr.Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
I'm not sure I'm ready for my IDE to journal its feelings. It would've been too cruel to force Visual Studio to keep a diary to reflect on all the ways in which it had let me down.
This must be the national security justification for putting a 10% tariff on softwood lumber next week.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
We obtained leaked recordings of Peter Thiel's off-the-record lectures about the antichrist. Here's what one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley and US politics is saying about the end of the world behind closed doors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.
Authoritarian governments sending troops drawn from the ordinary population to repress said population and then *not paying* those troops is definitely a thing that has gone well, historically. A+ dictator performance Donny
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · last yr.ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown the doj was like "idk" the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"
Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"
Andy Sellars@sellars.bsky.social · last yr.AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
