you have to be some special kind of piece of shit to be the only candidate Elon Musk spends money on in all of New York State https://gothamist.com/news/elon-musk-drops-500k-on-ny-rep-mike-lawlers-reelection-bid

I know that it's not a high priority as we plumb the depths of inept authoritarianism, but I got the date wrong on CLE-CHI game 5, and the frenzy I felt as I skipped across streaming services looking for a non-game does not bode well for the pending lockout

SURE IS A RELEVANT STORY TODAY https://gothamist.com/news/ice-mistakenly-arrested-2-men-in-the-bronx-then-mounted-cover-up-us-judge-rules

Fascist Fucks Do more Fascist Fuckery I cannot wait for the Struggle Sessions where these guys get theirs https://gothamist.com/news/person-shot-during-encounter-with-federal-agents-in-nycs-marble-hill-nypd-says

Paging #JakeTapper https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego

Over at emptywheel they explain (https://emptywheel.net/2026/09/29/the-nation-learned-what-missouri-has-known-for-years-about-eric-schmitt/) how bipartisanship can be a choice, but stupidity isn't...

@louisabee110.bsky.social (http://110.bsky.social) asked me why I hadn't written about the Cornell 7. I was uncomfortable when I really thought about my answer. https://sergeiburbank.substack.com/p/what-men-need-to-say-about-cornell?r=29y02&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What's old is new; this time it's 21st century industrialists who get away with whatever they can while their in-pocket politicians tell us there's nothing they can do https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-jersey-fines-data-center-1-1m-after-satellite-pics-expose-62-gas-generators/

The Tech Industry is inherently fascist; any attempts at "neutrality" have to start from this core assumption https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Nothing to see here, just Stephen Miller targeting the weakest as a priority, like the ghoul he is https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The craziest thing about Trump's $5,000 dividend is that he's mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files

In New York City, this is the week we pay the price for the return of competent governance by a Muslim mayor -- as we have to suffer through absolutely unhinged racist bullshit from the worst people you know

yeah, we know https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bombshell-wsj-report-claims-corey-lewandowski-acted-as-shadow-secretary-at-dhs-and-effectively-controlled-billions-in-spending/

Fitting this hits us stateside the week of 9/11... https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/netanyahu-was-personally-warned-hamas-was-planning-terrifying-operation-10-days-before-oct-7-attack-report/

The Padres have a Black woman co-owner, now the Cubs announce a gay co-owner ... along with demanding a new CBA undergirded by socialism they sure are getting woke before this lockout

But I thought campaign spending was speech? Why do they hate corporate FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOM https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/gop-heads-to-supreme-court-after-losing-case-over-tv-election-ad-prices/

trials would be more than these fascist shock troops deserve when their time comes https://gothamist.com/news/a-summer-surge-in-ice-arrests-in-nyc-and-nj-mostly-of-people-with-no-criminal-history

In 2026 it's probably worth revisiting what international prosecutors (eventually) termed a genocide and punishable under international law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/srebrenica-bosnia-genocide-remembered

man, no wonder Trump loved this guy. https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-bar-owner-details-adams-era-nypd-shakedown-claims-in-6m-lawsuit

they really 'bout to take every 80-something-year-old-on-earth except one, huh https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84

This looks all the world to me like a reunion special where Hansen checks in one one of his subjects in federal prison

"mundane at best and threatening at worst" -- this is the subtitle to my comparative history of the Trump's Era Exceedingly White Mediocrity https://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5939973/national-guard-members-washington-dc-deployment

Either this is getting out of hand, or Rule of Threes: 80-year-old edition https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

Such rage when Dr. El-Sayed asks Waters if he's circumcised; Americans sure are comfortable talking about the viability of hypothetical fetuses (not to mention the wombs of real women we don't know personally), yet faint over the mention of a procedure half of all male babies born in the US have

We've lost her, but Donald Trump still lives. Let's wrap this whole American experiment up; we keep losing the best of us and are left with the dregs https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead

want so badly to loudly declare that I will boycott Rensselaer except...I never go there now, it already sucks and I don't even take the train to Albany anymore https://gothamist.com/news/the-new-york-county-leaders-vowing-to-fight-law-limiting-police-cooperation-with-ice

SecDef can't supply ships. DC US Atty can't convict violent thugs. GOP candidate can't campaign. White supremacists say brown bodies lie between them and greatness. Are we sure? https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/darline-graham-gets-chippy-with-voter-recording-their-interaction-it-does-bother-me/

Not to be lost in this mess of an answer from Lindsay Graham's sister is Rro. Norman proving HE knows where Taiwan is on a map ... and then defending Trump's stupid war. We're living in Idiocracy. https://share.google/XrvA8o5OwZ39ZNhpK

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/15/trump-washington-post-drug-prices?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

This is a nightmare. I can't even be snarky about this it's so horrifying. https://www.ms.now/news/navy-meeting-san-diego-uss-lincoln