A veteran, an engineer, and a neighbor. Not a culture warrior.

Huzzah! We got home in tume to give candy away

All this guy does is fly around with his girlfriend on private jets, cover up the Epstein files, and take credit for the investigative work of field agents. And he even regularly fucks that up.

Wishing you all a HAPPY HAMILLWEEN !!! 🎃 👻 😱 💀 🧙‍♀️ 🐈‍⬛

My costume this year is from one of my favorite Disney movies: Pinocchio.

How do you like me as Geppetto?

“We're being asked to make a choice between food and no healthcare, or no healthcare and maybe food. This is the choice. 42 million people, 16 million kids. How does this make sense?”

Go to IfWeDontEat.com

#TrumpShutdown #PostYourPremiums

Not only is Young Frankenstein a great movie, but it’s also a wonderful snapshot of a bunch of hugely talented people at the absolute peak of their powers. Wilder talked about not wanting to go home, such was the pleasure of making this film, and that energy runs through every scene.

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.

Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

In news that will shock no one but which everyone needs to hear, abortion bans hurt the speed and quality of medical care across the board—even when treatment has nothing to do with abortion, new study shows

Heritage's president Kevin Roberts is an old Tim Dunn hand, if you want to understand some of the context here

Today’s recommended read: I wish I could write this well. I agree 100%
[image desc: photo of Ta NaHesi Coate, text = “Not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.”
Goddammit Ezra
Ezra sold ambiance where Coates named harm. That is not balane…” ]

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When the right chooses cruelty, the left organizes care.

The Gaza ceasefire was an instant boomerang of embarrassment for legacy outlets. Like, record time. I think that TIME cover is still on the stands.

It's been 36 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Still awaiting my George $oros payment for showing up at #NoKINGS_Day & staying until noon.

Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.

Elrond sends scouts to learn whether any Nazgûl still lurk near Rivendell. Bilbo notes that this will delay the journey until winter:

‘When winter first begins to bite
and stones crack in the frosty night,
when pools are black and trees are bare,
’tis evil in the Wild to fare.’

The noon-bell rings. A silence. Frodo speaks. ‘I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.’

Elrond answers, ‘If you do not find a way, no one will. This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.’

Bilbo offers to take the Ring to Mordor. ‘It is plain enough what you are pointing at. Bilbo the silly hobbit started this affair, and Bilbo had better finish it, or himself.’

Gandalf gently refuses his offer.

Bilbo asks if the Council can please adjourn for lunch.

Elrond calls first upon Bilbo, and then upon Frodo, to tell of their history with the Ring—from Bilbo’s riddles beneath the Misty Mountains to Frodo’s long journey to Rivendell.

Bilbo whispers, ‘You would have made a good story of it, if they hadn’t kept on interrupting.’

Rest in Peace to the legendary June Lockhart. 🕯️

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency.

An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

The calm before the campaign storm.

No Kings is still living rent free in Trump's head, only now Trump is comparing himself to a Mafia boss

Hearing folks recount @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social debate dunks at a barber shop in Portland. The guy has broken through.

Bilbo sings for the Elves.

‘Eärendil was a mariner
that tarried in Arvernien;
he built a boat of timber felled
in Nimbrethil to journey in;
her sails he wove of silver fair,
of silver were her lanterns made,
her prow was fashioned like a swan,
and light upon her banners laid…’