How is that even "pretend" legal?

WTF, America? About a million should storm the WH and drag this fucker out by his fake hair.

Fantasyland!

@kurtandersen.bsky.social

Third try in 30 years by miserly anti-government Republicans to use shutdown to bully Dena to let them cut health care. First two in 1996 & 2013 were GOP political debacles. This time: health costs more unaffordable, GOP cuts are imminent—and they’ve weaponized hunger. My bet: GOP political debacle.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Just watched. Loved him 20 years ago, still do.

People should post it here, rather than posting links to there. In any case, I don’t feel too uninformed, cuz if people here are linking there, with short descriptions, I can figure it out.

It’s still traffic, and they monetize it, right?

Nope. I’m drawing some lines. Trying to avoid being a hypocrite. Just me. Makes me feel better.

No Meta for me.

Now, about 10 minutes later, the sun’s first rays have hit it. “Golden Hour’ from inside the room!

Still inside my room. Yesterday’s storm really improved the snow pack. I saw it from Tokyo Wednesday, and it was looking a bit tawdry. Still not what it will be in another few weeks, but shaping up nicely .

Just woke up and pulled back the curtains. Fuji-san!

I’m right next to Mt. Fuji right now, but you would never know, cuz it’s dark, and raining cats & dogs.

Tomorrow, sunny & 19. Had a four-course French dinner tonight, complete with Calvados. Calvados! In Yamanakako! This, I did not expect. 😉

The senate can get rid of it. But they’re (the Rs) worried the election rigging won’t work. 😂😉 Then they won’t be able to stop anything.

No house-to-house stuff. Just an(other) excuse to party & drink. 🤪

They are busy putting up crowd control barriers in Shibuya today for expected Halloween craziness tomorrow night. Three-day weekend here, so could be wild.

Depending on your membership, probably, “Bad Law” by Ellie Mystal is on sale for about 7 bucks at Audible.

Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, sitting politely as Fuentes criticized the power of “organized Jewry in America.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...

In the New York mayoral election, new polls today from three top-tier pollsters, all conducted during the last week.

In all of them Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo by margins of 10% to 26%. In one 51% of voters are for him.

Cuomo’s at 26-33% in all three. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻

It's (the bear attacks) been kind of a big deal here.

So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product

A scary, but somehow very likely, scenario for next November.

pca.st/d8m4knnr

Americans on the left should take note. Franco's fascist regime lasted 39 years. The Spanish fascists had foreign support, but so did the Republicans. It was the irreconcilable splits among the Spanish left that probably doomed the Republicans.

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.