A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.

One-man Car Cycle
West End of London
September 1928

📷Crouch

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

Here you go

the duality of man

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

Turning 65 Today: Valeria Golino

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Acting came to me instead of me going to acting. I always loved movies — I was a cinephile, but I never thought about being an actor until Lina Wertmüller put me in my first movie.

#valeriagolino

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

East Wing ballroom construction at the White House "will be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of." - President Trump, July 31, 2025

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

As you well know, while I agree that progressive activists are somewhat annoying (as it ever was), I reserve most of my opporbrium for the powerful elite pundit/pol class who lack the epistemological self-discipline & moral fiber to distinguish personal annoyance from Major National Issue.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.