Giri Iyengar
@girinero.bsky.social
To be fair, the US has had more “worst presidents of all time” than any other nation. You gotta hand it to the US.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
To be fair, the US has had more “worst presidents of all time” than any other nation. You gotta hand it to the US.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
This one made me laugh
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This one made me laugh
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
A Fullerton police officer intervened when he saw a man in plain clothes pointing a gun at a female driver on a busy street in Santa Ana. The man later identified himself as an immigration agent and accused the driver of "following him" during an "operation"
Fullerton police stop man pointing gun at female driver, only to learn he is ICE agent
A Fullerton police officer told the agent he couldn't help 'with someone following or recording him if no crime had occurred.' Under state law, local police cannot enforce federal immigration law.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A Fullerton police officer intervened when he saw a man in plain clothes pointing a gun at a female driver on a busy street in Santa Ana. The man later identified himself as an immigration agent and accused the driver of "following him" during an "operation"
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Ooni Halo Pro is a game changer. @wordloaf.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Ooni Halo Pro is a game changer. @wordloaf.org
What if we had Guillermo del Toro make the next Bond film?
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What if we had Guillermo del Toro make the next Bond film?
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid —
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
Former USIP security chief says MPD gave 'high-fives and fist bumps' after raid
The latest on the lawsuit to get MPD's body cam footage released.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid —
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
There is some INTENSE competition for dumbest motherfucking clown in the Senate. Morons vote for morons, I guess.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There is some INTENSE competition for dumbest motherfucking clown in the Senate. Morons vote for morons, I guess.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
100%
we gotta stop with the tiny microphones. get a full size mic like an ADULT. you look like you’re at tea with a mouse
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
100%
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
Wisconsin says no to Trump’s demands to unload SNAP benefits from Wisconsin EBT cards.
Seriously people if your state released any SNAP to your EBT cards, use it now. This is starting to get ugly.
Seriously people if your state released any SNAP to your EBT cards, use it now. This is starting to get ugly.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Wisconsin says no to Trump’s demands to unload SNAP benefits from Wisconsin EBT cards.
Seriously people if your state released any SNAP to your EBT cards, use it now. This is starting to get ugly.
Seriously people if your state released any SNAP to your EBT cards, use it now. This is starting to get ugly.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
In a chaotic kidnapping raid yesterday, ICE in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood shot a chemical munition into a family’s moving car. The shrapnel from the pepper ball/spray hit a baby. (11/8/2025)
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In a chaotic kidnapping raid yesterday, ICE in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood shot a chemical munition into a family’s moving car. The shrapnel from the pepper ball/spray hit a baby. (11/8/2025)
This is heartbreaking, horrifying, enraging, all of it.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is heartbreaking, horrifying, enraging, all of it.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
Philly’s newest work of public art was a gift from art collectors and Penn alumni, Glenn Fuhrman and Amanda Fuhrman. Titled "Rui Rui," the sculpture is by famed artist Jaume Plense, who’s perhaps best know for “Crown Fountain” at Millennium Park in Chicago.
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Philly’s newest work of public art was a gift from art collectors and Penn alumni, Glenn Fuhrman and Amanda Fuhrman. Titled "Rui Rui," the sculpture is by famed artist Jaume Plense, who’s perhaps best know for “Crown Fountain” at Millennium Park in Chicago.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
Dog stick core
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Dog stick core
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
Husbands with Grindr profiles?
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Husbands with Grindr profiles?
WaPo has gone full batshit Murdoch.
bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal
“Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
WaPo has gone full batshit Murdoch.
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
While researching my current column, I had trouble finding something PM Carney said in a speech in either Factiva or Google, so I tried asking ChatGPT-5 to search for it. This was its internal response.
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
It hallucinates in basic searches. It can't write truth. It can't copyedit. What is it good for?
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
share.inquirer.com/eHjc2i
gift link, no paywall hopefully
Sorry I'm not going to this, but Samara Joy is a joy to listen to. One of the great young singers around. Young woman, old soul.
#music #jazz #philadelphia
gift link, no paywall hopefully
Sorry I'm not going to this, but Samara Joy is a joy to listen to. One of the great young singers around. Young woman, old soul.
#music #jazz #philadelphia
Samara Joy will celebrate her 26th birthday, onstage in Philly, the city where her grandparents founded a savings club-cum-gospel group
The Grammy winning jazz singer, who has deep ties to the city, will kick off the final leg of her tour for her album 'Portrait' at the Miller Theater
share.inquirer.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
share.inquirer.com/eHjc2i
gift link, no paywall hopefully
Sorry I'm not going to this, but Samara Joy is a joy to listen to. One of the great young singers around. Young woman, old soul.
#music #jazz #philadelphia
gift link, no paywall hopefully
Sorry I'm not going to this, but Samara Joy is a joy to listen to. One of the great young singers around. Young woman, old soul.
#music #jazz #philadelphia
Reposted by Giri Iyengar
MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 AM
MIRANDA: the firm doesn’t want to make me partner because I’m a woman
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy
CHARLOTTE: tell me about it — no man wants to make me their partner either!
SAMANTHA: have either of you tried giving better blowjobs?
CARRIE: big is moving to paris
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: I am going to make Frankenstein sexy