Oct. 11, 1925: “The Charleston, recently scorned by French dancing masters as ‘barbarian,’ is taking Paris by storm.” A key reason is Josephine Baker’s knockout performance in “La Revue Nègre.”

The closing stanzas from Paul Muldoon’s “Hedgehog.”

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Here’s how to prepare your mobile phone for #NoKings next Saturday.

on top of everything else, look how these masked guys approach this car with weapons drawn, then stand guard as if this some sort of terrorist operation. The cos-play is putting people at serious risk.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

Oct. 11, 1925: American dancer Grace Christie poses for sculptor Antoine Bourdelle in his Paris studio.

“The agency’s human resources staff, which had been furloughed as part of the government shutdown, [was] called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.”

sherman, for the love of god!

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

It’s impt enough to be explicitly required by law: The Secretary of Health and Human Services “shall publish weekly reports of health conditions in the United States…and other pertinent health information for the use of persons and institutions concerned with health services.” (42 U.S.C. §242o(b)

Or when I only knew what these positions were based on The West Wing. DCoS? That's Josh Lyman.

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

no one played this Connections today but in 20 years it will be hailed as a masterpiece

Already cooked. This is gonna be how they stop people posting about the genocide when Larry Ellison and the boys take over the US algorithm

Q: What happens in Gaza the day after the hostage release?

TRUMP: Day after what?

Q: The day after the hostage release, what happens?

TRUMP: Hopefully you're gonna have great success for -- I call it everlasting success

Pumpernickel, toasted, lox spread + tomato

It's my impression that MeidasTouch does some good work but their YT thumbs are so over the top that I'll never click through.

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."