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photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps. Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice. She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

*Do* you hate to say it, tho?

My (R) mayor just gave a press conference explicitly condemning the WH for shutting down the government and weaponizing federal agencies against Trump’s “enemies.” So I’m gonna log off now while I have this dose of sanity fresh in my veins. Later! 👋

Addicted to Tub!

Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

If you think people are mad at Gavin Newsom now, just wait until he rides this strategy all the way to a crushing electoral defeat.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Gonna not watch this so hard

Michael Sharp PRO THE AMERICAN SOLDIER The American Soldier 1970 ***½ Watched Oct 7, 2025 If you don't make out in tragic slow motion with your brother's corpse on the floor of a train station locker room while your mom watches are you even noir? Strictly for unrepentant postwar melancholics who drink their Ballantine's straight from the bottle. [sidenote: There is an uncanny moment in this movie where a maid sits on the edge of a bed and starts telling a story and about twenty seconds in I'm like "I know this story ... this ... this is the plot of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (a *later* Fassbinder film, what the actual fuck?)]

This movie! 💥 ⁉️

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY yard sign w/ ship sailing over “ocean” that is actually a U.S. flag 🇺🇸

Demented A.I. slop irl

Meme image of a blue and white carton of Goats Butter, adorn with an illustration of a goat, sitting on a store shelf. Hand-written on the carton in sharpie are the words "Who you gonna call"

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood...

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

One cool thing that everyone can do immediately, or, you know, soon, is stop talking about CBS in any way / shape / form. I’ve ignored them this long… please help me continue on my journey of blissful ignorance, ty

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

My second crossword for @billboard.com! Taylor Swift week continues apace

Ida eying Alfie

Ida sticking one paw down

Then two

Then chaos

This is stealth

I’ll “accommodate” AI the way I’ll accommodate fascists, like, no, fuck off, stop trying to get my consent on any of it, you can’t have it, I do not have to hand it to AI under any circumstances. Hard no. No.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them.

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

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Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

the chris caldwell of 1948 would have been arguing against desegregation of the armed forces www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Pretty sure Aaron Sorkin wrote this in like 2013

Yes, this is a very “Beta” way to “read”

Me during the National Spelling Bee foofaraw

lol I could easily be in the background of this picture, as I’m pretty sure I went on a date here in 1987 — seriously, this is the miniature golf course I grew up with, my mental template for all miniature golf courses! 🥰

Clever

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