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The almost equivalent of a lifetime (from age 19 to age 60) spent in newsrooms taught me to NEVER have heroes. They are humans. Flawed, oh, so human. Messi was always going to do this (that?). Duh.

Pritzker trolled Kristi Noem after her ouster as the Homeland Security boss.

“Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” the Illinois governor wrote on social media. blockclubchi.co/3MJ2tk0

noem's dog looking down from heaven

Curiously enough, it's probably the plane that pushed things over the edge. She could have kept on being bonkers and tormenting Americans, but "Boss! Boss! The plane!" was a wacky thang too far.

No, thank you! Now I have some new music to dig into. Harder to find it when there aren't a blizzard of press releases and downloads coming into the ol' inbox on the regular.

Special Envoy to WHAT??!!

Only 12% of Americans want ground troops in Iran. But Republicans, still fumbling to explain why they went to war, are all over the map on ground troops:
Trump: "I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “We’re not going to have any boots on the ground.”
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And for those who don't know how wonderful and rare that is, think about ALL the stuff music critics have heard that brings to mind other stuff. Doo Rag, Dex Romweber, Flat Duo Jets, Oblivians -- and you put it all away to shine a light on a band and its stuff. Kick ass.

I love this review. You come away knowing absolutely everything you need to know about the band and its music/sound, withOUT the critic tropes of "This band sounds like that band, with a little bit of the other band, influenced by that other band." It's about the music, and honors the music.

anyway back to the mystery of male loneliness

Presumably nobody is surprised. America is what America is. And Florida is worse.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Americans are finally taking a critical approach to Israel. We can do that without sliding into antisemitism | Joel Swanson Israel’s role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. It’s also creating a permission structure for antisemitism

I’m in @theguardian.com, talking about the struggle between acknowledging that increased criticism of Israel is completely justified, and also that some people are using that to mainstream antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If there was video of a Senate Dem giving a compound fracture to a Marine while wearing his dress blues, that guy would've been burned at the stake by close of business

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

Signed up for the updates that Marco Rubio was promoting for Americans stuck in the Middle East, to see what steps were being taken to get them out. And it’s no joke that there’s no plan. For example, this is what you get if you’re in Bahrain:

B B C NEWS A first plane out of Dubai has landed safely at Luton airport. 'It was scary stuff said a passenger who had never seen Luton before.

True. I’ve been to Luton.

As a former proper newsroom journalist, the industry in which I used to work should hang its head in shame. It is wrong on so many levels, not least of which of course is that the "enemy" deserves dehumanization. Their deaths aren't important, even those of children.

James Talarico, Jasmine Crockett and Democrats’ Dangerous Focus on ‘Electability’ When Democrats treat white male identity as the baseline from which all others deviate, they are not merely navigating bias—they are enforcing it.

The Daily Beast wrote about the dangers of “electability” and it hits on what I also was trying to convey. I get wanting a win but the people who often are collateral damage in that are the Black women who the party depends on the most www.thedailybeast.com/james-talari...

Dunno how gerrymandered this dude's district is, but it seems to me that any potential opponent has a campaign ad already, without having to do a lick of work.

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"I asked God to forgive me, which he has."

Honestly this is the biggest perk of serving in Congress. Most people have to ask forgiveness and wonder. If you're in Congress you get a same day answer from the big guy.

Parent of an aspiring college athlete and there are schools, heck entire states, that are a no go right now.

Exactly this. Also, if recent results are anything to go by, MAGA is an increasingly isolated mob that cannot by itself win elections for anyone. Once whatever normal Republicans are start breaking away, their influence is miniscule.

Is a Senator who interferes with Capitol Police to break the bones of a Marine Corps veteran who's staging a protest subject to arrest for battery, or does that somehow fall under the Senator's constitutional privilege?

Pete Hegseth says US is ‘investigating’ deadly strike on girls’ school in Iran US defense secretary was evasive when asked about the airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least 165 students

Now I’m wondering whether this Palantir/Anthropic software targeted the girls’ school in Minab. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed.

Absolutely bonkers story about Google Gemini instructing a man to procure a robot body for it so Gemini could become his wife www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)