Hal Espen

Time to rest my “Days Without Having A Matthew Yglesias Post Screenshot Thrust Upon Me Against My Will” workplace safety sign back to zero again goddammit.

Tom Stoppard’s traveling bookcase (includes Gravity's Rainbow).

The New York Times (edited headline subbed ) Without proof, vaccine denialists leading F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines The agency's top vaccine regulaith said hui deniew had found that the children were likely to have died "because of" the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data. are skeptical given his established anti-vaccine agenda.

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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.

The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
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Everyone is currently acting like it’s his normal gibberish, but also maybe American planes are in the air right now shooting down Venezuelan aircraft, and there’s literally no basis to believe either because the president is insane.

If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.

A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors.

Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.

That Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s commercial was some depressing shit.

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Seattle ferry fun couple

A real Christmas movie.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

womp womp

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Writer Caroline Fraser argues a chilling link between industrial poison, deadly design, and a generation of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest.

Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 https://bit.ly/48kcCKC

Gas

Never stop eastside

You understand that when you do this, when you promote this, you are actively ENCOURAGING the mass theft and plagiarism of every writer, every author, every artist and journalist and musician's life's creative and intellectual output? How do you possibly justify that?

ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Sign reading "he sold you flowers and ICE took him."

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A little sad that your time window didn’t overlap with the Joyce Carol Oates interaction. What did you think of her assessment of the severe limitations of what might be termed a normal range of human feeling and interests In Musk’s posting?

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

Remember the woman a Border Patrol Agent shot?

DOJ just dropped the case.

United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 - CourtListener.com Docket for United States v. Briggs, 1:25-cr-00610 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.

One of the people arrested on September 27 at Broadview was a 70-yo Air Force veteran who was hospitalized with his injuries from ICE assault. First charged w/felony, then misdemeanor.

He was going to call Greg Bovino at trial.

It just got dismissed.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71489...

On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.

"I was trying to help my mom,” said 13-year-old Jayleane, shaking, as tears streamed down her cheeks. “I saw they were pulling her hair. They had the gun in front of me. I was scared.”

/6 Also, it is the obligation of every lawyer who takes their oath and the Constitution seriously to shun from legal society every single AUSA and DoJ lawyer participating in this. Strike their names from every book and tablet, every pylon and obelisk, every monument of the rule of law.

When You're Too Toxic for Other Republicans - Lawyers, Guns & Money While this might be a bit inside baseball for those who haven’t lived in New Mexico, when state Republican leaders are taking to the Washington Post op-ed to call out Trump naming former New Mexico congressman Steve Pearce to head the Bureau of Land Management, you know there’s a lot of hate for a very […]

When You’re Too Toxic for Other Republicans

Ethics worries are raised! Rare Trump reversal occurs! Tarriffs are hiked! Tarriffs are cut! Nazis and murderers are hailed! Health premiums rise!

How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick The Internet was not meant to suck.

An excellent review of three important books about the web, how it was captured by a new class of oligarchs who turned it into the opposite of Tim Berners-Lee's vision.
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