Laura Lindamood

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Interesting data point..

In contemporary authoritarian regimes, they don’t ban dissenting voices—they have regime affiliated oligarchs buy up the big outlets and force out opposition voices.

Anyway:

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani Anatomy of a credibility crisis

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.

Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.

This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.

It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.

So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??

they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse

Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Not great, but at least everybody still loves reporters.

Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits | CNN Politics The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly...

Trump could ensure people don’t go hungry, he’s just choosing not to.

Just like Speaker Johnson could bring House Republicans back to work to lower healthcare costs, he's just choosing not to.

The American people don’t have the luxury to choose.

(The fear that Trump would ignore, avoid, and exploit the harm he's doing was basically Schumer's argument against a shutdown in March. We have to raise the costs of the shutdown because there's no consequence Trump won't gladly evade and try to turn on the victims.)

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Trump’s America.

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

They send armed goons to kidnap parents in front of their children and then get mad that we don’t thank them for “keeping us safe.”

Hell isn’t hot enough for these assholes.

I want news organizations to have a “how weird this is and scared should you be” meter on their sites. They always report the news in the same tone of slightly urgent but not catastrophic disinterest which means it’s hard to tell if living in a fascist state or someone wore a tan suit is worse.

DC deserves so much better than this. The Democratic Party deserves better than this!

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

Photo of Spirit Halloween, which has a tariff aisle including a sign that says “Tariff-ied,” t-shirts that say “once I was afraid now I’m tariffied,” and costumes of Trump’s tariff chart

Spirit Halloween now has a section devoted to Trump’s economic policies

If the Democrats can't become a party that tells Eleanor Holmes Norton, "Thanks, but it's time for you to jog on" after all this party and their voters have been through then it's going to be a real rough election cycle.

The rest of the world knows what time it is. Only American voters are clueless.

A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

University of Virginia reaches deal to pause Trump administration probes The agreement includes no monetary penalty and no external monitoring, U-Va. officials said. The Justice Department says the school must prohibit DEI to close the federal probes.

We need to call out those who cave to Trump's bullying, and that is exactly what UVA is doing here.

It's not just wrong — it's counterproductive, feeds the beast, and just encourages more mafia-like blackmail from this lawless administration.

I'm going to start a thread with examples of how the NYT uses euphemism to painfully avoid saying that Trump is committing blatantly unconstitutional and lawless acts.

Let's start with this one... "stretched the limits of his spending powers"

One thing tracking the invasion of Chicago has done (as did the LA invasion) is introduce me to great local journalism outlets, including @blockclubchi.bsky.social.

I think it's one reason Stephen Miller hasn't been more successful sowing fascist spectacle.