Curious Jon

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

You do it how you think you need to comply with the law, up until a judge tells you how to do it to comply with the law.

Otherwise you are breaking the law.

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

Note: A previous version of this article referred to the subject in a disparaging tone. The author has since developed loving-kindness for all sentient beings and revised the article accordingly.

Most Americans Aren’t Fascists, and That’s a Big Problem for the GOP When you let rot into your coalition, your entire coalition eventually turns rotten.

The combination of Tuesday's electoral shellacking and the conflagration inside the Heritage Foundation show just how big of a white nationalist/fascist/groyper hole the GOP has dug itself into.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

A Harrowing Escape From the Drone-Infested Hellscape of Ukraine’s Front Lines

‘If he could reach the woodlot by dawn, he might be pulled to safety and surgical care. If not, he’d almost certainly end up like countless other soldiers in this war: his last wretched seconds recorded for social media’s 24-7 snuff-film deathstream.’

By CJ Chivers

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...

Based, laser-eyes.gif, lfg!!!, etc.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:

“They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you.”

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.

“In an industrial town in… India, Naveen Kumar, 28, stands at his desk and starts his job for the day: folding hand towels 100s of times, as precisely as possible.

He doesn’t work at a hotel; he works for a startup that creates physical data used to train AI”

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

The federal government wants to crack down on left organizing. A century ago, it largely succeeded. Socialist labor leader and presidential candidate Eugene Debs upon his release from federal prison in 1922.

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste.
sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

They are destroying what SHE built.

#TeenVogue

It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations “Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Exploit The GOP's Nazi Meltdown Are we really going to accept the conceit that the central issue in politics is whether DEMOCRATS are too extreme?

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines. “The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

woof

on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading ...

I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim.

Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean? postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Behold, the human autopen

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Believe him when he talks about the pain he wants to inflict on your communities, families, & children.

This is a lawless and destructive government hellbent on denying due process, dignity, & respect to our most vulnerable.

Get in the fight. Support your local teams pushing back against this.