Mollie Wilson O'Reilly

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27 seasons of SVU and the greatest thing they have ever done is briefly show the ADA wearing the jersey from the unit’s otherwise unmentioned rec league softball team

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans

She really has a singular ability to do... whatever that is

Portion of a math worksheet featuring a brief biographical inset about Michael Jordan, alongside a drawing of a bald black man whose face is a completely different shape than the one that famously belongs to Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls.

My kid brought home this worksheet, probably a Black History Month tie-in, introducing him to notable Black athlete Michael Jordan, and because of it I'm afraid he will never be able to recognize the actual Michael Jordan

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

...And now we have to live in a world where our big stupid president has a collection of big stupid novelty hats, like Judah Friedlander on "30 Rock," and wears them as he goes about his official duties, like napping through press conferences and musing peevishly about deporting his opposition.

Fun to remember that those big dumb MAGA caps came about because candidate Trump didn't want to go through his whole bizarre hairdo routine every time he had to appear in public. They symbolized his fundamental attitude in that 2016 campaign: "I don't really want the job; I just want attention."

I barely knew who he was at the time, and I remember it felt like a speech he usually gave at conferences on global politics, "the world is flat" type stuff, with (seriously!) "Dance like no one is watching" awkwardly tagged on at the end to make it graduation-ish.

IN THIS HOUSE WE
REMEMBER HOW YOU LOVED US TO YOUR DEATH AND STILL WE CELEBRATE...

(I started out joking, but I actually want this on a yard sign now)

I grew up with those hymns as part of my most profound experiences of faith, and I'm sincerely sorry that others didn't get to have that experience, but belittle the way good people pray just because you can't think about God and hear a guitar at the same time and you will catch my fury 🔥

When I graduated from Yale in 2003, Thomas Friedman was our Class Day speaker. Who thought we needed to hear from Thomas Friedman in the very same week he went on Charlie Rose to make his famous "suck on this" case for invading Iraq? Obviously it was the work of the nefarious Campus Left.

War with Iran is consistent with that kind of faithless politics, because a) there’s no credible basis for it, and b) Trump was clearly desperate to regain control of US political discourse. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Like the neocons, Trump’s neo-neocons repeatedly invoke the West’s complacency and unwillingness to defend its own values, a frailty that can be rectified only through the ritual use of military force against weaker targets. The conservative writer Jonah Goldberg once articulated what he called the “Ledeen Doctrine,” after the neoconservative Michael Ledeen, which was: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Despite Trump’s rejection of George W. Bush, MAGA bears many similarities to the right-wing politics of that era—a fetishization of violence and torture, the treatment of opposition as treasonous, a disdain for due process, and an anti-Muslim bigotry at odds with fundamental American principles.

Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is a very good piece. If I must read more about what's in Epstein's emails, I want it to be as well written as this.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

RUNNING THE SAME BULLSHIT IRAQ PLAYBOOK

If people are at Mass, entering actively into prayer, and you're there somewhere fuming because you don't like how they are positioning their hands, I want to suggest that they are fine, actually, and YOU really need to get a grip (using whatever hand position feels most comfortable)

Now do one for how we all stand to receive the Eucharist, as a sign of our unity with the bishops and each other

The Iranian people are already suffering under a repressive regime that jails and murders dissidents. These airstrikes will not deliver freedom. They will only put innocent families in the crossfire so Trump can pretend to be a wartime king on TV.

Jiminy fucking Christmas

Be on guard against the Lionsgate that prowls, seeking souls to devour

And it won't stop right-wingers from insisting that we have to intervene in [whatever Muslim countries they want to attack] because they treat women badly

Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!

“Epic Fury” sounds like retaliation for a catastrophic attack, not like the response to the break down of sham negotiations to restore a treaty we broke.

@GOP on X: Vote the pro-peace ticket. Vote Trump-Vance 🇺🇸 04 Nov 24

The lies about Trump's approach to war and foreign policy were ubiquitous. Just a few.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!