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Ivan!! 👋

Hate it here. The J*mes T*larico campaign has approximately 72hrs to give me literally any contact whatsoever re: my bajillion applications 😤😮‍💨

Job market anecdote: it took me nine months to convince myself to apply to anything outside of global health/foreign policy/development/state & local public service. Got an offer for literally the first tech job I applied for lmao

Update from a friend. I now think "acting earnestly confused toward the national guard" should be a soft protest campaign

Even absent any foul play, you'd think "Frontline Republican and married father of six's staffer-mistress kills herself" would be a thing!

Wild case that I haven't seen break through nationally (yes, there's an affair)

Whoa.

Net negative in Texas is wild

Very proud of the folks at posterproject.us who have rapidly assembled state-by-state shareable infographics on SNAP. Find yours at the website.

This seems related to how the ultra-rich, MAGA, and tech elites have all largely converged around the belief that Only the Internet Matters, and everything that does *not* occur in ways legible to Online is thus irrelevant.

They seem to truly believe NPCs aren’t real and they can’t hurt you.

Either I pay less attention than I think I do or the degree of weird loitering going on is not making it through the noise to the rest of the country, I feel like I am HALLUCINATING

In DC for the first time since July and I am shocked by the degree to which the National Guard is loitering??? I passed twelve - TWELVE!! - in the 2 blocks from the metro to my hotel. They're just standing there or walking around aimlessly. It's gonna get cold?? What the hell

man, the whistles are *very* effective

Some Democratic candidate should run with this, bet it would look dope on a yard sign.

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

And because we know this is being done quickly, cheaply and with Trump-friendly but un-vetted contractors, we can now assume the previously secure President’s Emergency Operations Center will now be riddled with security holes—physical and electronic.

Democrats gonna announce a press conference to demand the demolition process be halted

the conference will be scheduled for next wednesday

Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

They know their customers don't have a choice. People can't easily stop using Apple products. Or Microsoft Office. Or Amazon. We live in an oligopoly.

Eventually, all these gigantic companies need to be broken up. Their concentration of so much power is literally a threat to the Republic.

free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

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Physical magnet on my fridge that bricks selected apps. Highly recommend

Here for it. I freeloaded on both print copies and tinfoil hats at their SXSW launch party, so this is long overdue!!

I have finally paid my dues and ordered a print subscription in an effort to convince 15yos I am cool, please clap

Therapists Recommend Treating People Like Shit If You’re Having A Bad Day ATHENS, GA—Explaining that the behavior provided multiple mental health benefits, a team of top therapists at the University of Georgia’s Department of Psychology issued a statement Monday recommendin...

Gave a printed copy of this @theonion.com article to my teen mentee who is having a bit of a sass problem a few weeks ago (who amongst us, etc) & now she brings it up every time she's having a bad day lmao. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said it first: the kids love The Onion theonion.com/therapists-r...

(Deb Haaland, who rules)

A candidate with *two* DWI's is going to win her governor's race in the next few weeks! The difference is owning your mistakes and growing up, which needless to say this type of dude Could Never

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

My quick take: good & bittersweet.

The space of rapid, time-sensitive and broadly interesting public health reports is not fully occupied.

If & preferably when MMWR re-establishes itself, then having competition and multiple outlets can be a positive.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit A wild black bear took a jaunt around a Northern California zoo and was spotted visiting its bear neighbors.

IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS www.latimes.com/california/s...

god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate