Grant Linneberg

It was my birthday dinner last week. We went out to our fave Thai place. So good.

He has a point

The food would be the top reason for me to go there. Sure, the history. But it’s second place to the food.

Why would you bring American food to Italy?

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

Ugh.

He wrote about going to see LC while he was writing it, and Cohen had dozens of verses. Cale helped him whittle it down, apparently.

John Cale’s is the one. He helped LC whittle the number of verses down, and recorded it his own version. I think it came out well before Cohen’s own. It doesn’t get caught up in the over-wrought emotion of the Buckley or the Lang.

FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL AND THE FBI RAID JACKET According to ALPHA 99, FBI Director Kash Patel arrived at the Provo Airport in Provo, Utah on September 11, 2025. ALPHA 99 said that after his plane landed, FBI Director Kash Patel would not disembark from the plane without an FBI raid jacket. NOTE: Based on ALPHA 99's reporting, FBI Director Kash Patel apparently did not have his own FBI raid jacket with him and refused to step from the plane without wearing one. ALPHA 99 went on to say many FBI Special Agents (and other FBI personnel) were busy working in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and that FBI personnel had to (stop and) ask around to find an FBI raid jacket - a medium-sized one - that would fit FBI Director Kash Patel. ALPHA 99 said there were many large and extra-large FBI raid jackets available. Finally, according to ALPHA 99, FBI personnel searching for a medium-sized FBI raid jacket (that would fit FBI Director Kash Patel) finally found one. That raid jacket, ALPHA 99 said, belonged to one of the female FBI Special Agents. ALPHA 99 said the raid jacket belonging to the female FBI Special Agent was then delivered to FBI Director Kash Patel on the plane, but as he was inspecting the jacket, Director Patel noticed two areas on the (upper) sleeves (near the shoulders) that did not have VELCRO® patches attached. ALPHA 99 said FBI Director Kash Patel then reportedly said he would not leave the aircraft until he had two patches to cover those areas. According to ALPHA 99, members of an FBI SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) Team took patches off their uniforms and ran those patches over to FBI Director Kash Patel at the airport. The patches were then attached to the loaner FBI raid jacket, ALPHA 99 said, and FBI Director Kash Patel disembarked from the plane. 63 Section II, "Reporting Persons, Sources and Sub-Sources", for reporting by ALPHA 99, pages 91-92.

This FBI “pulse check” report on the dept under Patel and Bongino is a mixed bag - the fibbies love having no more sensitivity training but many hate going on ICE raids and think leadership is weak - but this anecdote is clearly gold: K$H Patel wearing the traditional FBI Director’s ladies clothes.

In the incredibly unlikely event that Hegseth actually falls, it would finally put the lie to the idea that they are immune to consequences. It would be the leak in the dam, ready to expand.

Bingo

They do have Vancouver. They’re called Shippsy

I ordered 4 things. I’ve found a Canadian company that gives me a US address. I ship things there, the company brings it across the border to a warehouse in my city for a $10 fee (more if it’s heavy). So in this case, shipping was $18 US + $10 CDN. Plus 5% VAT.

No surprise as it’s a dream of his sugar daddy.

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

I represented vets as an attorney and 100% agree. The way Hegseth talks about war explains why he spent his post-service years working to weasel known war criminals hated by their fellow soldiers back into polite society. Everything Pete does is about Pete—none of it has anything to do with America.

Exactly why I canceled two trips to the US this year. And next. And probably for quite a few years by the look of things. No one down there is fighting back.

Crazy to have an epidemic of murderers confessing they’re actually leftists on the bullets despite everything else about them being right wing coded.

reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏

August 23, 2025 “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...

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"What is remarkable is not that writers anticipated how the neoliberal turn would go, but that 40 years and several international economic crises later, politicians still respond to these crises with solutions that prioritize markets over people."

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Only MAGA allowed

Libertarianism.

I live in the stupid province where leadership thinks RFK and Trump are wizards.

More concerning, look where it left your average Russian. If you’re not an oligarch, you’re screwed. USA has a ton of dudes just creaming to get that to happen.

The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."