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No one is better at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer.

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

The idea that Nigeria's approach to dealing with terrorism might be superior to the US approach, does not compute in the minds of biased people. They assume that the US approach must be better.

Similar to how biased people could not understand how Nigeria was doing better against Covid than the US🤷🏿‍♂️

The arrivals board is haunted by ghosts this morning.

... and the B indicator has been replaced with a pumpkin.

Thank you, MTA person who decided to give B train riders a little joy this morning.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

That's the Department of Transportation logo next to Treasury.

'Non-radical' racists give the cover to the violent ones and are thus just as much the enemy.

Threatening Vulnerable People Is No Way to Mourn Someone Who Was Murdered Those who had nothing to do with the violence against Charlie Kirk are being menaced—just like always.

A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats.
So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My fellow New Yorkers, let's make 2026 the year we all ask, "Hakeem who?"

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

Except it did... San Diego represented the USA in Vienna.

The conversation we’re not ready to have yet is that having empathy for a white supremacist is part of what upholds white supremacy.

And by that measure alone, it fails to be empathy at all.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Wall Street Journal headline: "Opinion: Two Elite College Degree Worked Well for Me"

WSJ doing WSJ headlines again:

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Vital City | Reality Check: Does the NYPD Need To Hire More Cops? This is the first in an occasional Vital City series putting public policy debates in context.

Backing this up: www.vitalcitynyc.org%2Farticles%2Fwhat-new-yorkers-should-know-about-nypd-staffing

New York Post headline writers scrambling to find out if it was a ham sandwich.

The Chips Fall as Rivals Fry the Mayor The jokes and jabs are flying as Eric Adams’ closest aides was slapped with new criminal charges the day after another of his longtime allies offered a reporter cash inside a potato chip bag.

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press.

“While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

This one's still on my need-to-watch list; last night I finally got around to watching High and Low.

One of my favorite stickers to bust out when I hear someone shit-talking Chicago.

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

EFF is always so proud to represent security researchers doing important work. Our Coders' Rights Project often works with DEFCON presenters, and two of our clients are presenting today about schools, bathroom vape detectors, and audio recordings. www.wired.com/story/schoo...

Can we just reuse BQX since that other project should never see the light of day?

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Make Risa Great Again

YouTube video by EquipmentWorld Tunnel inserted beneath Dutch highway in one weekend

I once worked for a Dutch company, and they were rightfully proud of their infrastructure projects. Most people know about the dijks but their roadworks were pretty impressive too. youtu.be/ztQ8Oj2fSB0?...

Cover of the 1972 Annual Report of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. The image features three uniformed transit drivers standing casually on the steps of a transit vehicle.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

youtu.be/xX-AlsQcZgs?...