Duncan Watson

I just walk to my TJs.

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Frog made a fresh pot of tea. He sat down and began a story.

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

It has long baffled me why people continue to fixate on wonky, expensive drone delivery projects when drones have spent the last decade becoming irreplaceably useful and cheap *data collection and photography* tools - but yeah, there’s probably something similar going on there.

The people: make an appliance that lasts longer than 5 years! Give us perpetual cell phone battery service!

AI evangelists: plagiarism machine go brrrrrrr.

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Threw objects = took pictures

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

Driver intentionally hits a cyclist and the police victim blame the cyclist.

So ICE/CBP just outright violated the restraining order put in place yesterday. Straight up.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Bari Weiss making plain she knows as much about journalism as Elon Musk knows about government. What will be the CBS equivalent of USAID?

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

As dawn breaks, a bicycle messenger drops a box of magical reagents on the wizard's doorstep.

The indictment of Letitia James makes clear that calling it an attempted coup is no exaggeration.

A banner featuring 9 titles from CE Murphy's urban fantasy series, the Walker Papers. It reads, "REDISCOVER THE WALKER PAPERS: Joanne Walker has old gods to face, banshees to fight, and witches to win over...if she can stay alive long enough to learn how to use the shamanic powers she just discovered!"

Reader question: Why does RAVEN CALLS say book 8? Most places it's listed as book 7?

Author answer: Because when I got the rights back, I decided to upgrade both BANSHEE CRIES, a novella, to book 2, and NO DOMINION, a collection featuring a short novel with Gary as the lead, to book 9! And...

Please stop creating the torment nexus, thank you

The Electricity Crisis with Costa Samaras Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 09/23/2025 · 56m

When clean energy supply goes down because of the Administration's policies and electricity demand goes up because of AI, it's an electricity crisis in the making. Listen to Chris and I talk about it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

The wizard checks on the herb garden and markes sure the anti-deer spells are working.