Glen Dudek

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Guys it’s easy to say Dick Cheney should’ve been prosecuted for war crimes. But you’re forgetting one thing. If we start prosecuting people for war crimes, people in the future might get scared about doing war crimes and hesitate before committing war crimes!

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Adorable tan puppy who looks pissed

Timeline cleanse: I present a series of photos of irritated animals

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

Opinion | All It Took for Trump to Dismantle the Justice Dept.

Since I have from time to time defended Merrick Garland's record as AG, I am honor bound to post this from @carolleonnig.bsky.social, a superb and rock-solid reporter, which, in part, blames his caution for the failure to prosecute Donald Trump post 2021.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

i mean this. If anyone in your life starts nattering on about this, you reply "oh, so you're pro-genital inspections for children??"

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

'Irreparably Damaged': Former Senior Official Details the Darkest Days of the CDC Under RFK Jr. Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool.

Kennedy never meant what he said about gold standard science and radical transparency, and never tried to seriously understand or follow science. Or to engage in reasoned decision making. As described by @drdemetre.bsky.social via @gizmodo.com
gizmodo.com/irreparably-...

Brilliant letter, please share with anyone moaning about the hotels

Dear @nytimes,

It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.

Sincerely,

An actual educator

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!

I’m very happy, and proud of my fellow Americans, at how many (though not enough) are reacting to ICE abuses. I’m also scared for them, because I think this escalates to more government (and government-supporter) violence, to a tipping point.

The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later "What a sick world." And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

NEW: The Kavanaugh stop, 50 days later. "What a sick world."

I asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh about his September 8 concurrence and the reality that has followed. Because he should be asked. He, unsurprisingly, did not respond.

Today, at Law Dork:

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙

There's something the Democratic party should learn here but they won't. They'll continue to hire consultants to that tell them to work on converting moderates and conservatives instead of going out and talking to their potential voter base.

Photo of five shorthaired colorpoint kittens in a carrier.

Photo of many cats in carriers loaded into the back of a van.

Last week our local humane society took in 28 cats from a woman who had gotten in over her head with too many litters. They require a lot of care to get them healthy and adoptable - please consider a donation if you can! www.hsccvt.org/donate

A young brown boy in a football shirt and his family wail as a family member is led away by ICE.

A brown man weeps as he looks down the hallway heading into immigration court.

A young brown woman in a red sweatshirt with her face contorted with tears as her arms are restrained by ICE officers.

A brown woman weeps over her baby in a strolled as others comfort her in the hallway of immigration court.

Look at what is happening. Look at it.

A RECKONING WILL COME.

I Torment My Husband By EyeBombing All His Stuff Someone once told me that the key to any lasting marriage is honesty, which is maybe true for, like, the Pilgrims, or any other archaic religious group that doesn’t believe in the real secret to marri...

Staying with mischief, it's easy to weaponize pareidolia and psychologically terrorize your loved ones by sticking googly eyes on everyday household appliances!

I know this because my friend Geraldine did it and then wrote about it:

everywhereist.com/2015/06/i-to...

9/

/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech.

Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.

Someone who saw the evidence in that case and wanted to have dinner with Epstein is not anyone who should be allowed near children.

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Really important that we don't become numb to the President designating unspecified groups as terrorists who he can just kill without any process and without much evidence that the allegations against the unknown people are even actually true.

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

close-up of a by-the-wind sailor on a white background

Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...