"Kelly, a former Navy captain, combat pilot and astronaut, was one of six former military or intelligence officials who made the video."

Pilot, astronaut, veteran - yeah, put him front and center of your smear campaign, see what happens

"Charlie Chaplin, the master silent-movie comedian. It was he who established that going to the movies would be an act wired, in a primal and essential way, to the G-spot of hilarity."

Worth reading for this line alone. Though, the top 20 is super weird (Agreed with Scalzi about #1)

"When asked about DOGE's status, Kupor told Reuters: "That doesn't exist."

A single doggy tear

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

"Bus drivers say they’re navigating less congested streets. People drove 1.8M fewer miles on city streets... and emissions dropped by 24K metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That’s the equivalent of taking 5.2K vehicles off the roads."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines

"By focusing on a theoretical, unproven risk, critics say, Mr. Kennedy is using his platform as health secretary to discourage vaccination, an issue that earned him millions of dollars and boosted his political career. They accuse him of playing on parents’ fears "

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

"Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear, you can refuse illegal orders.”

Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment

"gov: Ms. Halligan, a personal lawyer to Mr. Trump who is working on the first criminal case of her career; Mr. Lemons, Diaz, brought in to the Comey case from a U.S. attorney’s office in North Carolina after no one in the Alexandria office would take the job."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

"Bove's remarks, which have not previously been publicly reported, suggest at least some members of the administration were considering this policy shift as early as six months before the boat strikes began."

US Mint presses final pennies as production ends after more than 230 years The U.S. has ended production of the penny. The last 1-cent coins were made Wednesday at the mint in Philadelphia.

The U.S. has ended production of the penny.

"with legislation ensuring any federal workers laid off during the shutdown are rehired and blocking future reductions in force, or RIFs, through at least the end of a new Jan. 30 stopgap spending bill."

Kaine bought a ~75 day reprieve, assuming WH acknowledges the legislation at all

Yeah, we shouldn't enfranchise 4 million US CITIZENS. That's just crazy, y'all

The cross-eyed antics of this sycophant are truly bizarre

🔊 The results are in for the first elections since Trump’s second term, and Democrats have landed four big wins, giving the struggling party some much-needed hope. Listen to host Kim Vinnell chat with our correspondents on the Reuters World News podcast reut.rs/3WFARxw

Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself

"At the same time that he has effectively taken the House out of the equation for resolving the shutdown impasse, Mr. Johnson has continued to act as the president’s defender."

What a shameless sycophant

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Parental scarelore becomes psychic cicatrix. All those tales of Wishbloods, Harrowhounds and Stay Belows become bone tattoos. Deep inside lives a dread, an internal voice of warning. The calling beauty of the river falters to old, parent-instilled fear. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Folklore

Dependency

xkcd.com/2347/

a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is sitting in a chair holding a hammer . ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is sitting in a chair holding a hammer .

Amazon Says Website Outages Ease After Disruption www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’

"Ms. McMullen was detained.... After being questioned and remaining on a bus for hours, she was allowed to go back to her apartment. “My bed was turned upside down,” she said. “My mattress and stuff flipped over. My paperwork and stuff just thrown out."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

He's just a weird little dude

"Prosecutors, after failing three times to secure an indictment through a grand jury, charged Reid with simple assault. They say she thrusted her knee upward in a threatening manner toward a federal officer who was holding her back while she was filming."

Assault for deep knee bends

Israel Pressures Hamas to Return Bodies, but Gaza’s Destruction Poses Challenge

"The Israeli government is weighing measures to penalize Hamas... could include limiting the number of trucks carrying supplies into Gaza and suspending the import of fuel and cooking gas, the two diplomats said."

That didn't take long

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

This is super clever. This is definitely true for popular TV which falls into and out of favour in definite cycles

Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Johnson, asked earlier Tuesday why he had not sworn in Grijalva and whether it was connected to a push to vote on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, said: “No, it has nothing to do with that at all. We will swear her in when everybody gets back. It’s a ceremonial duty.”

Uh huh

"It’s touching to think of Lozano, sitting in the S.M.U. library, practicing an art so intensely private and rigorous that it needed no form, no audience. Had she reached some other plane? Or was she a prisoner of her own neuroses, "

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's California National Guard deployment in Portland a day after making the same ruling on Oregon's troops. https://cnn.it/48NC3G3

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Rupar is well-sourced, so I'm more inclined to believe this, but ¿how does one confirm this? I have to believe there's a registry or public schedule somewhere