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Teenage boy humor

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

protester dressed as the statue of liberty comes out of NY subway station

Incredible photo from yesterday's #nokings protests by Olga Fedorova for AP

Lmao

Being a petrostate in a 2030s world of ridiculously cheap renewables (& storage) is quite a different proposition to being one in the 2010s.
I wonder how long a regressive political movement can sustain a pro-fossil position until the pain becomes unbearable.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

The US government is gang affiliated www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wow — local CHATTANOOGA @CBS affiliate @wdefnews12 stanning for Trump in their *totally not biased* tweet about the protests today 🤔

Is this that @CBSNews Bari Weiss-approved framing?

No gun needed 💪🏾

it’s honestly astonishing in this day and age when republicans experience consequences for their actions

Agnus Dei - The Last Dinner Party is my favorite song on the new album

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

I cannot believe how many Dollar Generals there are in this country. Is there an equivalent monopoly anywhere internationally?

A greenhouse packed with gorgeous and unusual cacti and succulents, ranging from from the towering and torsioned to the wooly and white to the pendulous and tentacular

Tank, an African spurred tortoise, eating a prickly pear. He has robust, thickly scaled gray legs and a tan shell with a grid of adjacent, almost conical peaks made of stacked concentric rings. A creature that exudes an air of the primordial, seemingly plucked from the time of dinosaurs.

A large green coral cactus with rounded, undulating, rippled branches. If Van Gogh painted a cactus it would look like this.

A stapelia bloom, aka starfish flower. Star shaped. Maroon around the edges, pink in the middle, with many fine zigzagging yellow lines. Rafflesia vibes. A fly rests on one petal.

The world’s first Cactarium and one of its resident tortoises, Tank. Palm Springs, CA.

😂

How is signature forging still a thing? Authentication still hasn’t been solved for the majority of people *waits for blockchain bros to fly into my mentions…*

Others are prepared to make the best of it. One CEO said she already spends as much time as she can in Rome and is thinking about making a more permanent move. "It's not like the guillotine is coming out. " said Roberts, the retiredbanker, who spoke via Zoom from a vacation in Paris.

Forgot to include the conclusion. This is one of those "you know whatever you say the newspaper is going to print" and she swung for the fences. I respect that, even if I don't respect her wealth. And probably anything else about her.

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, wearing a black suit, speaks to an audience. A headline reads: "Salesforce Pitched ICE on Services to Recruit More Staff, Documents Show." Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Vance said he planned to warn his children—“especially my boys”—to be cautious about what they share in group chats or online, advising them to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.”

It's telling that Vance's first instinct following the Politico leak was to tell his sons to be wary of what they write in group chats--to assume “some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm.”

His message here is basically--be racist; just don't get caught.

The Pro-Massacre, Pro-Segregation, Pro-Eugenics Administration The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress.

“This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pro-mass...

Important read.

A picture from outside the door of a wealthy residence of residents inside with suits and the words most rich New Yorkers who talk to the Wall Street journals and privately that they won't move if Mamdani is elected, at least not yet.

Fantastic layout 10/10

At what point does Cuomo have to report what he says as an in-kind contribution to Mamdani?

YouTube video by TheJudyRoomVideos Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall - 50th Anniversary Tribute

Do the gays who saw Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in 1961 know how lucky they were?

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YouTube video by KEXP Fishbone - Racist Piece Of Shit (Live on KEXP)

Song of the Week

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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Nancy Meyers was in her bag for Baby Boom. Now this is a ROM COM.

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

This is good. America First my ass.

Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

It looks like he tried to tattoo something over it or is that just ink bleed?