Joel Wasserman

The judge is a woman.

Not to take away from the well-deserved criticism of the comedians who took Saudi money, but this piece makes a good point about understanding the domestic aims (rather than foreign PR) the Saudi regime is chasing.

UA hockey is ridiculous. 1) The league declared its season will start in 5 days (and they haven't released a schedule) 2) Bc one of the better clubs in the league (Kyiv Capitals) bolted for Latvia, they replaced it w club for Odesa region, even though Odesa has a team.

Otoh, nice threads.

Revolting

Who holds the majority, again?

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Looking forward to all the comments on the Moldovan election from people who couldn't correctly pronounce "Gagauzia" on the first try if their lives depended on it!

Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

This is an excellent way to ensure their loyalty when he tries to trample all over the Constitution.

This past year has not been a good year to be a Jew. Next year isn't looking so hot, either.

But all we can do is hope that things go a different way in 5786, and that we are all inscribed in the Book of Life to see it.

L'Shana Tova, folks.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

Look, ICE's orders throughout this administration have pretty clearly been "go nuts," and they follow those orders.

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

But because she was killed by a mentally disturbed black man, the fascist right wants to turn her into a Horst Wessel. I can imagine few graver insults to her memory.

Iryna Zarutska's death wouldn't have been remotely noticed by the fascist right if she had been killed by a drunk driver. It would've even been cheered by some of them if a Russian drone had killed her after being expelled from the US as Trump is poised to do to other Ukrainians.
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White House official Twitter account tweeting helicopter emojis

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them.

That's what they're threatening.

Lviv is relatively spared from the war's violence, but only relatively.

On my way to the market today, I stumbled upon this assembly of mourners. Turns out that one year ago today was the bombing which destroyed an apartment building here, killing 7 people, including almost an entire family w their 3 little girls. They were gathering to commemorate the tragedy.

Kurwa...

Ugh motherfuckers are bombing us again.

Вот это имели ввиду, когда сказали что секса нету в СССР

Look at this freak.

It's going to be delicious.

[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

This would be seen as offensive in Ukraine, a country under actual martial law.

Shades of Clerks...

The fact that Vance's team thought to turn to Valerii Zaluzhnyi in order to hasten Ukraine's capitulation really shows the caliber of people working in the White House.