No one could accuse Donald of being woke.

Except in my Southern town, I am suddenly seeing Teslas everywhere. People here bought before the tax credits expired.

They just didn’t care that he’s a Nazi.

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

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Now, did ya know the National Missing Persons Database has been closed since the shutdown? If you have a missing kid- law enforcement can't enter their info to get cooperation from LE across the nation.
Missing kids!? They don't care- probably helps some of their donors who are pedos

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?

Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

I’m looking for an answer to that question as well.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.

Spotify Tops 700 Million Monthly Users in Q3, Revenue Climbs 7%: ‘It All Comes Back to User Fundamentals,’ Says Outgoing CEO Daniel Ek Spotify saw double-digit growth on its free and paid-subscription tiers for the third quarter of 2025, as the audio streaming delivered results that met or beat Wall Street forecasts.

Their earnings seem to say the opposite of the OP.

variety.com/2025/music/n...

All jokes aside ya’ll, he seems like a good hearted, humble man and probably wants to have some quiet time.

I just hope they leave him alone.

War is hell.

Ukrainian warriors rescued a bird tangled in drone fiber optic cables.

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov why are the IL state police abusing demonstrators at Broadview?

And no one on the right thought “Wait. Let’s think about that for a sec?”

Darwin wins.

Do you have a particular age in mind when people have outlived their usefulness (according to you, that is)?

Lina Khan is brilliant. In short, bigger is not better...monopolies mean more billionaires, more concentration of wealth & power, less innovation, suppression of wages, increased prices, food deserts, environmental exploitation, more corruption. Time for a change. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Thank you for announcing your retirement. If you only had agreed to the legislation regarding stock trading, your legacy would have been greater.

This is such an appropriate meme!

Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

I don’t read that as praise. It was more of an acknowledgment of how Cheney lived and his impact on policy.

The last part about family was simply a way of seeing common ground.

He will have to achieve his goals through consensus building and cooperation, with a bit of compromise.

Versus the guy in Washington trying to achieve his goal of fascism by force.

A Democratic Socialist.

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Still better than every other toadie in the Trump administration except for Kellogg.

Really? I just did a quick online check and didn’t see anything like that. Do you have a link?

This guy is hard core MAGA in every way.

What is the goal for Roman in terms of rehabilitation? That is, to be able to stand on his own, etc?

Trump’s Raids Terrorize Catholics — Pope Leo’s Top Cardinal Calls It an ‘Assault on Millions’ Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening.

“We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions.

“It's an instrument of terror.”

If Andrew Cuomo cannot answer hardball questions from a radio interview, he is certainly NOT the candidate to run NYC.