Petunia Tomato

That didn’t take long.

@cnn.com @mkraju.bsky.social

They've come a long way since I wrote this story about them 30 years ago.

Shaheen is retiring. Hassan, 67, is the other Senator from NH. King, 81, from Maine, is an independent who usually caucuses with Dems.

So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are fucking over the House and the country.

Chuck Grassley is struggling to read on the Senate floor

Cave bill text is out
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September 2025: Celebrates the 78th Birthday of the United States Air Force and boasts about the bravery of our men and women and the years of dominance and respect.

November 2025:

Seems a bit hubristic to suggest God needs saving.

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)

I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly

This will be very unpopular and serves only to help Trump's billionaire friends.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Chaos erupted in Little Village.

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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?

I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔

Donald Trump is AGAIN suing to avoid sending food to hungry children and seniors.

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor won a Pulitzer for their MeToo work which is implicitly dismissed as “too woke”. Okey dokey

Ross Douthat Times opinion piece: did women ruin the workplace

I wonder how all the women reporters and editors at the Times feel about this headline.

Photo of Ms Rachel, wearing denim overalls, a pink tshirt, headband and smiling while waving.

Photo of Mychal Threets wearing a black sweatshirt with rainbow library joy design, smiling and holding his hands in a heart shape.

In a world full of terrible role models for young people, I’m so glad there are also smart, joyful and empathetic people like Ms Rachel and Mychal Threets.

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

BREAKING:

A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits.

Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "Core inflation is nearing its lowest level in four years." (Inflation actually ticked up in September.)

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@theguardian.com #ICE

The fuckers got away with it.

The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.

They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

You absolutely would not want to be, or be anywhere near, any bottle of ketchup in what remains of the White House today.

Habba is threatening to prosecute people in NJ for voter fraud in tomorrow’s election if she thinks they cheated.