Mark D. White

this isn’t gonna work, the target audience is already employed by DHS

I know how Kim feels.

Many months ago, four psychics swore I’d find the administrator of DOGE.

I’m still waiting.

#WITAOD

We fought wars for this, people!

An Open Letter to the Conservative Movement The battle for the heart and soul of the American Conservative Movement is being fought on many fronts, with the latest trench warfare occurring in the boardrooms of its long-standing and most influential foundations and think tanks. The recent controversy @Heritage points to how Conservatism’s venerable institutions have been infiltrated and quietly taken over by a tight-knit, fringe group of post-liberal thinkers who believe America has been “off the rails” since the Founding. In their minds, the Declaration and Constitution must take a backseat to usher in a new, post-democratic, post-capitalist economic system that advocates isolationism, an immigration ban, and a domestic policy that blurs distinctions between church and state. While often described as MAGA or populist, this group is more tightly aligned to the philosophy of media crank @TuckerCarlson than President Trump’s agenda. As longtime board members and leaders of @ISI , the oldest conservative campus organization in America, founded in 1953 by William F. Buckley Jr., we have fought to preserve ISI’s longstanding mission from falling victim to a post-liberal hijacking. That battle was lost at a board meeting held last Friday, at the conclusion of which we tendered our resignations.

Over at the other place. It's long, these are just the opening paragraphs.

ISI is an old-line conservative organization— with a tradition, virtue, and religion orientation, not the fusionist/ libertarian version found in some other student-facing groups.

It wasn't Trumpist.
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Archbishop Paul Coakley Is Picked to Lead American Bishops “We face a growing worldview that is so often at odds with the Gospel mandate to love thy neighbor,” the group said in a letter to Pope Leo.

Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. chose new leaders on Tuesday. The new president is an archbishop from Oklahoma City who issued a statement two days after President Trump’s inauguration calling on Catholics to remember that Jesus was once a refugee, and to support immigrant families.

UK stops sharing some intel with US over concerns about legality of US military strikes on alleged drug boats, sources tell CNN. https://cnn.it/47VvbVi

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.

He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.

The Paradox of James Watson The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.

Eric Turkheimer (@ent3c.bsky.social) and I consider the paradoxical life of James Watson for @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

(nonpaywalled link to come)

Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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Right now

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.

That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

Cartoon: The aftermath IMPORTANT NOTE TO KICKSTARTER BACKERS :�Your pledges were processed on October 31, and now we need to collect postage and sales tax, and also get your shipping address.�You should have received a ...

A new cartoon! It's an Ambulatory Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day miracle!

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence

My former CSI colleague Barbara Montero on AI and intelligence in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Avengers #36-37 and Black Panther #27 (January-February 2001) These two issues of Avengers see Captain America continue his gradual and tentative return to the team what found him all those years ago. He doesn’t appear in these issues extensively, but w…

New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2025/11/07/a...

hmmm what kind of features could be being looked at there, I wonder, what kind indeed

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

"Trump babies."

But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.

As long as you are leaning into the fascist zeitgeist, it seems that you too can be invited on a New York Times podcast to espouse your utterly vacuous and historically and politically illiterate views on feminism.

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

A few men rush to help him as he faints and Bobby Kennedy scurries in the opposite direction

Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."

In terms of marshaling votes, Pelosi was the most effective speaker in my lifetime.

Gail Patrick and Carole Lombard. MY MAN GODFREY. (1936)
#classicfilm #filmsky #1930sfashion #screwballcomedy

Trump and Vance have xenophobia’d their way into Christian persecution

Package had quite a morning.

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy' Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."

POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Deer in the woods

Meet this critter in the woods today.