Werner Herzog's Bear

I understand its disorientating for some to look around with their own eyes and accept the reality of the situation, ('that's not supposed to happen here, that's supposed to happen over there') but unless reporters start aggressively covering this regime like they would any foreign authoritarian?

If you're going to write headlines like this, why even have newspapers?

LIteral tears in my eyes. This is what I wanted so badly for my faith to mean. I am glad that there are still some people in the church capable of making a stand.

I may be lapsed but there are times when my Catholicism surges inside of me and this is one of those moments. I don't think non-Catholics understand what a profound statement this is.

October is for Gordon Lightfoot All of a sudden here in New Jersey autumn has descended.

I wrote about how my first October in Michigan turned me into a Gordon Lightfoot fan, and how changes in the seasons give me some hope for the future.

jasontebbe.substack.com/p/october-is...

Dr. Demento - Streaming

After 55 years, today is the last show. Every Sunday night as a young teen, I'd lay in bed and put my headphones on and make it to the Funny Five every week. Mondays sure would suck harder because of it, but hot damn was it worth it.

I salute the good doctor on his retirement.

Trump still hasn’t even mentioned this mass shooting at a government building

Opinion | Why Can’t Trump’s Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

In his foreign policy, Trump launches illegal attacks, murders people, and starts pointless and destructive trade wars. Is that what Douthat wants at home? Because he’s already getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

The early 90s had a lot of culture pushing back against the false promise of Reagan’s “morning in America.” For a moment there we almost had a reckoning.

This version came out the same year (1990) as Twin Peaks, and both are about the facade of small town America covering up unspeakable evil that manifests itself in killing and torturing the youth.

Rewatching the TV movie of Stephen King’s It and realizing the real monster isn’t Pennywise it’s bullies and abusive parents.

As a scholar of 19th century Germany I can say this is an apt metaphor.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

At the same time I have been forced to recognize that this victory may not come soon, and that a lot of people will get hurt as a failed and cornered dictatorship lashes out more and more.

Back in March I didn’t think I’d be able to keep living in this country because Trump’s actions weren’t registering with people. Things are worse now but I want to stay because it’s obvious that there are far more people disgusted by this than support it. We will win.

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least."

Katelyn on this Zohran quote: "This is the line. It's the line that got me to tear up as I was watching it."

strikes me how this kind of powerful, simple message grows from belief, not focus groups!

It's kinda breathtaking how the braindead median voter, without even *remotely* meaning to, launched our country into an exciting new experiment: letting Twitter white supremacists with no social skills try to brute force the United States into their fanfiction version of reality.

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WHAT people.com/diane-keaton...

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

The MAGA American is simply incapable of self-governance

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Brainstorming possible articles: Trumpcoin, the Qatari plane, invading US cities, bombing civilian boats, pardons paid by donation to his library, using the DOJ against his political enemies, pardoning the J6ers, using the FCC to silence critics, refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress etc.

If you were going to draft articles of impeachment against this president, where would you even start? How many articles could you write?

Remember, the Supreme Court okay’d this without explanation on the shadow docket

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

“The neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin”

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.