Martin Kelley

How is it midnight at 7:30?

So, uhm, what's the track record of countries where members of the governing regime start clamoring for a "cleansing" of the political opponent?

Always remember: No matter how much they escalate the rhetoric, it doesn't mean they'll be able to do it. But let's not pretend they aren't trying.

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

This is a bombshell of a story. Hegseth willing to do but want cover from Trump in case it goes horribly wrong. But… archive.ph/2025.10.04-0...

Powerful speech that everyone should give a few moments towards listening.

Trump Spiritual Advisor Now Very Sorry For Molesting A 12-Year-Old Girl One of his lawyers previously claimed the 12-year-old girl seduced him.

Trump Spiritual Advisor Now Very Sorry For Molesting A 12-Year-Old Girl
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By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Glad you like it! It was made by our longtime art director, Alla Podolsky. She always comes up with about a half-dozen options for us to consider. This was my favorite from the beginning.

Affinity Groups and Worship

The new issue of @friendsjournal.org has dropped, looking at affinity groups within Friends.

Car door with a broken handle.

An over-the-air update yesterday to my 18 year old Hyundai has brought a revolutionary anti-theft design feature: a handle-less door knob!

The entire Republican negotiating stance here is "give us money to run over your dog or we're going to run over your dog"

Vought easily the most underrated villain in the administration (Miller and RFK Jr are properly rated).

Ugg

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

imagine telling taylor goddamn swift, with a straight face, that she should perform for free because the exposure is valuable

Great piece from @petersontoscano.bsky.social "Resistance feels deviant and costly. Many will shout online, but when push comes to shove, they join oppressors or silently assent. Some, like me, must rebel against the temptation to camouflage ourselves and flaunt our differences..."

Gregory is back in Scout Life magazine for the second time (third if you include his sister’s joke that was submitted under his name).

Respect for difference: Tim Gee has a reflection for World Quaker Day | The Friend ‘Respect for difference leads to peaceful coexistence.’| The Friend

When Jesus was asked, ‘Who is my neighbour?’ he replied with the story of the Good Samaritan, in which the neighbour is the man of another religion and another nationality.

Someone needs to tell the all people who cloak their bigotry and racism in Christian symbols.

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In this pamphlet, two members of the QCUR steering committee, Lauren Brownlee and Zenaida Peterson, explore Quaker patterns of conflict avoidance, “guardians of the status quo,” denying oppression exists within Quakerism, performativity, and inattention to right relationship with time.

YouTube video by QuakerSpeak The Quaker Approach to the Bible

This year's World Quaker Day (5 October) is themed 'Love Your Neighbour'.

Our QuakerSpeak video on the theme, published in preparation, has been viewed nearly ten thousand times!

You can watch it too, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgi...

The Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile title screen

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

Didn’t he call Trump Hitler

Text: Acetaminophen is easy to pronounce. The ending is like "minnow fin" And "aceta-" sounds like "Ah see da" as in "Ah see da Epstein files still haven't been released."

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles AND #ReleaseTheHomanFiles !

One of my favorite verses from the book of Proverbs:

“Like a madman, throwing fire brands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor when he says, ‘I was only joking.’”

I still miss a SDA vegan restaurant stand in Philly's Reading Terminal Market that must have closed close to 20 years ago. Dubious it makes Ben Carson any kind of expert on nutrition (and I doubt he got anything more than a cursory education in his training to be a surgeon).

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McSweeney’s didn’t even need to lampoon Trump’s comments about vaccines, autism, & Tylenol…they just printed them verbatim and it reads like the most unhinged parody. “They pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies. It’s a disgrace.” [mcsweeneys.net]