those people who give water to runners only it’s someone who shoves mashed potatoes into my mouth as i walk to my car
The October Surprise is that it’s October 2024 and there are still people who support him.
Nothing "neo" about it. We are Germany, 1932. A few months away from a fascist Trump dictatorship. And at least 40% of our fellow Americans think that would be wunderbar!
The Crusades, the Pogroms & the Holocaust were driven by the same strain of hatred. Blood Libel, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Jewish Bolshevism & QAnon are the same myth told different ways.
the news has rendered me a walking Edvard Munch painting. just in time for Halloween!
Goodnight, moon! “Goodnight angry little blue planet baffled into pusillanimity by the scale of its problems.” (mumbles under breath) Crater-face.
had a premonition I was about to have déjà vu.
Bret Stephens: Twelve Questions Kamala Harris Must Answer Before I Say No to The Purge
Could The Purge Work? Is it even needed, really? Our reporters muse.
Donald Trump mused on Sunday about “one really violent day” as an answer to what he has described as a plague of unchecked property crime in U.S. cities. The FBI last week reported a decline in property crime in 2023.
The remarks were the latest example of his praise for executive power and force in imposing order, this time over crimes the F.B.I. said last week were falling.
I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.