Thanks for this. Great story.

Derek is quite a fellow.

This is a good Marcella, that I haven’t made in a long while. Substitute ground pork for beef. Awesome autumn or winter dinner.

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Sounds good. I’d try it. Love chicken livers.

He’s sooo creepy!!’

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Shootings at Alcorn State University and Jackson State University on Saturday bring the death toll for this weekend's shootings across five Mississippi counties to nine, with at least 15 injured.

Other shootings hit three Mississippi high schools on Friday night, including two homecoming games.

It’s not a badge of honor to celebrate the ascendancy of someone who refuses to correct factual errors in pieces purporting to be journalism, and a hagiographic article which fails to mention that reality. But you know that, you just know the faux-martyr routine pays better than actual competence.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

OMG. Clueless, empty. Weiss doesn’t “cover” anything- she creates slop for wealthy grifters…

It’s endlessly depressing watching all these tech oligarchs try and convince themselves they’re geniuses instead of people who just happened to benefit from capitalism requiring their products and then the entire political and banking system gassing them up with with free money and tireless support.

Finishing a history of Anglo-Saxon England, then here we go!

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" widely disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good new piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

Usually presidents don't have much of a direct impact on the economy. But in 2025, the downturn is ALL Trump. It's his tariffs, his shutdown, his ICE raids, his health care cuts.

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Republicans HATE America. It’s been so for decades. There’s no turning that story…

Their FEAR is real.