I like to call this type of NYT headline “but does he?” stories. It’s when the NYT frames a dime-store criminal as a chess grandmaster. Not sure he faces anything but an early dinner.

“To take a fellow man’s livelihood is to kill him; to deprive a worker of his wages is to shed blood.” - Ecclesiasties Via: @greggrandin.bsky.social

How about “seeks to justify” or “tries to justify”? - not “justify.”

Relationship is as stable as the Srgentine currency in 1985.

Drudge rn.

Google in lockstep today. (Sure, this was planned long before Trump interference).

Nazi archive, 1940.

“can you just put that $50,000 in this bag?” “sure thing, mr. honan.”

i can live with this as my closest match on this quiz:

plus corrupt Adams aides getting arrested on bribery charges.

59 percent of Israelis want Netanyahu to leave politics. Does that make them pro-Palestinian? No. However, to NYT headline writers analyzing Americans critical of Netanyahu, it does. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Plus, America is tiring of his Vincent "The Chin" Gigante act. The supposedly crazy mobster was found to be sane—and went to prison. Via

i’m waiting for the series “Crazy Ex-KGB Man.”

just getting this out of the way before trump’s next utterance. via the national archives.

“So Johnny, this is every living president who has not been tried and convicted of 34 felony crimes.”

“If you can only be tall because someone is on their knees, then you have a serious problem.” — Toni Morrison.

joke all you want but his family built a mall in my hometown shaped like a gun pointed at downtown, which it killed. (from Wikipedia)

A reminder: This ain't Kansas. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/18/m... @weatherken.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com

Just another day in Versailles.

Love that the "O" on the upcoming @newyorker.com cover is a basketball.

nypost.com/2025/10/29/m....

so pathetic- dude can’t play colorization and win such a racist, melanin-challenged base. i refer you to the Vances and the VP and her daughter in season 4 of “The Boys.”

I guess Job One for the president isn't working this morning:

because it’s once twice three times real shady.

The Trump-endorsed reality TV "villain" campaigning to be mayor of Los Angeles told residents he was living in a trailer. But in "reality" he was spending campaign funds to stay somewhere else.

Do you suffer from "seasonal amnesia"? That's the feeling you get, usually in late May after a few hot days, when you forget the brutal winter and say you wouldn't live anywhere else. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/22/n... Photo by Barry Chin.