What he said: 💯 🎯

Had a hard time explaining recently in a job interview that I'm mostly looking for work due to the need for family healthcare coverage. The European team interviewing me likely have no inkling how weird things are in the U.S.

Classic Collection Inspired by infoboxes, blue hyperlinks, talkpages, and everything that makes Wikipedia unique, this collection features new and well-loved designs, reimagined.

Since Christmas is around the corner, a reminder that Wikipedia has a store. And the profits go to a project billionaires hate, so you're buying an object and getting free spite.

A group effort. 👏

📺: CBS

It does seem to disrupt their own job application process. "Own goal".

My experience exactly.

Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.

Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties

This

Why Covid Is Spreading Again This Summer

It really never went away… but it’s back and spreading #Covid

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

Genius

For every idiot like Ted Cruz, Bill Ackerman and Josh Hawley you find at Harvard, there are people like Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a 1st generation American who finished with a 5.0 at MIT and got her doctoral degree in theoretical physics at Harvard. Many people call her the next Einstein.

Fast read. Now the long wait for publication.

Here she goes again…. hope you enjoy and please share with friends and family! #AnInsideJob #GabrielAllon
#Books

FYI: There is a big Dollar General in Estes Park if you want to boycott Safeway.

Keep Austin Adopting citywide event June 28 & 29 name your own adoption fee at a variety of shelters and rescues

NEXT weekend many shelters within Austin & Wilco are running a name your own adoption fee event for all animals in their care to get pets out of the shelters before July 4th fireworks. Tell your friends! Adopt some pets! (Or foster!)

Y’all I don’t want to be rude but there is no one-size-fits-all rule to protest and you should ignore anyone/any meme that says otherwise. Protest is a practice. You learn as you go, and it makes sense to start within your comfort zone. Watch the people around you, stay alert and use your judgment.

How Airstream Became an American Icon | The Saturday Evening Post Wally Byam didn't plan on creating the classic American trailer, but rather was trying to solve a marital problem.

About 70 percent of all Airstream trailers ever built since the 1930s are still on the road today.
www.saturdayeveningp...

Crypto investor tortured man for weeks for bitcoin password, prosecutors say A wealthy crypto investor is accused of torturing a man in a ritzy New York City townhouse by electrocuting him, pistol-whipping him and forcing him to smoke cocaine.

A New York City crypto investor kidnapped a 28-year-old man and tortured him for weeks by electrocuting him with wires, beating him with a gun and forcing him to smoke cocaine to extort cryptocurrency from him, prosecutors and police say.

May 23, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

PRO TIP 👉 Subscribe to Letters From An American in your favorite podcast app, set to auto-download so it's ready to hit play before your feet hit the floor each morning and you're ahead of the curve.
Written & Read by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

well played

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

Trump’s Plan to Take Jet From Qatar Heightens Corruption Concerns

Promises made, promises kept: Trump promised transparency, and he’s delivering 100% transparent corruption.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

A new bipartisan bill aims to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight | TechCrunch U.S. lawmakers introduced Wednesday the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act in a bid to revise the FAA's 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S.

A new bipartisan bill aims to lift the 52-year ban on supersonic flight

🚨BREAKING: India has carried out ballistic missile attacks on multiple sites in Pakistan.

A war between two nuclear powers has begun.

India launches military operation against Pakistan, explosions heard | CNN India said early Wednesday it had launched a military operation against Pakistan, hitting “terrorist infrastructure” in both Pakistan and Pakistan administered-Kashmir, in a major escalation of tensio...

Breaking News: India launches military operation against Pakistan, explosions heard

www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/a...

I didn't have nuclear war on my bingo card. I certainly didn't have it as I-N-D-I-A and P-A-K-I-S-T-A-N (and no, no nukes so far afaik but both have them.)

Fortune Teller: "You will die on a major Mexican holiday."
Trump: "Which Mexican holiday? Cinco de Mayo?
Fortune Teller: "It doesn't matter because any day you die will be a major Mexican holiday."

Well, it looked like a bag of blood at first glance. Not quite so disturbing to find out it is a balloon.

Sounds like you've got the basis of a 1950s creature feature movie right there. "Giant spider is attacking!"