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2015: Why you must watch BoJack Horseman.

One of life’s lessons is if someone does something evil to you, and you decide to let it go, they are sure to do it again and again until you stop letting them do it.

After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online maps provider to flip the switch.

“Ontario Premier Doug Ford expressed firm opposition to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada this weekend, saying that the result of a trade war could be harmful to both countries,” ABC News reports. Said Ford: “Everyone’s feeling bullied by President Trump, and this is the worst thing you could do for the American economy. I […]

“This time around, Republicans want voters to think of Democrats as the weird ones,” NBC News reports. “The GOP is reviving an attack line popularized in 2024 by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, who took to calling his Republican opponent, JD Vance, ‘weird,’ going viral in the process.” “The descriptor is […]

Rep. James Clyburn (D) of South Carolina said today on Meet the Press that he supports adding 4 new Justices...

“CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow earlier this week in an effort to end the war,” Axios reports.

A Good Glass of Beer, 1873 #realism #manet

“Donald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the U.S. government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the country erecting a giant sign saying ‘Lake Ontario. Now and Always’ – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, […]

“Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday said that Democrats should not prioritize impeaching President Donald Trump if they win control of the House in the upcoming midterm elections, but instead should focus on making life more affordable for Americans,” NBC News reports.

“Google announced on Saturday that it had begun rolling out changes to how its maps display Lake Ontario’s name, after President Trump signed an executive order changing it to ‘Lake America’ amid a trade fight between the U.S. and Canada,” CBS News reports.

Sen. Ted Cruz was asked about Trump's announcement that the US has reached a deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves, and naturally Cruz is all-in with the pillaging. Cruz was asked by Meet the Press host Kristen Welker whether he believe...

Posts this past week included (with a marquee pic from Webster Hall on 11th Street by Stacie Joy) ... • Long-vacant 2nd Avenue site is under contract for $57M (Aug. 25)  • Closing credits for AMC Kips Bay 15 (Aug. 25)  • For Ngon Vietnamese Kitchen, a family...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  We stopped by Le Petit Versailles yesterday afternoon for "Melt Ice Melt," an all-day program at the community garden on Second Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.  The centerpiece was Robert Ladislas Derr's "All That Is Soli...

We spotted this tow truck on First Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue the other day, with the back end devoted to scenes from the 1993 film "A Bronx Tale." 

Corruption is a process, the tool by which Trump has debased virtually every single Republican and coerced them to cede their institutional prerogatives,.

The post “It’s Better to Be on TV than by Phone:” Corruption Is a Process appeared first on emptywheel.

“President Donald Trump is entering a critical stretch of his second term with a slew of resignations among his senior staff, forcing him to rely on an even smaller circle of aides,” Bloomberg reports. “Over the last month, Trump lost his chief spokesperson, his top legal adviser, a key national security adviser and his liaison […]

Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving infinitely many dimensions, potentially giving researchers a new tool for studying primordial and microscopic black holes.

Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly large, human-like body sizes. The tracks offer a rare glimpse of their social behavior and suggest these extinct human relatives may have lived in more complex groups than previously thought.

“Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its ‘third country’ deportation campaign,” CBS News reports.