Yeah I was thinking that the politically responsible thing to do is go NC with this dad, maybe a restraining order, replace him with your high school math teacher who you call on Sundays. Like PLEASE you can just pick a better guy, you aren’t even RELATED to him, he’s Barron’s problem
A soldier, hegseth, JD Vance, and Trump walking on a tarmac. Pete Hesgeth is wearing clown shoes, just big ol' floppy clown shoes like a clown would wear. They are circled in red.
Is he talking about the one where he’s just floppin’ around in clown shoes?
“After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Project Artful Dodger while we reimagine how to make it more useful for fences and more respectful of the tourists whose wallets it ‘surfaces.’”
An email from my work address to expertoptout@superhuman.com Subject: If for some reason anything l've published has put me on your "expert" roster, no it hasn't Body: The fuck is wrong with you people? Sincerely, -- Joe Rybicki, Writing From a Mobile Device High Ground Media, LLC
Sen. Roger Marshall on occasionally strapping a thin piece of cloth on your face to help protect millions of lives: “It’s past time for the federal government to restore Americans’ freedoms and remove these unnecessary rules.”
https://www.ksal.com/marshall-backs-public-transportation-mask-repeal/
But but but politics is *civilized*! It’s a gentle conflict, for gentlemen!
What would Martin Luther King, Jr., think?!?!
There’s also the fact that Americans are very, very stupid when it comes to social programs. See: approval rating of “ACA” vs. “Obamacare” or “GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE” or my perennial favorite:
A soldier, hegseth, JD Vance, and Trump walking on a tarmac. Pete Hesgeth is wearing clown shoes, just big ol’ floppy clown shoes like a clown would wear. They are circled in red.
You mean THIS pic of Pete Hesgeth’s clown shoes?
Ok, no, I think it’s a bug on your end somewhere. Just tried to activate, was told I needed to register (?), tapped Register and it thought a bit and then just returned to Not Registered
Couple theories:
1. Folks are trying to engage less aggressively with social media in general
2. Folks are desperate to engage less in any way with social media specifically right now as *waves hands* get noticeably more horrifying
3. Your tracking system is bugged 😁
Childish Gamdino
Is that a thing? Can that be a thing?
DearJohnsons.com is available. Just sayin.
Nor any SFF, horror, mystery, or GOD FORBID, YA
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
A soldier, hegseth, JD Vance, and Trump walking on a tarmac. Pete Hesgeth is wearing clown shoes, just big ol’ floppy clown shoes like a clown would wear. They are circled in red.
You mean THIS pic of Pete Hesgeth’s clown shoes?
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
Ides aside, I wonder if there actually is a reason, like companies whose fiscal years begin in April start to panic
It’s ok but it needs a chute flinging POPCORN! POPPIN IN YÜR FACE! ITS A…THREEDEE! POPPIN IN YÜR FACE
I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.
This is the (supposed) reason in our district too. Here, though, many (most?) middle-schoolers and up have shared pickup spots.
One source, in case anyone thinks you’re using “literally” figuratively:
Update: contacted Peacock to report the issue and their response was, in effect, “nuh uh!” so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not all that well, apparently
There is A Lot Going On Here
Wait. I turned on subtitles and there IS commentary…it’s just muted? Can’t decide if that’s better or worse
Wow, NBC really couldn’t be bothered to assign commentators to a lot of the Paralympics events huh?
There’s no commentary on *vision impaired* alpine ffs.
Fucking disgraceful.
On the bright side, now you can say you’ve stayed in a hotel room whose previous tenants were obviously time travelers from the age before cell phones
The unknown stuntman
Who makes genocide look so fine
Y’all need to be watching wheelchair curling. Unbelievable exhibitions of skill.
