Tom McCudden
@tbmccudden.bsky.social
“Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.”
Turns out the second boat strike happened because Jeffrey Goldberg didn't hear something on the Zoom call and said "come again?".... whoosh!
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Turns out the second boat strike happened because Jeffrey Goldberg didn't hear something on the Zoom call and said "come again?".... whoosh!
Canada—North America’s gift shop.
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Canada—North America’s gift shop.
Just re-watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in light of the news. I had totally forgotten about the post-credits scene with Samuel L. Jackson.
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Just re-watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in light of the news. I had totally forgotten about the post-credits scene with Samuel L. Jackson.
Dammit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Dammit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
My lazy eye often makes me look like I’m apprehensive about objects in the background but it’s an illusion. I think. Is that the same tree that was two rows ahead of me on Southwest???
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My lazy eye often makes me look like I’m apprehensive about objects in the background but it’s an illusion. I think. Is that the same tree that was two rows ahead of me on Southwest???
This Epstein/Larry Summers Cinematic Universe stuff is like the Sandy Hook shooting. If we can't take action in light of this blatantly evil dysfunction we never will. Name, shame, and blame them all. Now.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This Epstein/Larry Summers Cinematic Universe stuff is like the Sandy Hook shooting. If we can't take action in light of this blatantly evil dysfunction we never will. Name, shame, and blame them all. Now.
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The film #AHouseOfDynamite ends before the bomb hits Chicago, where @bulletinatomic.bsky.social is based. They asked me to describe what it would happen to the Windy City, so I dropped 20 KT and 4 MT bombs using @wellerstein.bsky.social's Nuke Map. (Hint: it's bad.)
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Video: What to know about nuclear weapons
In this video, Jeffrey Lewis explains why it is so incredibly difficult to convey the size and destructive force of nuclear weapons.
thebulletin.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The film #AHouseOfDynamite ends before the bomb hits Chicago, where @bulletinatomic.bsky.social is based. They asked me to describe what it would happen to the Windy City, so I dropped 20 KT and 4 MT bombs using @wellerstein.bsky.social's Nuke Map. (Hint: it's bad.)
thebulletin.org/2025/11/vide...
thebulletin.org/2025/11/vide...
Two woman are stranded in Florida before Thanksgiving (ATC issues). They both need to get to Atlanta. Kate McKinnon is a denim-clad gator-wrangler. Generic costar is a corporate executive with a temper. "Planes, Trains and automobiles"? No! "Air Boats, Drug Submarines, and Stolen Police Cars."
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Two woman are stranded in Florida before Thanksgiving (ATC issues). They both need to get to Atlanta. Kate McKinnon is a denim-clad gator-wrangler. Generic costar is a corporate executive with a temper. "Planes, Trains and automobiles"? No! "Air Boats, Drug Submarines, and Stolen Police Cars."
Nutriadamus left us hundreds of specific, 100% accurate predictions from around 1300, but they’re all about where aquatic rodents can find good plants to chew on.
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nutriadamus left us hundreds of specific, 100% accurate predictions from around 1300, but they’re all about where aquatic rodents can find good plants to chew on.
If the entire crowd outside that ICE Gulag in Chicago isn’t wielding foot longs tomorrow I don’t even know what to say.
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If the entire crowd outside that ICE Gulag in Chicago isn’t wielding foot longs tomorrow I don’t even know what to say.
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The 2003 Iraq war remains the worst and most costly US foreign policy decision ever. Let us never forget that Dick Cheney was the driving strategist, bureaucratic enforcer and chief anchor behind it.
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...
'The Assassins' Gate': Occupational Hazards (Published 2005)
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The 2003 Iraq war remains the worst and most costly US foreign policy decision ever. Let us never forget that Dick Cheney was the driving strategist, bureaucratic enforcer and chief anchor behind it.
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/b...
Musk thinks Gondor won the War of the Ring? What a chucklehead. That’s like saying Mr. Pibb won the cola wars.
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Musk thinks Gondor won the War of the Ring? What a chucklehead. That’s like saying Mr. Pibb won the cola wars.
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If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a successful business.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a successful business.
Dems would support both halves of a AOC/BHO ticket overwhelmingly. GOP/Maga would be tepid at best over a Vance/Trump ticket. So bring it on.
I've been advocating for this approach for a year but NOBODY LISTENS TO THE PSYOP PEOPLE
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Dems would support both halves of a AOC/BHO ticket overwhelmingly. GOP/Maga would be tepid at best over a Vance/Trump ticket. So bring it on.
Reposted by Tom McCudden
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
radleybalko.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
If there isn’t a The Pitt/Artful Dodger time traveling crossover episode by the end of their respective season 2’s, then there is no justice in this world.
October 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If there isn’t a The Pitt/Artful Dodger time traveling crossover episode by the end of their respective season 2’s, then there is no justice in this world.
Everyone keeps talking about the Trump Ballroom, but all my brain can see is “Trump Bathroom,” where attendees pay him homage while he sits on his golden throne, not just a functional toilet but a wide-bore, clog proof model. Fortune 100 CEOs abase themselves to press the flush button. He smirks.
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Everyone keeps talking about the Trump Ballroom, but all my brain can see is “Trump Bathroom,” where attendees pay him homage while he sits on his golden throne, not just a functional toilet but a wide-bore, clog proof model. Fortune 100 CEOs abase themselves to press the flush button. He smirks.
Trump declares Capitol will be razed to make room for dogfighting pavilion, with demolition starting at 5:00.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trump declares Capitol will be razed to make room for dogfighting pavilion, with demolition starting at 5:00.
Looks like somebody invoked that “no sex after 30 years of pretend marriage” clause in her prenup, and a certain President went bonkers after staff tried to calm him down with some construction equipment videos.
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Looks like somebody invoked that “no sex after 30 years of pretend marriage” clause in her prenup, and a certain President went bonkers after staff tried to calm him down with some construction equipment videos.
2029 News: former President and current Assisted Living resident Trump said to be “furious” that “an appropriate memorial to his memory” that was guaranteed as part of his severance package/plea deal is just the half-demolished East Wing. Staff at Mar a Lago said to be using rain gear again.
October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
2029 News: former President and current Assisted Living resident Trump said to be “furious” that “an appropriate memorial to his memory” that was guaranteed as part of his severance package/plea deal is just the half-demolished East Wing. Staff at Mar a Lago said to be using rain gear again.
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
The essential mendacity of referring to “Trump’s peace plan” is laid bare when the alternate formulation of “Trump’s 20 point plan” is used. All leaders use staff for details, but to believe Trump created, read, comprehended, or even stayed awake through a briefing on any 20 points is ludicrous.
October 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The essential mendacity of referring to “Trump’s peace plan” is laid bare when the alternate formulation of “Trump’s 20 point plan” is used. All leaders use staff for details, but to believe Trump created, read, comprehended, or even stayed awake through a briefing on any 20 points is ludicrous.
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Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC
President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday
www.mediaite.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
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This is some of the best journalism news I've heard since forever. Radley is absolutely indispensable for pulling back the curtain to show how the carceral state works.
The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by @radleybalko.bsky.social, a trailblazing investigative journalist who has been covering the drug war and the criminal justice system for more than 20 years.
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Introducing Collateral Damage
The Intercept is launching a new podcast series about the consequences of the war on drugs, reported and hosted by investigative journalist Radley Balko.
theintercept.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is some of the best journalism news I've heard since forever. Radley is absolutely indispensable for pulling back the curtain to show how the carceral state works.