I am honestly expecting this headline from them, for real.
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I am honestly expecting this headline from them, for real.
450 pages???? Dear God, this man needed me. (Full disclosure: I run a freelance editing business, mostly novels, some nonfiction. Because I love language, I'm good at it, and I'm also the kind of person who spots every single typo on a restaurant menu without even trying.)
I toast my sourdough and slather it in cashew butter. Lordy, I suppose cashew butter is "woke" too. 🤷♀️
Ummm...does Phillips ever go grocery shopping? You can still get your crappy tasteless white "sandwich" bread, there's plenty of it on the shelves... Good lord. Whiners just gotta whine, I guess...
Okay, so Heather has taken the first step. Now take the second...it's not "wasteful gummint spending" or "Those People" (insert your favorite specific group/groups here) that have jacked up rents. It's hedge fund billionaires. Big Money, turbocharged by the 2017 Trump/GOP tax cuts.
(raises hand, waves) Can I get a claymore over here???
...and now I have "One" as an ear worm...the Ghislaine Maxwell version...😂
Oh, the horror...
I'm guessing he was waaaay more than just three sheets to the wind...🙄
Thank you...EVERYBODY should be calling for this.
Criminally negligent homicide?
This is an excellent idea.
What an unbelievably fatuous question to ask. Good answer, Mr. Mayor!
Dear Senator Grassley: These are your guys, dude. They're the ones responsible. The GOPers *you* backed and then bent the knee to. Consequences...they're still a thing.
OMG, *yes.* Fourth Estate--do your job! Quit playing stenographers for fascism!
Pritzker is getting it in a unique way.
So, thought experiment here: if one wanted to address discrimination against women without using the jargon word "patriarchy," one might say something like, "It's unfair to treat men like they matter and women like they don't." Acceptable? Or is it the issue that should be avoided?
See, now, this makes sense. Speak naturally, from the heart, and never mind anything else. I loathe jargon words of any kind. They get in the way of clear communication. OTOH, it's *incredibly* annoying that once again, only one "side" apparently needs to watch its language... (sigh)
Thank you, yes. Current Democratic leadership (in DC or in national-level party orgs) is *not* "Democrats." *We* are, and Dem electeds who *are* doing whatever they can to fight back are as well. Highlight that, showcase that, and remember that the more *we* step up, the more they will.
Because "transparency," don'tcha know. 🙄 #EpsteinEpsteinEpsteinEpsteinEpstein
Wait...Stephen Miller eats?? He doesn't sustain himself solely on the blood of innocents, like the vampire he so strongly resembles??? Next you'll be telling me he's reflected in mirrors, just like normal people...😯
Four out of the six listed are former Confederate states. WV actually splintered off from Confederate Virginia in 1863, but has since reverted, badly. Only OH was a Union state... I don't think this is coincidence (says the history nerd).
Put some mustard on that throw! 😅
Because everyone needs a tortoise today. 🐢
"...And here's why Trump's complete and utter failure at the summit is bad news for Democrats." (eye roll)
Ol' Kegsbreath looks like he's thinking about his next drink. Bondi? Who knows. The big takeaway here is, Trump is all over the Epstein files...
Sad thing is, the Gray Lady uses these actual words (or close to) in describing similarly insane circumstances, pretty much on the regular. Which is why I quit subscribing.
Doesn't he always? Every word out of that man's mouth is a lie. Including "a," "and," and "the."
Frank Herbert's DUNE trilogy. Those first 3 books were my SF gateway drug.
Somebody, somewhere, has surely made this exact argument--for real--on the intertubez... 🙄
I've read that. I can't imagine what that's like...my inner monologue hardly ever shuts up!
Americans who are eligible to vote (or who already do so)...if you like the sound of these things, and you want to see them happen, you know what you have to do. Vote. Majorities. Into. Power. Who. Will. Push. For. Them.
No one talks about corporate/monopoly/oligopoly power in all of the various enshittifications of our lives since the so-called "Reagan Revolution" 45 years ago. Even though it's key. Why, such a thing simply isn't *done.* 😒
This is me in my dreams. 👍
You'd think they would, yes... (bursts out in laughter that's perilously close to sobs)
A Tip for the Hangman, by Allison Epstein. Historical fiction, playwright Christopher Marlowe as a spy. Great stuff.
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Scary thing is, it wouldn't surprise me to see this in the Gray Lady for real. 😒
And I was there, along with my better half and a friend (plus some new ones we made, on the spot!), somewhere in that huge crowd... I love you, Chicago. ❤️
This city. My city. Lord, but I love this place!
Don't tell me. The New York Times???
Please share this deleted tweet far and wide. ABC News just suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran for making it.
Keep this in mind when you read/hear about "chaos" and "unrest" in the pages and on the screens of corporatized mainstream media outlets. Peaceful protest is an American birthright.
The Apricot Antichrist looks like he's been on a bender!
Funny/not funny. By god, Pitchbot nailed it again.
I love this for me. 😁
As a Sondheim fan, I love this.😂
Textbook atonement: Acknowledge the mistake you made/harm you did as a result; Apologize for said mistake/harm; Act to mend or mitigate the damage in whatever way you can. My "triple A" prescription for how to deal with it when you screw up. Be a better world if more folks did this.
These chuckleheads can't own up to anything, can they???
Aced it, Pitchbot!
The NYT masters of egregious understatement strike again...
Wait...WHAT??? I'm a history nerd. Writer of historical fiction. I've researched the Underground Railroad. This is...insane.
This is a great message tool. Make it go viral.
They should have. But that might imply something is less than "business as usual" with the Trump/Musk Regime running rampant over the law and the Constitution, and a supine GOP Congress letting them...and, well, we just can't have THAT, now can we???
Oh, now, that comparison is COMPLETELY unfair to Madeleine Kahn...
THIS. Please, please, especially news orgs, STOP writing about every Trump Executive Order as if it's a real, enforceable Thing That Is True and Legal from the moment his grubby orange fingers sign it!!!
Sometimes, the Universe knows what it's doing...
Pound sand, indeed. Thank you, Marc Elias.
A mix of both, I think. But the second aspect--the lack of coverage, and blanket coverage at that--is a much bigger problem, in this age of oligarch-owned major media. Not enough truth can break through.
Thank you, Senator Wyden. Vote NO on cloture as well. And buck up your fellow Dems to do the same. ALL of them. A truly clean 30-day CR is a decent backup plan, IF it includes guarantees that Trump/Musk will abide by Congress's power of the purse.
Oh, my sweet summer child, Senator...as if the Trump taxes (aka "tariffs"), Elon Musk and his DOGEniks' "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of the federal govt., mass firings, illegal impoundment of monies *appropriated by Congress*, etc., etc., HAVEN'T made a deep and ugly recession inevitable? OY!
The Muskrat is a lying sociopath. Full stop.
We love libraries!
Nice to see this from CNN. Actual coverage of protests that are happening!
Because of course he has. "King" Donald, indeed!
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, truth-teller. 👋
Loving the guy in the blue dinosaur suit in the back.
YES. THIS.
Fight, fight, fight.
Oh, my lord. On the nose, Pitchbot. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Satire is dead...
NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...
Pathetic. Weak. Despicable. Yup, that's Dolt47 to a T(rump).
Well then, everything he and his merry band of cronies have done is EVEN MORE ILLEGAL, isn't it????
Oh my lord, Mike Pence is right about a thing. (No, really. He is.)
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org (And for those who don't know me, I *hate* talking on the phone to people I don't know personally. So if this raving introvert can overcome her "phone phobia" to meet the urgency of the moment, anyone can!)
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!
Funny, not funny.
As a professional word nerd, I endorse this message. Restoring Sanity open.substack.com/pub/reframin...
I have my next T-shirt slogan. "Incredibly Rude, Extremely Aggressive, and Frankly Unhinged"! 😂
Wired has been fantastic on this. I'm appalled, and, sadly, also not surprised. DOGE is a criminal enterprise, full stop.
I'm in!
Oh, God bless. Now do the rest of the merry band of marauders (Tulsi, Kash, Bobby Brainworm, etc.)!
Good. Throw as much sand in the gears as possible.
Anything and everything we can do is worth doing - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
It’s a very common question these days in light of all these attacks upon our Republic: Is somebody doing something?! The good news is, they are. I break it down and discuss the four kinds of responses that are happening today. Link in the replies.
This is the kind of action I’ve been looking for!
more of this www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Betting NY Times Pitchbot can't keep up... reality is too upside down for satire to compete.
News accounts of this (not @atrupar.com, w his chronicling service) need to point out that Trump's claim is LIKE HORSE MEDICINE FOR COVID. -The water he "opened up" goes NOWHERE NEAR LA. -Rain has brought LA fires under control. -This water is stored for dry summertime and IS NOW WASTED.
Mexico out negotiated Trump. Mex gets to do a troop rotation or add additional troops to the already existing 10 to 20 thousand troops at the border. Trump caved and lifted the tariffs and is doing a victory lap for accomplishing.... *checks notes* securing Mexican defences against the US.
The auto-coup continues?
CSPAN cut the feed after the press conference but the members of Congress and Senators have entered the main lobby where USAID HQ is located. The door is being blocked by law enforcement. Photo provided to me:
That would be on-brand for Ross, yes...
Always loved what was unfairly castigated as Carter's "malaise" speech.The word doesn't appear in the text. The energy section is haphazard (there's a demand to cut oil production and ramp up coal) but it's really about how America can overcome its crisis of spirit. It was enthusiastically received.
The contrast is staggering. RIP, President Carter.
Too true, alas. Re-reading Arthur Schlesinger's THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER (vol. 1 of 3 dealing with the FDR era and run-up to same), hoping history will help this history nerd make some sense of the present moment.
As a nerd who thinks history matters because it rhymes, echoes, and shapes the present day, this woman speaks my language. Read and learn. And thank you, Heather Cox Richardson! December 4, 2024 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...