I just always think it's hilarious when people gripe that this place isn't interactive enough in whatever way and then limit replies to those made by their own followers. That's some goofy shit right there lol.
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I just always think it's hilarious when people gripe that this place isn't interactive enough in whatever way and then limit replies to those made by their own followers. That's some goofy shit right there lol.
Whoopsie, James! đ
Side with the artists, not with the fascists.đŞ
(First of all this is the right way to write the headline.) But second, note that đĄâs strategic goal is not to change how Americans vote, but to create a pretext for throwing out the votes of those states that donât comply. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fiction is stranger than truth, apparently.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canât overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Lou Reed: September Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQsJ...
Only a matter of time, really. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump was talklng before the election about turning Gaza into a resort. Did you report on this? www.axios.com/2024/10/08/t...
This has been expected. First among those of us who've always seen the brutality of the conflict for what it is; then whispered about in the alternative press and online; then because Trump himself announced it publicly and Netanyhu (and Kushner) nodded fondly and proudly. Who will stop them now?
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Is this what happened, Rudy? Is this how it all started?
Something's fishy here. As usual with Rudy.
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is Gorka, why not blame CNN for propagating his inanity instead?
Media 101: When you see someone write "white working class", ask yourself: What's the word "white" doing there? What function is it serving?
A more perfect metaphor for the far right doesnât exist. We all know that sliced white bread is still widely available and sells as well as ever, probably the majority of bread sales. What Alex finds objectionable is the existence of anything else, even in a minority.
Where is world politics going? Back to great power politics/spheres of influence? Trump-Modi dispute signals something much more transformative ie how international affairs work when personalistic regimes sit at its center. We urgently need new models. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
I have not seen one line of code from this (that's a different problem) but I can guarantee it's not anonymous. Apple knows who installs it and where they live, and they won't fight DHS or DOJ if asked for that data. Build organic community networks, not single points of failure.
"Trump is pushing us over the cliff so we can land in Thiel's uncanny valley." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in schoolâŚ
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
because the melons would avalanche right off that cart
I logged off early and went to sleep because of the hysteria. But this morning I'm still cooking as if for a repast, even if there isn't gonna be one. Because heck, we've all still gotta eat. Cook something. You'll feel better.
And also: www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
What's everybody fixing for the repast? I'm doing the world's biggest, most luxurious eight-layer lasagna. And probably some greens too.
Relax. He's probably just at Kripalu taking a yoga retreat.
The media needs to stop calling this an âimmigration crackdown.â Thatâs not what Trumpâs doing. Heâs using the military and ICE to invade cities and occupy them. Trump is itching for a fight, and he wants it with blue-city mayors and blue-state governors. The good news: theyâre not backing down.
I wrote about CBP arresting firefighters in Washington and the way Trump is remaking America Read @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Fire Department confirms house is emitting immense quantities of smoke: recommends letting it burn until flames blast through windows.
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Lol
Not...exactly. It's what's called a "dirty sanchez".
That'd be great! I have to drive all the way to Hartford to get anything like that now, and half the time when I get there they're not even open.
He was also chosen because he's out of his damn mind, and that's an especially valuable asset as far as TrumpWorld's concerned. Inanity and insanity are rocket fuel for the Trump cult, and the more the merrier. How else are they gonna completely demolish the whole idea of credibility itself?
"Impunity" is the key word in Mehdi's post. I think a lot of people believe it means something like "not being embarrassed or ashamed". Hint: It doesn't. And there's the problem: there are never any consequences for Trump and his lying, thieving crew.
âEnd-runâ âPushing limitsâ âUnusualâ âRedefiningâ âChallenging normsâ âBoldly upendingâ Sounds heroic, muscular. Our English language already contains the word illegal. No need to craft misleading/laudatory synonyms for suspending our Constitution. In this dangerous moment, we must speak clearly.
Itâs important that everyone act as if the federal government is occupied by a group of Nazi sympathizing, neo-Confederate insurrectionists who are opposed to multiracial democracy and at war with the constitutionâbecause thatâs exactly whatâs happening.
Have the Democrats promised to end tariffs? Have they said theyâd repeal the mass deportation funding? Any of them? Clearly and unequivocally?
Don't blame me. I've voted for real, actual, physically necessary keys consistently forever now.
Here goes Johnson with that "human heart" shit again. Like he even knows anybody who actually has one.
Homeschoolers have always used school shootings as marketing. After the 1999 school shooting at Columbine, Howard Richman from PA Homeschoolers wrote, "With the increase in school violence we have a new bumper sticker, âHomeschool: The Safe Alternative.'â
This is unconscionably idiotic. Every DSO in the country is going to submit comments against this. And they're going to have to explain why something that's been in place for more than 40 years suddenly needs to be changed for reasons that aren't just the policy goal of harming foreign students.
"Military leaders" should not be "privately" questioning the details of these deployments, they need to be publicly objecting to them and forcing real discourse â particularly if they're concerned about the military's "reputation". Refusal to risk Trump's wrath is how he's gotten this far already.
Consider that this person has direct influence on the President of the United States, but Republicans in Congress are too cowardly to say anything about it.
Another thing that happens is accidents. Look at how suddenly Trump lost his beloved first wife â a perfectly healthy specimen who fell headfirst down the stairs for no reason at all, and that was that. So I think J. D.'s just being philosophical here: anything can happen. And sometimes it does.
If not for white supremacy, heâd be beneath my notice. Now heâs in charge of shit. Itâs upsetting.
This is great, but it'll only reach significant speeds where tracks are capable of handling high speeds. Much of the northeast corridor doesn't have that capability, so top speeds are only theoretical.
Connect. With. Your. Community. Now.
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
"...refuses to hand it over..." Oh fer crying out loud
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kidâs âmitochondrial challengesâ just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. Thatâs reckless no matter who the president is. But itâs a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what heâs doing. trib.al/1edFbZq
Precisely. "Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person." â Eric Hoffer, Aphorism 184 in 'The Passionate State of Mind' (1955)
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one pictureâfour of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If youâve ever met someone who says the word âoligarchyâ is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
I'm pretty sure if this lawlessness keeps up it's going to lead to a huge national food fight.
I can't wait for Butthead Kennedy to fill me in on the causes of that which I was diagnosed with in 1964, when he and I were both ten years old. No doubt his cackhanded experiments in medical pseudo-science will outweigh my own lived experience. What a relief September will be! So liberating!
I refuse to concoct an opinion on this until Jeanne Pirro holds a press conference about it.
OK sure, but even without genuine custodial staffing, won't it alleviate the litter problem to some extent to simply train the National Guard to shoot litterers on sight? Because it's not fully outside the realm of possibilities that this is where it's all heading with this administration in charge.
I donât think the United State should conduct hostile intelligence operations against a US treaty ally. I think the US should reserve that sort of thing for foreign adversaries. Sorry to get so partisan, but thatâs how I feel.
O tempora! O bloomberg! Yeah, the risk is to Republicans, not to the rest of us. Nice lens â but it's cracked.
Buh.
"They've learned fight by fight that they can get away with it". Exactly and precisely how everything's incrementally become worse and worse and keeps doing so. Like a toddler's first boundary-testing attempts, indulgence and absence of consequences has taught them their power isn't (yet) limited.
It's been widely noted that Trump seems newly emboldened on many fronts. But another thing that makes this moment so ominous is that his accomplices at very senior levels *also* seem emboldened. Many of them seem arrogantly certain of never facing accountability. newrepublic.com/article/1996...
This, so very very much. I was in my mid twenties and fully immersed in the arts in Boston from rock to politics to opera in '81 when the first deaths began. The grimness of trying to help, the non-stop funerals, the love and talent lost...the sense of carrying the stories of those who were gone...!
This isn't news. Anyone who's read any Jules Verne at all has been expecting this all along.
sclerotic, rotten political establishments incapable of meeting a crisis are nothing new. the decks must simply be swept clean
This go-around-the-table lickspittle act was in rehearsal in the Big Dope's first administration. It's understood by all lickspittles in the possible line of fire that it's the best and probably the only way to keep in the Big Dope's good graces â public flattery. Today's clips are especially ripe .
I certainly agree, but I think there's more to it, too. Aside from the common excuse that lives are so busy, not believing that things could be this bad protects a lot of people from being jolted out of the comfortable complacency they're used to. "Negativity" threatens toxic optimism's safety zone.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
pretty much yeah nothing funny about it this time though
When do we, as Americans, start getting our government rebate checks? Pretty soon, I hope. Trump did promise that his tariffs were gonna make us all rich, rich, RICH! â but so far all I'm seeing makes me think we're gonna need those big ol' hefty rebates just to make ends meet.
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Live by putrescence, die by putrescence, that's what I always say.
Well maybe not "no one", though your point still stands. But @thegoodliars.bsky.social have in their archives more than a few interviewees who've insisted it might be just what America needs.
Fact checking-and-deletion isn't an easy job, Peter. Stephens _hates_ having his flights of fancy tampered with in any way at all.
The U.S. _is_ acting. The U.S. _has_ acted. The U.S. has been providing Israel with tools and support for the current genocide for decades upon decades now. For "self-protection" haha. What the U.S. must do is STOP. What the U.S. must do is shift into reverse.
Maybe he has a point. After all, Donald J. Trump and J. D. Vance are two of the most humble and self-effacing empaths anyone has ever seen.
From which a question naturally arises: if you assault an officer with a _burning_ American flag, is it a complete wash?
I don't know why his aides wouldn't just spray-paint both those greedy little mitts gold like everything else in that room. Nobody'd even notice. Problem solved.
The ever-so-precious "dignity of the office" that used to get conservatives' panties in a bunch every time it was threatened in any way now comes with a laugh track. We're living in reruns of 'Jackass' every damn day now.
Yeah and you know what? Even more people are saying we definitely WOULD NOT. But that won't faze this guy one bit.
As with all Trump's irrational bullshit, this'll get fried in the lower courts, he'll go whining to SCOTUS and six of those dopes will tell us all he's perfectly right. Far right, in fact.
Dude. I think most people can manage to pick out their own mugs without a lot of coaching. Can't you just go back to giving us recipes and telling us how and why they work? 'Cause that's where all y'all are a bunch of Vikings.
Let's go ask Wes Moore.
About damn time he started rotting from within. The chemistry's been there for it all along.
Uh, buddy? "Deepest darkest Africa" is a flat-out racist construction. Good God. When the President of the United States regularly shows himself to be a bigger dope than even I am, things have gotten so far out of balance there can be no doubt that America's screwed irreparably. Just plain gone.
"Sure we created a full-scale genocide, but we definitely didn't mean any harm by it!" That asshole.
Was there a mistranslation somewhere along the line? "Deal with public order issues"? Wouldn't "create public order issues" be more accurate?
I'm now 71 years old, an age I didn't really expect to attain but whatever. For more than 40 years now, beginning with the seduction of my generation by Reaganomics (and frankly, the non-stop use of cocaine by yuppies) I've predicted that no real progress could be made until we (boomers) were gone.
Nine-year-old with a behavioral disorder, seventy-nine-year-old with a behavioral disorder, what's the diff really except that a nine-year-old can't be POTUS?
"I'll run home and tell daddy and he'll TARIFF your ass!"
In all my years on this planet I've never known anybody to "pote" water anyway. It's a whole lot of hype.
Weâre witnessing so much evil and psychopathy on a day to day basis that itâs hard not to lose complete hope in this world. The gleeful cruelty from Israel and its people, and the way theyâve been supported and defended, is something that is just hard to reason with and accept as a human being.
And suppose we don't agree with these high-stakes decisions AI is making for us "at scale"? Suppose we disagree with them vehemently? Just our tough luck for not reading the EULA and its fine print before clicking "agree"? No thanks, I'll keep thinking, however "imperfect" a process that may be.
I'm sorry to be pestilential, but if you don't mind, I would first have to understand what exactly the mechanism would be that could possibly achieve that particular result? 'Cause it sounds like hoodoo to me, and I ain't innit. Nah, I'll just go out and vote the same old regular way. As usual.
The FBI raid on John Bolton and similar attacks certainly reflect Donald Trumpâs pathology. But they would be impossible without the collaboration of influence-seeking enablers who use their public positions to enact Trumpâs vengeance agenda.
Hi, I'm that guy: A sane country would never have elected him once, and would have certainly stopped him from ever running again after the first time.
Even Buck knows this is garbage.
