If this article is accurate, ICE in having great success attracting aging bigots and xenophobes.
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If this article is accurate, ICE in having great success attracting aging bigots and xenophobes.
The Global Stage is filled with dictators.
Shamefully Colorado Governor - and RFK, Jr. booster - Polis is opposing essential redistricting efforts in that State.
In a bothsideism exemplar, The New York Times struggles to find the good side of armed federal invasion troops - though the facts just can't seem to offer any support for it.
Scoop: A photo just taken of Trump on his way to the golf course.
Treating the lie that scientists deliberately "lied" to the American people during the pandemic -- which is part-and-parcel of the most paranoid of conspiracy theories deployed by right wing extremists -- as true is not only wrong, but gravely dangerous.
Accepting the extremist claim that the public health response to COVID was "Kafkaesque" as true is, well, Kafkaesque.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Someone please kill me right now.
"We’re all really just a single brain that is constantly winning by failing" - sad but with a ring of truth to it.
Scoop: A photo just taken of Trump on his way to the golf course.
Scoop: All the federal research scientists who haven't been fired are now assigned to a secret research project aimed at keeping a rapidly aging 79 year old alive and able to golf.
One good idea from a Republican.
Glad there is no conspiracy to hide the physical and mental informities of a rapidly aging and ailing president, as so many claim there was during Biden's term....Oh wait.
Remember last week, when Jake Tapper was urgently warning about the purported dangers posed to the nation by an aging former president, who has not been in office for months.?
They may also be preparing for Trump to be cut out of the picture, as he has been from TV showings of Home Alone II, and replaced by a new Supreme Leader.
I am not ready to join in that theory. But I can be convinced that a clone is being hurriedly grown. :)
As the Cultural Revolution demonstrated, an aging, ailing extremist dictator may be particularly dangerous.
As the Cultural Revolution demonstrated, an aging, ailing extremist dictator may be particularly dangerous.
We need our own version of Sovietologists to discern what is going on at the heart of the Politboro leadership.
Trump increasingly resembles an aging Brezhnev or Mao, who is hauled out periodically to prove he is not dead
Trump may belatedly be starting to intuit that the gutting of public health he's avidly sponsored and promoted is - like so many of his assaults on the American people - going to blow up in his face politically; but we shall see if that really matters at all.
Putin hates this.
They will be fired once the clone is finished.
These Red Scare-like searches for connections, however attenuated, between Israel and artists' projects are, curiously, not accompanied by similar campaigns to uncover connections with regimes like the dictatorship of Qatar, which avidly supports Hamas, along with scholars and artists in the West.
We are now living under a dictatorship that's setting out to kill our children, the elderly and the poor - even as the feeble dictator is disintegrating before our eyes.
What a bizarre stew of incompetence and amorality.
This is homicidal
youtu.be/XGqaxtliblM?...
This is the way
Trump feeds rumors he's on death's door in order to dispel rumors that he's dead.
Crime seems to have gone down even further in DC since armed thugs began terrorizing the population - if you don't take into account the crimes being committed by federal agents.
Children being treated like cattle, .... cattle accused of capital crimes that is.
The hearing in this bone chilling case re a scheme to mass illegally deport children is a study in how a careful judge must treat the US government now: As a presumed lawbreaker and loophole seeker.
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
Obese thugs.
Doddering Donald Trump.
I also like that he put his stamp on Cyndi Lauper toward the end ....
Listening to records like this gives you a better idea of how Bitches Brew (recorded the same year) emerged - it also underlines how relentlessly adventurous Miles was to put his stamp on this then emerging kind of jazz.
Another wonderful unduly forgotten 1969 record from a path breaking Chicago band, The Flock, whose violinist Jerry Goodman ended up joining Mahavishnu Orchestra (there is a great photo of him on the back of the LP).
The end of Earth Opera did have the collateral benefit of freeing up both Grisman and Rowan to make other beautiful music
PA Republican web ad urges GOP voters to request mail in ballots in judicial election. RINOs!
Beautiful, not coincidentally Grateful Deadish, cover.
David Grisman, Peter Rowan and co made beautiful music on this under recognized beauty of a record from 1969.
Lankford is a fan of alternative facts and science
Lankford would be correct if the definition of "science" was quackery.
MORE: This is reminiscent of the emergency fight over Alien Enemies Act — an overnight lawsuit alleging abrupt deportations and violation of due process, quick restraining order by a judge, hearing set for the afternoon. We'll learn more at 3pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
People gotta stop effectively stomping on Trumper defamations and just leave them unanswered. Oh, and people gotta stop responding to Trump's false claims that cities are crime ridden "hell holes" with actual facts. Oh, and stop claiming that vaccines work.
People gotta stop effectively stomping on Trumper defamations and just leave them unanswered. Oh, and people gotta stop responding to Trump's false claims that cities are crime ridden "hell holes" with actual facts. Oh, and stop claiming that vaccines work.
It’s that pesky Constitution, again, isn’t it? You know what would be so much more efficient? Monarchy! Was that when America was great?
I thought the Post was only going to cover free trade and markets
If he's not allowed to violate the Constitution and impose illegal policies, then he won't be able to use the tools he's not using to prevent global conflicts on the global conflicts he's actively making worse.
Per the Bezos Post, the ruling against Trump's illegal tariffs threatens to prevent him from "head[ing] off global conflicts." Yeah, that's the ticket.
Raddatz, who prides herself on being a military journalist, should be expected to understand that military bureaucracy is notoriously sclerotic, and that it is hardly surprising that the paperwork for awarding a medal during wartime can easily get lost.
Parroting Trump, Raddatz repeatedly attacked Moore for claiming he had a Bronze Star when he didn't. She apparently didn't know that Moore now HAS the Bronze Star that his superior officer told Moore he had earned years ago in battle.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Whether by design or not, the dynamic Newsom has put together - including the upcoming election - is creating just the right kind of political environment for this moment, regardless of whether he will, or won't, be a good presidential candidate. Same essential point applies re Pritzker, IMHO.
I know that I don't know and don't care, at this point, who the nominee is going to be. I just want to see effective and productive opposition to the Trump Regime. And if the presidential ambitions of some politicians help motivate them in that direction, great.
Simply, accurately, stating that he made an error of judgment and learned from it would be the honest, and politically astute, choice, IMHO.
Trumpers are preventing Ukraine from using US AND European weapons to strike infrastructure and weapons systems in Russia. Shameful!
And it is because Polis rushed out of the gate to endorse Kennedy, and immediately faced pushback against his absurd "reasoning" that an antivax conspiracist might put his dangerous conspiracism to one side. www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/p...
He complained that the media gave undue coverage to the "nice" things he said about Kennedy. When a politician says their words received too much coverage, that is a red flag.
I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great
Colorado Governor Jared Polis did an AMA on Reddit and a bunch of people grilled him about his support for RFK Jr. www.reddit.com/r/Denver/com...
His responses showed he has no good response.
One good thing happening in Sarasota. Finally! Sarasota to rename U.S. 41 for Allman Brothers’ Dickey Betts share.google/ljbErwoVtWAJ...
Trump saya his false statements to banks in connection with multimillion dollar loan transactions don't matter, because he paid off the loans. Trump also says Lisa Cook must by removed from the Fed, because of purported misstatements in loan agreements, absent any reported defaults.
Infractions galore, of course.
Doddering Donald Trump.
Per the Bezos Post, the ruling against Trump's illegal tariffs threatens to prevent him from "head[ing] off global conflicts." Yeah, that's the ticket.
This well reported article about whether people can get the health, and even life, saving COVID vaccine - the answer for many will be: Who knows? - demonstrates just how homicidal our federal government has become.
This is exactly the kind of scenario that gave rise to Kent State.
This is a distressing story, and reflects the danger of having heavily armed, improperly trained - and allegedly in this disturbing case, bigoted and harassing - Guard troops on city streets.
My prediction: We will soon find out that the only medical research being funded by the federal government concerns cankles.
Children with brain cancer
Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to destroy Philadelphia.
And Marshall is, objectively, right about who the truly great commanders were in the war (though the Union also had some terrible ones, of course).
And I don't feel the need to over-demonize Lee. He chose to serve an evil cause, though. And that is a taint he chose to bear.
Understood.
But I agree, he's helping China big time, of course.
Nope. Putin, Modi and the others were there before Trump.
Grant was not a cream of West Point type. But he did graduate from West Point.
True.
State prosecutors can, and should, be responding, as I discussed in the below-linked piece. bsky.app/profile/davi...
This is never going away, is it?
He was no more a gentleman than Grant (though Grant was not very gentlemanly when he drank, I will give you that).
That is part of the Lee myth. It is false. He just lost.
Apparently you can't hold your alcohol then. My advice is withdrawn.
You need to study social media trolling. You are terrible at it.
You are one thin skinned person. Have a drink of some of your whiskey and relax.
Turns out I didn't (see below).
Ok, you got me riled up enough to be more direct: You are slinging BS.
I think not using terms like that is a good practice.
Talking about the possibility that the targets of those illegal, and democracy corrupting, assaults might be "guilty" of hypothetical crimes or"infractions" misses the issue presented in a dangerous way.
I.e., the president assigning cronies to come up with pretenses to use the justice system and other instruments of govt to go after "enemies."
No you re not, respectfully; you are speculating about entirely unknown facts - and doing so without regard to what should concern every citizen about this gravely dangerous situation.
I am not saying that. I am saying what I said: The only "it" before us a dangerously corrupted President misusing his authority. Speculating about another scenario is not productive.
Not sure where you are going with this, other than where you just said you were not?
He's hiding the top of his hands again.
It should be a model followed across the nation.