I think the grifters & scaremongers found that the word "autism" resonates among the marks. Most don't understand it, and what they do know is limited to Rain Man or some "odd" kid they saw on the news. Loomer, RFKJr, & the rest offer simple answers to a complex issue they've been taught to fear.
"We had to destroy the car in order to save the car."
Or his arch nemesis?
Imagine how angry he's gonna be if he ever finds out that Hitler wasn't Australian.
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉
Congrats on your imminent invitation to write an op-ed for the New York Times.
Could not agree more. Don't know if you've ever read Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Fr. Greg Boyle (founder of Homebody Industries), but he wrote about doing exactly what you've just described.
Defending freedom on the land, in the sea, and up to two feet in the air if they get a good updraft.
It's what we've long feared, but desperately hoped wasn't true. Big Nose is part of the Deep State.
For some reason, my initial Bluesky search didn't turn up the author of this magnificent post. Thank you, @anthonymoser.com, for one of the most eloquent expressions of abject disdain I've ever been fortunate enough to lay my eyes upon.
One of the Founding Fathers' most stunning errors was deciding that no one could ever know what the laws were until the Supreme Court told them. In retrospect, I'm thinking maybe they should've required all the laws to be written down somewhere, so folks could read them if they had questions.
He gets a lot of credit for taking toxic masculinity to new heights, but let's never lose sight of the tremendous work he's also doing in the field of weaponized incompetence. He is the Leonardo da Vicni of our current Renaissance of evil stupid men.
Thankful for the great @kottke.org for bringing this amazing piece by Anthony Moser into my life. "The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Wonder who's in charge of figuring out how to flood Pennsylvania Avenue so they can float the big boats past the reviewing stand?
Only flaw with this plan is that half of the GOPers would zone out & ignore it, and the other half would get off on it.
RFK Jr. will be responsible for exponentially more deaths than Manson, McVeigh, Bin Laden, & Dahmer combined. The only question now is how many more people he'll be allowed to kill. Also, thanks to Marco Rubio, RFK Jr. will likely not have this administration's highest death count.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
The COVID-19 pandemic undermined the right in several key ways: 1) It showed us which workers are essential and empowered them. 2) It showed that the markets can’t solve everything. 2) It threatened GOP political prospects in a critical election. 4) Government relief proved popular and effective
I'm with ya on their preference for revised lengths of the month, but my guess is that they'll want to year to start on August 8.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
If he'd received a dirty look from a drag queen who was using a paper straw while on the subway, poor Sean might've simply melted into a quivering puddle of tears and desperation right there on the spot.
We all expected performative lying and performative cruelty from this administration & its supporters. But I don't think anyone could've predicted the degree of performative fear that right-wing "alpha males" now regularly (and proudly) exhibit.
“Maybe if Donald Trump hadn’t dodged the draft so many times ... he would’ve actually learned something about keeping our country strong. But that is obviously too much to expect from cadet bone spurs.” Sen. Tammy Duckworth
"we are human beings worthy of the same respect and dignity you'd extend to anyone else" vs "no you're not"
MPs are Divided Over Whether They Should Not Do Their Jobs or Do Their Jobs
Never forget: www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
i used to get sad then mad with the school shootings. in the last decade i just skip the sad part. fuck the people who make this possible. fuck them in the worst possible way.
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The prosecution process could've been a real grinder for him, but the hurler has emerged as a true hero.
Death, taxes, and Team Trump stoopidity.
100% agree. Terrorists don't need to directly harm everyone -- or specifically threaten anywhere close to a majority of people -- to have a destructive impact on an entire population.
everyone involved needs to be permanently barred from public office, for starters www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
our gangster president now feels empowered to openly threaten civic leaders
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
...now is the time of monsters.
I realize this isn't news to folks who have been paying attention, but as someone who grew up in northeastern Ohio I can verify that, for a troublingly large number of people, the biggest problem with Kent State was that the Guard didn't shoot more kids.
If this gets any worse, the NYT may be forced to suggest that the government's actions are verging on "concerning."
This article is the best one I’ve seen yet at explaining the hollowing-out of US science and healthcare infrastructure.
At this point in our nation's history, "Dem consultant" is just shorthand for "I wanna get in on that right-wing grift w/out having to directly associate myself with those MAGA assholes," isn't it?
Follow-up: For future reference, does your knowledge of US history only go back to 1997, or is it even more limited than that?
Once again @trans.bsky.social has the right idea.
I think they recognize it & they don't think it will be a political problem for them. They value veterans the way they value the Bible & the Constitution -- in concept only. They've proudly harassed Black, Latino, Muslim, female, and LGBTQ+ veterans & got no significant pushback from their base.
My guess: Someone in the administration realized that the info in the CPSC's previous post could be used to keep black, brown, and/or Muslim kids slightly safer.
A government that *encourages* people to read, you say? What a wonderful concept. Hopefully we get to experience that over here in the USA sometime in the not-too-distant future.
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
Millions of young people in the streets is a concern for the GOP. Pissed off old white people is an apocalypse for them.
Texas State Rep. Collier: ”Unless I agree to be released into the custody into the Department of Public Safety, I will be required to stay here. I haven't done anything wrong. I am not a criminal. There is no reason for me or my Dem colleagues to be in the custody of the Department of Public Safety”
Things white supremacist "alpha males" proudly announce they're afraid of: * Public transportation * Cities * Using straws * Really old people
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
American Academy of Pediatrics not holding back: “It differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year & replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/h...
Trans rights are, in fact, human rights (and there's no negotiating). Pass it on.
For particularly stubborn cases, I've found that the trick is to drink water while looking on the bright side and remembering that a lot of people have it so much worse than you so what do you really have to be depressed about anyway?
Been wondering what the branding genius who came up with MAX has been up to lately.
Our government is being run by people who have adopted the Costanza Approach as a guiding principle.
Odd time for a pierogi run.
Yeah, I'm thinking that would be news to the generals. And, ya know, all the other troops.
sorry, Democratic Party leadership I just don’t think that “socialist” is a scary or bad thing
If you can't handle me while I'm eating cereal in the morning, you don't get to enjoy me when I'm eating cereal for dinner.
Fascist, eugenics-embracing genocidal freaks: They're just like us!
Talk about vermin. These are the people who deserve to be in cages.
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-...
"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Interesting way to announce to the world that you’ve never eaten a hot dog, hamburger, ice cream cone, or candy bar before. And also that you spend a not insignificant amount of time sticking your fingers up your own asshole.
Plus, they’re all gonna look sooper stoopid when Elon build his reactor on Mars within like two years, tops.
It’s all part of his grope-a-dope strategy.
Reminds me of the time a friend who used to work at Pendant Publishing told me that Tolstoy’s working title for War and Peace was War: What Is it Good For?
GENERAL: Were the targets all destroyed? COLONEL: Every CyberTruck blew apart in a fireball, sir! GEN: A rousing success for our weapons systems! COL: Actually, the explosions occurred while we were driving the vehicles to the test site. And we’re gonna need you to make a few condolence calls.
The fact that today’s version of this photo would be Kristie Noem handing a fake ICE badge to Dean Cain is a stark reminder of just how far we’ve fallen as a nation.
Another thing a lot of folks seem to overlook is that standing up for the rights of marginalized people is ALWAYS the right thing to do, even if there’s no chance the regime will ever come for you.
Terrorism. The point of all of this is to terrorize people that Trump doesn't like.
"We intended to have the vaccine ready by this weekend, but Elizabeth Holmes's pardon was delayed b/c the president wandered up onto the roof again & no one could find him to get the paperwork signed."
Measles Profiteers. MEASLES PROFITEERS.
I try hard not to idolize people - especially anyone I don't personally know. I realize that everyone has faults & flaws, and that putting someone on a pedestal is an invitation to supreme disappointment. Also, I'm pretty sure I'd take a bullet for Francesca Albanese. What an amazing human.
“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/w...
"Hi, I'm George H. This is my brother George W., and this is my other brother George W."
300,000 Black women have left the labor market in a three month period this year, and it's estimated that the unemployment rate for Black women is as high as ten percent but none of this is getting much traction. So, I wrote about it on my blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/f...
I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary
Today's pastor in the news. Not a drag queen.
One of the many wonderful things about the Good Ol’ GD is that there are so many beautiful elements in the songs & no wrong way to listen to em. You like lyrics? Bass? Blazing solos? Mind-melting improvisation? Keys? Guys hittin’ things w/ sticks? Come & luxuriate in it here. 😍
The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/d...
Noticing a pattern here.
It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website. We’ve learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and expect it to be resolved soon.
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
This has been updated to include former MN Rep. Jim Knoblach heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/16/t...
“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”
I hate to get in the way of folks' misplaced disdain, but are we really gonna take an offhand laugh line as proof of unfitness? She was still the VP for two+ months after the election. I'm guessing she had ways to stay updated on current events without tuning into Fox or CNN on a regular basis.
I've long since accepted that "Clint Eastwood yelling at empty chair containing imaginary Democrat" is the GOP's entire outreach strategery. But it gives me a sad when folks who purport to be on our side do the same damn thing.
