Death’s door??
Democracy lover. Proud ectomorph. Chuck Berry to Monk to Beethoven. Once an ink-stained wretch, now retired. My gadfly mission: remind people how godawful a president Bush 43 was. History informs the future; let’s learn from it. It’s a total blim-blam!
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Death’s door??
Should the guy who hasn’t lifted a finger to address the unfolding problem of a lack of affordability in housing really be the one to declare it another of his manufactured emergencies?
Teachers are the glue who hold our society together. The most unappreciated … and pressure-packed … profession by far.
Blue dress maybe?
My 64yo wife seconds the motion.
Yeah, that should move the needle.
Labor Day message from a Democrat.
Scrambling to stay even remotely relevant. This won't cut it.
Sweet Jesus. Leading whack-a-doodle tech bruh's entirely consumed with himself... all the while trying to further distance himself from his formative 'apartheid years'? #PeterThiel www.christianpost.com/news/palanti...
Putin, Xi’s junior partner. Modi, Xi’s wingman. Well played, Trump.
I miss the Village Voice.
And, annex what’s left of the #WestBank controlled by Palestinians while they’re at it. To add insult to injury. This stinks of absolute thievery. #Gaza
For me, the tipping point was the MSG Nuremberg rally. When the polls remained fairly constant, you just knew that way too many Americans were willing to take the plunge on restoring Trump. Not because they trusted that he'd govern in a manner similar to 2017-21 but for their deep rage at the world.
There are four Senate Repubicans who claim to be phyicians: Paul, Barrasso, Marshall and Cassidy. Ony Cassidy brings any seriousness to matters of public health. His RFK Jr. confirmation vote should be hung around his neck like a scarlet letter.
What exactly the fuck does this Ensign clown do?
Oh, that these things could happen in threes, even for autocrats, that would be too much. #TrumpHealth #Bolsonaro www.barrons.com/news/brazil-...
Tokyo Rose, call your agent!
The same reason Trump's never released his taxes, as candidate or president. It took Mary Trump's efforts to give the people a glance into a single year's taxes. He won't talk health or taxes for the dirty details they'd reveal. Same for the medical report after the purported assassination attempt.
Nero, Caligula and Pol Pot were never as bonkers as Trump's turning out to be. Our social decadence is on full display as we watch transfixed at Trump's daily popcorn chain of crazy. It worked for a while, wrongfooting his opponents, but the growing signs of pushback and resistance are unmistakable.
What’s the point of having this guy Ensign representing the feds when it’s clear attorneys at DHS are giving him the barest instructions? It’s a deliberate strategy of obfuscation. Judge should call out the legal eagles at DHS to explain themselves, directly to the court.
More, please. Time for a little latter-day perestroika.
This is called being drunk on one's self-righteousness ... when it's actually intended for a golf-playing audience of one.
And didn’t even contest Tennessee!late in the campaign.
Two post-2000 analyses, by the AP and the NYT, both suggested Gore would’ve won Florida if all the eligible ballots had been counted. The Secretary of State, who stopped the recount, doubled as state chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign. I suspect Gore must ruminate on all this every fucking day.
Where is the humanity in any of this? These are the actions of true-blue fascists …
Can’t Trump qualify just about any harebrained activity as an ‘official act’ as per the Supremes’ 2024 ruling?
If no NATO troops now, then when? It’s reached the point where it’s time for another Coalition of the Willing. #SlavaUkraini
A permanent spot’s been reserved for #Israel in the penalty box at the United Nations.
Langford, obviously trying to drum up some business for the funeral home back in Oklahoma.
Diana gets it.
the National Labor Relations Act on the specious constitutional grounds. They have the numbers to do it. 2/2
Going back over a century or more, people have died in the fight for collective bargaining, a basic expression of our right as Americans to freedom of assembly. But this freedom is perhaps in greater danger than ever before. The dark forces behind Trump would like nothing better than overturn 1/2
Arkansas once gave us Bill Fulbright, Bill Clinton and Dale Bumpers. Now, they’re represented by John Boozmsn, Tom Cotton and the always ridiculous Sarah Huckleberry Sanders. Tell me how this has happened??
I live in a blue state. And I’m tired of subsidizing the misadventures of all these freeloading red-state wankers.
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#InflationMountain
Trump did this
APOLLO: “.. Will We See a Repeat of 2021 and the 1970s? .. There is upside pressure on inflation and inflation expectations .. The risks are rising that we could see another ‘inflation mountain’ emerge over the coming months.”
Someone flag FHFA’s Pulte, who spends his taxpayer-funded time improperly rifling through the mortgage filings of those on Trump’s shit list.
Na Na Na Na Hey Hey-ey Goodbye! Time to meet the Democrats running for Iowa Senate! Jackie Norris Nathan Sage Josh Turek Zach Wahls
Er, #ThurgoodMarshall
A great, groundbreaking American was confirmed to sit on the #SupremeCourt on this date in 1967. #ThursgoodMarshall www.naacpldf.org/about-us/his...
Miscarriages of justice are how ICE rolls.
So how does this not fall under 'official acts'? Or just about anything else Trump decides to pursue?
These things gonna happen when you nominate a notorious hydrocarbon pimp to run U.S. energy policy ...
The guy in the bib overalls is gay. Don’t ask me how, I just know.
Shambolic, cringeworthy symbolism to no diplomatic purpose. Rubio’s like a little kid the first time he possesses a book of matches.
Maybe it would be better to substitute ‘pogrom’ for ‘program.’
Reform hit 35 per cent in today's i poll – the party's dream of the magic 40 figure now in sight
#SaveSocialSecurity #SocialSecurity
Illiberation Day.
My Senator! 💙
#TrumpTariffs
Anyone remember the sheer amount of pharmaceuticals prescribed for the White House staff during Trump 45? It was astronomical. Some of which had to be anti-depressants, it stands to reason. And yet no congressional committee that I can recall ever summoned Dr. Ronny Jackson to explain …
Hypocrisy, yes, but with a nefarious purpose.
Denying certain groups of Americans access to the latest #Covid vaccine formulation seems a strange way to protect the public’s health, especially as the colder months tend to spark an increase in the spread of the virus. Darwinism isn’t compatible with safeguarding #PublicHealth.
Clown gruel.
Lose the 'LEGO vote' and your're toast. #Election2026
Once a presidential press secretary. Today, a professional doofus.
"No matter what the far right wants us to believe ... trans people are far more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators..." A powerful and necessary new piece on @huffpost.com Personal from @alimoss.bsky.social in the wake of Wednesday's horrifying mass shooting in Minneapolis
Q. How do those who passed the #BigBeautifulBullshitBill sleep at night? A. With one eye open at all times.
Firing offense ... in a sane universe.
‘Last 200 days’ he says? LBJ had tallied up 16 years on Capitol Hill, including several running the Senate, as of 11/22/63. But who’s quibbling?
They will brook no dissent. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Article: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
One ray of sunshine: Democrats keep winning special elections for state-level legislative seats, sometimes in smashing upsets. All hope isn’t lost.
‘Official acts.’ Too bad Biden didn’t pick up the ball and run with it when he had the chance. True to form, Dems always act so scared of their own shadows …
Sanders isn’t a Democrat.
Well, @kenmartin.bsky.social? How about we just give the appearance of organized opposition now and again?
And never has.
Oh come on. Reagan and first-term Clinton were the best practitioners of the art of politics I’ve seen in my 67 trips around the sun. We may detest Reagan, but some of that’s a tacit admission that he was an effective president who knew when to compromise (tax simplification, immigration reform.).
And he’ll lie and cheat however much he needs to make Project 2025’s Executive Branch blitzkrieg come to pass. All that’s needed are 1) a compliant legislature willing to do whatever it takes to undermine the two-party system; 2) a Supreme Court engaging in take-no-prisoners judicial activism.
The next strain of #Covid will, left untreated, cost some Americans their lives. An outsized number of these poor souls will be #MAGA supporters, owing to their unthinking aversion toward vaccines. Strike it up to one of the ironies of life, I guess … #HHS #CDC #FDA
It's like Jesus said; "Should a natural disaster strike, seize the opportunity to oppress the homeless." It's right there in the MAGA Bible.
If PE acquires a hospital, its financial standing is no longer the concern of the locality or of the state … until crisis rears its ugly head.
Cassidy is a doctor by training. So is Barrasso. So is Marshall. So is Paul the Younger. Perhaps there are others. These Senate clowns seem more concerned with areas of medicine and ‘public health’ outside the realm of the health of actual Americans. How else to explain their HHS confirmation votes?
Seems Europeans are more sensitive to CEO’s acting for all the world like fascist sympathizers. And they’ll make their car purchases accordingly …
#CDC #HHS #PublicHealth
And of course all three guns were purchased legally. Of course. #MinneapolisMassShooting
Two vetoes re #Gaza just today in the U.N. Security Council. Not that anyone in the media would notice.
They’ve been backed into this corner by Trump’s bluster and foolishness. No way out. Ergo … they throw in knowing they’ll either hang together or hang separately.
Politicization and weaponization are basically one and the same.
“.. ‘I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,’ Daskalakis wrote in his letter.” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Why I sold my SBUX stock.
As I recall, the Republicans are the ones who hatched the plot to indemnify gun manufacturers …
YELLEN: “.. Trump’s attempted sacking of Cook should be met with outrage, not with shrugs. .. And the financial community must raise its voice against a direct assault on the credibility of the dollar itself.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
Sounds like everyday in Tallahassee.
Brilliant. Because of her cutting-edge honesty in framing the hypocrisy of the gun fetishists against those who enable them.
So much for the old legal saw about ‘indicting a ham sandwich.’
It was a sub not a wrap 😏
Has Pirro been fired yet?
Can't buy that kind of free publicity ... (Still, their subs have always sucked.)
Won't happen in Trump's America, but i would be fitting if the guy also got his old job back ...
(Reuters) - A federal grand jury refused to indict a former Justice Department official who was arrested for throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement agent, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the case. @reuters.com
A gift from Putin as they stood on the red carpet in Anchorage exchanging pleasantries. Old KGB habits die hard.
Jesus, I thought that was Dennis Miller for a second. My most profound apology, Bob.
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