A denizen of Omaha, by God, Nebraska, home of the beleaguered Blue Dot of the Electoral College. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana . . . which is just beleaguered. Proud graduate of Baton Rouge Magnet High School and LSU. This occurred many years ago.
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Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
Or maybe they’ll just go bust, blame Joe Biden, and victory gardens will become a thing again. In the words of Cousin Eddie, “They call it Hamburger Helper, but it’s good all by itself.” FAFO.
Gavin Newsom Press Office on X, posted this hilarious video as a response to Trump’s recent attacks on Newsom.
I remember watching this ABC coverage of the 1972 slaughter of the #Israeli Olympic team for hours and hours. I was 11, and that Jim McKay moment — “They’re all gone” — was burned into my memory. So many years, 53 of them, and so damn little has changed.
“‘ #Louisiana, you’re going to be an example for the rest of this country,’ Bondi said.” No inaccuracies detected. Because. . . “Landry touted Angola’s natural features, including ‘forests full of bears’ and ‘swamps full of alligators’ as among the new facility’s safety features.” Sleazebag.
Walking — and breathing! — is such a chore. Relax in a shiny iron lung!
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
The U.S. government is operating under the Duterte Doctrine.
It’s the new Dark Ages.
I am a 64-year-old guy from the Deep South. That won’t happen. Trumpism will be the new Lost Cause.
#Florida does not think of itself as a shithole. It prefers trou à merde. It’s not Louisiana or Mississippi, after all. OTOH, if your kid dies of measles or (Coming soon!) smallpox, you *will* have the option of a Disney upgrade to the casket.
Defenestrations and autos da fé, these are just two of my favorite things.
Personally, I’d favor defenestration followed by an auto da fé.
Has anyone asked him how well those Scots-Irish folks in the hills and hollers are doing? Maybe he could get a few Chinamen (which I’m sure is his preferred “polite” term) to fix some shit for ‘em.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Congressional reporter says Trump is threatening Republicans not to back the bipartisan push for an Epstein files release vote…
And Meemaw talks slow, walks slow and thinks slow. Sad! Then you got slow Cud’n Tubby. That boy ain’t right, but he ain’t *too* dangerous iffin you don’t let him have no metal eatin’ forks around no ‘lectrical plug holes.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
Also, I have no idea whether she’s crazy or not. But apparently she’s like clockwork at City Hall, and that’s what people call her, so I’m rolling with that, too.
Yes, I know rice isn’t good for the pigeons. But it’s your secret weapon’s weapon of choice, so I’m rolling with it.
#Chicago faces an invasion by the . . . #Texas National Guard? OK, it’s time to make them regret that bigly. I’m talking asymmetric warfare. Rout the bastards. Deploy your secret weapon — the Crazy Asian Pigeon Lady and sacks of rice or, in a pinch, bread. The Bubba Brigade won’t know what hit it.
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
I was going to call this Dumb and Dumber. But it’s more like Abject Moron and Has to Turn Up the Sensitivity on the EEG to 11.
Trump begins Festivus now and attacks Newsom and Prtizker. Talks about crime in blue cities but no mention of murder rates in Louisiana and Tennessee etc. Calls Chicago and Baltimore a "hell hole." Says there are "bullet fires" in LA. What is that? Who knows.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
Wealth taxes NOW. It’s patriotic to do your part and fund society for the workers you exploit in order to get this rich. #taxtherich
It’ll probably be summarized as Make Chicago White Again.
If the Constitution means nothing anymore in this country, sectarianism, brutality and rivers of blood will be our future. We will repeat the same deadly errors of old Europe that the Founders, more or less successfully, sought to put to rest on this continent.
Maybe he got deported back to wherever the orange people are from.
Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
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What have I learned from #Trump 2.0? Well, I used to scoff at the Army officer who said his troops had to destroy the South Vietnamese village in order to save it. I don’t do that anymore. I can see how that might be so. I don’t think democracy is possible as #America now exists. Grab a lighter.
BREAKING NEWS
Thank goodness for the CBC’s YouTube channel and Samsung TV Plus, which delivers CBCNN, BBC World News and Sky News.
As an American, I rely on CBC News as our broadcast and print news media wither under an authoritarian onslaught. The National and the CBC News Network are two go-to international news sources to get something like the truth about the fascist ugliness enveloping us and threatening you.
America is on an #Auschwitz trajectory here. If you’ve ever wondered how #Nazi Germany got to be Nazi Germany, you’re living through that kind of transformation right now.
America is on an #Auschwitz trajectory here. If you’ve ever wondered how #Nazi Germany got to be Nazi Germany, you’re living through that kind of transformation right now.
They’re totally going to do this.
If Fox News replaces regular liegramming with a broadcast of “Swan Lake,” we’ll know an official communique from the Grimlin will be coming in a few hours.
Friday was a hard day. Twenty years ago, I spent many hours here in Omaha glued to the #WWL-TV livestream — much of the time in tears. Twenty years later, we’ve learned nothing. But we’ve also learned a lot, because the veil was ripped off this country, exposing the lies we tell ourselves. #Katrina
How could we forget?
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned as director of the National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, shares he learned the childhood and adult immunization schedules for COVID-19 were changed from a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, while in a leadership meeting.
As racist traitors do.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
The times, they are a changin’. This is inevitable, and it makes sense but, damn, does it make me feel old. Probably because I am. When I was in #journalism school, we actually learned to set type by hand, then print what we’d set. And I still own pica poles and proportion wheels. (Don’t ask.)
I now worry that by Christmas, the chance of a complete collapse of the federal government — and by extension the entire United States — is almost as likely as Americans living under a #totalitarian police state. Everyone’s Magic 8 Ball is broken now.
I now worry that by Christmas, the chance of a complete collapse of the federal government — and by extension the entire United States — is almost as likely as Americans living under a #totalitarian police state. Everyone’s Magic 8 Ball is broken now.
This.
a friend finalized her dual citizenship to an EU country today and this is what it feels like to be a dog at the shelter watching another dog get adopted
The people are not the enemy of the state. The state is the enemy of the people.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
We in #Nebraska are a broken #fascist state in a broken fascist country. And I’m pretty sure I know what the #Republican committee chairwoman’s answer will be — no.
Still Not Great.
This is good, very, very good.
Canada needs to launch an investigation into Trump regime’s covert influence ops in 🇨🇦. If the US has begun engaging in information warfare in #Greenland, you can bet the same is happening in #Canada. Look no further that the traitorous actions of Alberta secessionists as one of the vectors. #cdnpoli
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.”
@jenpsaki.msnbc.com couldn’t agree more. Trump has eviscerated real solutions to address this crisis while simultaneously pushing his “guns everywhere” agenda. How dare we call ourselves a free nation when our children live with the possibility of being shot and killed at any given moment?
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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I WANT YOU! (To pick up garbage and occasionally menace your neighbors.)
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
The Omaha City Council took a stand, voting against eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion from the 2026 City Budget. John Chapman reports.
How can #Louisiana kill you? Let me count the ways. I love oysters, but never raw.
I used to live in Springfield, Mo., in the mid-‘80s, and I’ve been through Bolivar (pronounced BAHL-uh-vur) more times than you can count. That part of Missouri is the opposite of a liberal hotbed. Absolute opposite.
No doubt
As God is my witness, I look forward to tribunals and firing squads.
I cannot type the words I actually want to say, so for now I’ll just hope these people are haunted forever.
They’re trying to kill us all. #COVID
And, of course the follow-up: Can J.D. Vance outlast a head of lettuce?
I had this thought that maybe Queen Elizabeth should come to Trump like in “A Christmas Carol,” saying “Donald, follow me to the light!” So he does. And as he plummets toward Hell, Her Majesty says “PSYCH!”
Trump fires Lisa Cook in an unprecedented move, and immediately the US dollar sinks against the Yen (in red), the Euro (teal), and the British Pound (purple). Stocks are also sorting it out, but down around a quarter point. Point is: Markets don't think this is move helps American business.
Unforgivable
Waiting for the bond selloff.
A conventional war against the U.S. military is not winnable. A guerrilla insurgency is eminently winnable. Our military sucks at fighting guerrilla wars, and even teenagers can build large, truly impressive firebombs.
I think we quickly are achieving consensus on what has happened here. Quite frankly, I would be tempted to renounce my citizenship if I wasn’t pretty sure I’d end up in Uganda and not Canada, where I actually have distant relations.
At some point, maybe when Guard units from Bumfuck get trigger happy in Chicago, just like Trump is counting on, America will have its own Derry 1972 moment. Then we’ll have our own version of the IRA, and things will progress — or regress — from there.
“Do we end up ‘merely’ like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an ‘American Reich’? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015.”
The White House has tried to downplay the emergence of a bruise on Trump’s left hand with the same feeble excuse it offers for the one on his right.
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker just completely destroyed Trump.
Again.
🤭😝😆
