It’s a civil war. It’s just that the South has the permission of the federal government now.
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It’s a civil war. It’s just that the South has the permission of the federal government now.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
One possible factor: Just like Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Mr Bean has a fan base that can span any nationality because his comedy doesn’t require knowing a specific language. No matter what language you speak, you can be entertained by him.
People complain about the hypocrisy. People say we’ll vote them out later. People complain events are unpopular. None of that’s relevant. It’s a coup. They have seized the systems and they are unilaterally dismantling them. Pleading and logic are pointless.
Forcing out non-loyalists is coup behavior
It’s a coup. People still aren’t talking or acting like it’s a coup.
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It’s a coup.
He’s dead behind the eyes.
We can complain about hypocrisy all we want. It’s no longer the point. There has been a coup.
Love that 2015-era paragraph spacing! Back when people read things. Even I don’t have the patience for such dense grafs anymore.
The New York Times has a story today about how Disney parks have abandoned the middle class and are catering to the rich. I wrote about this happening TEN YEARS AGO. So hip of the Times to finally catch up. www.frommers.com/blogs/arthur... #travel
Sydney all over again.
She didn’t “refuse” to resign. She declined. He has no authority.
More police won’t put food on the table.
It’s possible Canadian Les Lye is the actor who created a prototype for Homer Simpson. He played the drunken, slovenly, lazy, but adorable father on Nickelodeon’s popular You Can’t Do That on Television for nearly a decade before The Simpsons was created. The similarities are striking.
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National strike
The Dems should just run on the Declaration of Independence next year.
Pathetic. Trump and DeSantis do not have the support of the people. They have to send cops to guard a crosswalk. Pathetic.
I know the Star of the Seas just debuted, but I could not care less. The “world’s largest cruise ship” label is merely handed to the next floating mall that measures a half-inch more. We’ve done it all before, but with smaller crowds of drunk people. Does anyone still care about these?
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This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
People have been choosing peace because they’re afraid open rebellion will bring martial law. But the regime is militarizing cities anyway. Pretty soon there’ll be no incentive to hold back the rebellion.
Red state occupation of our Capitol. This is no longer performative or a distraction.
Explain how this ISN’T a civil war.
When my ancestors were taxed without representation, they shot Redcoats in the streets until they got it back.
We never punished the Confederates, and that was a mistake, but we could always start now.
Ask the Redcoats how “taxation without representation” worked out for them.
I thought Texans shot tyrants
Law Dork on Monday: "Just think, we almost made it 50 years with an agency that was dedicated to enforcing a rule protecting kids from choking to death on toys." www.lawdork.com/p/lafufu-lab...
What conservatives mistakenly label as a crime problem is usually the result of a “America-failing-to-meet-its-people’s-basic-needs” problem.
If you can jail us you can house us If you can pay ICE you can pay teachers If you can build a wall you can build homes If you can collect our taxes you can pay us back in services
Even sadder than what’s happening are the people who are in a position to stop it but won’t.
It’s too 2025 to line edit
One spark and they’ll realize too late that they failed to obtain the consent of the governed.
This. These displays are necessary because they’re actually weak.
It is rare to see a country takes one of its best comparative advantages, pour kerosene on it, & light it up on fire like this. This is Pol Pot-like level of purposeful destruction without the gory side.
Stop focusing on their hypocrisy and start focusing on your rage.
How convenient of the regime to simply expunge its failure to comply with the law.
If Republicans truly hated gerrymandering, they could make it illegal nationwide tomorrow.
AI has stolen the contents of dozens of my books, which it now uses to steal my potential customers. Does it think I’ll just forget? That everyone like me will forget? Tech Bros and MAGA are planting seeds all over society that will one day explode in untold forms of revolution and revenge.
1776 was the year we told the tyrants who wore red that we’d be shooting them soon.
Michael Crawford is British.
A five-alarm fire no one is doing anything about
So you just allowed him to turn your capital into a police state.
DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?
So the president is now planning to deploy military forces in DC to handle ordinary civilian crimes?
He’s quite pretty, tbh.
You’d think there was no such thing as Harvard lawyers
Civil war stuff.
Let’s dip him in molten gold if he likes it so much.
Guess people will now be attaching their own padlocks on the doors of these trucks as a counter measure.
If you see a rental box truck near a Home Depot, put your own padlock on its doors.
In 1649, King Charles I “walked across the floor of Banqueting House, beneath the Rubens ceiling painting; 20 years before, he had commissioned this magnificent ceiling from Rubens.”
This is what is happening right now.
Source: The Banqueting House, Historic Royal Palaces, London www.hrp.org.uk/banqueting-h...
The king had “genuinely believed that a dictatorship was the only effective form of government. The magnificent Rubens ceiling painting at the Banqueting House, completed in 1636, was commissioned by Charles to celebrate these divine principles.”
“The King, his hair now bound in a white nightcap, took off his cloak and laid down… After a little pause, the King stretched out his hand, and the axe fell, the executioner severing his head in one clean blow.”
In 1649, King Charles I “walked across the floor of Banqueting House, beneath the Rubens ceiling painting; 20 years before, he had commissioned this magnificent ceiling from Rubens.”
Idea: Make the new Golden Ballroom the American Place de la Concorde.
People in Las Vegas continue to blame the city’s tourism collapse on its prices. They seem almost pathologically unable to admit that a boycott of the current U.S. administration plays a key role in the mass abandonment of the city. They just refuse to admit the consequences of their own politics.
He is decimating every facet of American life and prosperity while people just stand there and post in wonder about it.
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They truly think everyone else is rich
So it’s selling basic passenger rights as a fee.
Perished in a comical horse incident
Julian Fellowes never wrote a gay character he won’t torture. #TheGildedAge
She hasn’t done the show for many years. Jesse Tannenbaum has cast all of CBS’ big reality shows for about half a decade.
Gotta say that Jesse’s casting for #BB27 has been wobbly. Normally he stacks the deck for a good game by casting lots of intelligent people. The year of the Cookout was particularly brainy overall. This year, we have some real dim bulbs in there and they’re dragging us down.
A caption like this about George Washington, on view at London’s National Portrait Gallery, is now outlawed at US national park sites by the Trump government. It mentions that Washington participated in slavery.
She was kind to me. When I was an eager high school student and I was stage dooring the opening of the national tour of Into the Woods in Fort Lauderdale, she invited me to come join her and the cast for after-show food at a restaurant in town. Who does that? She was lovely.
He just issued an executive order that says if the government says you have a mental illness, it may forcibly remove you to a “treatment center” or “other facilities.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It truly rips the mask off to watch the UK & US congratulate themselves for their actions for the 40th anniversary of Live Aid at the same moment they allow mass starvation in 2025.
What’s the difference between using AI to set a different price for every customer and price gouging? Seriously, I want to know.
London recs? It’s time for me to research the next Frommer’s guide book to London. What places would you tell your friends about?
Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.
I will say that the direction of this version had a lot of style and attitude but it doesn’t do much to clarify the muddied writing. If I hadn’t memorized Evita when I was in high school, I don’t think I could have followed the plot or the stakes.
Columbia is more of a real estate holding company than an educational institution.
That’s because it was a coup.
Evita is the J. Pierrepont Finch of Argentina, only a vampire too
I don’t care what the clucking hens say online. From inside the London Palladium, watching the live video of Rachel Zegler masterfully performing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from the balcony for the crowd on Argyll Street was absolutely electrifying theater.
Mike Johnson may be a smooth politician but I’ll never forget him from his work in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
A triumph of public health and diplomacy that saved 26 million lives, and this government wants to end it. This is degenerate. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...
In other words, systemic corruption
It’s a feature, not a bug
Will control of the Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? Georgia Republicans can’t win the seat held by Ossoff — the demographics drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting. And they have!
They aren’t going to stop their coup just because we protest and sue. Their stated goal is to dominate us.
This carb-faced frat boy has never been a victim in his life, yet his worldview is based on the bizarre idea that liberals have victimized him
Astounding as people just stand watching while he destroys their lives
One of the things that makes Steve Martin so wonderful is the deep humanity and soulfulness that undercurrents everything. When I read Picasso at the Lapin Agile or Shopgirl, the full span of his genius clicks for me.
“Call your attorney”
I’m increasingly annoyed with influencers who are fawning over the stupidest pop-ups and marketing gambits while the country is burning around them.
Man at pub, looking at the Thames: “They say it’s full of feces.” His girlfriend: “So are you, my love.”
Taxation without representation = revolution
Time to tear down this rotten system and build a Taylor’s version.
My Priority Pass worked on the first try in Berlin on Friday! It felt like 2018 again. Well worth it for the stale dry pretzels and shouting toddlers in the Quiet Zone.
Good: A sign at the top of the Gateway Arch mentions that the Old Courthouse below is where Dred Scott sued to win his freedom. Bad: It doesn’t mention that he lost.
It helps to use detergent powder plus the pre-rise compartment, as most are designed for. The capsules that dominate the market now release all the detergents at once.