Freedom. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/p...
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Freedom. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/p...
Indeed
I think there are still some 9/11 plotters we can compensate too www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
It’s so awful
I’m with you
True but should have been inconceivable for anyone
Sounds more likely than not. I assume you saw The NY Times story about Trump, Modi and the Nobel Peace Prize.
I still can't believe the "inject disinfectant" bit didn't end him. Even with MAGA. Our language is insufficient to describe the idiocy of this time period.
To be an authoritarian “All you need is a complete lack of conscience and restraint, an insatiable desire for control, worship and revenge, and a simple understanding of what makes people afraid. Trump’s reptilian intelligence meets that inglorious standard.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
“I’ve never met anyone else remotely like him…He is and was profoundly stupid, completely lacking in intellectual curiosity.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Ultimately, the problem isn’t that the Alaska meeting happened. The problem is THE SHOW squanders any the real chance of holding Russia to account for what it has done to global security. This is dangerous — for Ukraine, and for America & its future My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/half-baked...
NEW -- Exactly 10 days after taking the oath early this year, Donald Trump nearly drowned dozens, potentially hundreds, of his own citizens in California’s Central Valley. Why? Because he is one of the most ignorant people you will ever meet. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The bushes
Is this what a real Zombie Apocalypse looks like? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Real reporters www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...
“By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument, so long as it has the power to rule as it desires.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
Trump “is turning away from the government’s responsibilities as a steward of information by minimizing, cherry-picking, misusing and sometimes even destroying data.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...
A child. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
I wrote this weeks after trump won in 2016 and almost ten years later I still think there is basically nothing more to say, not because I am super smart but because this is all so very empty and stupid www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bull...
Clear mental health issues www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
Truman: The Buck Stops Here. Trump: It’s never my fault. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Crime Spree in DC - Yes, this is a real event. No, it’s not sarcasm. Lmao. Your taxpayer dollars are at work.
Some personal news: My Son is officially canceling his second coming until y’all are actually ready to listen to Him.
Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”
Gotta admit, an emergency’s an emergency.
I’m sure these people are thrilled that they’ve been called away from their families and jobs to deal with DC’s crushingly important mulch emergency. So much government efficiency.
Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary. It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Even David Ignatius
russia targets civilians. Ukraine doesn’t
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.
Jeanine Pirro did everything she could to indict the sandwich guy-who is apparently a veteran-and failed Meanwhile the administration is giving Ashli Babbitt a funeral with military honors So if you're MAGA and you assault a police officer *for Trump* You don't get prosecuted You get celebrated
Fmr CIA senior officer and Hayden Center guest John Sipher tomorrowsaffairs.com/dont-expect-...
Welp, the lying about economic numbers — which everyone predicted would happen — has commenced. And the press is dutifully gobbling it up.
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
”One can’t blame a nation for being small or geographically vulnerable — only for being cheap and shortsighted.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social spot on in this excellent piece on the Nordic-Baltic countries’ outsized contribution to Ukraine. They have demonstrated what small state power looks like.
The pretext of caring about crime will be used by Trump's thugs as rationale for committing crimes even greater than the ones they claim to fight – like kidnapping an 18-year-old boy – because crime, as they see it, is not about what you do, but *who you are*.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
This is so funny. The US is already finding out how it goes when you try to interfere in a village where everyone knows each other, is related to each other, and no one has secrets. Namely that it doesn’t go very far. It was probably the Danish source’s second cousin who exposed the whole thing.
🚨BREAKING: Pete Hegseth announces Department of Defense will be renamed Department of War and Light Gardening
We can do a Zoom with him at some point if you like. Also, love the pages!
Trump doesn't denounce vote by mail because he thinks a democratic electoral system would be better without it, he denounces vote by mail to set up his lies about electoral fraud. The lying pretext is the point. Why must we learn the lesson over and over? Do not appease fascists, it does not work.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
I’m thinking, litter removal and mall cop Department. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
➡️ Dr. Monarez, an infectious disease researcher, was sworn a month ago by Mr. Kennedy, but clashed with the secretary over vaccine policy. ➡️ Four other high-profile C.D.C. officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine policy and Mr. Kennedy’s leadership.
Good one!
"30 years from now when your Ani metabot asks, 'What did you do in the great MAGA War 2.0?' You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your crypto-daddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your crypto-daddy shoveled mulch in DC!'
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Good job on the NewsHour tonight
“Just four years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, many restaurants in the South were still segregated de facto. Red Lobster embraced diversity, opening its doors to Black customers and hiring Black workers.” And it’s delicious. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/d...
Beauties!
A proud group!
Yeah! One son there
A beauty
:-) I may have to steal that
Pride
:-)
And I assumed putting idiots in charge would work out fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
And we all know how seriously Trump takes fraud.
Oh, ffs. People who are told to do this should quit.
Happy dog day!
Area Woman Not Good Enough Artist To Justify Eccentricities https://theonion.com/area-woman-not-good-enough-artist-to-justify-eccentrici-1819577481/
If it was a meatball, they would. They leave stains.
Sort of like the friendly Russian soldiers helping seed the sunflower fields.
Donald Trump is attacking Virginia’s economy. We need a Governor who is laser focused on standing up for our Commonwealth, creating jobs, and bringing investments to Virginia. My Growing Virginia Plan will do just that. abigailspanberger.com/issue/new-ab...
Oh, ffs.
Aren't we at the point at which it should be the responsibility of social media platforms to identify and block AI-generated fake videos? (Rhetorical question. We are. They should.)
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It’s so crazy how they don’t even understand when they’re being made fun of.
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
“Competing with China”
A meatball could do the most damage. It’s hard to get those stains out.
Could it be because Hegseth is a douche?
Good analogy (although admittedly there are many good ones).
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Turns out maybe grand jurors won't indict a ham sandwich? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Well played
When I was in Indonesia. At a nature park, they had a dog and pony show with an American western theme. It was genius.
I’m with you!
Is this what is going on? (Just happen to be in the hospital today)
Thank you 🙏
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The Badasses. Support them! (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Who coulda guessed?
💬 “Our position on this issue is unequivocal. From the very first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we have supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity and continue to do so,” says Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.
Again, Hegseth is justifying all of his stupid firings because he wants our warriors focused on fighting. Instead he has them working as mall cops, picking up garbage, searching for drugs, stopping cars in cities… Weak! www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
