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Albert Apa, who was the Executive Director of the Illinois Governmental Law Enforcement Officers Training Board, would tell newly sworn police officers that if they committed crimes they would “dirty his badge” too. All the Medal of Freedom winners would be sullied if this man was given this honor.
When everything is egregious, nothing is egregious— in some people’s minds
Nightswimming is right up there.
Nightswimming is right up there.
😱
Every little thing…do what you can.
False. Also, this doesn’t sound like him.
I can handle a helping of both!
So literally, but not seriously? 😂
Oh yes!
There’s always a quote!
It doesn’t seem to work to take the guns out of the hands of the perpetrators
Oh, that’s just one level above “concerned.” If her hair was on fire, maybe I would think she’d get up off her a** and do something
No, he doesn’t.
“Lickspittle” doesn’t even do justice…
The US is now a joke.
One of the smallest men who ever lived…
“Racial arsonist?”
Approximately 89 million people, or roughly 36% of eligible voters, did not vote in 2024. Why? Did they really see no difference? Did they not care? Democrats need to do some massive outreach.
Washington, D.C. belongs to both its full-time residents and to the American people. The Mall and its monuments belong to the American people. The White House belongs to the American people. Not to the temporary occupants, whether they are sane or crazy.
Obviously, he really doesn’t know history.
So she’s saying she wasn’t in “the room where it happens”
Time to dance on a grave…
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Not to mention the sexual abuse, fraud, yada yada yada
Sometimes I wonder if it’s all the plastic in our bodies….
Because they are??
My guess is that he never has any horizontal conversations.
Oh, that face!
He continues his enshittification of everything he touches
Going on vacation tomorrow so spent Saturday night making maps of all the places in Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina with higher violent crime and murder rates than D.C. Perhaps better places for those governors to focus resources! www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Well, two criminals together —ours is a felon, too
Just in time for the new school year and all those playground RPS battles!
Just in time for the new school year and all the upcoming RPS battles on the playground! Thanks for the tip!
It’s best to spend the next 4 years simply ignoring this mess, and then do the clean up
Slightly diminish a band: Sly and the Family Pebble
People will still know what they are paying for things and whether their budgets are being affected. Just like you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing, you don’t need the gov telling you prices are going up or down.
The BLS is, by law, required to provide monthly reports: uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?e... Oh wait, nothing about this regime follows the law, does it?
He’s telegraphing his plans?
The BLS is, by law, expected to put out monthly job reports : uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?e...
I’m sure there will be many more of these “feel my pain” semi-apologies in the years to come in an effort to avoid the Truth and Reconciliation committees
No, no, no…..never
LBJ anyone? No, let’s forget about him and his Great Society and Voting Rights Act. And let’s just morph Reagan and the first Bush (GHW) because no one will notice (whatever happened to those “thousand points of light” And spelling? What’s that??
Next occupant is gonna have to call 1-800-GOTJUNK and a fumigator
And butt ugly
WWJD
This is obscene—and just one more reason that we should go back to taxing incomes above a certain level at 90%
That first quote really hits.
Presidents should not be allowed to make these types of changes on their whim, whether Republican or Democrat. The White House is history, our nation’s history, and they are only temporary residents.
Everything will have to be rebuilt and restored and it could take a long time
Those things are hideous and not any way, shape or form in keeping with the architecture of the White House and its idea as “the People’s House.” This is an American residence, not Versailles
Thank you for your service to our country!
But this time, we will believe her
Oh honey, the train left the track back in January
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. SHUNNING: a time-tested strategy for avoiding awful people
Shunning: a time-tested strategy for avoiding awful people
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social is an amazing writer who conveys the beauty and horror of our American life. A national treasure
I have to say, growing up in Chicago, I heard “blinkers” instead of “turn signal” — but definitely with a hard, dare I say, Midwestern R sound 😂
It was all a scam, dude!
He can say whatever he needs to say to his constituents to secure their votes. At this point, and going forward, it needs to be “ Just win, baby!”
Wow, I’m finally one of the 1%! As a librarian, I’m trained to check the accuracy of my information sources. I teach my students the importance of this, so I hope we can up that percentage, but at times I despair that we won’t
“Survival is insufficient.” Emily St. John Mandel in Station-11, who freely admits she got it from Star Trek: Voyager. Celebrating the wonders in life is a form of resistance. I attended a concert by a favorite band-Lord Huron-last weekend. Was musically & visually exhilarating. Lifted my spirits!
True. Also, think twice about purchasing the advertisers’ products. Our power is in our cash stream.
Yes! Truth!
Yes! What a wonderful way of expressing this, too!
Stop viewing. It’s a part of the people’s economic power. They lose advertisers as viewership drops. And as they lose advertisers, they’ll lose income. Sad to see an institution crumble, but we have to not cooperate with those who would facilitate the rise of authoritarianism
What a takedown!
Whatever happened to “live and let live, as long as you aren’t hurting anyone else in the process”??
I was there, too!
Saw her with Union Station last month and with Robert Plant last summer. Two amazing concerts!
I remember weeping tears of joy to contemplate the history I was witnessing
Man, I could have worked at Vogue in its heyday! Test yourself! You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
When Michelle Obama was promoting healthier eating and exercise, oh the OUTRAGE from the right. Now??? Crickets and cicadas
When Michelle Obama was promoting healthier eating and exercise, oh the OUTRAGE from the right. Now??? Crickets and cicadas
What a slob
Well, we’re all going to retire at some point, and some should definitely go sooner rather than later
Hope and action are the antidotes to doubt and despair
I would draw the conclusion that he eats too much, doesn’t exercise enough, and has done some evil things to earn that face.
Re-upping this ditty from awhile back, when Oklahoma instituted a curriculum mandate that high school students must study “irregularities in the 2020 election”: Oklahoma! Where the lies grow faster than the wheat! When the teachers speak, The falsehoods reek, Worse than any rotten piece of meat!
I’m pretty sure the HIPAA law prevents this type of disclosure
We are subsidizing disaster-prone areas. My heart sympathizes with the residents of these areas, but the hard-headed pragmatist says, maybe it’s time they move elsewhere and maybe it’s time State Farm stops offering insurance in these areas
I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.
It was all right there in Project 2025. That’s the playbook, augmented by his narcissism, sociopathy, revenge fantasies, general mental instability
“Highly problematic”? That’s a bit of an understatement
He stuck used chewing gum under his desk in high school.
Well, everything this regime does is humiliating for America. The term is kakistocracy. Or idiocracy. The humiliation and outrage and the knowledge that this DIDN’T have to happen
Oh yes! With the coconuts!
Again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” —Post from activist/philosopher w/ about 224 million followers in US, although many apparently don’t put his beliefs into practice IRL
Acknowledging that resistance takes many forms and all can be useful, even if it’s just to maintain one’s spirit and sanity
Because that is not a “normal” thing for a Democratic President to say, or even a Republican president to say, but it’s perfectly normal for Trump to say it, because he’s broken every possible “norm” that we have… except shooting some in the street… of course, now he has his stormtroopers to do that
Who needs the beautiful mess of actually writing a friend some authentic sentiments?
They’ll be paying the piper soon….
But We the People will redeem those values… give us time
Belief that we can create the America that we want to be is a form of active resistance—it’s always been two steps forward and one step back—read your history, there have been many ugly times, and we have always overcome. Like dust, we rise (Maya Angelou)
In the immortal words of Tim Walz: “These people are just weird.”
Oh, there he is at his tiny desk! Because he is the smallest man who ever lived… no wait, maybe that title belongs to… (insert name of any Republican member of Congress)
One country?? How about one administration?
Definitely on the “Dance on your grave” list
Both could be true.
