You all realize this is part of our punishment for saying JOE BIDEN WAS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENT OF MY LIFETIME! This is Operation Undo Joe’s Accomplishments
Spoiler alert: He DID it. So now the question is -- what do WE do? Language nerd ✍️ Madre chingona👊 Big fan of rule of law⚖️, social justice, decency, kindness, cheese curds 🧀, coffee ☕️, & telenovelas 💃 ProChoice🩺 ProScience🔬 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
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You all realize this is part of our punishment for saying JOE BIDEN WAS THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENT OF MY LIFETIME! This is Operation Undo Joe’s Accomplishments
oh dear god, save us from these morons
Adolf Hitler awarded the War Merit Cross to Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust. Just saying, awards don't mean sh** if the person awarding them is a fascist. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
Those lumps under his eyes look different, not the usual bags. or no?
Don’t mock us for clinging to hope 😵💫
At this point, any report issued by an arm of the Trump regime has the credibility of The New York Post. Or The Onion. Serious science is on its own.
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Thank you, Maricella! Happy Tuesday ☕️😊
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“If it was up to me, if I were king, I would take scruffy, bearded, sandal-wearing idiots who burn the flag, and I would put them in jail.” But the First Amendment, he went on, did not allow that. It protected Johnson’s right to express himself.” Scalia. SCALIA! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
However preposterous the amount of “revenue” he boasts of, it comes from the pockets of the American people, especially those least able to pay it.
As this disaster unfolds, never forget— 1. Trump did this 2. GOP Senate could have stopped it
Wordle 1,535 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 whoa!😮 does this mean the addiction is over? Nah. who am I kidding?
nah. I’m not surprised. fat cat intermediaries siphoning off funds is the problem. Instead of fixing it, this policy would make it worse.
Wordle 1,534 4/6 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ bah! wasted! ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’ll take the win! How did you do today?
See how it works? A.I companies make out like bandits 👇 “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.” #MakingMedicareWorse www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
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woohoo 🥳 Wordle 1,533 2/6 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #wordle1533 (really lucky starter today!)
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Judge Cobb: By merely accusing you of entering unlawfully, the government would deprive you of any meaningful opportunity to disprove its allegations. Fortunately, that is not the law. Trump Regime (probably): 🤣 Aww, so cute! SCOTUS (probably): Nice one, Mr. T! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
I hope so. But that doesn’t undo the 🎯 that bastard just painted on her back.
👀 “The end of Ms. Harris’s protection comes just before she is set to embark on a nationwide tour to promote her new book about her presidential campaign. The book, titled “107 Days,” is scheduled to be published Sept. 23.” 🍑💩 declares open season on TRUTH TELLERS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
A monstrous gesture that would cheapen military honors if anyone believed that an award from Trump was an honor and not a badge of shame.
You’re very welcome!
yeah, i’d like to know what is behind their decision.
“Wes Moore of Maryland and Kathy Hochul of New York signed the statement, along with all but four of the nation’s Democratic governors — those in Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii and Minnesota.” Times article gives no further info on reasons these 4 didn’t sign.
Even SHE thinks it’s a bit much 🤷♂️
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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.
“the prosecutors in Ms. Reid’s case acknowledged the extraordinary: that they had failed three times to secure an indictment within the 30 days given to them to do so after Ms. Reid’s arrest.” So the challenge was to find a complicit GJ within 30 days, huh? And they failed to do so. Sad. 🙄
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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Trump signed last month “flooded ICE with $75 billion in new funding to spend over the next few years.” In case you were curious about holes in the social safety net or federal fraud and abuse or burgeoning debt … www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
ooh, a Trump appointee! I’d seen the headline but this makes it even sweeter 🍰
“A line in the musical Hamilton claims, “Everything is legal in New Jersey.” This is not precisely true. At the moment, however, nobody seems to know who in the state is in charge of enforcing federal law.” But it ain’t Habba 🙄 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Nah, you’re good. Me, I squeaked by with a 5 and was lucky not to skunk out completely. Wordle 1,529 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
“As it turns out, the people who pioneered the slogan “Fuck your feelings” are impossibly delicate souls.” Maybe “the MAGA faithful are hypersensitive to criticisms of Trump because, in their hearts, many of them know.” They. know. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
SCOTUS makes everything worse. As usual. “A federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data in March, but the Supreme Court overruled that decision on June 6.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Agreed. The huge challenge, however, is to protect the electoral process.
maybe. I hope to hell not. Vance isn’t exactly a charismatic figure.
That’s what he was supposed to be, but he’s turned out to be like an aggressive dog pulling so hard on his leash that his owner ends up somewhere he didn’t intend to go. That said, Vance IS a monster. But he doesn’t command a cult.
I’m often reminded of what Kamala told Colbert in a recent interview. Yes, she was right about what Trump would do, but what she (we all?) failed to predict was the CAPITULATION. SCOTUS and Congress have ceded their power to a corrupt, malignant fascist and left our democracy bloody and moribund.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“In these last days of August, … the Trump WH appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize it against his opponents, and keep him in power indefinitely.” INDEFINITELY 🚨 Letters from an American: August 22, 2025, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
What the Trump regime has done in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and is threatening to do in Chicago and New York City is not a “crackdown on crime.” It’s a military occupation. Throwing Trump in prison would be a crackdown on crime.
Intetesting take from a ... {checks notes} … forensic pathologist
The Times is reporting that Uganda will only accept deportees without criminal convictions. So now we turn to Costa Rica? Not a bad place, of course, but his home, his wife and kids, are here. Will they never stop torturing this man?
I’m not so sure it’ll work, though. When Barr lied about the Mueller report, he lent his ‘gravitas’ to his spin. ‘Good’ republicans wanted to believe him. Maxwell carries her disgusting reputation on her back and has no natural constituency predisposed to believe her.
Imagine being an actual police officer trying to do an already almost impossible job in good faith. The real abuses of Trump’s paramilitary ICE is going to get real cops killed. Back the blue, my ass.
Trump is aping Bukele in El Salvador, a country where violent gangs had made people’s lives so unbearable that they were willing to accept a cruel but effective despot. If red state guards buy into the lie that blue cities are narco-ruled hellscapes, we are in a very dark place.
"At the same time as it thwarts the wind industry, the Trump admin has taken several steps to boost oil and gas as well as coal, the dirtiest and most expensive fossil fuel when it comes to burning it for electricity" Or When Fraud & Abuse met Environmental Nihilism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Happy Saturday, dear Wordlers. I'm always nervous about repeating letters, but this morning it, um, worked. Wordle 1,526 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 How'd you do? #Wordle1526
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
“It is too early to know what the F.B.I. will claim to find in all of those boxes …” WHAT THE FBI WILL CLAIM TO FIND in all those boxes 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 The NY Times is getting there … www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
The same day we read about the vengeful FBI raid on John Bolton, we learn of the plan to lower standards for FBI agents Apparently Kash Patel wants company at the bottom of the barrel They must be celebrating in Russia right now.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN Alabama's state Senate map for violating VRA sec 2 by diluting Black voting power in Montgomery. Alabama must now draw a new compliant map. Status conference is set for Aug. 28 to facilitate remedial proceedings. www.democracydocket.com/cases/alabam...
Pure luck today, and believe me, I'll take it. #Wordle1525 Wordle 1,525 2/6 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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“Return to the Land needs to strike while the iron is hot” -promo “They see right now as a very opportune time. They see a friend in the WH at the highest level. They see themselves quite literally in various positions in the admin'n, including the DOJ and DOD.” -expert on extremist violence
"Mr. Orwoll recently gave @nytimes.com a limited tour, allowing entry to the property through a gate that had a lock. ... Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of “Mein Kampf” from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine."
Only the best people ... The founders " — a classically trained French horn player who has livestreamed his own sex videos, and a former jazz pianist arrested but not charged for attempted murder in Ecuador — must personally confirm that applicants are white. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
New script. New costume. Perfect for goose stepping. 🎯
My Substack post on Donald Trump’s attack on Nicolle Wallace. “I don’t have a doubt in the world that Nicolle Wallace is the one journalist in America today who Donald Trump fears most — and for good reason.
“Mr. Trump may think his word is law, but neither a social media post nor an executive order has the power of a royal edict. The American people will have to show him that they know the difference.” Do enough Americans know the difference? (I’d like to think we do and are ready for good trouble)
Wordle 1,523 2/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was hairy! #Wordle1523 #SmallPleasuresInDarkTimes How'd you do today?
“The U.S. has no cards because we’ve been giving them away. If we ever want to play them again, we will have to win them back: Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and WIN THE WAR. Then there will be peace.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A good theory, sure, but it assumes a bottom exists. And as we have learned again and again, there is no bottom. And there is no shame.
My hero!
Hubba hubba! My two-day streak is on fire 🔥 Wordle 1,520 2/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Meh. Sometimes #Wordle owns you, sometimes you own Wordle.
I’d say I appreciate your content, I’m enormously grateful for your content … but not so much “enjoying” it. 😉 (I do subscribe and agree that the premium material is amazing. Thank you for everything you do!)
This is why Trump hates @npr.org so much. And also why we need to support public broadcasting now more than ever 👇 #TruthMatters
OMG, OMG, OMG That THESE morons are selling us out and are so incompetent that they always leave bread crumbs behind 😬 www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
As if the teacher can’t tell you didn’t read the book👇 “Many points were agreed to, and there are just a very few that are left.” But he did not describe those points, or even specify that they had to do with Ukraine. “We’ve made some headway,” he added. “So there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:
The moment Putin walks into the negotiating room, he has gotten everything he wants — plus an opportunity to make a quip about Alaska as historically Russian land The only thing that could force Putin to negotiate in earnest is the possibility of military defeat. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
"If we want to look at marauding mobs, look at Jan. 6. If you want to look at criminal mobs, we had a criminal mob and he called them peaceful protesters.” -Mary McCord “He is showing one-sided support for violence that supports his political agenda.” -R. Pape www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
8/13/2025- The Summit www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
Charlie Sykes gets it now and that's good. I wish he had gotten it a few years ago when the GOP seized a 6-2 congressional majority in the purple state of WI and captured supermajorities in the state legislature. (Wisconsin was Texas before Texas became Texas. We're only now digging ourselves out)
🎯 Thanks. My latest Substack entry is here. If you enjoy my work and cartoons in general, please consider subscribing and sharing. pxmolina.substack.com/p/crime-and-...
Our political cartoonists know the score. (Clay Bennett for the Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
From the same article— “Health care workers make up 10 percent of the nation’s work force, but they experience nearly half of the nonfatal injuries incurred, according to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” Damn. (A startling statistic from 2023. Before Times)
I’ve tried to read whatever Tom Friedman has had to say since 1989, when I came across his extraordinary book, From Beirut to Jerusalem. I’ve always emerged feeling informed. Concerned, yes. Gutted, no. But this is different. I’m no longer sure I’ll live to see the regime fall, but fall it will.
Thank you, Suzzi! 💙 @truthseeker73863.bsky.social @kelleymac.bsky.social @jeffo20.bsky.social @billionerrorx.bsky.social @jen-notjenny.bsky.social @hookcity.bsky.social @peabodya.bsky.social @tldupy.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social
Perfect meme! Thank you for including me, my friend!
You’re right, of course, but when an individual gets the courage to speak out, it means something. Cowardice is contagious, but so is courage. It’s helpful, I think, to focus on individuals without losing sight of the larger picture.
RFKJr sets out to destroy mRNA vaccine research and all Sen. Cassidy, a doctor who is largely responsible for confirming the wildly unqualified Kennedy, can do is issue impotent tweets of dismay. The Senate has REAL OVERSIGHT POWER. Use it, for god's sake. Use it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
👋 Thank you, you too 😊
Good morning Ray and to everyone working to oust the monsters destroying the country we love ☕️ Let’s take our joy where we find it, but let’s never ever ever think that this 💩 regime is normal, acceptable, or inevitable.
They mean interior DESECRATOR, not DECORATOR. And hey, you gotta break a few eggs, however pricey. Amirite?
President Zelenskyy: "Ukrainians defend what's theirs. Even those who are with Russia know that Russia is doing evil. Of course, we will not reward Russia for what it has perpetrated. The #Ukrainian people deserve peace. But all partners must understand what a dignified peace is.
per ny times tonight “Mr. Trump also suggested that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would include “some swapping of territories,” signaling that the U.S. may join Russia in trying to compel Ukraine to cede land.” That’s not a peace deal, it’s an ambush. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
@nytimes.com @npr.org @maddow.msnbc.com Have you seen this “coding error”? Seems more like a trial balloon than an error, but let’s see if they actually correct it. shit.