8 Trillion... sure, why not?
Portugal-based expatriate American, atheist and resistor. My dog’s name is Sigge. Zero-beer-loving dork Dad.
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8 Trillion... sure, why not?
He's been driven by a deep shame his entire life, after his awful parents treated him like "a loser" ... he never got past that. Shame is one of the key drivers of narcissism.
The New Orleans That Hurricane Katrina Revealed www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
New Orleans and Los Angeles were both built almost entirely on extraction and processing of petroleum products, at least during the past 100 years. The stark difference in their development — entirely opposite results — is stunning when you think about it, and is rooted in race and corruption.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
I suspect he is subconsciously reacting to a gaping, ‘nasty’ gash in his own self that is about to be exposed by ‘video’ evidence and he is projecting … what subdural horror in himself is this post hiding?!?
From @markhertling.bsky.social — retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars. www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
The world if Trump is dead.
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R Murrow
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Remember "facts don't care about your feelings"?
"The media seems to have accepted Leavitt’s 'frequent handshaking' diagnosis. But photos from last Saturday showed Trump with bruising on his left hand too. Are we to believe he’s double-fisting his handshakes now?"
He insisted repeatedly that the Oval's new rococo is "solid gold" and "not cheap" ... so it's definitely cheap painted plastic.
It's time for poetry
I cannot imagine how Hannity ever survived five minutes in a NYC restaurant. I’m a pacifist, and I’d probably kick his ass.
Probably will invade Canada that day. Wednesday after Labor Day is the perfect day to roll thunder north.
They should have added a Mao Mole on his chin, just to be clear.
Never fear... incoming freshmen at Mizzou will protest ____ in a couple weeks.
This part of your process sounds downright luxurious -- I stew the same way over wording of press releases for a company that sells french fry batter, or whatever, and it makes me want to barf.
Who? Brooke? Secretary of Whatever?
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Trump has occupied the office less than 1.8% of the time since the Presidency was created — the amount of damage he’s inflicted on the institution in that time is truly breathtaking.
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors has been around for 111 years. In that time it has had more than 100 members (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal...). No president has ever fired (or claimed to have fired) one before.
I desperately wish every American in all walks of life would watch and absorb this brilliant analysis. In fact, I wish I had been able to see this as an impressionable teen.
“What hath God wrought,” is my immediate thought (as a patriotic blue-flame atheist). The call is coming from inside the house.
Ohhhh… I’ve had eyes on this slow-moving dumpster fire for a while and haven’t really understood what’s been up Trump’s ass about Lisa Cook. But now seeing a photo of her for the first time, Miller and Trump’s pure hatred of this black woman is finally clarified. Yikes, what a bunch of assholes.
This is the thought I keep returning to. Constantly. All day, every day.
"May his fat ankles find something today." Go you, @governorwalz.mn.gov
Wes Moore: "The president seems to be more concerned about my future than he is about the future of the American people."
What will be Maxwell's role in the Trump Administration after she is pardoned by Donny Teenskeezer? Maybe Melania will hire her as FLOTUS policy advisor.
I don't think we're lucky enough for him to bite it during this term, because fuck us, but if he did I really wonder if the media would be willing to run the same cover for JD Vance as it is for him as fucked as it is I don't think they see Vance as the embodiment of the Volk the same way
NYT going full Pitchbot. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Is Trump nationalizing INTEL now? I did nazi that coming.
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.
What the actual eff is happening here?
Cokeheadsayswut?
Half? I would file that under Y, for "Yikes."
Indeed, footage of guardsmen "doing their duty" by shooting D.C. residents will definitely backstop Hegseth's Gubernatorial Campaign over the next few years.
Can’t believe Neil Young outlived him. I always assumed it would be… (puts on sunglasses) ..Neil before Zod.
THIS is the point… Newsom’s parodies have exactly illustrated the absurdity that we have a sitting President who is a BROKEN PERSON. He’s literally a deranged narcissist who only wants to be president so he can bedazzle the White House like a preschooler decorating their playhouse.
"THE ART OF THE KNEEL" TRUMP: "You have to agree to a ceasefire or there will be sanctions." PUTIN: "No ceasefire." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "And no sanctions." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "We're done. Thanks for the red carpet and photo ops."
Terrific work as always from @pbump.com
YAY FREEDOM?
Hope you know that there are many of us quietly appreciating all of your work and basking in the honesty and authenticity of the boisterous community you have created here. It means so much to all of us.
Nice to see Anderson still has his CNN show... I always liked him, and honestly have not seen a clip from his show in at least a year, now that I live outside the U.S. media bubble. I'm pretty chuffed about this, actually -- Good Job, me!
"That Alaskan King Crab last night was much fresher than I have at my dacha in Karelia. Now a nice long undisturbed flight home with the delightful little Katya..."
When Trump waved from the top of AF1 stairs, he was screaming to the world: "LOOK EVERYONE... I AM STILL PUTIN'S BITCH!!!" Putin politely gestures 'thanks' to the diplomatic staff and ground crew, ignores the cameras, and thinks quietly and smugly to himself: "Trump is still my bitch. Nice visit."
"Tomorrow Island" teaser set me off on a rambling and delightful Saturday morning geographic adventure -- waiting for the U.S. East coast to wake up and distract me with less interesting drivel -- through history and present. Thank you @atrupar.com for this pleasant diversion!
Journalists: you already know how to do your job, and if you ever need backup when demanding truth from powerful sources, this is a fantastic example.
This doughroll is making me hangry.
A widening gyre in Indiana, and a spiraling vortex of chaos in America's political and social constructs, where the center surely will not hold and inevitably -- with respectful admiration of Chinua Achebe's genius -- "Things Fall Apart." This is the path we are evidently taking as a Nation.
This is unconscionable. And illegal.
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Newsom on ICE action outside his presser: "It's pretty sick & pathetic. It's everything you know about Trump's America & the authoritarian tendencies of the president. Wake up, America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will a president running for a third term. Mark my word"
Christian Right is neither.
Gee whizz, all that ‘urban strife’ he experienced in Durham, NC really left scars on lil’ Stevie.
Oh… yeah that’s what I meant, sorry.
I wouldn’t call the GOP a death cult, precisely… but they’re whistling really loudly past a lotta zombie graves.
1. Set up a picnic blanket on the Mall and eat a bag of dicks. 2. Monitor Mitch McC’s bedpan status. 3. Practice genuflecting around the Rotunda while juggling Trump’s balls. I’m sure I’m missing lots of useful activities.
The American press and public really need to figure out how to simply dismiss Trump's pretextual claims for authoritarian attacks and then resist the attack itself, not debate the claim. We have spent months asking "but is the Ivy League really antisemitic?" and now "but is DC really crime-ridden?"
Should D.C. just counter with a "One Senator" offer? I mean... since he's started negotiating...
Trump’s mendacity and resentment will destroy the U.S. economy and further divide Americans. Three years from now--three months before he wins the 2028 Presidential Election--JD Vance will tell 40-odd percent of Americans that AI and evil foreigners caused the disaster... and they will believe him
I bought him a blue cup at He's Not, so there's balance in the DMB universe!
This is WILD. I have been through this crossing many times, and even can see it from my boat. Never imagined it would be a dragnet for suburban Seattle moms and their kids. The irony of its "Peace Arch" designation is just too much for me today.
Chapel Hill thanks you for occasionally loaning us Dave Matthews at He's Not :-)
This is A+ trolling
This is a deeply, DEEPLY disturbed elderly gentleman who repeats whateverthefuck the guy who just left the room said last.
Next you should do the same in Little Rock, which is like five times more 'violent' than D.C.... which is safer than it's been in like 30 years.
He's just dying to have his "spartacus moment" again, when he strode like a tough guy through the smoky park with his upside down bible.
I hope you are missing the context of \flex\ here. Unless maybe you're not?
By October things are gonna get downright unpleasant in rural farming communities across America.
The Mayor of D.C. has no jurisdiction over the White House or responsibility for the heinous crimes being committed committed there every day, like an open-air market of corruption, graft and cruelty.
"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Deals are generally reached between two parties who each want something. When one of the parties' desire is "to not be arbitrarily punished by the power of the state" that is not a deal, that is extortion.
"I never forget a tongue." ... that's just genius, right there.
Every morning I wake to the same shocked realization: no matter how robust my imagination has become in the age of Trump, these MAGA cretins unleash evil and cruel and stunning inventions to erode American society and democracy.
Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression. They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.
She's panicking about the impact of Trump's inevitable "Ghilainegate" pardon catastrophe on her fundraising... and also she's made tons of $$ on insider trading, so let's retire to my beach house and do 3-4 rallies per year, just for fun?
Just remember that Pamela Jo Bondi and all the other Trump sycophants at the Justice Department have seen videos of Trump, Epstein, Dershowitz, and other old men raping teenage girls and decided they needed to protect the rapists, not the victims. They are immoral vultures.
Imagine how bad everything would be for Trump if Epstein had not tragically dies in prison. The worst would have been Ivanka leaving him for bonking a girl younger than her.
“Cher Force-1”
Lutnick is only in office because he was the primary ‘fixer’ frontman for Tether… this lowly ‘economicstalk’ policy stuff is just him cosplaying for Don Jr and Jared.
Two aspects of major news stories this week that I can’t understand media memoryholeing: 1. Maxwell is Robert Maxwell’s daughter: she grew up as Ivanka to criminal Donald. 2. The Paramount takeover is a maga ‘nationalization’ by Larry Ellison via his nepo-baby son.
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “You already paid for the Durham investigation and he told you there was nothing there. Why were 13 Russian nationals charged with interfering in the election if it wasn’t true?” Fox weakly tries to help Trump’s Epstein cover-up with the Obama nonsense
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr. August 12, 1941 – July 18, 2025 The virulently anti-LGBTQ Feulner co-founded The Heritage Foundation, which was behind Project 2025 (now D/B/A “The Trump Administration).
Also she literally grew up as Ivanka to her own father Robert’s Donald Trump.
The producer “Why don’t we find out” 😂 Unhinged Stephen Colbert is just getting started‼️ No holds barred‼️This is going to be EPIC‼️ @colbertlateshow @StephenAtHome
Will they perform La Traviata?
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