The fact that more than 77 million Americans voted Trump into a second term is all the proof you need that our education system is an abject failure.
The fact that more than 77 million Americans voted Trump into a second term is all the proof you need that our education system is an abject failure.
The common vaccinations that are mandated for school children are for: Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis Polio Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Hepatitis B Chickenpox If they really want to expose their children unprotected to these diseases, we’ll see a red state population decline.
Joseph Ladapo compared vaccine mandates to the enslavement of Black people? Really?
Let me get this straight: a black man in America equates vaccine mandates with human slavery?
You would never come up with an alt-history this dumb, this unbelievable. In his never-should-have-happened second term, Trump has filled the White House with Ronny Jacksons.
You heard the President this morning, folks. The whole Jeffrey Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax.
The currently popular term “conventionally attractive” seems unnecessary. If you just say “attractive,” people will get what you mean.
Half the jobs that are created are filled by immigrants, and Trump has effectively stopped the flow of immigration. You won’t know that by the job reports because Trump has replaced the head of the BLS. But you WILL know it by the agricultural products that don’t get shipped to your stores.
Serious question: We all know Donald Trump is a “fucking moron,” to quote Rex Tillerson. Are the toadies he installed in his current cabinet all equally stupid, or are they nihilists who see the obvious but don’t care what happens?
It must be nice to be able to consistently depend on the poorly educated for their votes.
Nice illo
I deleted my accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, & Mastodon. I kept YouTube. I set up an anonymous account on Bluesky to follow some news-reporters and authors. Even so, what little social media I follow cuts into my reading time. Books are at a disadvantage in the attention economy.
Back in the days of broadcast TV shows were episodic and if they were canceled you were left hanging. Streamers prefer to make continuing stories. Therefore, when a show is canceled fans are left without closure. This happens over and over, usually without notice, and it sucks.
“A fucking moron” is putting it mildly. Trump actually believes his fantasies are reality.
I was surprised to learn that Rudy Giuliani had a spine.
Openly gay billionaire Peter Thiel will deliver a lecture series on "how his Christian faith informs his understanding of the world," including the "politics of the Antichrist,” according to The Christian Post. Strange bedfellows.
King Donald has declared her a national hero for trying to violently overthrow an election. It’s starting to feel like time for the antiMAGA majority to launch a counter insurrection.
This is the political strategy of Trump and all his minions — to blatantly lie about things we can plainly see are not true and expect us to swallow it. They count on the MAGA base to go along with it but find non-cultists a little harder to persuade.
If law enforcement has to wear masks, it means the populace they’re supposedly protecting sees them as a menace, not as protectors.
Germany should invade and reclaim Kaliningrad Oblast and revert its name back to East Prussia. I mean, if Russia thinks it’s okay to reclaim Ukraine, why shouldn’t Europe take back some territory from Russia?
Elon Musk’s lies about wanting to build a city of a million people on Mars to preserve the human race against extinction are so ludicrous that I’m surprised more journalists haven’t pointed to the real reasons behind his puffery.
Add Robert Sheckley to that list. The Status Civilization comes to mind in this context.
He’ll find a woman who’s as dumb as he is. There’s no shortage of the ignorant multiplying in this great land of ours.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a medical doctor, is the gutless coward who cast the deciding vote in favor of putting Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in charge of our nation’s heath.
We’re past the tipping point. Don’t expect Roberts to excoriated in the history books. Those books will be banned.
I’m sure there’s nothing of interest in the Epstein files.
Our nation’s brain trust
Peaceful tourists visiting Washington DC.
We are now entering a period in which states will redraw districting lines every two years.
Members of the Trump administration seem to think it’s the “noble” prize. They don’t realize that the pronunciation is no-BELL. I guess that’s not surprising from a bunch of ignorant ass-kissers. (Cabinet meetings have devolved into nothing but marathon obeisance sessions for Dear Leader. Sad.)
Trump has been claiming that he “solved” the military conflict between India and Pakistan. Prime Minister Modi of India is becoming irritated. He recently told Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.
Golly, how could anyone have ever guessed that RFK, Jr., would be a disaster as head of HHS? It’s not like there were any signs he was an unqualified crackpot.
RFK, Jr., is determined to “fully dismantle the nation’s vaccination apparatus, regardless of what science says or what most people want,” says the New York Times. This is what the MAGA vote has brought us to, and now we’re going to live or die by the consequences. "God damn you all to hell!"
I think there should be a new slogan that goes something like “Guns don’t kill people, Republicans in Congress kill people,” because THEY are the fuckers who resist ALL sane and responsible gun legislation.
Trump became President a second time because 77.3 million Americans are mouth-breathing rubes. We’re too dumb to survive.
RFK, Jr., literally rejects the “germ theory” of disease. It boggles the mind!
RFK, Jr., will cling to this position for dear life. Republicans in Congress could force him out but they won’t because they’re afraid of being primaried. Count on it: they will put their political fortunes above YOUR health EVERY TIME. I’m increasingly convinced this political system is doomed.
RFK, Jr., is destroying our national health system and Trump is letting him do it because they are both kooks who believe their fantasies are reality, and we have a bunch of Republicans who could stop it but won’t because they’re afraid of being “primaried.” Maybe this political system SHOULD fail.
It was foretold, brothers and sisters! “The bullet hit Trump’s ear at 6:11 p.m. And what does Ephesians 6:11 read? ‘Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.’ Evangelical conspiracy theorists just love their numerology.”
I have a cousin who owns an arsenal like this. With so many guns, many haven’t been taken to the range even once. It’s just a purty object to own.
Nice bookcase!
Seventy-seven million Americans voted to elect a narcissistic con-man to be President a second time. We are an indisputably ignorant nation.
MAGA Republicans will tell you it never happened. Or that masks killed people because they couldn’t get enough oxygen.
Hell, if that happens, stopping AI might be the greatest service to humanity authors ever did.
Nat certainly deserves credit for convincing me the book was heading in one direction, and suddenly taking it in a completely different direction that I didn’t see coming. I must say he owes a debt to a certain Twilight Zone episode that will go unnamed.
I grew up in a small town in Louisiana. A couple of years ago visiting my brother who still lives there I stopped to chat with the sweet old church lady who lives a couple of houses down. I used to mow her yard. As we chatted, she said, “Thank the Lord n*****s still haven’t moved to our street.” Oof
Remember that Louisiana elected a Grand Wizard of the KKK to its House of Representatives. The state has a long history of scumbag politicians.
Howard should have tried the fresh green beans from the valley west of Arkham at the local farmers’ market.
The time to save the country from being subjected to RFK, Jr.’s, insanity passed when 77.3 million Americans voted for the worst President in history for the *second* time. We are indisputably a nation of fools.
But, ya’ll, our freedom depends on our 2nd amendment rights.
The Nobel committee should award another Nobel Peace Prize to Obama just to make Trump’s head explode.
These tech entrepreneurs are anything but geniuses, and their belief that AI is going to give us “god-like” powers is more than a little optimistic.
The era of big government is here. “While Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were I’m from the government, and I’m here to help, Trump’s credo is ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to take over.’”— The Atlantic Daily
Wheelies are scary gang-member stuff. Next those murderous thugs will be doing donuts!
They seem to support Daddy-Daughter relationships
Pritzker for President!
If it comes to it, will the Supreme Court cast aside principle and side with Donald Trump in his “firing” of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook? The radical right-wing justices hold the majority on the court. They seem more committed to their Christian nationalist agenda than to the constitution.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia will recognize Palestine at the next UN meeting... a move in the right direction.
Oh, don't be silly. That's just from shaking hands. 🤔
CALIFORNIANS: Those "Gerrymandering is wrong" mailers you're being flooded with are from Right Path California, a Republican-affiliated political group. The organization is tied to Republican strategist Aaron McLear's firm, and its messaging is explicitly anti-Democratic. DON'T FALL FOR IT!
The ONLY solution Trump has offered is to move all the Palestinians out of Gaza and turn it into a beach resort. Meanwhile his lapdog Karoline Leavitt is calling for him to be awarded a “noble” peace prize.
I’m in my 70s, take an aspirin daily, and bruise easily. Even so, I don’t get bruises from shaking hands, which is the cover story Trump’s lapdog Karoline Leavitt puts out. That just doesn’t happen. They’re either from IV drips or from backhanding JD’s face.
They’d like to shut down PBS
Jon could shut up and let his wiser elder Marc talk a little more, but the conversation is worth listening to.
If Republicans hold onto Congress in the mid-terms, Trump will run for a third term with support from Congress and the Supreme Court.
I’d bet money that Maxwell gets a full pardon by Trump.
The elephantine Commander in Cheat
A gift for your strongman-loving MAGA friend
The incompetence of the Trump administration mirrors the stupidity of the man in charge.
Google isn't providing me with more current statistics, but... Mike Johnson's hometown, Shreveport, Louisiana, had a 2023 murder rate of approximately 41.07 homicides per 100,000 people. In 2023, the city of Los Angeles had a homicide rate of about 4.8 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
Google isn't providing me with more current statistics, but... Mike Johnson's hometown, Shreveport, Louisiana, had a 2023 murder rate of approximately 41.07 homicides per 100,000 people. In 2023, the city of Los Angeles had a homicide rate of about 4.8 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
“It’s going to take a long time to fix all the horrible overreaches of this president.” -Maureen Dowd Let’s get started with the 2026 mid-term elections.
Californians are being flooded with anti-gerrymandering ads. I hate gerrymandering and would like to see a national ban. But Democrats cannot allow themselves to be patsies when Texas (and likely other red states) are trying to rig the mid-terms for Trump's MAGA agenda. Fight fire with fire!
Hey, we all started cheering on Liz Cheney. Why not John Bolton? The enemy of my enemy… it makes for strange alliances.
Ah, now the Ark Encounter — THAT’s a good museum!
Dear God, preserve us! This Cracker Barrel logo so clearly promotes the gay lesbian bi-sexual transgender lifestyle that the nation is in danger of falling on its knees to Satan! They call us “crackers” for a reason!
“Are not two little sparrows sold for a copper coin? And yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.” So says the gospel of Matthew, which means God is in on all the killing.
The idiocy of this administration is killing me.
"Trump’s special assistant in charge of overhauling the Smithsonian, Lindsey Halligan, told Fox News on Wednesday that museums need to look to the future, not the past." -Daily Beast It's true! I hardly ever see artifacts from the future when I visit museums.
Texan politicians brag about the paucity of financial and environmental regulations in their state. This is what it gets Texas’ residents. Greg Abbott and Donald Trump are all-in on crypto currency, the mining of which consumes vast amounts of energy and produces crippling levels of noise.
Suppose the casino owner had a side deal going with the cheater…
If you share your chatbot conversations with Grok, you’re sharing them with the world. I guess you did Nazi that coming.
India makes the right call:
True fact.
Lindsey Graham says Medicaid is a money laundering scheme. It's time to get rid of the spineless shill for Trump.
Kash is still not comfortable pretending to be a human.
Trump is a firm believer in the principle attributed to Goebbels that, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” I think Trump believes his own lies and believes that he can shape reality with them.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the bravest of current world leaders. Trump’s pressuring him to hold an election is, of course, straight out of Putin’s playbook. Both men would like to see Zelenskyy step down.
Zelenskyy should be careful not to touch anything in the room.
At this morning’s press briefing, Karolyn’s Leavitt claimed the Peace President has ended seven world conflicts in seven months. The truth is a bit less grand.
As is always the case with Trump, his claims are self-aggrandizing exaggerations.
He’s exactly right about Trump’s game plan, but his optimism is unfounded.
Climate change is an inconvenient truth that contradicts Trump's mantra of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" for the oil industry. It must be swept aside in the post-truth administration.
Will the Big Baby scold heroic Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy again on this visit?
Of the legion of bad things Trump has done, appointing RFK, Jr., may be the worst with the most long-term damaging consequences.
The publishing industry today adjudicates who has standing to write about which characters. Rebecca Kuang talks about this in her novel Yellowface. Several years ago, Anthony Horowitz was “warned off” including a black character in his new book because it was “inappropriate” for a white writer.
There’s never a cop around when you need one. It’s the law.
Did anyone ever expect Trump to do anything other than bow to Putin’s demands. And this is the guy claims to be the great deal maker.
Maxwell could have give the Biden administration incriminating information about Trump but they didn’t consider it honorable deal with a convicted sex criminal. Look what that got us.
