Today's Important Read: And check what Andreessen's role in government is right now after you read it.
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Today's Important Read: And check what Andreessen's role in government is right now after you read it.
GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 4) It's too much. We know that. A head full of headlines in a tangle is a mental health hairball, so I tried a hella hacks. This works for me. Clip the headlines, put em all on one page and arrange until some kind of order emerges. I do it daily. Here's today's (3 pages).
Futurism.com just resurfaced this provacative 2013 photo of Elon Musk dressed as the Marquis de Sade for a costume party! 🙀 🙀 😹 Between 2013 and now, Musk deleted it from his socials, but it's back! #elonmusk #valentine #marquisdesade
This seems personal but it's important. I went through it and didn't even notice. Not one negative experience, symptom or issue. Zero. The myth that "it will be awful" MUST be smashed. It makes women who do experience problems avoid seeking solutions from healthcare pros. And scares the rest.
I hope this doesn't mean Democrats are better at covering tracks, constructing alibis, and devising clever subterfuge strategies?
Why did it take so long for the collective mind to admit the obvious and call this spade a spade -- which some of us have been doing since we apprehended the gravity of the situation back in February. You all poo-pooed us, called us hysterical alarmists. I wish you'd seen the iceberg earlier.
They had to. That crowd is a like a multi-directional tightly woven diagram of mutual covering-ups, kompromat, and closet skeleton guarding agreements. A giant Mexican standoff.
P.S. Impeach Vought. Please.
Anybody surprised? This was literally carved in stone in the current regime's sacred tablet of commandments, delivered unto them by the Heritage Foundation (et al).
The only agenda he's pushing is grift, graft, and self-dealing, to further profit himself and his complicit oligarchic cronies. Actually.
Boosting! For the benefit of all VA care teams and the veterans they so loyally serve -- if we let them, instead of obstructing, defundung, and firing them.
He is the biggest crackpot fool. Now basing the most grave geopolitical moves on the emotional calculus of his sense of narcissisistic injury. Which can change with a single tweet, TV sound bite, side-eye, compliment, or bit of ego candy.
Prabowo will do exactly what he wants, regardless of any "agreements" with the US President and this administration. That is an absolute certainty.
Which means they most definitely should, and must.
Better question: How many have other kompromat being used against them in their circle of mutual covering-ups? It's like a giant multi-faceted Mexican standoff.
It's almost laughable. The lying liars and their multi-impeached, multi-convicted leader campaigned on transparency??? Pull the other one. 🙄
They eat "kompromat" for breakfast. It's a mutual cover-up club. All dirt, all extortion, all closet skeletons and complicity, all the time, everywhere. That's politics, unfortunately.
Yes! You can measure the success or failure of a society by the amount of suffering among its poorest members, not by the wealth and profligacy of its richest. Obviousy! The latter is easy to boost! By imposing the former. 😢
Why are the most grave geopolitical choices being driven by the emotions of an infant-equivalent, based on the calculus of narcissistic injury? And how did we allow this to become normal. It isn't!
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It's such a bloody mess. All of it. This regime is pure chaos and destruction. An abomination. In every way, everywhere, all the time. Have no doubt about that. You see it yourself every day. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Kidnappers brutally take a man to the ground. 🤬 Roscoe / Balboa, LA
Seattle!!! They're creative, and know how to roll in Rain City.
Liberian President Joseph Boakai launched a direct "attack" on Trump's insults!
😳 -- OMG -- What is next? Will we soon see this happening to EVERYONE who goes to a government office to handle routine admin for their Medicaid or Social Security?!?!?!?! Or what!?!?
Secy of Agriculture thinks Medicaid recipients should be sent out to the fields to replace all the laborers this regime has deported/terrorized or have their benefits cut off. Lovely. Just f'ing lovely.
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Oh boy, just wait and see what kind of reception he gets among the Muslim Malay oligarchs! This is going to be interesting.
It's hard to believe this is real and not AI generated based on a prompt asking the LLM to generate "the most audaciously candid post Nick Adams would ever write about himself, while drunk".
I hope the jury awards x10 that amount, punitively -- which would approximate justice, I think.
I hope the jury awards x10 that amount, punitively. That might approximate justice, I think.
Pretty much the same thing. Different fit, but the same thing's hiding inside, and it is absolutely chilling. To the bone.
Basically the same deal (buy maybe more sinister) than they were putting together last time, before it was interrupted by the news cycle spike of that moment's crisis-du-jour. These guys are like an insidious cancer.
omg. i was just saying the same thing today, commenting on posts coming out of cal just now. 😳
omg. never ever mess with skaters. big mistake for any agency or department of govt thuggery. omg. 😬 i'm envisioning epic scenes like something outta sandow birk's "great war of the californias" paintings but real. 🛹💥🛹 😳😳😳 #sandowbirk
Of your posts today this hits hardest. It evokes the work of my friend Sandow Birk, the artist who created an epic History Painting cycle, The Great War of the Californias (also The American Qur'an). But the pitched battles of his California paintings weren't against our own government! 😳 😳 😳
"Cruelty Porn". Write that down.
Some of my European and Asian friends are asking, "Can they really DO that?? WTF?!!" They're shocked. And this comes from people who have either vague childhood memories, or familial memory (now "lore"), of things like this from some long-gone distant past. Now utterly abhorrent. An impossibility.
Good point. 😬
It's giving . . . ❗🛞❗ BIG WHEEL®™ ‼︎ ❗🛞❗ By Marx ‼︎ Sheesh. 🙄
It's worse now. The silence is deafening. My take is that DOGE 2.0 represents the culmination of a surreptitious hostile takeover of the inner workings of our federal government by the NRx / Dark Enlightenment / TechBroligarchy. Holding hands with the Heritage Foundation. It's absolutely chilling. 😳
It's worse now. The silence is deafening. My take is that DOGE 2.0 represents the culmination of a surreptitious hostile takeover of the inner workings of our federal government by the NRx / Dark Enlightenment / TechBroligarchy. Holding hands with the Heritage Foundation. It's absolutely chilling. 😳
Nobody is surprised. We all know he's an ignorant, racist oaf. So it's hardly news.
Cruelty and hatred are their priorities. Obviously. Humanity and wellbeing are not even on the list.
I think it's already happening, Eduardo. 😳
I'm surprised those chainlink barriers aren't electric fences with deadly high voltage current coursing through them. Stephen Miller would love that.
“Somehow, 83 billionaires have 535 people in Congress fighting for their next $60M wedding.” That's what GOP does. See chart. And hang onto your hat, chat! 🤠 😱 We're in for a rough ride. 😬
You really need to read the whole story of what horrors Ábrego García has endured, detailed in the court filing. It's very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs.
You really must read the whole story of what horrors Ábrego García has endured! It's all detailed in the court filing, which is very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs.
You really need to read the whole story of what horrors Ábrego García has endured, detailed in the court filing. It's very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs.
You really need to read the whole story of what horrors Ábrego García has endured, detailed in the court filing. It's very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs.
I read the whole story in his court filing. You should too. It's very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs. The @nytimes.com also has a link up to a pdf of the court filing with their report on the case.
I read the whole story in his court filing. You should too. It's very readable and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to full case info and docs. The @nytimes.com also has a link up to a pdf of the court filing with their report on the case.
I read the whole court filing. You should, too. It's very readable, and an impressive piece of legal drafting and reasoning. Here's a link to all of the case information and documents. The @nytimes.com also has a link up to a pdf of the whole court filing with their reports on the case.
Read the whole court filing. I did. You should, too. Here's the link for all the case information. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777...
United States District Court for the District of Maryland Greenbelt Division Case 25 cv 00951 PX Document 211-3 Filed 07/02/25
I read the whole court filing. It's very readable, and impressive work from a legal drafting point of view. The @nytimes.com has a link up if you're interested to read it. You should. Here's their pdf link: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
He's been using the "Obama Pause" with great effect, and constantly. Pacing himself to keep the words-per-minute count down and make it last an eternity. I hope hell freezes over before anyone votes to pass this disaster of a bill. Go, Jeffries!
It was Vittoria Ceretti's transparent whisper of a gown worn Night 2, and she laughed at the loss, found it ironically funny, and shared disaster snaps. She was actually the sharpest tack in that whole execrable junk drawer of a "wedding". Not sure Leo deserves her. She'll probably walk. Just watch.
Schadenfreude? It's an underrated pleasure, and much maligned. In these dark times it's often the only joy left us, so I'm gonna wallow in it. Like I did when the news broke about the rainstorm that came to wreck one of the first pre-wedding parties. I hope the dress is OK.
Underrated comment du jour. Trophy-winning truthteller's insight right there. 🌹🏆🌹
I hope the purloined frock Mrs. Bezos can't find is that stunning Schiaparelli couture (SS25) one, with the very structured hourglass bodice. It's a work of art and (imho) she doesn't deserve it. The other 26 dresses she wore were dreadful. Streetwalker stuff. More Shein than chic. Just ick.
Let me fill in a detail for you, @theguardian.com. The unidentified shredded dress in your report was a sheer confection worn by the divine Vittoria Ceretti to one of the pre-wedding parties, a vintage D&G gown -- the same design (maybe the very same dress) once worn by Leo's ex, Gisele Bündchen!
That's depressing. At first I thought it said 113%!! And I giggled. But no. And I scowled. Then I thought about it. It's B.S., frankly. Like the (alleged) 2,000 sales in one day by one dealership in Canada.
Horrifying. At the same time, I can't tell you how much I love this today. The dark news cycle has me down, and this is so absurd, I laughed. Who did the creative on this, I wonder? They must be a very, very weird individual.
GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 5) Me, too. Welp . . . take two visuals and call me in the morning.
"Delivered." 🤔 Delivered where?
Bold move, Economist! Kudos. 🙏🏻☸️🙏🏻
Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side – in pictures
I have so much respect for Robi's work. He understood long ago, that being well-known to the public is most of all, an opportunity, and a duty, to inspire others, and help shape the way people think and the way we live, for the greater good. 🙏☮️🙏
I just read the whole court filing carefully, with highlighting and notes. What he has been subjected to is appalling. The New York Times has a link to the .pdf, in case you're interested to read it. You should. Meanwhile my #duckduckgo results page served up THIS heinous disinformation! - - - >
Meanwhile, the Trump regime is doing what, exactly? 🤔
But MAGA doesn't work like that. You're full MAGA or not MAGA. In or out. You can't be half-MAGA, any more than you can be half-pregnant! He's toast. They're all toast.
Today was the darkest day in the news for a very long time. But there's good news, too. H.H. the Dalai Lama is turning 90, which is cause for celebration. More so, as he clarified that the Dharma rules reincarnations, not the government of the People's Republic of China. True, that! 🙏☮️🙏
US News from Indonesia's Point of View: Nothing about the Big Bill, ICE, 4th of July or the lawless Trump regime in their major papers, but two huge stories about a goofy T-Rex race in Seattle. With videos, bold jokey headlines, big spashy pics and lashings of witty reportage. That's the news!
USA from an Indonesian Point of View: "Trump Furious!" So he thinks Japan's prejudiced against American rice and mad they won't buy it, though they have a rice shortage. Dunno how true that is, but I doubt the rice America exports could meet Japanese rice standards, even as livestock feed. Sadly.
But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸
This was today. Fitzpatrick is currently one of 4 voting against the rule. Pressure works. Don’t let up.
It is a great relief to me. This demonstrates he is not fundamentally compromised. Which evidently is rare now in US politics at every level, regardless of party affiliation. Dire straits for democracy, to be sure. Very dark. What's that saying about cracks that let the light in again?
ENOUGH with the brutal lies already! The Ábrego García torture story is breaking and I just saw THIS (!!!) on my DuckDuckGo results page. It is horrifying that people spread lies with utter impunity. We now live in an information hellscape. I would not click the link, so this is all you get.
🤔 Ceritanya masih "kosong". Hanya fitur yg paling "heboh" terungkap. Kita belum tahu kalo isu pokoknya memang "LGBT", atau masalah lain yg pada dasarnya tarik perhatian pihak polisi? 🤔 -- Agak kecewa dgn redaksi Tempo.
Don't count on that. I think they have foot pumps they screw into little nozzles under their armpits to stomp on and inflate, or deflate, at will. Size varies depending on the wardrobe, the scene, and the audience.
I woulda called it a Mad Cow Rant, since that's an affliction on my differential diagnosis short list for the diapered despot. Would explain many of the alarming signs and symptoms we've observed in this troubling case recently.
🫢 Oops. But it's an interesting case study perhaps, for a PhD paper looking at the reactions and behaviors of people who briefly thought they were rich, then didn't. I'm curious about that.
60% is fair! When I was just out of university starting my career in the City of London with a very "mid" junior exec salary I was taxed 52%, no ifs and or buts. Did not complain. (And that was under Thatcher!) The US is so tax-phobic. Hmm. Maybe because its govt is so sketchy since Citizens United?
Many highly respectable countries' halls of governance periodically erupt in dramatic kerfuffles, like throwing of chairs, tossing sandals, shouting matches, roundabout running chases, shoving and slapping, fisticuffs, even knock-down-drag-out brawls. America is perhaps too uptight? Repressed? Hmm 🤔
Seattle. Come in, Seattle. Do you read? Over.
Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034. This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
Nah, he prob thinks of himself more as a *sculptor* of the rule of law. Or its esthetic surgeon? Giving American justice a boob job and a "Mar al Lago face"? 😬 Yikes.
And what a disgustingly smug buncha mugs they are indeed. Big eeeuw. Makes my skin crawl just looking at em.
🤣🤣🤣 A very apropos retort -- touché!
There are good reasons why real enforcers have things like distinctive unforms, visible faces, badges, ID, and proper warrants -- that they actually present to people for inspection before doing things that are otherwise serious crimes. And way more impostors than this article suggests. Be afraid.
🤭 Not the hair wax! Such vanity! 🤭 But seriously, it's always surprised me how the feathers of bleached chickens are so easily ruffled! 🤣
Reasons to Be Cheerful Part I : This news made me cheerful yesterday. It's a legit art installation on the National Mall in the form of a gilded retro TV running a video loop of DJT doing his trademark "double-wank dance" (not my term for it, but fun!). The schadenfreude aspect gives me great glee.
Wes Anderson has done an utterly charming short film for Montblanc to mark the 100th anniversary of the Meisterstück. And he's designed a pen to go with it called "The Scribbler". The film is wonderful. And so is the Meisterstück, actually. In all its many iterations. I have two (in constant use).
Botox. Filler. Acid-burnt abraded resurfaced raw skin. Concealer. Foundation. Reflective nano-particle blur. Contour. Highlighter. Bronzer. Blush. Lipliner. Lipcolor. Lip glaze. Eyeshadow. Eyebone uplighter. Tattoo eyeliner. Eyebrows threaded-shaped-tattooed. Fake lashes. Mascara. Matte powder. Mist
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Note that she recently deflated her fish lips. After the tabloids started throwing her into their "MAGA face" photo mashups! 🤣 🤣 🤣
Oooo! 😁 Nothing gives greater glee than a jolt of righteous schadenfreude! I'm tickled! Just think of all those gajillion-dollar Jimmy Choo, Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik stiletto heels being utterly destroyed! And the ankle-breaking hazard of wet cobblestones! The hair! The handbags! The couture! 🤣
This crop of interns will be titans. With an arsenal of superpowers. They're being tried by fire. Going through hell and hot water. When they arrive in the halls of power to take charge, they'll be ready for anything. They're gonna show up in titanium armor, with flame throwers and receipts!