Not that I give a shit, but Is this in lieu of what he owes BrownSweat Rudy for legal services?
Not that I give a shit, but Is this in lieu of what he owes BrownSweat Rudy for legal services?
A masterwork from the prolific @jesseduquette.bsky.social. On top of the delicious subject itself, there's a delightfully fascinating satire at play in the role and gender reversal of both characters. #DonaldTrump
Arundhati Roy on authoritarians... "They know who is not invested in the things that everyone else is invested in — fame and money and awards. There are a lot of people like that who they know will not bow down. "We are just people who look at things and say it how it is." #authoritarianism
“[Kash Patel] says the shooting in Minneapolis is ‘domestic terrorism.’ “[He] should have foreseen this. “The FBI and Kash Patel failed to stop domestic terrorism because they’re incompetent. There must be consequences.” –Jonathan V. Last, Editor, The Bulwark #MinnesotaShooting #KashPatel #FBI
Pam Bondi: “Our secret weapon here in DC is US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.” Leah Litman: “We’re gonna Fight Crime with Box Wine!!!” (Litman is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and a co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast.) #DCCrime #PamBondi #JeaninePirro
As I wrote last fall... "MEGALOPOLIS is epic auteur-filmmaking at its very best, the kind of film that could only be made when a master storyteller locks the suits off the set and out of the editing room. [...] "It is Francis Ford Coppola in all his flawed brilliance."
Dr. Yael Harrari receiving diploma at Tel Aviv University’s School of Medicine graduation. Shirt says: first do no harm, and harm is crossed out and it says GENOCIDE
Why is the LA Times not covering this story??? This incident happened on August 4th in North Hollywood!!! Where the fuck are they???
Transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service will now have the same choice as more junior service members: quit or be forced out, with corresponding lump-sum payments as they walk out the door. All of our service members deserve better than this. #TransgenderRights
A "coding error"...
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
#KelleyMack #cancer #RFK
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Now they're contriving to make "truthed out" a collocated verb? These people are so childishly annoying.
@timmiller.bsky.social! I was quite surprised you let Ritchie Torrez get away with his ridiculous "answer" to your question on why the Biden Administration didn't release the Epstein "files." What's up with that?
"Fighting for an economy where small businesses can thrive, the Democrats built a lasting coalition by shifting economic power to ordinary Americans, checking the power of big business and expanding the middle class. But the party has ceded issues important to small businesses to Republicans."
#Gaza #EthnicCleansing #Genocide
You earned yourself some grace.
He got off easy.
When the line between satire and reality has blurred well beyond the ridiculous... #Gaza #Genocide #antisemitism
This is commonly known as "projection."
Marjorie Taylor-Greene: “Threatening an elected official, their family, or their staff is not free speech. It’s a crime, and it must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. My family and I are incredibly grateful.” Also Marjorie Taylor-Greene: #MarjorieTaylorGreene
President Carrot Top, in apoplexy over his supporters confronting him about the #EpsteinFiles, is sounding increasingly like Detective Alonzo Harris at the end of Training Day... #Trump
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These are not serious people.
Indiana plans to ramp up "enforcement" of the its ban - including a registry of abortion reports, fines for hospitals that don't turn over patient data, and "legal compliance monitoring" with the AG. That's A LOT of state resources for guess how many abortions? jessica.substack.com/p/heres-what...
Integrity and Trump: two words that should never exist in the same sentence.
Comey and Brennan are "radicals"??? On what wacky, off-the-beaten-track planet does this silly little traitor reside?
It's not a death camp...yet.
"I rode a tank, held a general's rank, when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank." #TexasFloods
Love this for you.
#TheWestBank
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Oops. I'm just thankful you knew it was a typo. 😀
You've got this! 🤗 Do something productive with your hands or, if it's an oral thing, pop a hard candy or gun in your mouth.
As of now, the Administration can send deportees to countries other than the nation from which they came without notice or opportunity to challenge their removal. The majority of the Court offered no reason for the decision; all three liberal justices wrote in dissent of the decision.
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"It's gonna be a bright, bright sun-shiny day!"
If we're talking coffee, the water is also especially important for washing away the acids that destroy the enamel of your teeth. I follow every cup o' joe with a glass of water.
Send him a "strongly worded letter."
"What??? We're jus' trying to help!!!"
And don’t you dare ask about Israel’s blockade of food and humanitarian aid or you’re going to Alcatraz
Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide. In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care. It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
Irony, thy name is Trump.
Wait a minute...are we still talking about planes?
"That's one bad hat, Harry."
"Blah blah forget history blah blah doomed to repeat blah blah."
"Dr. Carla Hayden struck me then as energetic, engaged and utterly dedicated to the work of the library. We bonded over the idea that knowledge is power, that in a democracy, the more we know, the better we are." George Saunders, one of our finest authors, on the termination of Dr. Carla Hayden...
"The horror!"
Pope PBJ III
Oh this absolutely sucks. Carla Hayden was an amazing Librarian of Congress, and a *massive* improvement over her predecessor who was there forever and was terrible.
Jus' sayin'...
“Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time-to-time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he is not recognized?” –K’ung Fu-tzu, The Analects, 1:1
It's a very low bar.
The moon has ascended between us, Between two pines That bow to each other; Love with the moon has ascended, Has fed on our solitary stems; And we are now shadows That cling to each other, But kiss the air only. –Christopher Okigbo (1932 – 1967)
Odds are this administration's BLS will fudge the CPI numbers to make it appear that inflation has been tamed. Outside of The Fed -- at least for the moment -- we can't trust a single lick of data or analysis published by these people.
Fallen flowers should still be mourned the same as falling leaves; The songs of the orioles will soon be followed by the cicadas’ cries. Flourishing and decay finish off all things, no more than so– Only the idle foolishly attach their feeling to these things. –Ssu-k’ung T’u
I'm fairly certain Bill Kristol is aware of that and is crediting it to Cohn to demonstrate that The Danger Yam is not.
Cohn didn't "come up with that" saying; he lifted it from Milton's Paradise Lost.
The Ugly American(s).
Lydia Polgreen was speaking of the infamous film of shackled deportees. But it feels like a solid metaphor for the U.S. as a whole.
Just so we're clear... @senmullin.bsky.social never served. He had the opportunity to serve, but he declined. Like The Danger Yam. Like W. Like Dick Cheney. Like Newt. Like Hannity and Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. Just Another Fuckin' Chicken Hawk. STFD and STFU.
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Jimmy Breslin: "What color were the four kids who got shot?" Newscaster: "Black." Jimmy Breslin: "What color was the gunman?" Newscaster: "White." Jimmy Breslin: "Thank YOU!" Newscaster: "So, what are you saying? That this was a racial murder?" Jimmy Breslin: "No, it was about geraniums."
At least he now knows that we are standing behind him and that people like Senator Van Hollen are working hard to get him home!
Jus' sayin'...
This is WAY overdue. It is long past time for the party to hand the reins to the up and.coming young men and women who have to live in the world that we seem so eager to fuck up. And I say that as a senior. These young people are NOT dumb. They are, in fact, extremely bright. They ARE the future.
Well, I guess that confirms that we no longer live in a free country. Grab the pitchforks. Time for some chippity-choppity.
In this usage, it's a marketing term; like "jazz," it is meaningless in relation to the music it purports to describe, ultimately doing a disservice to both the music and the listener. The "subgenres" ("choral," "baroque," "impressionism," etc.) within that broader term are far more useful.
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Today, I watched two world “leaders” sniggering at us as if they were clever schoolchildren putting something over on the adults in defiance not only of our laws, but of justice and common decency. The only thing bullies understand is equal or greater opposing force. #KilmarArmandoAbregoGarcia
Hey, "Womankind"!!! What are you going to do with all this newfound "freedom"?
Given the administration controls federal law enforcement, whom do you expect will do that?
Martial law.
Ocasio-Cortez's greatest purpose is in the legislature. She is a future Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader.
Broken-hearted over Whitmer -- she could've won in 2024. Newsom never stood a chance in a general election in 2024 and now he'd never survive a primary.
In Houston 20 children attacked 3 Afghan Muslim girls wearing hijab, ripping their hijabs off, pulling their hair, and beating them unresponsive: www.youtube.com/shorts/FVDVs... National Corp media is ignoring this story. I will continue to report on it. Subscribe at www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Bullshit artist working in his preferred medium
"This history reveals how American leaders, regardless of political party, have consistently instrumentalized human rights concerns to target perceived adversaries, while tossing aside such concerns when they apply to U.S. partners."
Nothing showing in my newsfeeds. Do you have a legitimate source for this story?
“Boulez changed how we think about music itself: how it is created, performed and heard, as well as where these things happen, from subterranean laboratories to IRCAM to the modular auditorium, a dream of his that has become the standard for new concert halls today.” “'His vision is all over.'”
It's invisible intelligence.
History will remember those who stood up...and those who bent the knee.
The World's Most Moral Army...
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real? Meek and obedient you follow the leader Down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel What a surprise! The look of terminal shock in your eyes. Now things are really what they seem. No, this is no bad dream. –from “Sheep” by Roger Waters
"The narrative of decline allowed politicians throughout Rome’s history to claim that Rome simultaneously was the greatest civilization on Earth and was in the sort of grave political crisis that required extraordinary and often unconstitutional political intervention." Sound familiar?
going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
"The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result."
“All the men [...] talked shoutily about the wonders being worked by the Japanese in the Pacific. [...] There was a quieter interlude, during which it was calmly agreed that the sclerotic empires and dithering democracies of the West were no match for the racial autocracies of the Axis.”
"It is evil, and anyone that is involved with it is evil." Trump and his cronies sent Andrys, a gay Venezuelan man, to an El Salvador prison camp to be beaten with no due process. @timmiller.bsky.social responds with a message of action and fury.
This is the first "African" president of the International Olympic Committee. Explain it to me as if I were a five year old. #IOC
“[Trump] is rejecting the obligation we have, as citizens, to carry on the effort to ‘form a more perfect union’ and ensure that ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’” –Jamelle Bouie, political commentator
One of your very best and informative episodes, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Thanx to you and @davidshor.bsky.social, I have a much better understanding of what actually happened on 11/5/2024.
Watch how his face, mouth, and eyes move. This appears to be an AI animation.
Am I the only one who thinks this looks like an AI animation?