So you’ll have the same position on Prague that you did on the Sudetenland?
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So you’ll have the same position on Prague that you did on the Sudetenland?
Like the note he sent you after the 2016 election thanking you for voting for him?
Got an email on my Blackberry from January 2008 which said this was nothing to worry about.
It’s almost as if these raving anti-semites are twisting accusations of antisemitism in bad faith against institutions they wish to dominate.
And more unreadable crap from @nytopinion.nytimes.com : Right wing hack says the problem with a corrupt jackass and a granny-killing sex pest is their lack of “charisma.” Online, the headline has been tweaked to imply that Mamdani’s “charisma” is somehow creepy or illegitimate
Bonus stupidity points: How do huge cuts in federal grants for medical and scientific research unless the schools bow and scrape to Pres VD Amin constitute “fighting red tape?”
Front page of the @nytimes.com 9/2/1939: In Polish Blitzkrieg, Experts Warn of a Tilt to Conquest
This just in: Secretary Wormer puts Putin on double secret probation.
And now @theatlantic.com serves up "it's the schools' own fault -- they were asking for it." Was it the tight dresses that universities were wearing or was it that they were staying out late drinking? The "root of their troubles" is the regime's attack on diversity and thought itself.
From the @nytimes.com 9/1/1939: How the Russian-German Alliance is Pushing the Boundaries of Poland
Amazing what a poor powerless corrupt country like Guatemala is willing to "suggest" when faced with the threat of 100% tariffs. www.npr.org/2025/08/31/n...
"And that's why the entire apparatus of Republican hard-right reactionary plutocratic-funded bulls*** generators like mine will continue to support the Republican plan to borrow trillions to pay for tax cuts for the rich!"
It's more than Billy, St. David, Bombs Away Jeff, Six-Months Tom and most of the other neocons now reinventing themselves as our allies have said about their cruel lying advocacy of invading Iraq.
Another hardened criminal who won't threaten the American Way of Life anymore. Thanks to Kristi the Puppy Killer Noem.
Coming up in @theatlantic.com : Democrats must understand that rich white people have valid concerns about being forced to see the homeless as they drive by in their Porsche Cayennes. By Megan McCardle
News for the hard of hearing
That’s also what sealed McCain’s defeat in 2008: his refusal to pander to the racism and paranoia of the Republican base. You can be sure they will never make that mistake again.
Any response from Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
Sounds as if Kristi Noem threatened to shoot Guatemala’s puppy if it did not help the regime violate the rights of these frightened unaccompanied children.
This was an incredible feat of public interest lawyering.
This just in: Train wreck in car wreck
Coming up in @theatlantic.com : Democrats must understand that Americans have understandable concerns about little Guatemalan children staying safely in the US waiting for their immigration status to be decided.
It’s disturbing that the most benign explanation for President VD Amin’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is dementia.
In aid of her jurisdiction, can’t the judge order FAA ATC not to let the plane take off with any plaintiffs?
I’m so old I remember when judges weren’t tossed out of bed at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning to protect the rule of law from government tyranny.
"But you admit that the crime rate in Chicago is above zero, do you not?" - all Sunday morning gasbags.
How hard is this, people? Remember when Republicans said that Michael Dukakis and John Kerry were far-left extremists?
From the @nytimes.com 8/30/1939: Is Danzig explicitly a free city? It's complicated.
Today's blazing-hot contrarian take in @theatlantic.com : Democrats must realize that DOGE had a point about bloated government.
"bodies of dead Americans were stacked in refrigerator trucks while ...the orange Mussolini of Mar-a-Lago was bragging about his swing. That guy looked at Bobby “heroin-is-my-Adderall” Kennedy Jr.and said, “Perfect, give him the CDC.”" - @jojofromjerz.bsky.social
Something formerly available to the middle class and now so expensive you have be rich to afford it? Sounds like a print subscription to the @nytimes.com at $2,400 a year, amirite, King Arthur XVI? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
I feel terrible for all members of Arkansas Farmers for Harris-Walz
Whilst clutching her pearls…..
Thanks! I can see how "Made in Berlin" was not a selling point in 1916.
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If Iowans can send Jodi Ernst back to the pig farm, why can’t Mainers send Susan “Concerned” Collins back to Skowhegan?
Something tells me there’s a story behind “Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario.”
Except in Maine where the headline will be: Sen. Collins expresses concern about termination of pediatric brain cancer research funding. #mesen
Coming up Sunday on all op-ed pages: When will out-of-touch Democratic elites finally stop pushing fringe identity-politics culture-war issues, like research into brain cancer in children?
Not limited to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's announcement this week, print editions of newspapers sadly will soon be a thing of the past. Even at the N.Y. Times, barely 5 percent of its nearly 12 million subscribers still rely on the print edition.
But schmucks like me will now pay 15% more for less in the print edition, thanks to the kindness and largesse of King Arthur XVI.
"let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan,..." - A. Lincoln
![Here’s what he [0l' Bone Spurs] said to the grieving families [of victims of the Kabul Airport terror attack]: “I just wanna say, I’m, I’m really honored to be with you again and we’ll be with, with each other for a long time. And, uh, your loved ones are looking down and they’re very proud. This is the new and improved Oval Office. We had a, an Oval Office, which was still the Oval Office, so I don’t want to disrespect it, but now it’s, uh, it’s very special. You see what’s happened and everyones [sic] loves it. It’s all the real, the real deal. 24-carat gold. And people, uh, come from all over and, uh, I do believe they’re serious. They’re not rolling their eyes, you know, the roller of the eyes, but we don’t have any of them. And we brought the pictures up. They were in the vaults, so those are pictures of some of our great presidents, a lot of them. And they were in the vaults for over a hundred years in many cases, and they were just there. Beautiful pictures. Works of art. Lincoln, it’s Lincoln, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson. That’s Monroe of the Monroe document. [sic].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5c5iq2dpfzfiqgxgau5lf47d/bafkreifm44pzq56w4h5t7rcomno5kvtt4d5dve6qc7q66chjbk4ecss2li@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I suppose that bold progressive Gov. Healey would do the same thing in Massachusetts if only we had a medical and biotech infrastructure as strong as the one in Illinois. #magov
Thoughts and prayers
“Critics” also experts, scientists, people who believe in science, people who believe eugenics is evil, everyone except DT and Peter Thiel, apparently. Can’t wait to see the NYT take on future Nuremberg trials
“When Mr. Trump described Washington as full of “bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” some Black parents interpreted the message as racially coded.” Those wacky Black parents - what in the last 426 years of US history gave them that idea? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Innocent civilians suffering just because of their nationality? That must really suck! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/w...
Susan Collins is “concerned”. America can feel safe… 🤔
I was pretty close. The mass firings raised concerns about agency independence, the @nytimes.com said today.
Coming up next in @nytimes.com : does the destruction of America’s public health and monetary systems pose political risks to Republicans? Why Steve Bannon, Frank Luntz, and Curtis Yarvin aren’t worried.
No, @nytimes.com , the biggest risk isn’t to agency independence. The biggest risk is that millions will die and the US economy will collapse because professional management has been replaced by tyrants and lunatics. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Coming up in @theatlantic.com : When will Democrats come to grips with the public's desire to torment immigrants by siccing ill-trained goons on them?
Wait until St. Sam Alito hears about the latest assault on religious freedom!
“Yes sir every Navy sub will be sailing under the Potomac in your honor!”
And that’s why she will continue to enable Pres VD Amin’s authoritarian coup every time her vote is needed. #mesen
Tough but fair
Coming up in @nytimes.com : Personnel changes in public health agencies raise concerns, critics say.
“For many of our members, President Trump represents the values and energy that have reenergized the Republican Party in recent years, particularly here in Arkansas,” [GOP county chair] Sims said.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/27/n...
Coming up in @nytimes.com : Will the collapse of the United States into chaotic authoritarianism make it impossible for Mamdani to keep his ambitious promises?
You might complain that millions have been wasted on what was nothing more than performative sadism in a swamp, but to the Republican base that’s what government is supposed to provide to white people.
Neoliberalism worked out great for President Dukakis!
I'd just like to say that I have my price too but it sure as **** isn't $8K/month.
[Dean Wormer voice:] In other words, thanks to the stupidity and cruelty of the regime of Kristi the Puppy Killer, he is now, now fully eligible to apply for asylum
Nothing puts Democrats on the defensive like Republicans decrying crime in the Cinnabons. (h/t all media)
I suppose this illegally jailed DACA recipient should just be grateful that DHS didn't treat her as a puppy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That's swell but I still see no legal basis for his continued civil detention, if I am right in thinking there is no unexecuted removal order from an Immigration Court.
Get your tickets today for the Hellapalooza Festival!
Coming up in all media: Republicans' tough-on-crime policies pose risks and challenges for Democrats.
Number of elected Republicans publicly disagreeing from this illegal and demented assertion of tyranny: Holding like a rock at 0.0.
“Yes, I think it’s a great idea for the critical personal data of every person in the United States to be turned over to a 19-year-old nitwit named Big Balls” - majority of white voters. “We agree” - six bent GOP Supreme Court Justices www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Some of us realized this in 2016 and that's why we voted for Hillary. Unlike this savant.
And he too will have access to all Americans' health records on his cellphone. Also their mortgage applications.
Did someone get engaged?
Why don't out-of-touch Democratic elites try to reach out to very fine Americans who are willing to give up democracy for mass deportations?
Now I have to copy-edit @theguardian.com too!
While most Americans have celebrated the incredible achievements of the Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act, there have been a whole gang of hateful people who've spent decades trying to undo the work those laws did. Those hateful people & their children are now in power.
I’ll drink to that!
Finally the D word enters the chat. Cue 58,235 breathless media pieces about the declining cognitive status of Pres VD Amin, amirite?
Because one thing we can all agree on as Americans is that to protect our Republic, we need even more conflicts of interest between the Pentagon and its contractors.
Tough but considering the life-and-death stakes fair
Another junk push poll from Third Way hack Mark “Lumpy” Penn ‘75. Why does Harvard allow its name to be slapped on this crap?
Say, Amy “Hot Mess” Klobuchar, how did that all that extra-crispy bipartisanship you called for work out?
To the six bent Republican pols on the Supreme Court, the real threat to democracy isn't a corrupt demented Fascist Russian stooge, but District Court judges trying desperately to protect the rule of law. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
But how would liberals feel if a big state were run by Christian nationalists? (H/t St. David Brooks)
Number of elected Republicans condemning this unconstitutional suppression of freedom of the press: 0.0.
The lamps are going out all over America.
Coming up in @nytimes.com : Democrats push back against deployment of National Guard. But critics say they use divisive rhetoric to obscure the reality of big city crime.
I have news for Billy: his Republicans are preparing to not hand over the House if Democrats win it in 2026.
As Rupert Murdoch knows damn well, none of this crap has anything to do with being "tough on crime." If Pres VD Amin were tough on crime, he would release the Epstein files and let professional law enforcement agencies do their job rather than rousting and beating food deliverers.
If I were Macron, I'd p.n.g his ass.
Just a reminder that the nonexistent plague of "flag burning" has been a Republican boogeyman for over 50 years, used to demonize protesters, subvert democracy, and attack Constitutional rights Without any protest from the GOP hacks and shills now reinventing themselves as our allies.
"Also I enjoy frequent and spirited episodes of sexual intercourse with my faithful wife"
Dementia, ex. 453 & 454 ("Baltimore is a horrible deathbed")
He's setting the flag on fire every single day.
Dementia, ex. 452
"we should be shocked by the way the two other supposedly co-equal branches of government, Congress and the supreme court, have behaved. They have essentially rolled over in the face of Trump’s ruling by shakedown." - S. Greenhouse www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"And that's why I faithfully carried his cheeseburgers for years like the self-serving hypocrite I am!" You can invite this corrupt shameless insufferable Republican to your Jersey Shore beach party; I won't.
If only Democrats had not used words like "heteronormative!" (h/t Third Way galaxy brain Mark "Lumpy" Penn '75 et al.)
"His heart is cold He loves only gold..." (Apologies to S. Bassey or someone)
No Jeanine that’s when you’ve downed a whole box of merlot and fall on your ass on the way out the door.