Retired newspaper guy, history nerd. Three years Twitter-sober, now trying this.
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I remember it from the original airing when I was a little kid in the '60s. I liked it. And my wife is a fan of the movie, which came out well before our time.
He's appointing his invisible friend, Harvey, to the Fed.
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Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani wheeled into a bar
One article said it was a rental.
This is a thread worth reading
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Must be one of the six, no seven, or is it ten? wars he’s ended.
Hope I die before I get old … oops, too late.
Hoffman was a smartass and presumably intended it as a sarcastic stunt. (I once worked with a woman who had dated him when she was young. He was anything but naively woo-woo.)
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
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With his hand lifted as if to try to keep his balance.
Thank you for your service, and for standing up before the J6 Committee. All of you were and are inspiring.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
He looks healthy as a horse (being led to the glue factory)
Just started rereading this after 25-odd years. Having just finished the Great War-American Empire-Settling Accounts series for the first time, I wanted to remind myself how it all began. It holds up!
Healthy as a horse (on the way to the glue factory)
“The Death of Stalin” sequel
Really, this would have been a huge story 50 years ago. That movie was a cultural phenomenon. I never saw it but knew about it from heavy media coverage.
Yikes. Old enough to remember this movie and the whole redneck-revenge-on-barbaric-criminals genre of the 1970s.
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Same. Hoping this goes beyond “exploring the possibility.”
Ah, happier days.
Tonight on Bluesky it's like Schrödinger's POTUS.
Anyone interested in U.S. politics and modern political history I'd urge to watch tonight's Washington Week with @theatlantic.com . Jeffrey Goldberg interviews WaPo's Dan Balz, who's retiring after 50 years. A reminder of how nontoxic it used to be compared with today. Made me kind of wistfully sad.
I think this is the likeliest explanation. It’s like when Putin disappears for weeks at a time and comes back looking younger.
The Death of Stalin.
I've been having the same thought. It also seems odd that all the on-camera comment the last couple days has been by Stephen Miller, not trump. Even the strident Truth Social posts don't sound like the felon's voice.
I keep picturing an absurd Death of Stalin scenario. JD Vance, Stephen Miller, the Juniors (Bobby and Donny), Melania ... It writes itself.
It does seem odd that he still hasn’t personally fired the CDC director, and that Stephen Miller keeps making all the on-camera White House statements the last couple days.
Okayyyyyy!
Thanks to the courts, this is De-Liberation Day
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...
yes, not a minor point. CSA was not a real govt. never recognize by any country on earth. confederate army was not a real or legitimate army. simply an illegal organization committing treason against the us and killing us soldiers, marines and sailors
Damn right.
Wow
A point I never thought of, but yeah. Why validate a “rank” granted by a treasonous gang of conspirators killing U.S. soldiers?
Oh, I know. Just calling out the inappropriateness, fwiw.
Because RT famously hates authoritarianism.
Anyway, wtf does Miller have to do with health policy or personnel?
I'm not there yet, but I'd still rather not get my first (and potentially last) case of Covid just because Junior's brainworm told him vaccines are bad. Rooting for Team Pritzker.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
As a high-risk (over 65) Illinoisan almost due for a Covid booster, I’m hoping it goes beyond “exploring the possibility.”
(Joni Ernst, of course.)
“…trying to phrase it in ways that Trump and Witkoff could grasp.” Um. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Grok Told Me What You Did Last Summer
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
Political death becomes her.
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
Hence the Make-a-Wish Cabinet meeting for the special boy, I guess.
Yes. I think Everitt is a non-academic, but he's a good scholar and a good writer.
Yeah, I read Anthony Everitt's bio a couple years ago, when the Special Boy was getting resurgent. Uncomfortable.
Oh, daddy’s not going to like this.
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
JB > JD
He looks like my 68-year-old contemporary.
Groovy.
The Chintz Age
It rubs the lotion on its skin
recieves
Much respect. Thank you for your service.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
I mean, it was a good post, but still.
I had to click "like" on your original post to make it 89.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
MAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
MAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Have you read Dr. Daskalakis’s resignation letter? It’s absolutely scorching, far more so than even this.
I’m feeling-patronized-by-a-young-physician’s-assistant years old.
The whistleblower in this case is ** the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration**
But the “crack” crack is so, so hilarious. These guys’ wit is rubber-razor sharp.
Enough with the “diversion” line, already!
I watched it as a teen the first time PBS carried it in the ‘70s and loved it. Then, maybe seven or eight years ago, my wife and I found the DVDs at a local library and checked them out. It still held up. (Graves’ books are great, too.)
Credit where it’s due: this Times story is pretty blunt about what Trump’s doing and a lot better than a lot of its recent output www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
It’s not Uncle Kracker?
He just needs the 20-foot-long table.
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
But will they keep the pegboard game?
Pretty sure my brother has it, though he's never been diagnosed. He's brilliant, with a Ph.D. in astrophysics, a federal security clearance, and a 40-year, highly paid career with a computer-programming defense contractor whose work is so far over my head I've never understood what he does.
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It’s like a Make-a-Wish fantasy fulfillment meeting for a horny, insecure 15-year-old boy with advanced CHF.
Well, looks like that whole “American exceptionalism” thing is down the toilet.
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
Yeah, I noticed that when I watched it to the end.
I do remember the series of "Bicentennial Minute" historical PSA squibs, with trendy animation, that ran on network TV for a couple of years leading up to the anniversary. As a history-nerd teen, I loved those.
Old enough to remember that, yet I don't remember it. Pretty cool.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Great. As a 68-year-old who's been vaccinated every six months or so and has never had Covid, I'm looking forward to coughing and gasping to my premature death in the name of Junior.
They’re just jealous.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
