This sign after security at the Milwaukee airport always makes me smile.
I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round.
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This sign after security at the Milwaukee airport always makes me smile.
the way the modern press works - political party starts saying something in unison - press reports that theyre all saying it - opposition party gets asked about it - you all start getting invited onto shows to talk about about it republicans understand this, democrats just dont
So the US military is now at war with a vaguely defined enemy (drug cartels) across a vast area (the Caribbean) with no specific goal (“winning” and “defeating them”) and accusing a regional government (Venezuela) of sponsoring that vague enemy without showing proof? Sounds pretty forever warish.
Gotta be honest, if I'm a Democratic leader in the House or Senate, and I see a headline like this, this late in the game, I'm resigning immediately. Like have some self-respect. Show you actually care about your country and just admit this job wasn't for you. This is pathetic.
Narcissist ≠ NPD But Trump meets every single diagnostic criteria for the full blown disorder. And it’s reconfirmed on a daily basis. His rigidity and inflexibility are clear signs that this is not just a personality trait, but a disorder.
I’d love to get a mutual follower to weigh in on this. @ellenbraaten.bsky.social ?
I 100% agree that the fronto-temporal stuff is pure conjecture. I’m talking about the core disorders that frankly have been in place since he was a teenager - antisocial, narcissistic, and paranoid personality disorders (with a side of sadism). Collectively termed “malignant narcissism” by Fromm.
Yes it is still an APA rule. No it is not relevant w/ this politician because the majority of mental health professionals today believe that the evidence on Trump is so overwhelming as to make the Goldwater rule irrelevant. It’s the APA that’s lagging behind its members.
Just because some psychiatrists in the 60s got ahead of themselves doesn’t mean mental health professionals today have no business diagnosing a man whose thoughts and behavior are on 24/7 display and have been for 10+ years. How are psych diagnoses made? By observing behavior and thinking patterns.
Yes it is. No it’s not.
That’s completely wrong re his toxic stew of mental disorders. Every time he’s on tv, he displays textbook signs of these illnesses. His physical maladies could point to several things so any “diagnosis” is merely an educated guess. But mental health pros have zero doubts about his disorders.
How can he still afford a security chief?
Good to see a bipartisan group of former CDC Directors raise alarms in the NY Times about RFK Jr. dismantling US public health. And I can’t help but feel frustrated that they didn’t do this last year when public health was on the ballot—nor did NYT frame it that way—when we had a chance to stop it.
100% agree.
Psychological literacy skills need to part of the general education curriculum along with research literacy. Forget AP physics and organic chem — abnormal psychology and research methods would’ve gone a long way in helping people understand how to interpret what’s going on
The truly weird thing about MAGA propagandists is how they toggle between “Under Trump America is the strongest it’s ever been!!” and “If this one thing changes America is ruined!!” www.axios.com/2025/08/31/t...
Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled
There is a point in life when you realize that the future belongs to younger people than yourself, and your job is to assist them.
Sadly looks like he has removed all his IG posts except one.
It’s him. His Instagram account is also great - smiling happy Michael.
I enjoy dark humor, but I gotta say it brought dark to new levels. It was quite jarring moving between humor and the brutality of the NKVD’s purges.
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
It's extremely unfair to speculate about Donald Trump's health just because he's elderly and can't form linear thoughts and has the diet of a first grader who won the lottery and his flesh has been changing color like autumn leaves.
The often overlooked contender for Burtoniest movie is “Ed Wood”.
The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.
I’ve always loved when small dogs encounter big dogs and apparently do not recognize any size difference between them.
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
"it isnt the job of house/senate leadership to..." i dont agree with this construction - it sounds like weak shit defense -- but even if it is honest, these jobs change. you dont operate in congress in 2025 like you would in 1925 or 1825. this is an attention economy, and you do politics that way
Fox News won't ask this, of course, but the next question for anyone else should be, "Ok, then I assume you support government-funded mental health programs with easy access for Americans all across the country to end this scourge of violence?"
my hot take is that if vance takes the big chair, the whole maga coalition collapses from infighting and attempted power grabs in about thirty minutes. our boy jaydee does not put the fear of god in anyone.
over over and over "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity"
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” - Ernest Hemingway
My sense is that we are at an incredibly unstable moment in history--almost no outcome should be written off as impossible. We're in the middle of a tech bubble and democracy failure. Things are looking flakey around the edges, to put it mildly. 3/x
Bondi, Patel, Hegseth et al are doing what Trump wants. They're his loyalists and his agents. Trump (who is proud of Operation Warp Speed) has no similar relationship to RFK Jr. Trump made a deal with him. He could dump him. There's a potential wedge there, between Trump and Kennedy. Exploit it.
The federal government is led by fascist white supremacists openly trying to destroy us and the opposition is not meeting the moment.
It’s very clear that the Democrats strategy is to keep their heads down and hope voters are mad enough to vote them into a majority. It’s moral cowardice.
WWJD?
My brothers and sisters in Christ, what the hell are we doing here by biting our tongues in the face of unpopular, despotic oppression? It must be confronted head on.
Exclusive: Washington Post, in tight collaboration with Trump Regime, amplifies fascist disinformation against US.
To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.
I completely gave up on him with the Elon bio.
Media & Political Elite told US that Trump was an isolationist dedicated to free speech, so today he announced he wants to change the Department of Defense to Department of War, invade Chicago & Baltimore & New York, and put anyone who burns a flag into prison.
Where the fuck are the Democrats as Trump destroys this country? You’re all useless. Fight or step aside.
I’m genuinely surprised that those prices in NYC aren’t much higher. We’re in Cleveland and at a reasonably nice restaurant you’d pay about the same.
Hakeem Jeffries continues his reign as the Casper Milquetoast of American politics.
I agree. We are the shithole nation.
Thought that was an @theonion.com headline.
This is the point in the story of America where I want to read ahead a few chapters to see where this is all going. That’s the problem with living through historical moments: we don’t know how it ends.
Good thread that captures so much of my frustration. There are so many to blame for what brought us to this point.
We understand. Right now, I wouldn’t want to come here either.
Yeah, pretty sure that would be their headline. Sigh.
i honestly find k-hive/blue maga and bernie bro types maddening as hell. you shouldnt stan politicians. the closest i ever get to stanning for a pol is obama and yet im still aware he has huge flaws and i have no problem w people openly discussing them.
The media would suck a lot less if Democrats provided a counter argument to what Republicans say instead of backing Republican narratives and framing of arguments. When Dems only engage using Rep framework there’s no story for the media except using that framework.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
The rule of law is under attack. We have to zealously defend anyone— even the most ideologically despised among us— from arbitrary government. John Bolton today. A liberal tomorrow. Unless the government comes with serious and unimpeachably credible evidence of wrongdoing, we should be outraged.
Bodega of Success is a great band name.
Why can’t he just, like, expire?
Words have meaning and I appreciate your dedication to using them accurately. But this ultimately boils down to an interpretation of evidence - is it sufficient to match the word’s definition? I think it is.
It started as a war w/ war crimes. But Netanyahu & the ultra right are now using it as pretext for the intentional eradication of an ethnic group. I would call that genocide.
Well, not actually the start (Oct 7 2023). He’s pretty open about the fact that his own opinion has shifted. His article also focuses more on the opinions expressed by Israeli society and leadership that paint a clear picture of their intention to solve their Palestinian problem once and for all.
This is the article that changed my mind. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
I generally agree with 90% of what you post, but I must diverge here. I resisted calling it a genocide for a long time, but at this point it clearly is. They want no Gazans to survive.
Crazy idea: Groups that have benefited from our freedoms…should defend them. Our media should defend freedom of the press. Our law firms should defend the rule of law. Our businesses should defend the free market. Our political leaders of both parties should defend free and fair elections. Our
This is a great piece. www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...
Well said, Jack. His full response to their comments is well worth reading.
My god - is he trying to outdo Trump in the tie length department? @dieworkwear.bsky.social
"The streets of DC are overrun with dangerous criminals and also 90-year-old hippies who don't realize they're in danger and, oh, the dangerous criminals are just 'vagrants' who haven't committed any crimes, but they're all over the place here, no, OK, no not in this Shake Shack, but trust me, bro."
Yep. He assumes everyone else is just as corrupt as he is.
Trump and other republicans think the point of black people is to clean up their shit and/or dance for them. Nothing else.
DC residents need to make it very clear to the National Guard troops that they are not wanted. I don’t think any of these soldiers joined the Guard with dreams of occupying an American city and terrorizing its angry and frightened residents. They need to be repeatedly reminded of how wrong this is.
JFC
Cities are awesome engines of economy & culture & community and it is insane that our Media & Political Elite so freely attack cities, especially as the vast majority of them choose to live in cities because they are awesome.
I don’t understand why Israel has decided to provoke the Catholic Church. They have become a pariah state.
I don’t understand why Israel has decided to provoke the Catholic Church. They have become a pariah state.
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
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I’d like to see Kamala Harris just start insisting she actually won in 2024 to see how quickly the press declares her insane.
1. We have normalized having a toddler in the White House who uses random " marks ("HOTTEST"?). How is any of the below normal? How are we okay with this? 2. We have a president who doesn't want us to cover, in our museums "how bad Slavery was". Was it not bad? Imagine if Reagan had said this? FFS
Correction - it was a different album I was thinking of with a lot of New England artists. Though I’m pretty sure this one has a couple. Nevertheless, this is a great album for long drives - every one of these songs was etched in my mind via FM radio in the 70s.
Btw, if you’ve never heard it, this is a fantastic covers album. Called Lite Rock here, but the same criteria apply. You probably even know some of these artists since many are based in New England. music.apple.com/us/album/dri...
Tonight Is Yacht Rock Night at Fenway Park. My friends Davina and Miranda, who will be at the game, are both certified Yacht Rock experts, so I asked them to weigh in. This is a list of songs that I felt like could go either way and that also would require a minimum amount of practice for tonight.
Eventually, it'll come out that AI psychosis played a bigger role in shaping the 2020s than many thought at the time, with some very influential people operating under the belief chatbots are sentient and they're special for seeing it, distorting their worldviews, politics, and business decisions.
Remember: In 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for similar guarantees. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, purported to give Ukraine security assurances from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
a “dyson sphere around the whole solar system” is the dumbest goddam thing ive ever heard holy shit
Budapest proved promises mean nothing. Ukraine traded nukes for ‘assurances’ and got invasion instead. Future deals must carry bite — troops, weapons, sanctions on autopilot or they’re just bedtime stories for fools.
We live in an attention economy. Look at who the fucking president of this country is. Wake up. The old way is dead.
It’s a modest proposal.
A nation that metabolizes as "normal" the fact that red-pilled, conspiracy-obsessed ideologues with zero qualifications and zero concern for empirical reality are running the country, is a nation that doesn't have much of a future ahead of it as either a democracy or a remotely prosperous place.
Trump is super unpopular, this absurdity is not a public mandate.
The narcissism, of course, contributes to his ignorance. He cannot deal with being corrected, so he simply says he knows everything he needs to know. Stable genius.
The only way it's possible to follow both Donald Trump and Jesus is if you've never read either of their books.
We should hope to win back control through politics, protest, resistance and free elections — not widespread armed conflict. However, Dems need to understand failure of the former makes the latter inevitable, as institutionalized state repression — which is now being threatened — is not tolerable.
I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.
We need the 2026 primaries to put the fear of God into the establishment.
One of the reasons AI sucks at writing - it’s all first drafts with no rewrites.