Also very very attractive (unless he was being sinister).
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Also very very attractive (unless he was being sinister).
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
And nobody cares for her (that’s ok)
Ever have that terrible, sinking feeling?
They’ve calculated the profit. That’s all.
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force." ~ George Orwell
Pink Sweet William and Pink Petunias #GardensHour #SixWeeksOfColour #Flowers #Gardening 🌱
I was reading a book (1930s) where the butler was called in the middle of the night to offer a lady visitor a snack. She asked for three tiny egg sandwiches and a glass of champagne.
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE
Sadly, Americans largely haven't traveled outside of the states enough to recognize just HOW fcking bad this is.
We are being ruled by the Seigneur, the rapist and abuser and the Predator-in-Chief.
Why, EVERY time I see Bessent, do I see Terry Gilliam in Monty Python as "A Man With A Stoat Through His Head"?
Trump: I FEEL GREAT NOTHING IS WRONG HERE LOOK A PHOTO OF ME GOLFING FROM A WEEK AGO Giuliani: I WAS HELPING SOMEONE DONT SPREAD CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT MY CAR WRECK Trump: EPSTEIN IS OVER HE DIED A LONG TIME AGO GET OVER IT Sure, guys.
A BOLD INITIATIVE?
5/13 But, it's also an odd smile for Trump. Large, overly toothy, and uniform. The rare times he smiles with teeth, its smaller and larger on one side. It's not this clenched teeth full smile. And his face doesn't push back that much when he does it.
KUSHNER
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
I've said this before, but only one party caring about governance makes it, in turn, a magnet for public anger about governance
The mystery solved orange makeup is no longer available due to insane tariffs some fool imposed now they can no longer conceal the Green Lizard Man scales
Time to make new medal. I propose something like the American Civic Achievement Medal
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
They already had the kids loaded onto the planes,hoping to leave without US citizens knowing . . .right on brand for this POS.
And from this moment, the Medal is as worthless as a Crackerjack toy.
I picture a gilded monument like the Albert Memorial, adapted to be a public urinal for Americans who wish to fondly commemorate the unforgettable mental picture of Trump, Russian prostitutes, and the bed used by Obama. Not a dry seat in the house.
The problem with declaring a national housing emergency is the things that would actually address said emergency…overriding exclusionary zoning restrictions, targeting transaction frictions, and importing lots of immigrant labor and cheap building materials…are all anathema to the party base.
Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen by jamming her plane while landing. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I dunno, I'm not buying these recent *proof-of-life* posts from the President on Truth Social. 🤔😳🤨 #Enlightenment #Metaphysics #Epistemology
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Or imagine Trump model 1946 even with low mileage, which isn’t true of a man who spent a greedy and lecherous lifetime indulging himself.
Imagine if Trump was a car, he’d be this model. A Cadillac (because he was born rich) concept car, 1946. Would anyone expect this car to still be running well, even if expensively maintained?
The ten year obsolescence rule for cars is the three score years and ten rule for people. Trump’s warranty has run out and he’s at 100,000 miles.
It’s simply impossible to believe. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but that second win strains credulity too far.
If a president lost re-election because they botched the response to a terrorist attack but somehow won a second term later and then put an actual terrorist in charge of Homeland Security. That's RFK Jr as head of HHS
C.S. Lewis said that a truly educated man can find a book to interest him on any railway bookstall. However, there are flaws in his logic. One is that cheap 2nd hand books tend to be esoteric: the actual example Lewis gave was this… Not likely to be found anywhere these days.
This is my go to Hawaiian Mac Salad onolicioushawaii.com/hawaiian-mac... Last time I made it I used 1/2 Kewpie mayo and 1/2 regular. 😋
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
An image of the outside of the building, via Getty Images.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
In the world. NO reason it couldn't have been handled better except for terrible decisions. I use Australia as the comparative example bc it has a similar individualistic social culture to the US. Look at the stats and find the US vs Aus. Stats show US did horribly www.statista.com/statistics/1...
Trump’s neglect of Covid was depraved heart murder, on the scale of a massacre, of the citizens whose welfare it is a president’s primary duty to protect. It is astonishing that he could dare to run for a second term, and even more so that he “won.”
The "fallout" was that if Trump and the US had handled the Covid response as well as Australia did, our death count would've been around 150,000 instead of 1 MILLION. Even if we did half as well as they did, hundreds of thousands of people could still be alive. It wasn't that the fallout wasn't bad
Absolutely! I am mid 70s, also somewhere in mid-spectrum healthwise. I know from personal experience that health at this age is the absence of a specific disease, and at the same time a general feeling of wear and tear.
Yes, he is in bad shape, no doubt about it. But there are plenty of healthy people in their mid and late 70s, who do multi-day hike or bike trips and are not crumbling.
Like an old car, an old man gets lots of mechanical trouble at once.
Pity moral rot has no physical symptoms.
Is the “president” dying? A man of 79 is in the last stages of the human lifespan. What are the signs of age but symptoms of approaching death? Whether or not he has an acute illness, there are chronic conditions present. I knew a doctor who described people in this state as “heaps of crumble.”
Ms. von der Leyen joined other European leaders at the WH last month to back up Zelensky as he met with Trump. Those efforts to press for a lasting security guarantee and an immediate cease-fire have failed to yield a clear path forward for peace in Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
And what happened to the MSM demand for presidential decorum? This seems a lot more casual attire than a tan suit.
It's true. Look at this absolute laundry list of serious side effects associated with birth control pills! Oh, wait, my mistake. This is the list of side effects for sildenafil, the ED drug in Viagra and Cialis. We better ban it!
The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5
You know all those slasher-horror movies where they go in the haunted house or down the basement? And you scream, "OMG, how TF could they be so dumb!?" Yeah, well – that's America right now, with RFK jr as the head of HHS, including the CDC, NIH, etc. No good endings. Insane AF.
Perfect. (It needs a bruise on the back of those hands.)
Art by Joseph Keppler Jr., 1908 Puck Magazine
😳…is this what voting will be like…😳
This is the last straw. The World needs to turn en masse on Putin now.
It's the same picture.
Schatz is our Senator. I think he is quite successful in gaining attention for Democratic views, and I imagine being one of Hawaii’s representatives is a handicap, because people don’t take the islands seriously.
For ALL business days.
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
#ResistanceRoots Seriously? A commission established by Congress in 2020 analyzed portraits of Robert E. Lee at West Point and unanimously opted to remove one of him in Confederate uniform with an enslaved person leading his horse. Hegseth has rehung the painting. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Someone please kill me right now.
It's an indictment of humanity that the most powerful person in the world is also one of the worst people in the world. Trump is an inventory of everything you don't want to be or be around isn't he? Stupid, cruel, selfish, dishonest, vindictive, petty - and he looks like he probably smells bad too.
That’s a wonderful work! Your Gran looks a lot like mine did.
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People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
And here's what it says now. Strong message that, even when GAO finds the government to have illegally impounded - as it has done many times in the Trump administration - agencies should ignore it and just continue impounding anyway.
What about the new Circular A-11? They just deleted the entire definition.
Here's the White House's definition of impoundment used in the July 2024 Circular A-11. Simple and straightforward. "Impoundment means any Executive Branch action or inaction that temporarily or permanently withholds, delays, or precludes the obligation or expenditure of budgetary resources."
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority 🧵
The gaping mouth can also be a sign of the breathing problems that go with congestive heart failure. Another sign is "tripod position." He never sat up straight, but his habitual slouch is getting worse. He also tripods at his desk and podiums. Below: Cleveland Clinic; Trump with Putin in Alaska.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
By 'not showing', does he mean sneakily hiding them among lots of scary words and numbers that he might need to read instead of serving them up on Fox News between KFC ads? It's so frustrating that this sort of performative stupidity plays so well.
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Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
9 Former CDC Directors who were all qualified for their posts are warning that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr is a danger to public health. I’d say he’s actively destroying public health and committing murder on a daily basis with his destructive monstrous agenda.
Side issue but can you imagine the meeting between a president Vance and Putin? He’s gonna have to bring back his 60 foot Covid table just to avoid punching Vance in the face
Day 224 REALITY CHECK: The election was highly compromised. There was a coup. The Supreme Court was the primary lever. Everything we have witnessed is TREASON. There’s no way out of this without MASS MOVEMENTS of the people. No one is coming to save us. We must rise up in peaceful revolution NOW.
Donald Trump pretends to care about Medicare fraud, but then turns around and pardons a guy who ran a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme.
That’s a shambles of a man with a ghastly grin.
No, I meant that to lose a pet on top of other things is too much to bear.
In passing, I wonder if that commodity known in hushed tones in England as “French letters” was a factor.
On this (and more) open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
Not only is no one coming to America to vacation, Trump has driven China, India, and Russia into each others arms. People in other democratic countries are recognizing America as a fascist authoritarian shithole, resembling 1930s Nazi Germany — and what's scary is, they're right.
Europe is 3 generations deep with leaders and military commanders that have no combat experience or understanding of war. Putin has invaded and Europe has been in denial ever since hoping it'll all go away.
Beautiful. And a perfect illustration of this powerful and inspiring idea from the brilliant Thomas Paine: "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."