Can't have been "far" better. Maybe incrementally better. As a pre-Kaplan test taker I thought Mamdani's scores were pretty damn impressive.

Ok, enough with the alligators. They make people think this is some kind of cartoon. People are going to die of heat stroke or starvation or drown or die in a hurricane or a lot of other not at all funny things. Call it what it is. American Auschwitz. Pass it on.

I feel like getting the phrase “George W. Trump” trending on social media is all it would take to deter him from going to war with Iran

PSA on MN law. First-degree murder requires a grand jury indictment in MN. Folks who get prosecuted for first-degree murder are first charged with second-degree murder, which does not require a grand jury indictment. That’s just a placeholder charge until prosecutors can get to the grand jury.

If these shootings happened abroad news media would be calling it #Terrorism rather than political violence.

Max Klinger, German (1857-1920), Der pinkelden Tod (Peeing Death), 1880, oil on canvas, 95 x 45 cm, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

Trump in Saudi Arabia: "We've cut our healthcare by 50 to 90 percent." Journalists, do your jobs. Quote this to him. Follow up. Don't accept an "I don't know, ask Bessent".

"A Bluesky account you control (@yankeewitch.bsky.social) has engaged in activity that violates our community guidelines... •⁠ ⁠Threats of violence... •⁠ ⁠Incitement of self-harm...: •⁠ ⁠Wishes of harm: As a result of these violations, your post has been taken down. from "Blueskyweb.xyz" Bogus?

Reminder that NORAD is a joint Canada/US military command & that other than Alaska, almost all our early-warning system uses Canada-based radar installations. RCAF/CANR soldiers protect the US from Russian/Soviet nukes fired over the pole & have done so for ~70 years.

This is your Tuesday morning reminder that the federal minimum wage is still a measly $7.25 an hour. It puts a full-time worker below the poverty line. It’s worth less than at any time since 1949. It would be $23 today if it had kept pace with the growth in productivity. #PayThePeople

So..amid all this excitement did anyone see any expressions of respect by the White House for our dead servicemen in Lithuania or the victims of the storms in the middle of the country? Or is that sort of thing just woke nonsense these days?

At least the Declaration of Independence is timely again: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Sure the economy is tanking, sure mass firings of health and foreign assistance experts is putting us at risk, sure innocent folks are being sent to gulags in Central America, sure national security leaders are talking war plans on Gmail and Signal. But, don’t be shortsighted. Think of the upside.

“Russia, Russia, Russia!” Isn’t on the tariff list to absolutely no one’s surprise.

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Can I just point out to all dozen of my devoted followers that the trade-weighted tariff rate for all products entering the EU is 2.7 %? NOT "39%"? Hallucinatory levels of incompetence.

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

The highly respected, Nobel Prize winner, former Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, has had his U.S. visa cancelled. Apparently, because he called Trump, “a Roman emperor” on social media. Unbelievable.

Thank you, Senator Cory Booker! #Resist

Cory Booker. That’s the post. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

"Our father, Michael I. Sovern, was the first Jewish president of Columbia University, which he served for more than 60 years. We believe that if he were alive today, he would be disgusted by the government’s coercion of Columbia, purportedly in the name of our religion." wapo.st/3RsPilK

I’ll have a lot more to say on this, but eliminating USAID while a dozen officers were responding to the earthquake in Myanmar is so on brand for this nightmare of an administration.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Anyone seen corroboration of this? dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

Anyone else notice (if you still have a Facebook account) a wave of weird Christian evangelical posts in your feed? One out of every three posts now. It started happening shortly after Zuckboy's decision to stop moderating content - trying to Zuck up to the Christian dominionists?