Lectured about Huey Long today and had a section about how as governor he used the national guard to crack down on cities and brought the press in line by abusing the powers of his office and almost stopped to explain, no, I didn't just write this with Trump in mind, I swear.

Remarkable.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

Old folks like me may remember the days when network affiliates in the more backward Southern states (such as Mississippi and Alabama) routinely pre-empted episodes of TV shows featuring black and white people interacting in ways racists didn't like.

Ofcom officials wanted anonymity an article about the rollout of the Online Safety Act. Tell me someone sees the humor in government officials demanding everyone sacrifice their privacy to access porn/social media, while asking a journalist not to even share their name.

Seattle area folks, your Sinclair affiliate is KOMO. If you don't want to watch their local news coverage, you can find recent lists of their advertisers pretty easy on this here site, reddit, et al. The local businesses are probably where I'd start were I call or letter inclined.

True fact: Seattle's KOMO-4 was founded by a flour mill (Fisher), and is now owned by a fascist propaganda mill (Sinclair) that is an avowed enemy of free speech. All of their advertisers should be boycotted and their so-called "journalists" shunned.

I know it's confusing, so I'll explain: when they write "Grok" they really mean MechaHitler.

Dred Scott was an appalling decision but it also helped touch off a war that overturned it and ended slavery within a decade

I'd say it's clear now that Roberts is the worst CJ in American history. Taney is the only competition but Roberts has done more damage

One of future historians' nicknames for the 2020s will be "The Snake Oil Decade" or something similar. The entire establishment, from "Smart/AI" devices, to subscriptions for things you "buy", to runaway government graft, to constantly-changing online fine print, to copaganda, and more: Omnifraud.

there it is. was wondering when the grift would be revealed.

Gross, yes visually accurate Trash in front of trash

Omg. People are taking videos from outside the arena where they had the Kirk service. Look at how they left the place. Just disgusting.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

I would rather do the gom jabbar test than endure this.

I've liked Brel since I saw "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" when I was in high school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAqE...

We know that; we don't need YOU to tell us. We need YOU and the rest of your cowardly ilk to actually DO something, not just make speeches.

The only "landmark" here is LLM-pushers admitting this. It has been known from the beginning by every single person with a basic knowledge of how digital computers work. I don't even have a computer science degree and *I* have been telling you for years. Apple announced this same finding in June.

Don't focus on the mad emperor's deranged violence so much that you overlook his increasing dementia.

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Three Years Ago Today: "When you become a snitch, [cops] keep your drug problem going and then they arrest you for it." – Harold Murry maggiemcneill.com/2022/09/21/i...

Two Years Ago Today: "Since the beginning of civilization, 'authorities' have lusted for the magical ability to divine which of the peons might be disobeying their diktats." maggiemcneill.com/2023/09/21/t...

One Year Ago Today: cops, supervillains, Tom Bombadil, Tito Jackson, and much more: maggiemcneill.com/2024/09/21/l...

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I don't mind a good love song now and again, but popular music has always been INFESTED with them. That's why most of the songs I like are about characters, death, memory, trains, money, philosophy, hardship, cities, tyranny, mental illness, fantasy creatures...

Or Florin and Guilder.

We're a few weeks away from him demanding a Nobel Prize for ending the war between Freedonia and Sylvania.

To my readers in the northern hemisphere: Welcome to autumn! To my readers in the southern hemisphere: Welcome to spring! maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/22/m...

How is that even supposed to be pronounced, "Kadollar-huh"? Holy heavy metal umlaut, Batman!

Looks like Trump isn't the only well-known psychopath who has a fetish for pretending to be an inflatable sex doll.

It's hard to imagine for GOOD people, because we don't crave power. When any "cred" is merely valued for the accumulation of power, there is no *qualitative* difference between one kind and another, only a *quantitative* difference.

Hard to imagine someone with free speech cred wanting to trade it in for MAGA cred.

Trump’s delusional if he thinks this ends with Bubba from Oklahoma landing a tech job. Tech firms will just move operations overseas to reach top-tier talent. 📌 After Trump slapped a $100K fee on new visas, several passengers bailed minutes before takeoff, afraid they couldn’t get back into the US.

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

Your reminder to delete that period tracking app "Senior executives at leading menstrual-cycle tracking apps said they are “in disbelief” at new UK police guidance that suggests officers could check women’s phones for the apps after an unexpected pregnancy loss" observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This is how sex workers should be treated by society. Not scandalised, not stigmatised, not rejected or subjected to religious fundamentalists as is the case here in Ireland.

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

All things in the cosmos, from germs to galaxies, are mortal and transitory. What kind of fool imagines empires are an exception?

Regular readers know how long I've been saying this same thing. I used to avoid saying "I told you so"; not fucking any more. I fucking told y'all so.

Anybody who's ever seen cops' shooting accuracy will understand how dangerous it is to be anywhere NEAR cops shooting guns.

just formalizing a big part of Our Current Crisis, the utter collapse of Congress as an institution

Yes, we do. But what we've GOT is creatures like you.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

This is correct. He wasn’t subtle about it, and his supporters were very clear.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Also: if you view history with a critical eye, there are many likely candidates for historical figures who were "on the spectrum". Someone recently mentioned Thomas Jefferson, but there are plenty of others stretching back into antiquity. And that's just the FAMOUS ones.