If you can't trace the genealogy of these two images, dunno what to tell you about how the world works.

Please stop pretending unfavorability means anything if we don’t have free and fair elections. Trump has been calling for election “observer” intimidation for years. Midterm polling places will be policed by armed men in masks. You know it and I know it. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06...

Tom Friedman’s Uber driver has a great solution to this Iran thing.

Explaining the madman theory of nuclear deterrence to your enemies is so 4D chess.

Did Kristi Noem swap urine samples with Elon Musk or what? OMG Gurl, I’m calling 911 right now. Your delicate, beautiful, tiny skin suit can’t handle this much heroin.

When they don’t give the kids table any ketchup.

Do you realize how fascist you must be to produce an eye-roll from the head of a literal fascist party?

“Freedom, democracy, laws, reputation, official position were no longer of any use to anybody, as even the office of tribune, which was devised for the restraint of wrong-doers and the protection of the plebeians… now was guilty of such outrages and suffered such indignities.” Appian, The Civil Wars

Guess who's 100% definitely not crazy today again.

TACO schmuck unveils his new motto.

LaMonica McIver and Alex Padilla were only the beginning. Watch ICE rough up the NYC Comptroller Brad Lander inside a NY courthouse (!) with excessive force and complete indifference to witnesses and cameras. Once Romans tasted political violence, the republic never lost its appetite for it.

I remember tweets like this from King Herod just before he was devoured alive by worms.

“If you wish to satisfy yourself as to the badness or goodness of particular persons, you would not, if you wish to get a genuine test, examine their conduct at a time of uneventful repose, but in the hour of brilliant success or conspicuous reverse.” Polybius

War in the Middle East may well have called the president away from the G7 in Canada abruptly, but he also strikes me as the kind of person terrified of using someone else’s toilet.

Mike Lee offers master class in based fleeing.

Fixed the entire parade. God, I hope you get it. I hope you get it.

As a face-saving concession in the deal, the EU will reabsorb the UK to minimize the number of acronyms the president doesn't know.

Weird way to gag Scott Jennings, but ok.

Mr. Furley heard you might have Iranian house plants.

Can you imagine being so devoid of shame that you feel okay now?

This would never have happened if Trump were president.

I hope the EMT who defibrillated me gets herpes.

Mission creep formally transforms into the removal of Newsom and Bass from office.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I'm not Jade Helm. You're Jade Helm.

"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

That one time Greg Abbott wanted to wage war against the United States Army for routine training on American soil… gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...

Every chapter in your Choose Your Own Adventure book leads to him orchestrating fascism. Optics or no optics. Trap or no trap. Protest as your conscience dictates.

U.S. Military Speaks Out Against Trump Deploying Marines to LA After Trump deployed Marines to Los Angeles, this military member joined an anti-ICE protest in Dallas, declaring, 'We won't be pawns in stripping away constitutional rights.'

Official White House comms out here protecting free speech from government interference.

The nation's second largest city is under martial law in contravention of law, norm, and evidentiary pretext. Once you accept the possibility of 2026 without fair midterms, it changes your to-do list.

This is how patronage systems work in totalitarian transition. Claw back all resources and then (in showy performances of beneficence) bestow them selectively to supplicants now in your debt. What once were public services become private favors.

Los Angeles puts out catastrophic fires every year. We don’t suddenly need your shambolic Gestapo’s help extinguishing a couple tire fires you started.

You don’t know if he should be arrested. But he should definitely be tortured? This guy teaches Sunday school.

But when am I gonna use this math in the real world?

People out here fighting for 2026 with everyone else fighting for their grandchildren...

Just remember Angelenos are out there FOR THEIR NEIGHBORS. That's what frightens the scepter and orb.

The sooner we recognize we don't all get to see how this story turns out, the sooner we'll know which small part to play in Act I.

Hey future West Point military history profs who know Gettysburg and Waterloo like their own chode: maybe include a class of how to read the fucking room BEFORE the realm explodes so I won't HAVE to make anguished moral choices inflamed by eternal self-hatred. Sun-Tzu ain't rocket science, sirs.

Here's the thing. We're past the point of no return. We tried to warn you in 2001 We tried to warn you in 2003. We tried to warn you 2008. We tried to warn you in 2010. We tried to warn you where this could lead. Here it is. Don't say we didn't warn you. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a former resident of both LA and DC, I tell you pundits inside the beltway are too desensitized by the 24/7 carpetbag phoned-in protest culture of DC tourism to know a consequential assembly (of pissed, righteous folks who love their neighbor enough to risk all) on its own turf when they see it.

I don’t know what to tell you. Rebellions aren’t won with optics. They’re won when millions of people act according to their conscience instead of their comfort. This is not a focus test. This is real. Wake up.

Anyone picking a fight with Los Angeles has clearly never been to a Chavez Ravine tailgate when the Giants are in town.

It’s basically an episode of Naked and Afraid, but with clothes, vehicles, food, air-conditioning, and Candy Crush.

Hearing lots of reports about insurrectionists with foreign flags. I’m glad the president is on top of this.

Anyone who came of age with Les Misérables understands we’re doing this for Eponine and Gavroche.

Man, even their entrapment accusations are confessions.

Really? That’s the headline you’re going with?

Angelenos were just on fire. Angelenos can guess the size of an earthquake. We have an issue with social injustice. Like a really big issue. And if you know anything about the history of public expression in Los Angeles, you know exactly why they chose to pick a fight here. Cameras rolling!