Of the 38.3-million Americans receiving SNAP benefits, only 500,000 qualify for ACA. (If the Google isn't lying to me.) Maybe it turns out the Dems were uncomfortable asking the poorest, most fragile among us to suffer so more affluent folk could afford health insurance.

At last this administration is doing something for the environment. Cutting air travel.

He can't really come for NYC, can he? Too much of his actual wealth is tied up in real estate there. Picture a fleet of code enforcers, tax collectors, fire inspectors...plaguing every property he owns, every property his extended family owns, every property his visible supporters own.

New awareness campaign

The tyrant wants to blow things up so they’ve given him Venezuela. But who gets the oil when it’s done?

Dreamed that I was sleeping.

He isn't going to follow the rules because nobody can or will make him. Not Congress, who wouldn't vote to impeach even tho they saw the crime. Not the courts, who have already made clear their allegiance. Maybe us. Maybe.

Alfred Jarry's absurdist play, "Ubu Roi," gave name to the spectacular Cleveland punk band Pere Ubu. Which means "King shit," and pardon my french. Could we have a revival of that play, like, everywhere, all at once?

If we took the entire ICE budget, melted it down, and spent it on homes, on mental health counseling, on jobs training...how much better could the government make city life? Just a thought from a country cousin...

University of Kentucky has revoked support for numerous identity-based student organizations and denied students access to gender-inclusive housing for the upcoming semester. kykernel.com/118662/news/...

Koch pere self-published a sci-fi novel in the '60s in which millionaires got three votes instead of one. They believe in democracy. Honest. They just, uh, define it differently.

No pictures, no kings. 300 of us in eastern Kentucky.

Are these the two oldest QBs ever to start against each other in the NFL?

Really, he just wants to treat American Democrats the way he's now treating Venezuelans in small boats.

This guide says you don’t just argue; you dismantle the cult. From turning its own tactics like slogans and repetition against It and offering dignified exits for followers, it's the best out there. Check it out: https://americanmanifesto.news/anti-maga-messaging-guide-v1

What they did to Joanne’s Fabrics? That’s the plan for our country: sell it for parts.

Recently drove a lot of divided highways up the gut of Ohio, across Eastern KY, down to southeastern West VA. Saw one Trump flag. One. A whole lot of American flags, which can mean anything. I don't think this means Trump support is ebbing. I think it's a rebranding.

Dear gods, now we’re hoping the generals will save us? The opposition party won’t do squat. The courts have been bought. It’s down to us. Probably should be, too.

In conservative spaces does "subscribed to left wing ideology" translate to...dude was queer? Because they think being queer is a choice, right, an ideological choice with which we left wingers are ruining their children. We are in the hopeless place where words don't mean the same to each side.

Let's look down the road 2, 4, 10 years, longer even. If they win, these white supremacist Christian nationalist oligarchs, what are the things we should be doing now to prepare. Not giving up. But the news is grim and the Dems remain feckless and ain't nobody coming to save us.

Ah. So now they go after progressive donors, with the full power of the bureaucracy at their disposal. Dems better be able to raise from small dollar folks, and best have candidates who have that kind of message. What are the chances?

NPR is now reporting that the assassin’s roommate/partner is trans. This is going to get a lot worse than people losing jobs.

So does this all make Kirk Trotsky to Fuentes' Lenin?

CNN is reporting that the Fascist Kleptocrat will hold a press conference in six minutes announcing capture of the assassin. I am terrified by all the possibilities.

I hope someone is keeping track of the number of people who have lost jobs for saying the wrong thing in public about the fallen hatemonger. From the headlines: an MSNBC commentator, an MTSU demi-dean, a comic book creator, a NFL employee, and a schoolteacher. And a local librarian, probably.

He wasn’t “doing politics.” He was building a fascist cult.

Ever hear of Utah Valley Uni? Me either. But he was there, building his network. And we on the left have nobody doing that work, not going to the little places, not regularly. Vile man, yes, spewing evil, yes. We should try so hard to spread good.

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

I was just 13 when George Wallace was shot. The news landed while playing paper football at my best friend's house. "Finally," I crowed. "We got one of theirs." His mother, who had escaped Germany and held a Ph.D. in poli sci, came quickly into the room. "That's not how we do things," she said.

Do we think the Ice raid on a Hyundai battery plant is an accident, a quirk, a single contractor not following the rules? Or a message. Consider Ice as a protection racket and it makes rather more sense.

Musk fancies himself worth $1-trillion in compensation. Has a ring to it, eh? Perhaps it's time we treated such avaricious captains of industry and colonists as men with a sad pathology, not as historical figures to revere. How much does one need?

Staring at the corpse of my party, wondering if it can be reanimated and thrust back into service. And if it matters.

Not much hope on the barricades today, about a hundred of us observing Labor Day and the guy at the end of the block with his AR-15. That's half the turnout we've had. As a tactic, this may be wearing thin. Problem is, the next steps are...awful to contemplate.

Insert snake in the grass snark as needed, but he’s not harming anyone.

The Democrats’ fatal mistake was telling the oligarchs we wanted them to pay their fair share.

What, then, shall we do next? The MAGA faithful have made it abundantly clear that the only results of a free & fair election they will respect are results which return them to and extend their grip on power. Seven months in, the illusion of democracy is paper thin. /1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqfI... I don't know what to do but share this.

When this is all over we're going to need a new flag.

Probably been noted elsewhere, but it has to mean something that a few weeks ago the price of Impossible Burger (TM) was $1/pound less than ground beef. Which I suppose is one way to move folks toward a vegetarian economy... ...nah, we're not that lucky.

Someone needs to invent a genre of music called Foam Core.

This isn't original, but if we are descending into competitive gerrymandering the game's pretty much over, isn't it? Which begs the question: What comes next? This is only month seven.

So now what happens when a million people go to DC seeking redress of grievances?

ICE destroying a PA restaurant does three things: (1) It reminds us of Prohibition, the end of one gilded age, the rise of organized ("roganized," I wanted to type) crime, and the failures of morality legislation. (2) It reminds us of Regan's War on Drugs, which was actually an attack on /1

Standing before the American flag at the opening of 1970's "Patton," George C. Scott declaims: "…no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Now substitute the words "got rich" into those sentences. /1

Maybe let's not pretend CBS matters anymore. It's a platform. Colbert will find another one. The platform that will matter in the next election that matters either hasn't been launched or is sparsely attended just now. Remember AOL? MySpace? All the others? /1

I know terrestrial radio is so 20th century, and that the NPR stations in big cities can fundraise out of this idiocy. But broke NPR frequencies in rural America will be sold by the underfunded universities and such which own them. The only buyer is right wing Christian radio. The only buyer.