Happy holidays from Furcules, one of Santa's standby reindeer.

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.

Had some additional thoughts on the sedition thing that I felt compelled to jot down. www.pbump.net/o/so-were-ju...

Reminding the military of their duty to not obey illegal orders is not sedition. This is sedition:

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

it's almost as if you shouldn't and can't negotiate with completely amoral vacuous shitgoblins

Meme-boosted false nostalgia for past prosperity that didn’t exist are picturing the average 1950s experience as ads and sitcoms, the 1980s as Home Alone, don’t get that the Simpsons was parodying this, etc. Sort of like how people thinking of the Middle Ages imagine themselves a knight or noble.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Irony died yesterday

Fired for comments he made 8 years ago on social media when he was in private practice & had a perfect 1st Amendment right to do so. Welcome to the Trump-loyalty corps at the Justice Department. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

“Do what we say or we’ll do bad things we’re already doing” is the emptiest of threats, deserving nothing but a scoff. No one should treat Trump officials threatening to illegally remove federal employees as “or else” since they’ve been removing federal employees in violation of the law for months.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

One wonders how long it took for it to occur to Team Trump that a stopped escalator is still a perfectly functional stairway. Had no one pointed that out to them, they might have starved standing there for weeks.

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols: “I would say that it's a dangerous thing to show the world that the American president is clearly suffering from some kind of disordered emotional issue, but by this point, there's not a country on the planet that didn't already know it.”

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

If you think this is good for anyone, you're a fucking idiot and you should have more people in your life who love you enough to tell you you're a fucking idiot. This is bad for everyone. All of us. Only more suffering will come from this.

The 2028 election posting is ridiculous. Let Democrats have a primary, with people advocating for or against whatever they care about. Binary choice and popular front logic don’t really apply until the general election. No one has to preemptively compromise, and berating them to is absurd.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

Today is the ninth day that the homepage of Reginfo.gov — the federal government website for informing the public about what survey data and other information agencies collect — has displayed a notice saying it's "currently undergoing revisions" with no further explanation

Correction: Trump is hostile to independence. He wants to bend everyone to his will. He is willing to threaten anyone with criminal prosecution to get his way. We are in dangerous territory.

Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

Credible security guarantees for Ukraine (immediate NATO membership, nuclear umbrella and/or foreign troops) should be presented to Russia as a fait accompli. Asking Ru to agree is useless because anything Ru signs onto now isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

I’m sorry Ukraine. I’m sorry he’s in the White House. I’m sorry he’s not with you. I’m sorry he loves Putin. I’m sorry Ukraine. Even though that traitor in the White House opposes you, most Americans support you. We really do.🇺🇦

Quite the contrast. Feb 28, 2025. Aug 15, 2025. @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

Heather Cox Richardson continues her excellent campaign of educating the public, by directly linking Russia's interference in the US election in 2016 with the surrender of territory to Russia on the table in the US/Russia negotiations this week. They are connected.

This is right, but true of everything Trump. The belief in election integrity was set on fire to help Trump wish away his loss. Public health was set on fire to help Trump try to wish away covid. At a core level, it’s his brand, and his enablers always say it’s okay to humor him.

Breaking: Trump fires his tape measure because it told him his penis is one inch long.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

RIP ZuZu, who nearly made it 21 years. She was one helluva good cat. Folks who were never blessed with a great pet cannot appreciate how painful their loss can be.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com