Is there any reason that we continue to give the Times the benefit of the doubt, when its conduct for years has clearly been that of a 15-year old just dying get another kid to blow something up so it can watch it disintegrate?

By the time we kick their asses and take back democracy, there won’t be nearly enough trustworthy LEOs and prison guards to imprison these filth, but you know how we fix worker scarcity? Immigrants. Put immigrants in charge of guarding & controlling these animals.

I vaxxed 2x a year since ’21, & got COVID 2 1/2 months after my April shot this year. A killer. I was sick for over 3 weeks & carried long Covid to the present. This monster mutates faster every year. They now believe it causes changes in DNA, making it easier to hide. I guess that’s a nuisance.

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

When the history of this era is written, it should begin with the acknowledgment that the combined behemoths of technology, entertainment, and news ensured Trump’s win deliberately and knowingly, out of a self-serving greed that ought to be charged as sedition.

Leaving aside the southern governors who used state police to undermine civil rights orders, during the Flint sit-down strikes of 1937 Michigan Gov. Frank Murphy called out the National Guard to defend strikers even after a federal court order called for them to be evicted from the factory.

This is one of the truest, most magnificent descriptions of our time and of what is required of us in it that I’ve ever read. I would only add that if our leaders can’t serve the needs of this battle, they must be replaced, horse in midstream, or else we drown atop a mount that can’t swim.

The latest atrocity…

One of academia’s greatest failings has been not asking those who spin up social, economic & political theories, “What’s in it for YOU?” Very few ever find their own circles wanting, or a need for their own cohorts to accept “hard truths”. Likewise Hayek’s bastards. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

There is no human endeavor the wealthy won’t try to twist to their own filthy advantage. Knowing that from jump would save a lot of artists the pain $ humiliation of waking up one day to find they’re hanging from some plutocrat’s hand, mouthing the words coming out of someone else’s mouth.

Where are all the kidnap victims who‘ve disappeared? You think these soulless fucks don’t have actual torture chambers hidden in ordinary jails & prisons across the country? Given the horrific conditions in which we keep prisoners, there’s no need for a special secret gulag. Crimes against humanity.

For more tips, check out EFF’s guide to protecting yourself from location data brokers: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....

Definitely need to find some kind of tech that fucks this all up.

Charles has rooms and rooms full of gifts and honors given him by half the world and he hardly remembers what he has, let alone visits them to gape at them. Trump thinks he own us all. No one tells him differently and John Roberts assures him of it.

OTOH, if you wanted to fully consolidate your power over a military machine, you might think twice about gathering the entirety of its top brain trust under one roof where they can spend days talking to each other first.

Most journalists valorized in popular culture are not the White House or political courtiers that people distrust. People like reporters who hold the powerful to the fire, uncover corruption, or expose wrongdoing, reporters who blaze their own trail in wars instead of writing military-approved bits.

In descriptions of Trump’s fast-fading cognition, especially with recent comparisons, some writers take heart that he can’t carry on much longer. But the people who watched & listened to him, then voted once, twice, even 3 times, will. It’s the existence of those people that scares me more.

P.D. James writing Children of Men was like Agatha Christie suddenly coming up with V for Vendetta.

OTOH, if you wanted to fully consolidate your power over a military machine, you might think twice about gathering the entirety of its top brain trust under one roof where they can spend days talking to each other first.

Spooktober again! And what better way to kick it off than with one of the greatest, most artistic and adorable Halloween pranks ever filmed… m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPG...

“I want to defend an orientation that embraces, and stays with, the idea that we, the world’s living agents, are all here together, as parts of a single system.” Some wisdom from the octopus and its watchers: an incredible, baffling, wonderful intelligence. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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Netanyahu and Trump see only the lower right quadrant.

So, so ready for a cloudy, breezy fall day and a fat puffy sweater.

Feeling a lot like this guy lately.

DHS has a warning for all of us potential troublemaking civilians: Be afraid, or you too will be roughed up and you’ll have it coming. ICE Beats More US Citizens, Can't Seem To Shake 'Gestapo' Label Somehow www.wonkette.com/p/ice-beats-...

It’ll be interesting to see what the fundies & the Catholic Church do with this. Will they try to outlaw dermaplaning on the grounds that skin cells have personhood?

In the spirit of the approaching spooky season, please note that Tom Homan has a face like an apple that’s been peeled, carved, and set out to dry into a grotesque.

Putting this into my timeline because we have all been punished enough today. 🧵💕

This whole speech has become a variation on "come at the king, best not miss." If you order your generals to commit war crimes against U.S. citizens in American cities, you better hope they violate their constitutional oaths do it. If they don't, you are suddenly in a world of shit.

An old lesson: "There cannot be good laws where armies are not good, and where there are good armies, there must be good laws.” To corrupt the laws, one must also corrupt the armies.

When a country declares war on you, there are a number of responses you can choose from.

Yee-Hah! We gon’ get us some war crimes, generals!

There are about 7 black military folks in this picture, and unlike some of the white men, none of them are smiling or laughing.

The environment offers a wealth of slam-worthy targets. There’s no excuse for punching down or playing mean girl to a vulnerable person. That shit will not survive on my timeline.

Schwarzkopf would spit on your shoes. And Patton would piss on your head. Also, Schwartzkopf was fat during the Iraq War. You would have drummed him out of the Army for that.

We’re going to make sure we have the most psychotic, roided-up, racist, woman-hating troops EVER! We’ll be raping and pillaging our way across…AMERICA! MURDERBOTS, to the drones!

Getting rid of the overweight, women, elders, and black men, but welcoming the psychos with criminal records and right-wingers who collect Nazi paraphernalia.

He’s throwing women out of the military, isn’t he?

This appears to be related to how Bluesky is complying with a new law in the UK. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_We... For some reason (I read a lot of UK accounts??) I got caught in the net.

Anyone suddenly got a pop-up message in Bluesky asking you to verify that you’re an adult? I live in PA and don’t recall any law passed here that requires it. If you agree to verify, it sends you a link to these assholes with this. No thanks.

“…social dysfunction, elite incitement, & above all, easy access to unlimited guns…” and “…years of asymmetric Republican demonization of their political opponents…” You’ll never read a clearer explanation of why Americans keep blowing each others’ brains out.

I used to think he wanted to kill the 55% of us who hate his guts. Now I realize he’s gonna keep some of us around like Dr. Mengele kept a ward of prisoners: for experiments, for kicks, for the power trip that cruelty gives him.

Too bad the country never had the decency to really enforce that law for the reasons it was written. But hey! Since they ripped away our constitutional right to our own bodies we won’t need it, & now they can use it to take away other constitutional rights, too. That’s good old Yankee ingenuity!

Does Israel think this makes it safe? These children will carry this trauma into adulthood. If they don’t become violent, they’ll tell their stories to their own children, & memory will one day, some day, light the fuse that blows up the peace Israel thought its bloodletting cruelty had bought.

I dunno man, if he drags us much lower we’re gonna implode

In the spirit of the approaching spooky season, please note that Tom Homan has a face like an apple that’s been peeled, carved, and set out to dry into a grotesque.

Reminiscent of the reasons PGA golfers gave for defecting to LIV, except that none of them were stupid enough to mention slaves or Kashoggi. I mean, you can commit immoral acts all day long, but you have to keep the convo about the money.

Don’t worry, Hakeem’s working to find bipartisan common ground to find a spending agreement.