It's driving me crazy how people are just living their lives as if everything is normal. I'm losing my mind. Like they're all gaslighting me.

Hola, gente!

Chart shows the success of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act to combat post-pandemic inflation and the subsequent failure of Trump. #Trumpflation

Gov. Pritzker: "I know the Republicans say Democrats aren't patriotic. We're more patriotic. We believe in this country more than they do. They're tearing down the laws. They're operating in an unconstitutional fashion. They elected somebody who is ruining our democracy."

I think Americans have to get ready for the national psychological blow from Trump that the Japanese felt after losing WW2 and the Spanish felt after losing the Spanish-American War: loss of empire, loss of relevance, loss of strength, shame.

It also ignores the threats that he *did* make good on. DOGE, mass deportations, protesters shot in the streets, the military occupations of American cities, the list goes on. You have every right to be outraged because it’s all outrageous. And anyone who tells you otherwise is complicit.

this was always the most insidious discursive tactic of anti-anti trumpers, because it placed the burden of responsibility on people upset about a man making insane threats rather than the man himself

Just because Donald Trump has surrendered his fight to destroy the world doesn't mean he's not a threat to US government and society internally. That's still the thing to worry about.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

One of the most blatant forms of Christian hypocrisy in our time is Christians holding all ordinary people accountable to the most rigid moral standards while simultaneously holding themselves and the president accountable to no standards at all.

Who's your favorite person who was crucified? Mine's Jesus

It is karma that the UAE built themselves up the last 25 years under the shield of an American defense position that checked Iran without going to war with it, rolled the dice one too many times on influencing US policy, rolled snake eyes, and got the dumbest US gov't ever. -OS

NASA is one of a few American institutions that still riles up my patriotism. Godspeed, Artemis.

Furthermore, I don't think people who bet on sports actually care about sports.

You don't need flavored coffee. It already has a flavor. Coffee.

Every time I see something about Trump wanting to put his name on things, I’m reminded of a story about FDR when he was asked if he wanted his name on WPA and CCC projects, and he said no because that’s what dictators do.

Fuck, I miss Montana!

We need to bring back the ideal of masculinity focused on quiet self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Alpha shit is for losers. Be a man and humbly forgo the shit you want for years so you can provide for your family, you indulgent little wuss

Been reading comments online of Europeans' hate for Americans and I get it, but it pisses me off that they lump all of us into the same body, like we're all MAGA. Like, they're gonna act all superior and smug and intelligent but fail to realize that a lot of us are smart, decent, and compassionate?

I'm gonna write The Great American Novel. Watch out, Steinbeck!

I take off my blindfold. Before me is a gory tableau of death and destruction, bodies strewn across the landscape. The piñata is unscathed.

A lot of MAGAs would say that I "abandoned my country." Nah, man. I love my country, but you turned her against me.

We're talking about AI psychosis but honestly it feels like an amped up version of what I've seen in people for two decades. Search engines were breaking people's minds before AI. We should have seen it coming. People treated Google like it was a truth machine rather than a card catalog.

The new Puscifer album is pretty good!

many don’t know that the phrase “have a good one” is referring to a hot dog

Is it unreasonable for me to be upset when non-Americans say that they “hate Americans,” like we’re some kind of monolith? Look, I get that you’re pissed at MAGA—*I’m* pissed at MAGA; I had to leave my country because of them! But please don’t paint us all with the same brush.

It's a constant babe in the woods routine.

The reason I don’t feel as hopeful about the Democratic landslide coming in November is because it’ll be too short-lived to make a meaningful impact.

Another funny story, several years back we had a Masters student write a thesis about NASA's relationship with Texas and Aggie, and they described the working philosophy as "you shoot the Aggie into space, but you have the Longhorn do the math. And don't switch those roles." -OS

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

welp

What's your favorite Tool song? Mine is "Right in Two."

not gonna rise from the bog today; staying put and letting the swamp magic do with me what it will

I have a sticker from this Montana political organization and its motto is “Not Left, Not Right, But Forward” and I understand the nonpartisan intent but the reality is: if you want society to move forward, you have to go Left.

Howdy, guys!

I'm probably the only Dem who's not that impressed by James Talarico or Jasmine Crockett.

"Betting tends to surge during periods of social breakdown. Russia saw a “gambling orgy” from 1905 until the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. ... A similar wave of gambling roiled the French Revolution."

I'm following how Europe is making trade agreements with China and South America, moving away from American money changers like Visa and Mastercard, and developing its own military capabilities, and that's it: Trump and MAGA have ended the American Century. They killed the World Order.

Yeah, I can enjoy nostalgia while keeping in mind that "the good old days" had their problems too.

"The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie." ~ #MarkTwain

Playfully spraying my neighbour with the hose as he's loaded into the coroners van

I hereby submit that every convicted felon should run for president. Why not? There's no law against it.

I love this scene! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6c7...

The worst thing about scientists moving the hands of the doomsday clock forward is having to adjust the time on the doomsday clock in your car.

I understand all the analyses that say that "Trump is weak" or "MAGA is fracturing" or "Change is in the air," but we've been hearing that for 10 years now and they've always been wrong.

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence were have another King George who we elected. -OS

I miss being able to like "Country" stuff without feeling like I was supporting a bunch of backward/regressive shit.

What's happened to the strength of the dollar over the last year, you ask?

"Frivolous! Is it frivolous when I see the flag of my country prostituted to an act of wrong? Is it frivolous when I see the mighty power of this Republic degraded to an act of oppression?" -Charles Sumner