What a distillation!

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

This is the cleanest distillation of this era.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

No one should have to face such threats. It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

Do republicans yelling at us about Bill Clinton realize most of us were children during his administration and legally prohibited from voting? lol This is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? If he did bad things throw him in jail. I do not have Bill Clinton flags in my boat. (I do not have a boat).

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The confluence of "real" and "good" is hard to find these days, so have this:

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.

i can do this all day

Despite 83,000 public cameras, crime in Mexico City remains high—and widespread surveillance raises myriad ethical issues. www.wired.com/story/mexico...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

No Kings Rally Trump Inauguration

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

We have a president that hates the main principles that the United States was founded upon. We have a president that hates the majority of the citizens of the U.S. We have a president that is waging war against me and against you!

Truth

Firing someone purely for their political affiliation is illegal and is a violation of free speech.

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t, is.

Oh, the hypocrisy!

CARTOON OF THE DAY

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

They're actually gold painted Home Depot items www.homedepot.com/pep/Ekena-Mi...

Look at this. White House has said that the US to take 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, $TMQ. It is up 215% in after hours. Did someone know? Looks like it. There was an unusual $TMQ call today, expiring next week. Usually, it gets no options volume. It was placed JUST BEFORE close. Unusual.

HERE: Just now, Trump admits it: “A lot of good can come from a shutdown. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be democrat things.”

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Republicans control Congress and the White House. THEY planted a ticking time bomb that could kick millions off their health care. We’re trying to defuse it, but they’re threatening a government shutdown instead—while demanding a blank check for Trump. That's what's happening.

We self-police, which is a blessing and a curse. In normal times, I would understand. But this year? It's annoying to see a Democrat punished by a Democrat for being outspoken in ANY way, obscene or not. missouriindependent.com/briefs/misso...

Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America? Why not acknowledge and confront it? Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files? Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer? These problems won't go away.

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WE ARE NOT THE SAME! Stephen Miller said that Kirk's last message to him was a call to dismantle radical left organizations fomenting violence across the US and he will make this happen in Kirk's name. Right extremists were responsible for 75% of all extremist murders in the US from 2013 till now. 🤨

It's the least -- the absolute LEAST -- our representatives can do. *ahem* In his honor, uh, of course.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

The problem with stopping escalatory violence is that it requires political factions to see the other side as not an enemy. You can't only find violence targeted at yourself as abhorrent. Which is difficult to square with months of cheerleading for deploying the military to Democratic-run cities.

She may be snarky. She may be irreverent. But sometimes, Mrs. Bowers always has a way with words that is both severe and true.