Been seeing a lot of these takes & I gotta say we aren’t reckoning w/ the absolutely rancid William Walker vibes This ain’t just any old Manifest Destiny it’s the cream of the military filibustering crud - & that doesn’t end well for ANYONE involved en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong

Can’t wait for the next Democratic president to start a blue ribbon commission on assessing the faults behind the problematic decision making during the previous admin which may or may not have been possibly unconstitutional!

*sighs*

*rips every hair from my scalp*

Ah, see, no - it’s ok, Reuters *asked Grok* if it was sorry about rendering child porn & the fancy plagiarism machine said “yes” so it’s fine No need to hold anyone accountable for the suicide-inducing speak & spell that tells folks it’s fine to kill

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

You let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends, they brought a hunger for blood and flesh and bone and skin

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

Sure would be swell if members of Congress in any way did their fucking duty

Well, dad’s still hospitalized & the world’s still on fire, but I can’t do anything to change either Guess I’ve no excuse not to return to a “more normal” social media activity level; somewhat distracting at the very least

Jesus fuck man I’m navigating my father dying & the president is going fully rogue-state I ain’t equipped for this bullshit

Despite everything else being apparently ok (skin cancer aside,) dad just won’t break the delirium Thrashing erratically, non-responsive Can’t remove the trach tube even though he’s breathing, since he could aspirate in delirium Everyone’s clueless. We’ve got a week for any possible improvement

I know it’s expected & a good sign when someone on a ventilator comes off sedation & starts thrashing a bit but good god it’s still traumatic as hell to see, especially when the delirium keeps them from responding or knowing where they are

Quick pop in from my social media break to say yes, I’m ok - TY to everyone reaching out Did the run north in record time white knuckling at a speed I legally can’t admit to, but arrived safe & I’m about to check in on dad at the hospital

Just learned my dad went on a ventilator - going to rush up tomorrow to see him … Fucking hell this year

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers. The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet

She looks good in the fog, too

Imagine thinking that these innovations were made all on their own, without in almost all cases, hundreds of people, many of them immigrants, helping in the background.

But how much in Pepsi Points?

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Increasingly unable to focus at work knowing my dinner plans

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

God help me, I just re-installed Discord on my phone

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Thinking of that Peter de Witt drawing & continuing to rage incandescently

To say nothing of encouraging even more folks to boycott

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

At this point he’s got to spent more time in a hospital gown than a suit in office

White Star Line: "Am I a joke to you?"

Honestly, given Hegseth et al… Even money says this is entirely correct

me logging on every morning

But, crucially, NOT on fire (yet)

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

My GOD the metaphor within this..

Remembering the horror stories my father told of having to chase bulldozers in upstate NY to try & record what little survived after local pols fast-tracked developments in the 70s & 80s - this is ABSOLUTELY gonna get abused

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

way to capture the zeitgeist, kohl’s

At this point, I hope we learn that Trump really has been blackmailing A.G. Sulzberger the XXVI all this time, because if that failgreatgrandson has been kissing his ass like this on his own free will it’s going to be depressing as hell.

Oh man, the closing shot here is perfect

Urbanism is really about being able to yell stuff at people from the comfort of your home instead of your car.

still my favorite christmas post

I cannot articulate it but the lowercase font is icing on the cake

There are times I feel like I should hunt down an open mic b/c lord I ain’t a professional comedian but I feel like education/reenactment/museum/Park Service content would KILL

Remember, the Secretary of Transportation is absolutely terrified of this subway system. Just mentioning the ACE line will reduce him to tears. And yet ...