That’s the perennial problem with creating an egregore of inchoate fury and scapegoating lies: it inevitably becomes a blind maw of all-consuming hunger. You create it to make yourself safe from *imagined* threats while making yourself mortally vulnerable to real ones - all for the sake of your ego.

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Just another reminder of how Bannon's "populism" is a sham and he's really out here to do the bidding of elites www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Before dawn, a tawny owl called through the darkness. Later, walking to my studio, birdsong rose around me — sweet cadences of thrush, bright notes of blackcap, and perhaps a redwing’s wistful echo. Even on the greyest days, there’s music. And the owl calls at the edge of night. #BirdSong

Instead of corruptly ordering his suplicant AG to reopen a closed case to target his political enemies she found "no evidence" for charges before, Trump could just release the Epstein files of they'rereally full of Democrats. We all know why he won't.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members? @propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?) All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

this is a major blow from trump

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What a terrible day to know how to read

They’re calling her Megyn. R Kelly now.

When I got to this paragraph of the Olivia Nuzzi profile in the NYT, I yelled loud enough that my dog came in from the other room to check on me www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

Which of those groups stormed their government building to lynch their vice president and killed 9 people in the process?

This is sobering but precise. From Ludlow to Haymarket to Flint, the 20th Century gave us the 40-hour week, discretionary income and ultimately the American middle class. We will accept the slide back into subsistence poverty or we will have to fight the 20th Century all over again.

If it sounds crazy that a pedophile made his way to the presidency, remember that a pedophile made his way to speaker of the house.

After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.

A bleak season: the last apple left on the tree.

Remember how Elon said that Trump was in the Epstein files and that’s why he won’t let them be released and he apparently knew all about that but then decided to be friends with Trump again a week later so he just deleted that tweet and doesn’t mention it and no one regards that as a bit of an issue

Hegseth is such a grotesque, failed simulacrum of a man No values, no principles, no ethos, no decency, no integrity, no courage, just a telegenic face wrapped in a cheap, tacky, star-bedazzled suit The men and women this bigoted misogynist is firing are all 100 times the soldier he will ever be

*Populism in the United States reaches for nothing higher. It only trades in the lowest form of venom. It directs the eyes of all Americans towards the dirt. Instead of the worthy cause of the Union, you are merely offered strangers to hate."

A bleak season.

Ooh, this is a cool cover

Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors. Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor. Reverse Robin Hood.

EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

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.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Well that escalated quickly.

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

The tall ships have formed their chrysalides and will now quietly overwinter, their beautiful sails emerging in the Spring with the warmth.

Trump called Biden “sleepy,” because Trump is an old man who struggles to stay awake. Trump called Hillary “crooked,” because Trump is incredibly crooked. Trump called Ted Cruz “lyin’” because Trump is a serial liar. We’re a decade into this. How do people still not get it?

It begins. Thankfully only a dusting so far. Snow tires are on, mower is in barn, snowblower is in garage, salt has been acquired, and winter gear is at the ready.

Very, very good thread. And again, if you have the resources, please consider also donating to heating fuel funds, because everyone - including pets - needs warmth.

Why is there no byline for this piece? If the premise is true - and indeed, the author not only says it is but gives a glowing endorsement of its implementation- why aren’t we allowed to google a photo of the author to see just what a dipsh1t looks like so that we can avoid hiring one in the future?

Federal agents forbidding faith leaders from praying sounds like a violation of religious freedom. But then I remember that “religious” means “white Christian identity politics,” and “freedom” means “Christian nationalists’ unrestricted ability to impose their beliefs on others.”

Remember in the ancient times when we discovered that government officials were using encrypted messaging apps illegally to avoid paper trails (including Signal chats that they invite random journalists into when discussing war plans) and we just...did nothing about that? Neat stuff.

Humanity is doing great The most evil American is the President of the United States The most evil man ever to become a US citizen after years of living here illegally will become the world's first trillionaire And the center of global democracy, the White House, will soon host an MMA cage match