Just for the record, in 2020: - Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey - Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes - Garland was an appeals court judge - Monaco was in private practice in LA There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise. He crazy.

Read European, especially Spanish and Italian, fiction. It is motivating, they came out of what we risk going into somewhat recently and their literature tackles the repercussions beautifully

Trump’s mass deportation agenda has spiraled out of control. More than 170 U.S. citizens — including children, veterans, and pregnant women — have been detained by immigration agents since he took office. Here are ten real stories of Americans wrongfully detained 👇

Just coughed a big old chunk of phlegm onto the computer screen. #themoreyouknow

Again, most people in the US like each other! ♥️👍🏿 Most Black people, most Hispanic people, most Asian people, most Indigenous people, and about 48% of White people, like the majority of Americans, and want to enjoy life with them. When you say you "love America," that's who you should mean.

Do you think God showed up again every few years to spitroast her with Joseph or was it just the one time

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

if you’re gonna call them blinkers instead of indicators when changing lanes, shouldn’t they be winkers

This is unacceptable.

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas. There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings. There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency. There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

The guitar solos on the Shuggie Otis track Me and My Woman are just fantastic

Quick PSA: working an 8-hour shift, Monday through Friday, should be enough to pay your bills and still let you live your life.

corruption is such a helpful lens for understanding so much of what is broken right now. all of these people actually need accountability. allowing them to act with impunity just lets them make all manner of bad decisions. we need to help them rediscover boundaries

I guess my beef with the "what did No Kings REALLY do" crowd is: what does going to pro-fascist or evangelical churches do on any given Sunday? Perhaps not much. But creating publicly accessible spaces that engender social and political norms and create like-minded communities has long-term impact.

If you can't beat *just the optics* of a dude literally broadcasting his wank fantasy of shitting all over the country and then tearing down the white house, you've gotta get the fuck out of politics and away from other humans.

Listening to baseball so hearing some meh ads and there is this one from BMO about how they'll print you a debit card. Pretty sure my local credit union has been doing that for a decade. We gotta stop letting big companies tell us their normal shit is special

Oh hell yeah!

This piece is full of sentences you would never have imagined would have been written

Maybe it is just the west coast city dweller in me, but it seems unbelievable that the president can just knock down part of the white house to add things without at least design review, public comment, community outreach and a couple years fighting a historical commission in court

Something about the sound of raw electric guitar just makes the world seem a little brighter and more doable

This, at least at my consumption rate, would be cheaper than maintaining a couple streaming subscriptions

Absolutely wild the GOP is carrying water for a dude depicting himself as a king in a jet dumping poo on Americans. Impossible to take anyone still standing by Trump seriously on any topic. Mike Johnson the “conservative Christian” is just cool with this at a values level, eh? Mmmkay.

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.

What in taking from the president's video is that diaper stocks may get a bump. I certainly wouldn't want that kind of leakage while flying

If they are going to acknowledge and lean into the king thing, well, I think as a nation we've demonstrated a good sense of what to do with royalty. I'm not sure they'll like the popular opinion on what one does with tyrants.

Love when the city goes all out to protect the people kidnapping the neighbours. They could be fixing sidewalks or figuring out how to keep the bridge lit up or planting trees or whatever. Something useful

Grotesque corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

It's not too late to find a protest near you, and if you can I hope you'll consider it It's not just about the policies. It's about the effort to intimidate people into not showing up

Quit gooning and fix a pothole hits so hard

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

Watching inglorious bastards and both a great film and can't argue with the energy

just go to the protests take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

what the fuck, this is motherfucking bullshit. fucking free Alexis, aka @amutepiggy.bsky.social and get her funny, kind, diaper-clad butt back on Bluesky already THIS IS FUCKING STUPID AS SHIT I HAVE SPOKEN

FREE ALEXIS!!! @amutepiggy.bsky.social

Cheese is better than ice cream.

Looking forward to the protest tomorrow and getting back to our historical roots of having no kings. Not being beholden to the whims of a singular dude was kind of the initial point of our government

Go ahead and go to a No Kings protest. Take and post selfies, it's fine. Don't photograph anyone else's face without their permission. You don't need a burner phone. But turn off FaceID and touchID on your phone. Write your lawyer's phone number on your calf with a sharpie.

LAPD wants permission to shoot journalists working at protests. inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants... Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social

Almost as if “Blame the Black woman” is a pattern

You don't have to think it's good, but if you're interested in the state of learning in the world I think you should find it INTERESTING that places like Accenture have touchpoints with such vast numbers of people in the world, find it interesting to ask what happens to class when schools close

My constituents would be happy to pay twice as much to hang his effigy rather than pay for a memorial is a thing. We would love to forget you, but if we must remember it will be with mockery and disdain

Well I know what John Roberts' obit should read like already.

Watching some inglorious bastards before heading to no kings this weekend

No more obstructionists. No more Susan Collinses, no Joe Manchins, no Kyrsten Sinemas, no more Getting Along To Go Along, no more Norms, no more Collegiality, no more Bipartisanship But above all: No. More. Obstructionists.

Can't remember if I've noted this before, but the Seattle Police Department plans to use the JumpStart tax, originally dedicated by law to four progressive goals, to pay for surveillance cameras in the Stadium District along with policing at the World Cup games next year.

Yes, You Are The Goodest Girl, I Missed You While I Was Standing Ominously In The Corner Of That Guy's Vision All Day, Too. #inktober #puppy

History says that pumpkin spice coffee is Midwest-coded, pass it on

Just watched the entire Fox interview with Mamdani and holy SHIT he killed it. This level of message discipline, framing the pitch to fit the priors & biases of the target audience, outflanking them on key narratives like mom-and-pop businesses — it is absolutely unbelievable to see this brilliance.