Here's how you take a space agency that has visited every planet in our star system, touched our sun, sent humans to another world, and ventured into interstellar space - and dial it down from >10 to <.01 nasawatch.com/shutdown/nas... #NASA #Shutdown #NASASTRONG

/6 If you are stuck in the McArdlian view "we can't think of the other side of evil" -- which I view as sociopathic -- I have to ask, is there ANYTHING they can do that will make you call it evil? Is there ANYTHING they can do that won't make you say "I should focus on finding common ground?"

/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized.

/4 The other side of this is not merely saying “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs,” it‘s people who say “lol fuck those eggs.” It’s between decency and thuggish, swaggering, nihilistic evil.

/3 The gulf is between people who see this as brutal and inhuman, and people who see the victims of this as inhuman. The gulf is between people who speak our opposition and people who think that makes us unpatriotic, unreliable, someone to be mocked with sombrero videos.

/2 The gulf is between people who think this is bad and think it is good. The gulf is between those of us who think the government shouldn’t treat people that way and people whop think we are stupid, un-American Marxists to think that.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Thank you Vanity Fair for printing this incredible subhed. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

ICE agents are waging war against the United States.

Where are we 15 years after SCOTUS sanctioned virtually unlimited campaign contributions from billionaires and large corporations? @rfunkfordham.bsky.social's new report analyzes how the Citizens United decision is corroding democracy on multiple fronts, and calls for renewed urgency for reforms.

Well, let’s see. The corrupt, incompetent, shitbag Republicans control EVERY branch of government, including the inept, hyper-partisan SCOTUS, so yeah. The shutdown is 100% on Trumpty-Dumpty & his mindless minions. 🤡 www.newsweek.com/trump-and-re...

SCOTUS decisions are made to placate a convicted felon who happens to be a pedophile. This isn't a constitutional crisis; it's a goddamn crime wave.

Oh, that’s a good one.

"What you fail to see Mr. Pope" is truly the most incredible assemblage of words I have seen coming out of X, the Everything App, in quite some time.

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Nazis did the same thing to the Jews, even before Hitler/Berlin hosted the 1936 Olympic Games. People turned a blind eye then. We cannot do the same now.

I just read the horrific news of people bring dragged out of apartments in Chicago. So, my question is, when do we change the name of the US to the Fourth Reich? All you "Christians" good with this? At one point, these monsters will become overwhelmed with prisoners. Guess what is next?

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

Priorities.

she even wrote a preface to the Far Side collection, and proceeds from a shirt with the cartoon on it go to the Goodall Institute RIP, Dr. Goodall - you were truly one of a kind and the world is poorer without you

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. You taught us that kindness is a form of strength and that respect for life in all its forms is the truest measure of humanity. You will be dearly missed.

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

Well played, Tim Onion. @bencollins.bsky.social

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Remember, folks: Donald Trump is an all-powerful oracle who can fix all of America’s problems singlehandedly—except, you know, keep the government open. That’s the Democrats’ fault, of course. Those monsters just want to <checks notes> stop your health insurance premiums from tripling next year.

"the Democratic Party’s biggest problem isn’t that we don’t have good ideas. It’s that too many of our leaders talk like they live in a completely different world than the rest of us." You said it, @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social www.meidasplus.com/p/dont-let-a...

WTH Ted???

This sums up this entire administration

"the meeting was “a waste of time for those who had better things to do. It’s also an inexcusable risk to concentrate so many leaders in the same publicly known time and place, to convey an inane message of little merit.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

What should’ve happened yesterday

I’m not used to it. I’m exhausted by it

Imagine having such little understanding of those he deems himself fit to lead.

As history also teaches us, noted window breaker Cump Sherman once said, “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.”

Summary of today's events at Quantico regarding the redefined military oath: Pete Hegseth stated that the military serves the United States at the pleasure of the President, and if service members disagree with the Reichs direction, they should step down.

“ICE, Pete Hegseth, and the current president of the United States are terrorists” -the dictionary

With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.

Pete Hegseth thinks it's masculine to be violent. Let that sink in. We have a perseverated prepubescent sadist with impulse control disorder as SecDef.

#EpsteinFiles m.youtube.com/watch?v=jV9m...

Coke is a hell of a drug. McGregor outlined his pay demands, saying he wants “$100m” and “100 US ‘Golden Visas’”. sports.yahoo.com/article/cono...

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

If you can’t see where this is headed you’re an idiot.. apple.news/Aw_uUCpTNR2K...

Especially when he has the House and Senate.

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.