Since the average American won’t live 50 more years after 25, who exactly are these mortgages for? P.S. Even if 50-year mortgages become “conforming,” the monthly payment on a $500k loan at 6.75% is only about $200 lower than a 30-year at 6.5%—but you’d pay roughly double the interest over time.

And Johnson didn’t even need a Reichstag fire to clear the building.

Undeclared martial law in three screenshots. P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺

What the f’ is seeing a movie in 4D? You mean they aren’t going to play every frame simultaneously?!

As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned. Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.

Hey, if it feels good… right?

MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead.

Trump didn’t even need to appeal yesterday’s order blocking his federalization of the Oregon National Guard. He just grabbed them from California. He’s got 50 states to freely choose from, but he picked California to rub it in.

As NPR found in Memphis, many well-meaning Americans wouldn’t mind “a touch” of fascism to clean up their streets. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll earlier this week found 52% support Trump deploying the National Guard in cities to fight crime. But fascism never stops at just “a touch.”

Portland’s naked bike ride protest could spotlight the deployment of National Guard troops into Blue cities. But it could also create viral videos of federal agents dragging naked “Antifa” protesters off their bikes for the administration to blast on Fox News and Truth Social. Stay tuned!

Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels? At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.

The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival. Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓

Me: “How’s the battery life?” Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”

Of all people, you’d think farmers would understand that we reap what we sow. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”

I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”

Here it comes for the Blue cities in Red states.

The tragic irony of Kent State in 1970 is that the Vietnam War might’ve ended years earlier if Nixon had not been reelected in 1968. But he won after the far Left sat out the election or voted third-party in protest, insisting the Democrat wasn’t anti-war enough. Sound familiar?

The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...

Toy soldiers, in more ways than one.

A literal cracker barrel.

With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it.

The thing about the bully pulpit is you should never elect a bully to the pulpit.

It’s sad to think America’s final contribution to world history might be our Confederate Nazis.

You can see how executive power becomes limitless when discretion is vested by voters in authoritarian hands. With courts most often deferring under “rational basis,” nearly any pretext will do. Nothing is more dangerous to a democracy than a bully at the bully pulpit.

Are people starting to get how this is going to work yet? It will be the National Guard from the Red states in the Blue states and Blue cites.

On the heels of whatever was said in private between Trump and Putin about the future of the free world, I hope everybody’s ready for how weird this timeline is about to get. And I mean even weirder than it’s already gotten since Bush was inaugurated in 2001.

We have many Ukrainian refugees here in Vancouver, WA. I often see their big families on evening walks by the river. I can’t imagine how crushing this must be—knowing they’ll be ICE targets the moment their legal status expires. Where can they even go? 🇺🇦

Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification

“The Supreme Court… affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.”

Fun fact: The grandfather of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old DOGE computer wiz kid who sells AI Discord bots to Russia on the side, was a KGB spy stationed in DC who defected to the U.S. but then went back to Russia (and was later executed). DOGE is up to way more than saving money. 🇷🇺

I’ve warned folks since the day Trump was elected: Only Congress has “standing” to challenge executive overreach in court—like firing federal workers or blocking budgetary spending. With Republicans running Congress, does anyone believe they’ll sue Trump to stop him from doing their dirty work?

Trump nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is very Orwell meets The X-Files. God help us. “Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, and his candidacy for the BLS spot had been promoted by former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.”

What sets American capitalism apart from its Western peers? The wanton avarice.

Trump nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is very Orwell meets The X-Files. God help us. “Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, and his candidacy for the BLS spot had been promoted by former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.”

The Dark Ages weren't called "dark" because the sun was less bright. It was because the people were.

In a world of Dean Cain’s, be a George Takei.

Would be funny if the homeowner is a creationist who thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old.

The irony is we already have martial law in all but name—built from existing immigration and national security powers. We’ve got soldiers in our streets, mass detentions, no due process, and courts overturning injunctions in feigned deference to “national security.” It’s the perfect crime.

Q: Where’s the beef? A: He’s been deported.

Judicial deference to the executive branch will be the death of democracy. 🪦 Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.

I never understood why some locals call this place “Vantucky”… until the cemetery chicken alert that ended with, “Please describe to claim.” Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984

This reads like a bad sequel to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Survivor episode. How is this real life? 🥺 “As the vendor pleaded, ‘Please don’t bully us. Please don’t call us bigots,’ Dershowitz shouted, ‘You’re the one who won’t sell me my pierogi!’”

[Insert derivative joke about not having radioactive wasps on my 2025 bingo card here.]

Trump’s tariffs single-handedly achieved what no prior President or Congress could: the largest tax hike on Americans in a century—if not ever—via a VAT-like national “sales tax” on foreign goods. Democrats would never have been able to pull that off!

Two seemingly unrelated posts back-to-back in my X feed: •One about a whites-only community in Arkansas. •The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control. Coincidence or trend?