Lobbyists have occasionally been hired to seek pardons under previous US administrations. But the efforts were less widespread than during Trump’s second term, where seeking pardon has become 'a rational thing' for convicted criminals and those fighting those charges. ft.trib.al/0jG7CKk

trump loves to rename stuff after himself (cartoon from Xmas 2020)

Guess we found $2.5 billion in the couch cushions for Trump to use to bribe the military to like him. And it has to be a jokey amount, of course. I'm surprised Elon didn't talk him into making it $420.

Trump is giving me a headache with his idiot shouting.

KKKool and the Gang

It's going to be a long list anntelnaes.substack.com/p/making-a-l...

People love to shit on Dems but House Dems, in the face of an authoritarian executive branch and deferential House Speaker have in the first year: forced two discharge petitions (Epstein and ACA), and might win a government shutdown. Not bad for the minority!

If anyone wants to know what's wrong with this, then I have a list. - It will cost an insane amount to lift into orbit - Low orbits like SSO means it will have lots of drag and will need lots of fuel to keep it in orbit - Also the drag will create torque, so you'll need orientation rockets - 🧵

The media will be saying “President Trump saluted Rob Reiner and his wife on social media “.

This is who the whole Trump administration is. youtu.be/GhKMVlHz9FQ?...

New art at Kyiv’s Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital, the one bombed by Russia. By Andriy Yarmolenko

Elected Republicans are going to become endangered species here in CO next Nov. We're going to fire them by the boatload. Maybe even gerrymander their ass for fun. Stick Fort Collins into Boebert's +9 district (reddest in CO, so you can see how bad 2026 can go for Rs.) Neguse doesn't need it.

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This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com - Trump executes pardon strike on drug smugglers - www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

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The goal here is for Transportation Secretary Fox News to do the only thing he knows how to do, go on Fox News.

If only these peoples' parents had taught them to take responsibility for one damn thing in their miserable life.

/Sebastian Gorka voice “Anke Huber!”

Echoes from the past.

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If you need some chill, but not-too-chill music on a Friday night. LGTID youtu.be/ed4vNRVta2w?...

The classic Goebbels approach. In the period 1934-38, Germans were subjected to relentless stories about grotesque crimes committed by Jews, Poles and gypsies, all part of a carefully orchestrated campaign of demonization. And in 2025, Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL approve of this message.

You need a bigger page, Pat. There's a whole shitload that you can add to this list.

You’re right

The Signalgate report showed that Hegseth risked American lives. Instead of taking responsibility, his sniveling responses were the worst kind of bureaucratic ass-covering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Yeats— and very appropriate tonight.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre 1/

I dunno this guy who smells like gasoline and has singed clothes and is on CCTV near 12 burned warehouses may NOT be an arsonist if we're to believe him, reports Washington Post.

We should drop Cotton onto a capsized 20ft skiff with an 200-lb motor attached to it and time how long it takes for him to “flip it back over “.

It’s so pathetic how all the Trumpers have to shout. “Because GRRR I’M SERIOUS!”

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ICYMI — HEGSETH IN 2016: “There have to be consequences for war crimes… that’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from the commander-in-chief. There’s a standard. There’s an ethos.” Where did this guy go? Is this also treason or nah? 🤷🏼

Please listen to Liz @lawyeroyer.com and post this far and wide. Trump's embrace of corruption knows no bounds.

But they insist the exporting countries pay the tariffs…

WaPo editorial board, really keeping up with the top issues of the day! Everybody is talking about railroad safety today, right?

Mike Johnson is powerless to stop this:

The only way to make it make sense is that we have a trafficker in the White House.

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Rich Lowry is a bigoted piece of shit whose existence makes America a worse place. He's vapid patrician gentility used to mask gutter racism. He's a Brooks Brothers pocket square used to wipe Nick Fuentes' ass.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

remember to celebrate

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So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]