The fact that a single person so much as contemplated voting for Trump in 2016 was almost enough for me to lose all faith in humanity. He speaks for all of 5 seconds, and one can tell he has the intellect of a gnat and as much humanity as an amoeba.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, took $50,000 in cash in a bag from undercover FBI agents as part of a bribery scheme. Trump’s DOJ dropped the investigation. The sleaze and corruption is mind-boggling. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/20/p...

I have to always remember the Average American doesnt read books to learn so they have no idea whats happening

"The regime worked very hard to tell the working class of Poland that the resisters were all Jews, paid agents of the CIA or outsiders in some way." fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

A democracy that defends itself Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election Story by Tom Phillips www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Interesting to see if this one gets the protection usually afforded to Banksy works

literal lunatics are in charge of public health right now

I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, I’m like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Wonder how we got into this mess? It’s stories like these that normalize authoritarianism with “fun” takes on Trump taking on “dream” roles. Major media fail. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Every country has the same basic spectrum of people, the same basic psychologies. The people who empowered Trump are the same people who brought Pinochet to Chile, Duterte to The Philippines, Mussolini to Italy, Trujillo to the Dominican Republic, and, yes, Hitler to Germany. #AmericanFascists

This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.

"Secondary trauma hits attorneys hard; here's how to navigate it" www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

“When am I ever gonna need to learn about a humanities course?” - says a nation of illiterate, impoverished sociopaths

Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*. This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

Tardy #QOTD for July 11, 2023, is from #OnDisobedience by #ErichFromm “If a man can only obey and not disobey, he is a slave; if he can only disobey and not obey, he is a rebel (not a revolutionary); he acts out of anger, disappointment, resentment, yet not in the name of conviction or a principle."

I'm sorry, nine HUNDRED former DOJ lawyers all signed this letter opposing Emil Bove's nomination to be an appellate federal judge? 900?!

Tardy #QOTD for July 11, 2023, is from Links by Nuruddin Farah "We should have the vulture as our national symbol."

But a March survey from Nature found 75% -- 3 in 4! -- researchers are *thinking* about leaving the U.S. With huge funding cuts at every level from Federal agencies thru university grants, what's different now is that many may have no choice but to leave. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every MAGA voter who now says “I didn’t vote for this” is just showing how ignorant or gullible they are. Trump made his plans perfectly clear throughout the entire presidential campaign — from the absolutely insane tariffs to the harsh crackdown on immigrants. Today’s chaos is their fault.

Tardy #QOTD for July 10, 2023, is from Dear Life by #RachelClarke "But until then I had never considered that the core of his medicine might be kindness, not heroics, and what an instinct for kindness could cost a person."

So does this make Rep. Omar the representative of Münchhausen by proxy?

Tardy #QOTD for July 9, 2023, is from Vinh Long by #HarveyMeyerson "These requirements also encouraged cynicism in the ranks by creating a disparity between successful pursuit of the war and successful pursuit of one's military career." #SoundsFamiliar

Tardy #QOTD for July 8, 2023, is from Vinh Long by #HarveyMeyerson "The old spirit of optimism had evolved into official policy. It had been institutionalized as an end in itself. Criticism was stifled." #SoundsFamiliar

Tardy #QOTD for July 7, 2023, is from Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by #JMaartenTroost "The best we could do, we figured, was to ensure that Lukas has as many nationalities as he could, so that, no matter what, he'd always have a place to go."

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

A new mural in France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in shame was unveiled one day before America's Independence Day.

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

A bill that takes healthcare from 12 million people and gives $10 billion towards Mars exploration is the closest the rich have ever come to grinding up poor people and turning them into rocket fuel.

How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress’d, When vengeance listens to the fool’s request. Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes #SundaySentence

Tardy #QOTD for July 6, 2023, is from The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by #JMaartenTroost “The half-dozen lawyers in Kiribati still do their business in horsehair wigs and black robes that billow above their flipflops.” #Kiribati

Tardy #QOTD for July 5, 2023, is from #TheHealingSeasonOfPottery by #YeonSomin "Her sole aim was to live life maintaining a minimal level of decency."

Anybody who accepts any appointment by Trump or his minions proves by that acceptance that they are without ethics, morals, or basic humanity. In this case, whoever accepts the UVA President position at this point in time should be treated as persona non grata by the UVA community. #UVA

In the successful ouster of the UVA president, we are seeing the bastard love-child of prosecutors' unwillingness to prosecute white-collar criminals. Stick with me here 1/

might save everyone some time to keep him there

The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

Tardy #QOTD for July 4, 2023, from essay Not Healthy, Never Healed by #IsobelAnderson from the multi-authored collection Moving Mountains:Writing Nature through Illness and Disability:"Just how random,unpredictable and untamable must life be before you finally accept this as its 'natural' state?"

Tardy #QOTD for July 3, 2023, #HowToStandUpToADictator by #MariaRessa: "Democracy is fragile.You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution,every story.You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut.This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line"

The horrific assassination of a Minnesota state legislator and her spouse — and the attempted assassination of another legislator and his wife — has been termed as “politically motivated.” More aptly, it should also be categorized as Christian nationalist-motivated terrorism. ffrf.us/4458b4k

Good doggie

Utterly lawless. These agents do not deserve the title of law enforcement. Violently arresting a sitting senator for objecting to the regime's legally dubious takeover of core state functions in order to crush peaceful protests. Authoritarian in every way.

#QOTD for June 8, 2025, from Michael Palin's New Europe travel show from years ago: "The Runda Echo, or the round corner, was the bland building from which the Stasi spied on the people of Leipzig. Now it's a museum where the people can spy on the Stasi."