Trump is hypocrisy incarnate. The U.S. will "come to [the] rescue" if Iran "violently" intervenes with peaceful protests says the man who all summer deployed military personnel to violently intervene with peaceful anti-ICE protests. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/t...

Yes, Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has endorsed racial profiling as a legitimate tactic. He is exactly the repugnant person we all thought he was. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Good grief. There really is no end to this man's pettiness and vanity. Well, the next president will have their work cut out for them, undoing this and all the other tacky reminders of the scourge that is Trump. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Now that the political winds are shifting and even their most gerrymandered seats are at risk, suddenly these GOP skunks are expressing a concern for health care that they never had before now. Aww, nice try, sneak weasels, but we see right through you. www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...

Remember: some of these same Republicans who are so muted or even silent in the face of Trump's repugnant comment about the murder of the Reiners are the same ones who excoriated Obama for wearing a tan suit. A tan suit. Let that sink in.

Re: Susie Wiles's bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, I will give Trump this: his is the first cockroach presidency, in that revelations that would have annihilated other presidents and their administrations barely slow Il Douche and his MAGAts.

As we enter the holiday season, let's remember that 77M of our fellow citizens--the approximate number of Trump voters--are on the side of Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life.

Another red-letter day for the Trump administration. www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...

Um, that ship has sailed. You're on record as having no principles. www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...

"Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality." lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

It's all on us now. We're the last remaining guardrail.

In case more evidence was needed establishing that the GOP is now and has been for a while a party of lies and disinformation. "PolitiFact ruling: False. The MSNBC footage Cruz was referring to was real and showed the Oct. 18 'No Kings' rally in Boston." www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

The rot is bone deep in the GOP. Has been for decades. "Peter Giunta, chief of staff to Mike Reilly, a New York assemblyman, posted, 'I Love Hitler'." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

"Trumpism can also be seen as a multipronged effort to amputate the higher elements of the human spirit—learning, compassion, science, the pursuit of justice—and supplant those virtues with greed, retribution, ego, appetite." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

One America News is the only "news" outlet that signed Hegseth's first-amendment-crippling loyalty oath. OAN also happens to already have a government contact to provide propaganda to the Trump-gutted Voice of America. It's just corruption all the way down.

"Anderson’s newest film takes a distinct step in the Pynchon canon in that it more-clearly depicts what’s encoded in every Pynchon text: The war between the powerful and the powerless." lithub.com/thomas-pynch...

I'm attending a No Kings's event, “Durham No Kings, No Billionaires!” www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

In ways large and small, the Trump administration is gaslighting us to keep concealed the truth of its unpopularity and incompetence. "Our mole in the Kennedy Center tells us that the near-full houses at National Symphony Orchestra concerts are a deception." slippedisc.com/2025/10/wash...

Just saw this. Verdict: hell yes. Not only is it a great movie, it's the movie we need right now. And btw, we are currently being ruled--not governed--by a real-life version of the Christmas Adventurers Club. Watch the film and you'll see what I mean. www.imdb.com/title/tt3014...

Eager to hear Kimmel tonight address the circumstances under which the Trump administration engineered the suppression of his free speech.

Not only has Trump faithfully followed the authoritarians playbook, in some ways he's writing a revised edition to help future fascists more effectively suppress dissent and persecute political opponents. www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/p...

This is a good, concise summary of violence and violent rhetoric by the right, shining a spotlight on MAGAt Nation's hypocrisy. www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...

Trump's authoritarian administration continues its effort to rewrite and even disappear vast sections of reality. Let's make sure they fail. "The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

After screaming for years about how "the left" was comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States, the right is comprehensively shutting down free speech in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Love that Colbert won the Emmy for the Late Night Show. CBS can take a long walk off a short pier.

While people are losing their jobs after daring to suggest Charlie Kirk just might have helped create the climate of violence that cost him his life, Kilmeade can say "Oops" after recommending a genocidal pogrom of euthanasia against the homeless and keep his job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember when the right bitched and moaned and screamed bloody murder about how the "woke left" was strangling free speech with its "political correctness" and language policing? Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA. apnews.com/article/char...

This Is how a robust democracy holds accountable those leaders who try to cling to power via insurrection. If only the United States had been a robust democracy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Eager to see this documentary. bookriot.com/the-libraria...

Trump has turned the White House into the Black Lodge, a diseased place of unimaginable cruelty where evil is generated and then inflicted on the rest of the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Pe...

Another prescient moment for Pynchon, who has always noted the allure fascism has had for U.S. citizens. "We hate kings, but oppressive bad boys always exert their hypnotic pull. If anyone saw Trump’s election — and reelection — coming, it was Pynchon." www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

"Trump responded to his exclusion from the gala in Beijing by acting exactly like the third-tier leader that Xi, Putin, and Kim seem to think he is." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Um, hey MAGAts, is this what you meant when you talked about a "winning" economy? "Canadians calling to cancel their tours 'explicitly told me that it was because of the policies and the behavior of our current president,' he said." www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...

Even now, all these months later, I'm still amazed that Americans heard an old, unhinged, orange man rant about how "they're" eating the dogs and cats, and collectively thought, "Yeah, that's what leadership sounds like. Let's have more of that." youtu.be/5llMaZ80ErY?...

I wonder what Il Douche's list looks like? Oh, wait--that's right, he doesn't read because he's already a "genius" at everything. 🤣 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Buh-bye, MAGAt, don't let in the door hit you on the way out. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...

If we ever manage to struggle back from our current authoritarian status and reclaim some semblance of our democracy, let's remember corporations such as Cracker Barrel and Target that knuckled under without so much as a murmur of protest. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/b...

Sadly, this is just another day in these gun-crazed United States. And we can't expect Trump to offer any comfort to the traumatized and bereaved: of all myriad things he's bad at, empathy is where he's completely hollow. Obama could do it, Biden too, but Trump? Hell no. apnews.com/live/minneap...

Why not invite the war criminal onto U.S. soil, giving him a huge win just by that fact? That's what Trump has done to this country: we're the friend an refuge of dictators. Disgusting. www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...

What a heartless asshole Where the eff are they supposed to go? This is a Trump and GOP problem, that they always--always--punch down on the struggling and less fortunate. Just a shitty, shitty person and political party. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

This is what happens when you appoint only the loyal incompetent. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

In case you come across any MAGAts sharing this photo on social media as "proof" that Obama knew or was friends with Epstein. "The man in the photograph with Obama is late television host and chef Anthony Bourdain." www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

Another example of the widespread chilling effect on free speech caused by Trumpian censorship. "MoCAT founder David Lopilato said the incident left him 'conflicted.' At one point, he asked the students if they would be willing to paint over the protest signs." www.npr.org/2025/07/28/n...

And so the cultural and artistic hobbling of the United States continues under the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Look at these sneak weasels. Corruption wins again in Trump's America. I wish I watched anything other than the Late Show on CBS so I could stop watching in protest. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Love this Substack post by MeidasTouch, giving us a helpful Google Translate of MAGA to English.

Q: Were Trump and Epstein friends? A: If by “friends” you mean that they partied together, hung out repeatedly, and that Trump called Jeff a “terrific guy” who he sent bawdy letters to on his 50th birthday, then, sure, I guess you could say they were friends.

At what point did Republicans decide they were going to unapologetically and even gleefully embrace being the mustache-twirling, black-hat villains of the country? Or was it just a slow, incremental slide into malevolence?

An amazing story from a long-ago time when the United States fought against fascism, rather than eagerly embracing it. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...