Ms Bondi makes the point that despite some minor embarrassments around the fringe, the core elites that Anand Giridharadas presciently called “The Epstein Class” continues full speed ahead in its control of our future See gifted www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Promises are merely placebos to keep us from seeing how Trumpdom exists for the PURPOSE of demolishing every institution that previously represented the 99% of us not in the Epstein Class—a self-anointed Elite that only serves its own interests

An Ezra Klein podcast promises to dig into a broad, ideology-independent “Epstein Class” elite coterie based on Teh Files As a sequel to his guest’s op-ed last November (gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...) The self-centered amorality has provoked exploitable angst for the Lower 99% …

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

congratulations everyone

As a side effect, a NYT story on the total evisceration of public protection against pollution that will harm BILLIONS of peoples lives (www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...) documents a key reason Trump wants autocratic power: to replace “institutions” of power with corrupt, crony-friendly control

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck?

This reminds me of Vonnegut

Another new cartoon, and why Sack had to retire in the first place.

Apple intelligence overwhelmed by the concept of a zeptosecond (10^-21): one billionth of a trillionth of a second

Half-baked proposal— A non-partisan, human-rights/civic non-profit* gives any ICE employee who joined before Jan7 († Renee N Good), $5000💵 to help w job transition after resigning from ICE Unhappy to have become shock troops for Trump’s civil war but may be in a financial bind * tax-deductible!😏

ONE reason California healthcare (like many things) costs more: govt demands high resilience to natural disasters (My architect wife worked on a $1bil hospital required by new earthquake standards) When lives are most at risk, care is possible Is Tennessee dead broke or just callous about lives?

WaPo & others’ reports say the UK’s “[Prince William and Princess Catherine of Wales] have been deeply concerned by the continuing revelations” about connections to Epstein My daughter lives in England so I asked her to translate “deeply concerned” into American Anyone else who can help?

There’s exactly ONE reason for RFKJr to hold a position of trust in🇺🇸: to help President Trump DESTROY all sense of accountability Kennedy—and so Trump, who hand-picked him—is willing to kill people to advance their corrupt urges for absolute power—power to steal all we hold dear

Man who’s been happy to go about with one eye blind can’t figure out why he walked right into a lamppost

Common-Sense Medical Advice for Uncommon Times: www.instagram.com/reels/DUG-Dn...

And who better than NPR to publish a training manual for saving electoral democracy?

I’ve had an EarthLink email for decades—back to 300-baud squawky modem days—but their service isn’t up to par Note here they don’t block obviously fraudulent abuse of their own name. So spammers are likely to get thru. To EVERY EarthLink address ever p0wned, and so, to mine

The End of History tried, but didn’t help us understand our world…seems to have optimistically believed that the world’s populace would understand what was going on (and vote accordingly) The End of Journalism seems to cynically want to destroy that link between openness/awareness and democracy

personally I enjoy the Goldilocks racism, where some people are inferior but some people are too superior but there's one group that's juuuuust right

Politico (shamelessly, IMO) regurgitates Trump’s braggadocio about “lowering” tariffs on India to 18% While FAILING to contextualize that tariffs—a TAX on Americans who buy Indian generic pharmaceuticals, gems, clothing, etc—were ~2.4% before he jacked them up last year

Time for the wrecking ball!

Hi friends & followers! Reposting/endorsing this call to RESIST & UNSUBSCRIBE www.resistandunsubscribe.com?utm_source=n... I’ve been stumped about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect...; now this is an answer: let Techs tell Trump he’s killing the economy, not just Americans & our rights

The New Yorker asks a question that because the answer is “no,” most of us didn’t even bother to ask But let me ask: why did Jeff Bezos care?

Everything that RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya and fellow anti-vaccine zealots have said about COVID vaccines is garbage, as proven by world class, international scientific studies.

Who’s into chip tech enough to describe what chips Apple is likely to be buying in 2028 that use technology Intel could be reasonably expected to have available then? Are there enough AirPod chips or other low-volume, last-gen chips that would be low-risk first steps for supplier diversification?

If only the USA had a responsible, nation-wide information environment that could’ve decoded the 10-foot-tall handwriting on the wall in 2024, we might have spared ourselves the anti-democratic propagandistic disinfo, the terror and trauma

Let's aim high: Trump out by July 4th. Let's have a 250th to really celebrate.

Texas governor Greg Abbott said… the White House needs to “recalibrate and maybe work from a different direction to ensure that they get back to get what they wanted to do to begin with—and that is to remove people from the country.” IOW: Ethnic cleansing of Browns instead of shooting Whites

News Item: Trump’s signature campaign bellicosity is at [appropriately] low approval (Astonishingly, above zero, however) America has long had a problem confusing harsh “everybody must obey me” dictates with patriotism, as shown by the quote on this cup that just appeared at my shared office

They can’t kill everyone. The people of Minnesota deserve a million Nobel Peace Prizes.

At this point we have to assume Trump and his Totalitarian* Minions ENJOY seeing this news * proponents of the “unified executive theory” like SCOTUS Chief Roberts who are happy for one man to take over all decision-making, regardless of the brutality, corruption and general malevolence

Hahaha…a couple hours ago somebody posted “count on it: the dumbest person you know will say this storm proves global warming g is a hoax” Guess which president just posted that the storm is proof global warming is a hoax?

Priorities Faced with Trump’s assault on Minneapolitans, the president of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, said “the last thing we need is a slowdown of commerce.” No, the last thing you need is the violence continuing to terrorize your customers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Da fuq—we got Bovino personally throwing *toxic* smoke bombs at protestors who are NOT engaged in obstruction or violence Why would the USA even stockpile these armaments that can harm the users, let alone deploy them against citizens? www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Five minutes ago, in a galaxy far, far away…

Hey, the US now has first class entertainment that goes well beyond NHL Mayhem, even beyond Demolition Derby level destruction Is SCOTUS having a GREAT couple of months watching these crazed thugs they’ve set free for the cheap thrills of seeing Librul Blood pour into the streets?

“Would you like rubber bullets or lead today?”

The problem isn’t that RFKJr is manifestly unqualified to head HHS *I* am less qualified in terms of experience heading large orgs and govt agencies, but there’s NO WAY I could do huge harm to Public Health he has, and almost no lasting good www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

There I fixed it

Gene Nichol: We have fretted, as a nation, over whether Trump would become a dictator. He has.

If RFKJr wants to emulate the best practices of our peer nations’ Public Health Systems, He could stop lying thru his teeth instead of cherry-picked, parts of selected countries’ vaccine programs

Mr Lieu is a LAWMAKER but the megalomaniac Trump Regime ignores laws He CAN introduce a resolution to impeach, which today, MAGA will swat away as a minor nuisance Only WE THE PEOPLE can fix this with a common resolve to only elect Congresscritters who swear to impeach and convict

For context, Bill Pulte is the point man leading Trump’s attack on the Federal Reserve. Trump “knows nothing”🤥about trumped-up charges against Cook & Powell Both originated with a direct report to the President, after Trump insisted the Fed’s powers revert to a “unitary,” all-powerful President

Call your reps, call your senators. Tell them they can shut this authoritarian government down or we'll throw them out of office and get some representatives who, you know, actually represent us.

@gbrockell.bsky.social extracted this important interview with Skye, who say she was badly beaten by federal agents. In the second clip below, similarly to Patty's experience, a federal agent also called Renee Good "a lesbian bitch."

Here www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... a Dr Higgins shows no new evidence justifies RFKJr’s knifing prior vaccine advice Dr H ALSO shows that “others do it” is a fig-leaf ☞excuse☜, not a reason—cherry-picked by an admin that censors other ideas He DOESN’T try to find the real reason for…

I’m all for solidarity—it’s how humanity has thrived over the eons But saying ALL races hate Whites, telling us to DIVIDE🌎into warring tribes? That’s anti-solidarity, rejecting win-win solutions He calls us to volunteer in his army, but his history of building up others is invisible He’s a fraud

Oh Wow, after Trump bragged how much money HE made for the US by putting Biden’s 2022 CHIPS and Science Act funds into Intel, the stock zoomed this morning by over 7% and as of right now, is… _Almost_ as high as it was on Wednesday