When killing a human isn’t a mistake it’s called a murder.

For those of us who have been following along, Jimothy withdrawal is real. Here he is when the wee gentleman really was wee, before he became champion of our hearts.

Donald tried to insert himself into Spain's trophy photo. FIFA dragged him out of frame. The photo editors finished the job. Another normal day in the American fever dream.

Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo.

May Jimothy have many happy years living his best little raccoon life. A salute to his Seattle neighbors: Team Jimothy before the rest of us knew we needed him.

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

“Oh no, there goes Tokyo.” 🤔 That’s tomorrow. Today is all about emotional support cows.

Hunting skills: 0% Accuracy: 0% Confidence: 100% #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

Ancient Greeks, modern cinema, one doomed plywood horse visibly wobbling through the lobby. “Exit, pursued by security.”

Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊

🔥🔥🔥 🔥 “There’s a lot of ‘whaddaya gonna do?’ energy coming from the VP of the United States.” That’s Vance’s whole arc now: It’s not the Deep State anymore. It’s the guy in the Oval Office and the guy defending him. They’re counting on us being too numb and dumb to notice.

The first lyric is “Elon Musk,” and after that I may not have every word exact. But the gesture, the beat, and the shoulder bounce appear to be universally translated. 🎶🎶

All of Elon Musk’s businesses would be bankrupt and shuttered without government handouts. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” on the other hand, is a phenomenal success. Cry more, you obnoxious white supremacist dork. (And, PLEASE, like you ever read Homer . . .)

"Office at Night" by British artist Phil Lockwood (2012) is a tribute to the American painter Edward Hopper, with each window in the painting depicting a different Edward Hopper artwork.

Are you late to the Jimothy party too? Apparently this is why Seattle can’t have nice things. Yes, he is a raccoon. But who looked at that long-legged little gentleman and did not at least consider “spider monkey in witness protection”?

A couple of generations of Americans may barely know Walter Cronkite now. For decades, he was the trusted voice of American broadcast news. In this 2001 Letterman clip, he talks about Hitler, the free press, and why “we didn’t know” was never an excuse for citizens who helped vote democracy away.

No, no this guy has a point. The prior iterations of the #Odyssey have always been true to the ancient #Greeks and his “Spartans”roots, and Nolan can never live up to this Odysseus or Helen of Troy

Man admits there is no evidence for a thing everyone already knew had no evidence. The context is useful only if anyone needed confirmation that the Big Lie still works the same way: Make the claim. Repeat the claim. Shrug off the lack of proof. In MAGA world, the claim is the evidence.

Who is writing this garbage? Trump has the revenge-and-attack-dog impulse, but I don’t believe he has the brainpower behind the construction. Somebody is translating “the smoke is Canada’s fault, make them pay” into pseudo-policy language. My money is on Miller-world.

Good news. Very good news. But “actual checks and balances” is complicated when SCOTUS has gone rogue for executive power. A flipped Congress matters enormously. It just does not, by itself, restore the guardrails already dismantled.

We take what we can get. 😏 DOGE and election interference may be the wind beneath Elon’s wings, but apparently the attacks that really land are a worldwide hit movie and gamers publicly roasting him for cheating at Path of Exile 2.

In honor of the games that built Bethesda, they have mentioned Morrowind in a context that will make the elderly cry. Fallout 5 is still in preproduction. Elder Scrolls VI is claimed to be the focus. Somewhere, a 2002 Morrowind player just turned to dust waiting for a release date.

We do not collectively remember enough. Trump stood in front of cameras in 2016 and invited Russia to help him find Clinton’s emails. It was surreal then. It is surreal now. Somehow the country keeps treating the Putin threat like a new plot twist instead of the original premise.

Well, to be fair, Olive Garden has to make sure you’re not using Grandma’s pasta pass. Democrats still have no plan to stop Grandma’s voting pass. The White House appears to be contractually obligated to make every analogy dumber than the last.

Well, they say consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. At last Donald Trump found election fraud he can believe in: Russia trying to help him. A small, deeply messed-up mind. Many hobgoblins. Somewhere, presidential fluffer Stephen Miller is furiously changing the subject.

This is encouraging: real, organized pushback on the election front. Democracy Forward was already positioned to sue, filing immediately after Trump’s speech. May the resistance to what he is preparing be not only effective, but timely. This is exactly when it must begin.

This is not generic alarmist dread. This is the mechanism: seed the pretext now, activate it on election night, use it to justify federal intervention.

This isn’t about arguing with a man shouting nonsense in the subway. Rep. Himes described a plausible mechanism: repeat the election lie now, invoke it on election night, then use it to justify federal intervention. That is not crazy drivel. It is a pretext—and we should fight it at every rehearsal.

This is not generic alarmist dread. This is the mechanism: seed the pretext now, activate it on election night, use it to justify federal intervention.

👇 From all accounts, true statement — with the added horror of Trump’s idea of presidential gravitas. If you’re not familiar with 4chan: anonymous message board conspiracy sewage. Grievance, cruelty, bigotry, and paranoia dressed up as revelation.

I can’t vouch for the card, and I don’t know if the speech is over. But I respect a bingo card that understands the assignment. If he got through this without targeting Ossoff and Warnock directly, we may have earned a slightly saner weekend.

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I know nothing about rockets and only slightly more about the stock market. But my hatred of Elon Musk burns with the light of a thousand suns, and I’ll risk the karma hit for one good snotty comment. 👇 Also: SPAZX closed at $131.11, below its $135 IPO price. Enjoy.

4:29 ET Tillis declares all his objections have been met. Bets?

a reminder that the Marshals service will need to be one of the first offices a new administration clears out

This is authoritarian logic in its purest form: state power commits the violence, and opposition gets blamed for provoking it. Homan’s message is that Trump can unleash ICE, and any bloodshed will be the fault of Democrats for refusing to shut up.

One of the delights of being my age is not knowing whether I missed the joke, missed the context, or the internet has simply become unsupervised performance art.

My take on Trump’s speech tonight, the coverage of it, and our reaction to it. Watch the packaging, not just the content. The threat is real. So is the 24/7 machinery that turns threat into suspense, dread, and monetized panic. We will stay alert. We will also take care of ourselves.

Read: Sen. Cynthia Lummis does not know what Trump will say tomorrow night, so she is leaving herself room to follow him if he tries to discredit American elections again. “I don’t know” is not confusion. It is advance compliance.

Great point. 👇 Audie Murphy was one of the most decorated combat soldiers in American history. Small. Poor. Underweight. Fearless beyond comprehension. Hegseth is not fit to judge courage. He dishonors his office every time he opens his mouth.

True statements. 👇 Also true: crumbling in public will not be the same as losing in the Senate.

Wait. Tillis was supposed to be a possible no vote? On what planet? Kids, I hate to break the bad news, but this is not a GOP defection. This is what helping them land the plane looks like.

This is instructive, and maybe fun if your blood pressure is in good shape. A man nominated to head intelligence refuses to say who won the 2020 election.Not because he doesn’t know. Because the truthful answer is disqualifying in Trumpworld.

George Callaghan (b.1941 Northern Ireland) Path to the Harbour. Acrylic on canvas.

“I don’t believe he is” is doing an awful lot of work for a constitutional ban. Does anyone else hear an implied “but I could be wrong”?

Outside read: Todd Blanche is controversial but still on a glide path to confirmation unless Cornyn or Tillis actually blocks him. I like to manage my expectations. These toadies confirmed Kash Patel.

Remember that pillow guy? Mike Lindell is running for Minnesota governor with Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement. The question of the day is whether Minnesotans understand the assignment. 👇

Todd Blanche is asking to be confirmed while New Mexico says Trump’s DOJ is stonewalling unredacted Epstein/Zorro Ranch records needed for a criminal investigation. That is not a confirmation loose end. Stop treating it as one more question on the list. This is the whole damn issue.

trump wasted a ton of money and equipment in iran with nothing to show for it and more is coming but this fuckin guy can not just come out and say it was trumps doing so we get this bullshit