like you can do Hegseth's performative MANLY MAN deus vult assed tattooes too and it works, it's all drag, top to bottom, Trump's bad toupee and bronzer all the way down to the social media tradwives, it's all a terminal case of stage IV metastatic gender, always has been

Dershowitz franticly screams the word “underwear” & other profanity-laced legal objections to his tv set as he realizes that he will never be served a pierogi anywhere ever again.

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The Donald is just a Cause Pain and Punish kind of guy. gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Trump is angry tonight. "Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," Pope Leo said. "And someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the U.S., I don't know if that's pro-life." (NPR)

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Why Wall Street shrugged off the government shut-down. They like Trump's anti-worker policies. "How Trump could use a government shutdown to turbocharge his economic agenda. The president has vowed to use expanded powers during a shutdown to fire government workers and cut programs." Yahoo Finance

Anecdote about current politics: A centrist friend of mine told me today that he hopes the Democrats nominate a "moderate, sensible" candidate and not a far-left one. Then he added, "But I'll vote for whoever they nominate." Left candidates may do well in 2026 and 2028.

Musk fires the messenger. An engineer presented Musk with data and a Google Trends chart showing his popularity had fallen from 100 to just 9. Musk told the engineer, “You’re fired, you’re fired.” (Daily Beast reporting on Jacob Silverman book about Musk)

Turns out "going high" doesn't work at all. POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS! (Gavin Newsom on X today)

Blunt. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called Trump out for suggesting that the military use the country’s “dangerous cities as training grounds.” “Look, the president’s an idiot,” Gallego told CNN. “He doesn’t actually understand how the military works.” (CNN, HuffPost)

"It took a little longer than I expected, but we have apparently already forgotten about America's greatest human, Charlie Kirk. Keep his light burning, Ezra!" --snarky Eschaton blog disq.us/t/4vvqsf5

The ADL will need to decide whether it's a watchdog against hate or a lapdog of Trump and Netanyahu. I'm not sure we're going to like the decision.

Outrageous.

I had lunch with my mom and she unprompted said “did you hear about the guy running for mayor I don’t know his name but I like him” so this stuff works I guess

American Psycho.

"I want you to understand what voting for MAGA budget means: 1) your health care costs immediately go UP 2) hospitals CLOSE 3) cancer research ends"

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Vance and Trump make America racist again. Vance brushed off Trump’s posts of vulgar AI-generated videos of top Democratic leaders as “funny,” and an example of his boss “joking and having a good time.” Jeffries was depicted in a sombrero while mariachi music played in the background. (Politico)

People always used to ask, "How low will Republicans go to protect and pander to Donald Trump?" Thanks to Ted Cruz, we now have our answer.

All the biggest US companies are down over 1% in four hours of overnight trading since the shutdown began. Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Avgo, Tesla, Meta. All down more than 1%. The downtrend will probably continue once the market reopens. Jobs, pensions, recession. We're in trouble.

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He's protecting dear leader?? "How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rape.’ How about we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles.’” #Pinks www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cr...

Trump said to the generals, "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military" (NY Times). He sees the great American cities as enemy terrain, as rehearsals for Iran, Iraq, and Venezuela. If there are casualties, he's good with it.

I don't know if people -- in general -- know what "authoritarianism" is. I don't know if they really know what "fascism" is. But I think they're far clearer on what a dictator is. Choice of words is very important right now.

The crazies are wreaking havoc. Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Kennedy, Musk.

Musk world imploding. He is sacrificing all to his vendetta against Sam Altman. Departures from Musk businesses include Tesla’s U.S. sales brass, battery/power-train leads, the CIO, linchpins from the Optimus robotics and AI teams, as well as xAI's CFO and general counsel. (FT, Daily Beast)

Hegseth demands the end of "individual expression." He's gone full neo-Nazi. “No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression.”

Hegseth becoming increasingly “obsessed” with his own security, exhibits frantic behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing in meetings. “There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something.” “Dude is crawling out of his skin.” DailyBeast

From The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara: bookshop.org/a/862/9780520201668 #poem #books #writing

This. Get it, or don't. But, know that this is correct.

Well, there goes the all-volunteer military. So is Trump reinstating the draft?

Will reunited with Gwen! #BB27

Trump is a sick puppy. As the US government barrels toward a shutdown, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on social media, which appears to be AI-generated, depicting Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a mustache and Chuck Schumer speaking in a fake voice. (CNN)

Freedom of speech in America, of all places, faces extinction event. Judge William Young excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal. The Reagan-appointed judge decried Trump’s “great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” (Politico)

Glinda asks a good question.

Hegseth. Janessa Goldbeck, CEO of Vet Voice, said Hegseth’s plan for loosening the rules for discipline in the military confuses abuse with toughness and is the “mark of someone who’s never seen the real thing.” “It takes no strength to hit a recruit — it takes real strength to teach one.” (AP)

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Agree With Governor Newsom......

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

Gavin Newsom: a narcissist with insight and self-control who effectively mocks Donald Trump, a narcissist lacking both of those saving graces. They are good and evil doppelgängers, which is why the trolling messages work so well.

Marjorie Taylor Greene seems like a person who craved attention and is now buckling under its weight. “I am not suicidal ... If something happens to me, I ask you all to find out which foreign government or powerful people would take heinous actions to stop the information from coming out." (X)

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Adam Kinzinger on Trump: “Let’s talk about what real strength looks like — and how Trump’s MAGA ‘alpha male’ act is the opposite of it... Real confidence doesn’t need to shout. It doesn’t need...endless insults. It doesn’t tremble at the thought of someone else living differently.” (Threads)

Stephen Miller once reportedly called for the Trump admin to bomb migrant boats full of civilians. According to The Guardian, he's the man behind Trump's decision this month to bomb three alleged "drug" ships coming from Venezuela, which killed 17 people. www.commondreams.org/news/stephen...

Embarrassingly moronic bullshit that tens of millions believe. The worst part of it is they know they are lying but trust that their voters won’t know the difference or care. They have to distract from Trump wrecking the economy and driving prices up somehow.

Absolutely! Trump the Great and Powerful will be held responsible for any government shutdown and its negative consequences. (And of course he will blame others, since scapegoating is his racket. MAGA, but no one else, will go along.)