Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

What a fucking joke. Every guardrail is gone as the oligarchy bends to the will of the authoritarian.

Legacy media outlets ignoring the Trump and Melania crypto scams, which at any other time with any other incoming Admin would be one of the biggest scandals in political history, shows how lost and unprepared they are for what is about to happen. They’re covering this like a reality show.

"Masculine Energy"

A young bald eagle.

(Two eagles flying up a creek, one below eye level and ahead of the other up above. Came close to getting them in one frame, but…. no. )

The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.

Arsonist Expresses Deep Concerns About Raging Fire

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” -Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

EXACTLY.

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”:

This is an important and helpful read. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It may not be irrelevant that Bessent is not only pro-crypto, as it appears that the whole team around PMT (Pvtin, Mvsk, Trump) is, but he is reported to have been on the Sor os team in 1992That broke the British pound.

By the way, the briefing I attended was by a Wharton professor, and he was describing the intelligence gathering methods of state actors, and Ru s sia, especially.

Long ago, I attended a briefing on the means by which big data is gathered on social media, and influencers identified for the purposes of targeting. Since then, I’ve had no interest in my modest influence being tracked, and recommend the same for you. 1/

I regret to think the world has changed. I think Pvtin, Musk, Trump et al are gunning to take down the dollar, which is why crypto is going thru the roof. The dollar itself is in danger. That changes calculations. But Crypto pricing is still speculative and untethered.

It is not enough to just point out the inconsistency, or even to call it hypocrisy. This is fascism. A basic feature of fascism is its incoherence and internal inconsistency. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...

Nancy Mace spent the entire day ranting about a trans woman member of Congress, who hasn't assaulted a soul, using the same bathroom as her. Not a peep about the guy credibly accused of paying for sex with a minor. Disgusting hypocrisy.

The Onion be spot-on

This reminds me of the picture of Trump at dinner with the hapless Mitt Romney, brought in to play with like a mouse toy.

Twitter algorithm helping confirm. Elon is the problem!

I have tended to watch Morning Joe, although it has long since stopped bringing it policy makers on, and become the same group of talking heads morning after morning. But at least I felt there was some integrity. It appears to me They’re bending the knee now. A sign of personal or business fear.

everything they said soros was doing, musk actually is

Unfathomable, isn’t it?

Oklahoma schools have gone from 7th in the nation to 49th in the nation in the ~12 years Republicans have controlled the school system.

Thread: Republicans won the Senate in 2024 despite Democrats winning more votes & representing more people nationwide. Republicans last won more support than Democrats in the 1990s but won the Senate anyway in 7 of 13 elections since 2000. Data & charts below: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

To be clear, almost everyone who voted for Trump will find that they were played into voting against their own interests, unless they are very high net worth.

Pete Hegseth’s tattoos are the ones that white nationalists get. Federal law enforcement know these symbols well. Hegseth was banned from national guard duty at Biden’s inauguration for those tattoos. The Senate should consider this disqualifying for a nominee for Secretary of Defense—will they?

Leaving this right here

It takes an exile from Putin’s Russia, writing about the theories of an exile from Orban’s Hungary, to cut through the noise about Trump’s America, from which we have nowhere left to run. Gift link to M. Gessen in NYT: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

Mine too.

As my greeting to BlueSky, this picture taken Sunday morning after I fumbled blindly for my eyeglasses to see what had landed on a nearby limb, couldn’t find them, and so grabbed my iPhone hoping to use the Zoom feature to see, and… well… saw.