BTW, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 is what trains look like in the 21st century, America. 🤪🙄😏

Check his fingernails.

I just finished the book. I was astonished by the halfway point, and terrified by the end. We are all so fucked. And I doubt that there’s much we can do about it.

Cuts kinda close to the bone, I'd say. 😏

Secure boarder. Lawless country.

Alarmingly shallow, but fortunately not that large.

Close enough for government work.

We in Tokyo are currently being reminded that we live on dangerous ground. Probably a 3 on the Japanese scale. A bit stronger than we've had in a while. Short duration. Just a reminder.

Agree. Biden did her no favors during his term, but the R defined her by things she'd said 4 years earlier. Dems need someone who hasn't already been defined by the Right.

Read only about 20 minutes into chapter 35 of "Careless People". Then tell me why you think the entire C suite at Facebook shouldn't be behind bars.

Stop me if you've heard this multiple times. "I'm going to give the money to charity."

"Meet the new boss; same as the old boss." ~The Who

Let them eat ballrooms.

Thread.

"The end of the beginning."

So very easy to imagine that, in many cases, she is talking about America, not Russia. youtu.be/Miw6cncoc9g...

They said make it great. Instead, they made it gross.

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My guess is that they might start by drumming up some absurd excuse for continuing the speakership of that little dweeb from Bossier City ($6M house), which would theoretically allow HIM to determine who gets sworn in (and who doesn't) in Jan of '27.

@cnn.com thinks Americans (or anyone) should PAY for this kind of seemingly 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 information, while making most of the crap on its site still free.

Ignoring stare decisis to reverse a previous court's decision 𝑰𝑺, in fact, a conviction. Both the law being reversed, and the men who instituted that law, are "convicted". Such a thing needs to be unanimous, not some stupid 5-4 baseball score.

Were I able, the 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 US constitutional amendment I'd push, would be that 𝒏𝒐 SCOTUS opinion abandoning stare decisis will have any validity, unless unanimous. What? There's only 9 of them. A jury has 12, and with the same constraint in case of conviction.

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

In a less corrupt media environment, the identity of the “mystery donor” would be the top story on every broadcast and front page until it was discovered. There are not many people on earth who can just cut a $130,000,000 check, and far fewer who have goodwill towards the American military.

Send in the court's army. 😥😲🙄

Praetorian paychecks. And no, I'm not joking around, and neither is Trump.

I’d stopped calling him The Greatest Self-Parodist of All Time, but can’t restrain myself this week. Starts by suddenly demolishing the East Wing to build his new ballroom. Ends screaming that a brilliant Canadian ad will “illegally influence” SCOTUS to rule against him. share.google/gYn7FS0qdM2z...

Interesting which of the Magnificent Seven tech companies aren’t paying Trump millions in tribute to build his 2-acre ballroom to replace the 18th century White House East Wing that he just tore down — his ex-pal Musk’s Tesla, and Nvidia, which he already extorted for $2 billion a year.

"Wolff: This Is What I’m Going to Ask Melania Under Oath" I'm sorry, but does anyone imagine that an oath will preclude Melania from lying her ass off? Bueller? Anyone?

Never saw this coming. 🤣😂🤪😲🙄 Feds reveal mafia-linked gambling probe that led to arrests of Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and NBA star Terry Rozier

Sometimes they still get it right.

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

You don't say? I mean, is it only because it's something like chess, but played on a board orders of magnitude larger, and all the pieces always move on their own, often without any regard to the rules of the game?

Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o... from the great @nickkristof.bsky.social

Weird and 'infused with a very dangerous sort of creepiness'.

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Narrator's note: Books was 36 when he barely escaped becoming a murderer in the Senate chamber. Illustrating that while politicians can certainly be too old, the youngest can lack a shit ton of judgement.

ICE Member Shoots US Marshal, Unarmed Suspect After Smashing Window With Gun was apparently too many words. www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/u...

Narrator: Teddy would be so proud to have his image fronting for some obese, fascist, con-man.

"Trump calls for Ukraine to be carved up after tense meeting with Zelenskyys" Narrator: 'Carving up' is what fascists do.

How fitting. Right after the national "block party". You Yanks voted for a man who said out one side of his mouth that he was going to lower the cost of living, and out the other side said I'm going to fuck with people. You're gonna get it, and some of you deserve it.

New Article discovered in US Constitution allowing the president to direct beef purchasing.

Just one more lie among the (gotta be, by now) hundreds of thousands already uttered, and in the worst of faith, by the man.

So weird that this keeps happening www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In every poll for weeks, Zohran Mamdani has been at 45% (±2). In last week’s poll— commissioned by Fox News —52% of New York City voters are for him. Versus 28% for Cuomo. 🤗

Well look at that—the moron elected on promises to make things more affordable has managed, with his crazy tariffs, to jack up the prices of both U.S.-made *and* imported goods. Lose-lose for American consumers!

Yeah. Was listening to Longwell & Kristol going on about how this proves change is possible. It *is of course, if you have a possibility of fair elections. I’m not confident in that next year.