He and the Court are deliberately creating famine, all while he’s knocking down the White House so he can build his Car Dealership Rococo ballroom. This makes King Charles I look like Ghandi.

Even Marie Antoinette would have balked at the level of L'appel du vide on display with this regime.

The term for this is Mens Rea. Guilty Mind.

Three Ghosts: You’re going to hell if you don’t change. Trump: I NEED TO GET INTO HEAVEN! [dementia kicks in] Trump:

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

We have plenty of air traffic controllers at the small airports that service private jets who could be moved to the major airports. But then Kash Patel and his rich buddies would be impacted… so instead everybody is going to have to skip seeing family for the holidays.

Accidental Renaissance: Assumption of the Demented

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

Today I learned that King Cnut was a communist.

One from the actual Shire. A demonic elon musk about to be burned in effigy. #Lewes #Bonfire #Sussex 🔥

The danger of gerrymandering is that it is built on optimizing for very narrow margins of victory, and so if the electorate shifts that MinMaxing can bite you in the ass. In other news… check out the broad electoral shift that’s happening.

Big news for live tv.

Ok you got me. I guess I’ll take an interest in this mayoral race for a city I don’t live in.

The chances of an excommunication keep rising and, consequently, the chances of another anti-pope are also rising. Because you /know/ Trump would claim he had "no choice" but to declare himself Pope.

It’s wild how weak strongmen are. The current President is terrified of a mayoral candidate, is locked in a decades long beef with Terk from Tarzan (look it up), and his arch nemesis is Portland f’ing Oregon. Even President Harrison was stronger than this, and he was taken out by a chilly day.

Trump and Miller endorsed Cuomo. I can’t think of any better indication of how shook the oligarchs are, and how fragile their grip on power is. This is a race for MAYOR and the White House is terrified that Mamdani might win. Weak.

I’m guessing Kash will replace the veteran agent with Pewdiepie or that guy who looks stuff up for Joe Rogan.

Know the difference. 😉

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Watching nuclear war drama A House of Dynamite, and by far the most jarring aspect is that the US executive staff are portrayed as competent, sober adults.

By proceeding with the emptying of the vault before seeking approval from the bank, Bonnie and Clyde forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

Destruction of the past is an authoritarian tactic. It’s not an accident that they’re wrecking the White House and rewriting Reagan in the same week.

If someone says they’re reviewing their legal options, it’s usually best to assume they don’t have any. If someone has a strong case, they don’t flex on Twitter. They file. Clowns.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Can someone send this request to those Etsy Witches?

He thanked Musk for helping with “those vote counting computers” and they’re planing to seize power indefinitely and openly dismissing the desires of the electorate. Are you ready to admit this was a coup?

Why does he need a ballroom? Have you seen his cankles? His waltzing days are over.

Ok hear me out. What if we accept him as king? Then this absurd national debt would be his. Then we could declare independence, and Mar A Lago would be 38 trillion dollars in debt and we could move on with our lives. We could even fix our constitution and pick a better anthem!

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle. Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Can’t read. Can’t run. Childish views of good and evil. Suddenly their obsession with knights makes sense.

That would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, in the Oval Office for a meeting btwn the U.S. president and the NATO Secretary-General in the middle of a brutal war in Europe, staring at plans for a ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.

I’m kind of enjoying Trump showing everyone what it felt like to be an American in 1814, when the Brits burned down the White House. It’s a fun little reenactment he’s doing. Not sure the point of it. But still, as a history guy… fun.

Donald Trump is Preserving Historic Buildings the Right Way, by Ezra Klein

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Guided missiles. You only need something like that if you’re preparing to fight a military. And since ICE only operates inside the US that raises an unsettling, but entirely predictable, possibility.

45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:

Dr. Zee is back in the newest Members Only Episode. The First Crusade: From Dumb to Dumber

What point was he trying to make, Mike?

This is an excellent illustration of why billionaires are so dangerous to society, and to reality in general.

And it’s wrapped in the American flag with No Kings as the rallying cry. It’s a remarkable change.