This is fascinating, says someone who doesn't pay much attention to this sort of thing.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Thought leaves a protected setting, enters a consumer platform, becomes a record, and then falls under rules the user did not write and will almost never see. Catastrophes announce themselves. Habits do not. Habits become infrastructure before the public notices what has changed.

Well this is fun

Drugmakers raised prices on hundreds of drugs despite Trump deals, report finds www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Donnie, Pete, and the boys should join our valued troops for dinner today

Will Hollingsworth via Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

"We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem."

Nice

I keep saying, as a Trump biographer, that this man holds deeply deranged beliefs—on almost every subject—he cannot be talked out of by experts, to the point that it can accurately be said that he lives in his own warped reality. 25th this man immediately.

WTF www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The TPUSA tour is making its way to Athens, Georgia, and they’re packing the place in! 🤣

25th Amendment.

If we didn't have a maniac as secretary of defense, a toady as secretary of state, and a nobody as chief of staff, they'd be spending today making sure the military checks in with them before obeying any orders from Trump, and quietly getting in touch with Congress to arrange for his impeachment.

Apparently the Vicar of Christ is "Weak on Nuclear Weapons." Who knew?

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

Here he is tonight. Working hard to end his War in Iran and make life more affordable for Americans like he promised.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

Mayor Justin Bibb's administration went through the Board of Control — sidestepping Cleveland City Council — to sign on for another year of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-sh...

An avowed bad-faith republican can co-host a news show for a major network as an alleged journalist because the intent of corporate media is to support the republican party

Please dear god tell me he wasn’t sitting in the damn Situation Room with his phone on him.

Ramble on, people. I saw Led Zepplin perform this song in October of 1969 at Cleveland Public Hall. Grand Funk Railroad opened. What a night. And Robert Plant still has the chops.

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.

Timeline cleanse. Elgar's Nimrod from the 'Enigma Variations'. The brilliant Paul Fey on the Allen organ at St. John’s Church in Midland, MI during his US tour.

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The White House is proposing firing 9,400 TSA agents. Trump's budget proposal aims to cut $1.5 billion from TSA, and remove over 15% of the agency's workers. This is separate from the ongoing DHS shutdown, and critics warn that the long-term Republican plan is to privatize TSA.

"...Replace packages with thousands of human bodies and add in the heat and humidity of places like Texas and Georgia, and you are looking not only at an architecture of containment, but one from which many may not emerge. " #ICE #detention #fascistarchitecture

Chris Murphy: "He's not telling the truth. But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement, Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary and cataclysmic for the world."

A useful list.

I learned a lot #Iran Thank you, @ricksteves.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYoa...

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

"Condemn the immorality and criminality of what's going on. What are we as a nation if we don't stand up against this? This is a defining moment." www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSX...

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

JD Vance flies to Hungary to interfere with the election, while complaining that people who haven't flown to Hungary to interfere with the election are interfering with the election. I doubt he'd know where to feed himself if it wasn't for his mouth flapping all day long. www.theguardian.com/uk

Good morning, Northwest Georgia! It’s Election Day. This is your moment to be heard — for your family and your future. I’ve spent 40 years in uniform. I know what’s at stake, and I’ll always fight to protect our kids from another forever war. Get up. Get in line. Go vote. #GA14

Donald Trump and JD Vance should not be tampering with Hungary’s elections. The Putin-Trump-Netanyahu Axis should leave Hungarian democracy alone. The world’s greatest warmongers should leave peaceful people alone.

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

25th Amendement.

Real life consequences of voting GOP. They are doing exactly what they have said they would do.

#NEOhio safety-net hospitals at risk of closing: Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights South Pointe Hospital in Warrensville Heights Lake Health Beachwood Medical Center in Beechwood Euclid Hospital in Euclid UH Conneaut Medical Center in Conneaut

Because Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine; everyone should please notice that there is nothing American about having to fly to a foreign country to try to influence its election so that your own career can continue as planned.

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Thanks, @randyrainbow.bsky.social #hegseth #shillandpitch #skankhoes #whenwillitend www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmOr...

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