The stuff described in the Epstein files must truly be Cthulhu-level evil. They are utterly terrified and are willing to destroy the country to keep them secret.

Remember, only another 52 years today (10/23) til the Great War starts!

One of the ugly new realities I face being on blood thinners is that I bleed like a stuck pig from literally the tiniest of cuts

Be this guy.

I actually sent a nasty email to my Congressman re the Charlie Kirk resolution. I'm getting so ornery in my 50s.

The administration's approach with every corporation and college in America at this point

Do you think our impending future dystopia will be more Logan's Run or more Cyberpunk/Blade Runner in flavor? I for one would appreciate some groovy futuristic cities from which to survey the wasteland.

I admit, I was in the mood for this sort of thing today

Trump, inevitably:

Trump at the beginning:

Peter Thiel looks like Herman Munster on meth

ICE agents' face mask of choice, sooner or later

Quite a turnout in Asbury Park despite the rain.

This scared the bejesus out of me when I was six: youtu.be/_oBvNFMt9Ic?...

I love Civilization, but I didn't really want to live it in real life.

I find "the others are in the dishwasher, use this one or get your own fucking coffee" is quite the winning argument

Good attendance at the Hands Off protest in Red Bank, New Jersey today despite the crappy weather- guessing several hundred people? Our rep Frank Pallone was there. Lots of creative signs!

We still don't know the exact makeup of Mars bars or Coca-Cola after over a century, but secret military plans? Yeah, no biggie.

I think most of us feel like Quint these days

I'm just waiting for the point in this whole sorry saga when all the feckless Republicans currently kissing Trump's ass tell the rest us that they were really just "trying to take him down from the inside."

It's going to get violent, isn't it. Goddammit.

The Democratic leadership seems hellbent on giving us George McClellan when we desperately need U.S. Grant.

I'm so goddamned tired of moral victories. Can't we just win something important for real?

So we've gone from a king to a republic to (effectively) an empire, and now that empire had gone from having one leader to two (Trump and Musk). Do we really need to mimic the Romans every step the way?

The only thing giving me hope at this point is the utter trashiness of Trump's appointees and the likelihood that those that actually manage to get confirmed will be too incompetent and foolish to do any long-lasting damage. Cold comfort, but it's all I got.

Now that Trump is coming back, will we still have to endure all the "Cletus Safari" pieces from the Times and the Post?

Wasn't joy a nice feeling for the brief stretch of time we were allowed to contemplate it?

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The Tyson-Paul fight feels about right for 2024 America: No grand, Hollywood-esque ending or compelling narrative, just a boring, immeasurably stupid slide into an even stupider outcome, all filtered through a media company that is not up to the task.

Every American deserves to see the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Repost if you agree.

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes: 1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

Gaetz? Really? The coked up pervert who looks like the Surgeon from Escape from LA?

Oh, what i would give for government to be dull again. I feel like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, forced to watch a succession of ever-worsening nightmares with my eyes clamped open.