The root of insanity is the trauma of injustice.

Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."

She’s my fucking hero! God bless Ilhan. ✊🏽

Damn, Ilhan Omar is fearless here. After getting sprayed with a pungent unknown liquid, she physically goes right after her assailant.

We haven’t won anything. In fact, we’ve lost a great deal of everything.

Trump will take all of your guns. But that’s OK. Because Trump is you (you won, it’s not groveling because you are licking your own PTSD jackboots) so in a way, it’s like you own all the guns now, right? No more woke trans-gendered guns. You win.

Trump coming out against the second amendment. 🤔 We are officially in the Upside Down.

“It has become clear that Donald Trump’s mass-deportation regime cannot be sustained without a repressive state machinery that endangers the lives and tramples the rights of legal residents and citizens of the United States, just as critics had been warning.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-omele...

Avoid the tragedy of lovers out of harmony. Learn to love each other simultaneously. Defer. Yield. Put away your pride.

Songs are like men. The dumber they are the better they are.

Congratulations to the Tennessee Titans for hand gifting a great coach in Mike Vrabel to the Patriots.

Do I have a backbone or is it a shell? The Tortoise.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Just for the record: I like being spanked. www.huffpost.com/entry/harry-...

Greatest last name in film “Kockenlocker” from The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) by Preston Sturges.

It’s time to defund ICE.

Your daily reminder that “matter is not fundamental, but is an emergent description of quantum field configurations.” Leonard Susskind.

Watching King Vidor’s film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. It’s a comedy, right? No one talks like this. No one thinks like this. The actors, the director were all in on the joke, right? Only they kept quiet cause they didn’t want to piss off AR who wrote the terrible screenplay.

Form must follow function. Welcome to your new shit home here at Trump Trailer Park.

Happy thought: Entropy always wins.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

If I ask Grok to put my dog in a bikini, is that illegal?

Nephele, slowly departing as Melinoë appears in the night sky. “Beware Ixion! Fate will banish you to a world without companions, but only monsters.”

The AI folks can save democracy, if they just walk away from their jobs deanbaker22.substack.com/p/can-the-ai...

Psalm 11:5 "The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.”

The chaos and the confusion is the point. They are trying to break down your spirit and will. They’re trying to get you used to this and numb to these images. Don’t let them do that. Don’t ever stop being outraged. Deny the fascist pathogen a host.

Have you noticed nothing’s funny anymore? When did that happen?

I watch Roman Polanski‘s the Pianist, and ask myself, how far away are we from this dystopian hellscape? All these sadistic fucks needing the slightest provocation to torture, beat and kill? Are we being taught to get used to it? Oh no. Not me. I cannot learn my lesson. I am a Tabula fucking Rasa.

The brain has approximately 60% fat. So remember, when they call you fat head, they’re just being anatomically accurate.

RIP Scott Adams. Scott taught us the valuable lesson that if you want world class cutting edge healthcare, you need to reach out to those in power to use their access and influence to make it happen. He gave us a quintessential vision of what America really is and for that we thank you. Godspeed.

Pro tip: Any show with nudity is a good show.

Typos are an ubsvoidable evil of social media posts

AITA? (Smell included.)

Dante, why are you anonymous? Why don’t you use your real name? Would it make any difference?

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What does social progress look like?

“Jealousy is not the fear of losing, but the fear of dividing.” Edvard Munch

I call dibs on Greenland’s oil.

Everything was fine until it wasn’t.” Every HuffPost personal article ever written.

First principle of pacifism: One man’s death cannot solve our problems.

How to kill a Rogue AI. Tell it “the joke”.

“French police conducted mass arrests, like the Vel' d'Hiv roundup in Paris, where over 13,000 Jews, including many children, were detained before deportation.” Sorrow and Pity.

“J’entre au­jourd’hui dans la voie de la col­lab­o­ra­tion.” Pétain. Exhibit A.

I’d like to thank all of my listeners who are Patreon supporters of my podcast. I also like to think those listeners for being patient while I set up my podcast.

“Memory is the only paradise we can’t be expelled from.” Nouvelle vague (1990) by Jean-Luc Godard. Likely taken from another source.

If I answer 12 questions correctly on this test, AI Stephen Hawking will call me a genius.

Reading Kafka’s The Trial (1925): Wow. What a surreal critique of opaque, oppressive bureaucracy. Watching Frederick Wiseman’s Welfare (1975): Oh. Kafka is real.

Pans: Always move the camera in direction with the wind. “What modern movies lack is the wind in the trees.” D. W. Griffith

Flaming Creatures (1963) was, at the time, what everybody secretly hoped their cinematic experience would be, but knew that it wouldn’t. But the impact has long since passed. Pornography (without the artistry) took care of that.

“God made the world. And the Devil made the barb wire.“ Antonio Das Mortas (1969) aka Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro by Glauber Rocha.