At what point in the Punisher story does Frank Castle hire a graphic designer?

💣 The Epstein Tapes: Michael Wolff Just Blew the Lid Off Trump’s Darkest Secrets open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

You’re overreacting. it’s a well-known routine glitch in the system. It happens every time a lifelong friend of the president imprisoned for sex trafficking children “commits suicide" while serving time in a prison run by the president's hand-picked attorney general who auditioned for the job.

It’s easy to forget that the Epstein case would have been a small local story if not for Julie Brown at the Miami Herald doing an incredible year long investigation that hilighted the details of Trump’s DoL Secretary brokering a sweetheart deal as the prior U.S. Attorney and made the story national.

NEW: After Trump selected Kristi Noem to head up Homeland Security, she failed to disclose an $80,000 payment in the detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income that she was required to file.

This is an important article with a throwaway headline. Note the “Kamala Harris Provision.”

Sitting here at the coffee shop watching a freight train pass by. Solar panels installed on the two diesel engine, but hauling about 50 open coal hoppers. That black stone is beautiful when it sparkles in the sunlight.

Saw a 9-3 Viggen this weekend. Mint stock condition. Steel gray. The car that forced GM to make the Corvette faster. Still one of the prettiest attainable cars ever produced.

The assassin posed as law enforcement. As we can no longer tell the difference between civilians and law enforcement thanks to the ICE, I would expect the reforms to start regarding officers having to stop hiding their faces and clearly identify themselves. That won't happen but one can dream.

I am heartbroken beyond words that Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died in a violent and politically motivated shooting. Melissa was an exceptional public servant. She was smart and funny and so dedicated to making Minnesota work better for all of us.

Anti-Trump 'No Kings Day' protesters endure the rain to demonstrate in Nashville, TN

One thing we tend to forget about the Kent State shootings is that more people blamed the protesters for getting shot than blamed having the National Guard deployed in the first place. (My depressing thought of the day)

The Week Ahead open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Project Esther and the American Purge By Tony Pentimalli In a country that prides itself on being the home of free speech, Donald Trump’s second-term administration is executing a calculated assault on dissent.

“That’s all just in your head.” Where do you think I am?!

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Me: I'd like to be a baby marmoset being gently groomed with a toothbrush

the stupidest fucking people on Earth are in charge of our government and they're burning down centuries of progress in a matter of months. WHO RUNS THE RADAR, TIM? FUCKING RADARMAN?

In dealing with the effects of flooding here, my experience has been that friends, family, neighbors, and strangers have all helped, often unasked. The Republican vision of disaster response is "I've got a gun and a cellar full of canned goods." The Democratic vision is mutual aid.

They’re skipping the whole “confirm they’re here illegally” part. My family and I got no due process when they put us inside a Japanese American internment camp for years because we looked like the enemy.

What could it possibly be? Gee, I wonder…👇 Trump. Is. A. Child. Predator. ✨

Is this the part that’s “Biden’s economy?”

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

ICE officer put notes in deportees files saying man didn’t mind being deported. But somehow there is no record of this officer and they can’t find him. “Software Error” my ass. They can just write whatever they want. #unmaskice #proofoflifeCECOT #resist

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Asking seriously — how does @theonion.com keep up at this point?

Crockett’s not just a “younger option.” She’s a civil rights attorney, current Vice Ranking Member & she’s already torching GOP disinfo on live TV, podcasts & social. Lynch says the job “won’t be run in the press.” - Sir… have you seen Oversight? Give the gavel to the one already doing the job! 3.

doing some reading on conservatives' long love affair with foreign authoritarians and one thing i'm struck by is their credulity and gullibility. you see this now with orban: "serious" conservatives hailing orban as an illiberal leader, while actual Hungarians are like "this guy is a two-bit thief"

Trump accepted millions of dollars from the government of Qatar through deals involving his private businesses and foreign-controlled investment funds. This was even before the jumbo jet. Let’s call this what it is: a bribe. These payments directly violate U.S. laws and constitutional provisions.

DOGE took control of the FAA, fired hundreds of air traffic employees—and then our air traffic control system mysteriously started shitting itself. Probably just a coincidence!

Accepting such gifts is, of course, unconstitutional under the emoluments clause, and an impeachable offense. We’ve just totally normalized the fact the Rs only exist to protect themselves from consequences.

“We are heartbroken to announce we have to cancel our upcoming European tour,” wrote Texas psych-rockers Lord Buffalo. “Our drummer, Yamal Said, who is a Mexican citizen & lawful permanent resident of the US, was forcibly removed from our flight to Europe by CBP at Dallas/Fort Worth Int’l Airport.”

This entire thing is obscene media failure (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) in the face of fascism. But also, the Democrats…did not <nominate> Biden. They moved rapidly to <not> nominate him, in fact. No, the party that nominated the old guy showing obvious signs of mental decline was…the Republicans.

🧵1 A 12-year-old boy was left alone on a street corner after “ICE” agents arrested the adult he was with in Waltham, MA. They just drove away and left him. A child. On the sidewalk. Like trash. THIS is the face of our immigration system. Cruel. Inhumane. Indefensible. #OnYourSide @cbsnews.com

Today I learned that James Oviatt, the wealthy proprietor of one of LA's most high-end menswear stores in the 1960s, was a generous benefactor of a California-based neo-Nazi organization called the Christian Defense League that plotted the assassinations of hundreds of government officials.

The AG has no authority to accept a gift. "[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust... shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

NEW: A federal appeals court seemed open to siding with Georgia voters today by reviving a pro-voting lawsuit targeting a right-wing effort to intimidate 364k voters. A panel judge called the prior dismissal of the case a “legal error.” From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

Remember when it was important to avoid the _appearance_ of impropriety? That was cool.

I appreciate that @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is putting the corruption front and center. Trump’s turning foreign policy into a cash grab for himself and his cronies—and we need voices on the Senate floor willing to call it what it is and fight back. Keep going. We’ve got your back. HAPPENING NOW👇🏾

Democrats have been saying it for months And here it is-in black and white for all to see Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break Don't Mess With Medicaid

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

Sean Duffy: "We're all been reporting and seeing what's happening at Newark airport. And I think it's clear that the blame belongs with the last administration."

Happy Capitulation Day, everybody!

So it sounds like the tariffs are also being used as a shakedown tool to coerce countries to sign deals with Starlink. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

! Appeals court orders Turkish Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk -- the woman in the nightmarish video of ICE agents surrounding her on the street and essentially abducting her -- be transferred back to New England from a Louisiana immigration detention center. www.huffpost.com/entry/turkis...

There's much overlap between the American "anti-leftist" tradition and the American conservative tradition. I'd argue that the "anti-leftist" tradition (with roots in the more McCarthyite/fascistic threads of the anti-communist tradition) attracted "conservatives" with a more authoritarian bent.