In any novel, a doddering old leader falling asleep in government meetings and snatching up a bogus medal to drape it over his head would be a tragic figure. Here… he’s celebrated as somehow exceptional. To say the empire is waning is an understatement.

A bit brisk up here.

You’d think an administration with time enough on their hands to seek out ever-lower ways to broadcast their pettiness could come up with at least a draft of a healthcare plan. They’ve had a decade to devise a replacement for Obamacare, but apparently adolescent cruelty is a higher priority.

As free citizens of the US we grant other citizens temporary authority to enforce our laws in exchange for clear methods of accountability. No accountability=no valid authority. Masked people who won’t reveal their names or show IDs cannot be held accountable and therefore have no valid authority.

ICE: A bad idea after 9/11 that morphed into a paramilitary force with no accountability & therefore no valid authority. Authority in a democracy requires accountability…by the people. Without it, it’s tyranny. Make ICE remove their masks, wear name badges, & wear body cams. Or disband.

Why are Trump and his officials being so extra-crispy racist all of a sudden? I mean I’m sure it’s to distract his base from something embarrassing or criminal, but my G-d, they’re collectively a fountain of bubbling hatred and bile today. Whatever is coming must be devastating.

“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror.” Smuggle a small boatload of drugs into the US, and you’re a narco-terrorist who should be blown to bits. Smuggle in 400 tons, and you’re a victim of unfair treatment who should walk free. Orwell was an optimist

I've been obsessing recently over the question of whether wealth is infinite or not. A banker friend of ours insists it is, and theoretically, even if you exhausted/assigned ownership to all the Earth's natural resources, wealth can still "grow" if existing resources appreciate in value... 1/

“I was just following orders” is a defense no true-blooded American will ever accept. Just telling you now.

“Strong floor, no ceiling” feels like the same framing Democrats have used to justify taking huge corporate campaign donations for decades now, generating the ever-expanding wealth gaps that produced the affordability problem in the first place. Tone deaf, hollow, (intentionally?) deceptive

If Trump truly wants credit for the positive things his administration has done (exaggerated or not), he should stop knocking their headlines off the front page with his adolescent insults and corrupt dealings. He controls this. He simple has no discipline.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

As a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen born in the United States, I insist that when they finally arrest Miller and Kash and Noem and Bondi for crimes against humanity that they violently wrestle them to the ground in order to zip tie their hands behind their backs.

More of this!!

🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert

What struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office press conference was how all of a sudden every right-wing reporter could pronounce “Zohran Mamdani” perfectly.

Displaying pride flags or Black Lives Matter posters is”divisive,” but displaying swastikas or nooses is simply a matter of personal choice? Orwell was a fucking optimist.

So Trump agrees that true seditious behavior is punishable by death, does he? Put a pin in that.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

ICE was always an over-reaction to a situation…one more sober heads would have recognized at the time. Today, it is an open-ended means to enact any extrajudicial agenda you desire. Responsible citizens would demand it be shut down. Start over. Seriously.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

Wild how I drew this 4 years ago as satire and now it’s the average tweet from a sitting president

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

@jamellebouie.net on JDV, the threat to democracy waiting in the wings. Small note: “As Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC said recently, “I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party.” Yeah but Graham was firmly in the “Trump sucks” wing before his opportunism led him to lick Trump’s shoes, so….

With “integrity”?!! No one is questioning your integrity, AG Bondi. You’ve already proven its nonexistence.

Today’s history snapshot: Mug shots of a corrupt US Attorney General. History is coming for you too, Bondi.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

HOLY SH*T this ad doesn’t pull any punches. And I’m here for it. Because if you’re protecting pedophiles, you’ve got it coming. Share. This. Everywhere. And follow the ad's creator, @_joejacobson_! #ReleaseTheFiles

The Trump administration is actively trying to starve American citizens. I know he dreams of us becoming more like North Korea, but I never imagined that extended to such levels of barbaric creulty.

So how will the “left wing” media spin this as a defeat for progressivism tomorrow?

It’s not the oligarch’s city anymore.

FTFO you pathetic losers!

I sincerely wish I appreciated he stood up against authoritarianism in the US these final years more than I resent him launching us into a senseless war under false pretenses. But I don’t.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Nick Muller: A true story. #fdjt

The most pressing question of our time: Why are you a billionaire?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times.

“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.” --Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

Night all.

The Southern Baptists and other bigots fighting to overturn Obergefell must be made to answer why they want more gay adolescents to kill themselves, because that’s exactly what their efforts will accomplish if successful.

So to conservatives critics of Mamdani’s education, a wider world view is “leftist dogma”? Meaning a narrower worldview is rightist? What kills me about this is the insinuation that if your side lost to their side somehow, you’re expected to embrace their version of that history. Idiocy.

We were raised to call women who were friends with our parents “aunt.” Out of respect. And I’m as white and Christian as they come. If this is Cuomo’s October Surprise, he should check himself into one of those nursing homes he abandoned while Governor.

If Trump can run for a third term, so can Obama.

I loved getting to link to the new Whitest Kids U' Know video in that piece, because it's... amazing. Read the title of the video while you watch. youtu.be/aGZma_sDHuY?...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.