A western leader with compass. We desperately need more.

Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, had some opinions, many of them quite inhumane. And anyone caught celebrating his death was to be hounded and punished. This is, um, different. It's presidential, in fact. It's one of those moments when Donald Trump truly became....I can't even finish this. Fuck.

Pretty wild that Trump just appointed JD Vance as a Fraud Czar to go after scammers right after he pardoned his 35th different wealthy crony convicted of fraud so far during this term with many more to come.

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

Our nation is in the death throes of either MAGA, or itself. America can not survive as a democracy and free people as long as MAGA exists. One of them will die in the coming months. It's up to all of us to determine which.

Nothing says “LOVE FOR OUR TROOPS” like seeing the orange felon wearing one of his trashy propaganda MAGA baseball caps during the dignified transfer of the 6 soldiers that he and his regime murdered senselessly. Disrespectful and disgraceful but in no way surprising.

Trump is launching us into what could be another costly and deadly forever war. Meanwhile, he and Republicans are making devastating cuts to food assistance programs that help millions of people. Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

Just resharing this.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Bezos & Billionaires Murder The Free Press Bezos can spend $50 million on his wedding, but can't find money to support journalists at the Washington Post. The broligarchy continues its assault on democracy. With @briankarem.bsky.social @kimkelly.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Trump sells bravado, but Putin is laughing. Russia’s barbarity and war crimes are unrelenting, while POTUS abandons our allies and permits his pal Putin to threaten the existence of an extraordinary country. Help us help Ukraine’s amazing children! www.UCAP.Help

Masked thugs on the streets. Measles outbreaks across the nation. Blatant government corruption. Coverup of group of elite sex offenders. Ruling party trying to rig elections. Leader building grandiose monuments to himself. Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service. Third world America.

This. Nothing less than this.

“They are using the mechanism of armed officers with masks who are killing citizens to create disruption so they can use more force to eliminate the possibility they could be removed from office and suffer criminal sanctions for the crimes they are now committing”

Point blank. 10-shots. Execution. A US citizen, a VA ICU Nurse. Then lying. Blocking a real investigation.

Down the road? They're already saying it didn't happen. The murder of Renee Good, the murder of Alex Pretti. And, of course, the January 6 riot. And it's not just "some bastard"; it's the people controlling the executive branch of the US government and their GOP comrades in Congress.

Foreign relationships/alliances broken. US economy crumbling. US govt destroyed. Attacking Venezuela. Threatening Greenland. Threatening Federal Reserve Chair. Prosecuting opponents. Injuring, detaining, deporting immigrants. Murdering citizens. How much more will it take?

Imagine having to defend your fatally shot son from Stephen Miller's slurs that he was a "domestic terrorist" trying to "assassinate" ICE officers. This is what Trump and Trumpism has brought to the United States.

ICE Murders Another American As Trump Readies the Insurrectionist Act and Martial Law thelefthook.substack.com/p/ice-murder...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

@chuygarcia.house.gov Great job at the hearing today. You spoke the truth elegantly and forcefully. Bravo!

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have tried to silence me for speaking out. Today, I’m fighting back because this isn’t just about me. This is about the rights of all retired veterans and all Americans, and I’m not going to let this Administration take those away.

Many thousands of people in Minneapolis protesting after the brutal murder of Renee Good by the MAGA regime’s ICE-Gestapo thugs. This is how you resist and this is what the entire United States needs to look like and soon.

If you’re on the extreme right or extreme left politically, I know where you stand. But there are a lot (really a lot) of folks who do not wish not to be put in an ideological box. You want freedom, fairness, decency & opportunity. You want, you know, “normalcy”. So, I have a few questions: (More…)

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Excellent piece by Anne Applebaum in the Atlantic. "Most Americans still do want their country to stand for something other than greed, and most don’t want their expensive military to fight on behalf of Trump’s oil-industry donors." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@thebulwark.com I'm a Bulwark member. Is there another podcast app besides Substack for listening to members-only podcasts? The Substack app causes my Android phone to heat up when it's plugged into the charging cable.

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Also: I don't see how any intelligent and lucid person could watch this press conference and conclude that the president of the United States has anywhere near sufficient cognitive ability to properly execute the duties of his office.

Unlike Trump & Witkoff, most Americans aren’t seeking “amazing business opportunities” for US billionaires in Russia. We just want them to stop indiscriminately bombing civilians & end their barbarian war of aggression with their horde of convicts, rapists & foreign mercenaries.

@watchinthesky.bsky.social Good morning! Hey, my brother lives in New Mexico and a Roadrunner sometimes hangs out in his backyard. Can you suggest what they might like to eat besides mealworms? Also, if you haven't seen this video, it's pretty cool. youtu.be/qluk--MS2X0?...

@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Are you going to do a laser projection on the Kennedy Center? Seems like an excellent spot for your art.

Morning bath party. youtu.be/zmgqYH2AlDU

Wrennie, the Bewick's Wren letting me know he'd like some mealworms.

@rokhanna.bsky.social I think the committee needs to hear from Maurene Comey. She worked on the Epstein and Maxwell cases before being fired and would be in a position to know what's being held back.

Jack Smith wants to testify in public - Republicans refuse. He wants his depo tape made public - no again. The second strike boat video? - nope. Epstein files law complied with? - not today. Vote on ACA? - maybe next year. Republicans: Hide, obstruct, lie, delay, deny.

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.

Cops are great

@watchinthesky.bsky.social If you're interested, is there a way to DM you in Bluesky? I don't want to put my phone number in a post.

@watchinthesky.bsky.social Hello, I used to see your posts on Twitter with the roadrunners. I live in Rancho Bernardo and feed live mealworms to our backyard birds. I ordered 500 from Rainbow Mealworms, but they accidentally sent me 5,000! I hate to see them go to waste.

Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.

Don't worry, Donald Trump, all those middle fingers were simply signaling that it was first down

So there isn’t enough money for SNAP benefits to help feed people and there isn’t enough money to make healthcare more affordable, but there is money for the orange felon’s $250M ballroom, $230M to pay himself with and $40B to give to Argentina’s dictator. I hate fascists.

Excellent essay by J. Michael Luttig www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...