Hoo boy. You know me and my "Trump is a Bronze Age king" schtick. Most of the time I'm just being factitious as a coping strategy, but then they go and do shit like get really interested in what looks like statue magic.

And here is the handbill with the offered animals in the 1760s I am refering to:

The animal seller also offered a "Real Wild Man of the Wood", from Siberia, Russia. I wonder what this was all about?

The panther and sea-monster, and lots of weird animals too, were sold from a man named Timothy Mills, bird and animal seller and menagerist, Haymarket, London.

Living in the 1760s in London, you may have asked yourself: Why not buy a "Remarkable Tame Panther" that you "may play with it as they may with a Dog"? Or a "SEA-MONSTER"? Or both? What could possibly go wrong with a panther and a sea-monster in your house? I have so many questions.

It’s a lot of fun watching the most corrupt institutions on the planet line up to treat this guy like a dying Make-A-Wish kid

I couldn't cover all of Trump's corruption - I'd break the floor speech record if I tried that. But this is why Trump isn't fixing America's problems: he's too busy rigging the rules for himself. Once corruption becomes normal, it becomes permanent. We can't let that happen.

A progressive left has to reach past the middle to the poor on the right and offer them a functional government in exchange for their vote. The people in the middle can’t see past their money. They don’t swing either way. And they are quite happy to keep the poors on the sides divided.

Most of them don’t think he’s failing and those who do believe he’s the victim of some kind of evil plot. They’re so invested in him & the myth they’ve constructed around him that many will never break with him

Holy shit!

As LBJ astutely noted more than a 1/2 century ago: “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, & he'll empty his pockets for you” So we shouldn’t assume they’re sick of it at all

I think the reason the Reflecting Pool is getting so much reaction is because it's a tangible metaphor for all the failures of this regime. It's a physical manifestation of toxicity, vanity, cost, error, and assigning blame.

It's even more gorgeous at night. And appropriate colour. 💙🌊💙🌊💙

All these people mad that Socialists are winning are ignoring that adhering to Centrism is what got us where we are People want change and they're sick of watching Congresspeople turn into millionaires while they struggle to care for their families

The healing cannot begin until the President is impeached.

AOC on the Reflecting Pool: They talked a bunch of smack. They said they had to repaint the pool, and now they’ve turned it into an actual swamp.

Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who were all backed by Mayor Mamdani, ousted incumbents and won an open House seat on Election Night.

The level of evil to have a trillion dollars, but still make unnecessary cuts that starve children would to be too ridiculous for a James Bond villain even.

They Won’t Show You the Tape open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

I think the future major parties in a hypothetical multiparty system could likely end up being the Libertarian Republicans, Democratic Socialists, Conservative Democrats, and the MAGA Trump Cultists. Not an ideal world, but a probable one. I like your version better lol.

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

This passed the Senate yesterday. Not one Democrat voted NO. House Gives Final Approval To Bipartisan Housing Bill Aimed At Lowering Costs www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-...

...EXCEPT THEIR WOMEN? Also calling Zelensky a bad negotiator is Hi-larious coming from the guy who just surrendered to Iran.

An entire administration hoist on its own petard. Nobody’s ever been so hoist. A hoisting on one’s own petard the likes of which nobody thought was possible.

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If they arrested everyone involved with Epstein, Trump wouldn't have a Cabinet and America wouldn't have Trump and his wife.

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

A rare but important moment: Democrats helped pass a War Powers Resolution to limit Donald Trump’s ability to drag the U.S. into a wider war with Iran without congressional authorization. In a democracy, decisions of war and peace must never rest in one person’s hands. Accountability matters.

This is how Donald Trump dreams of being King

David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides. Our sister, Yorkshire Bylines, took it upon itself to record them. Sit down with a coffee, or something stronger - it's a War & Peace read.

Republicans are underestimating just how angry people are that their tax dollars are being spent on Trump’s “vanity” projects while they’re being told the government is overspending on the very programs and services people actually need. They will be punished at the polls #RepublicansStarveChildren

The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.

AMAZING: Protesters are now tearing down barricades at a beach in southern Albania, saying that the land belongs to the people and not to oligarchs like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Share everywhere to show your support! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?

Apparently vandalism depends on who you are. Must be nice to live above the rules while ordinary people get arrested and blamed for damage they didn’t cause. #SheShed

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Trump ignored it. Today, both chambers voted to stop the Iran war…the first time in U.S. history. He’ll likely veto it. Tell me again how the checks and balances are working. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A23gLn7rqSou...

I do not believe for one second that — in the slash-and-burn smash-and-grab robbery that was DOGE — Elon Musk or anyone connected him made even a single phone call or sent even one email asking any of these questions. USAID was not a fraud. Elon Musk is.

If Congress doesn't act now, Social Security benefits could be cut by more than 20 percent after 2032. Senator Bernie Moreno and I have a bipartisan solution: lift the Social Security payroll tax cap. We need to save Social Security for the next generation. Let's get this done.

“.. documents obtained by The New York Times show that while National Park Service workers found two cuts in sections of foam .., those were not directly related to the .. coating that is now peeling, or to the algae that has turned the pool a bright shade of green.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

this raises troubling questions about what the president knew, when he knew it, and if he is in fact capable of knowing things

This new vote is a bipartisan rejection of Trump's actions in Iran. 4 Republicans broke rank in both the Senate and the House to join Democrats.

Congress has formally directed Trump to end unauthorized US hostilities with Iran. The Senate passed the resolution by a 50–48 vote after the House approved the same measure 215–208 earlier this month. 🧵

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

He is stealing gargantuan amounts - billions - in taxpayer monies, breaking constitutional law left, right, and center, and Congress appears completely unable to stop him. We are all mystified.

As with the Kennedy Center tarp covering over his removed name, the fence presumably designed to hide the algae-laden Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool will likely draw attention to Trump’s shame, rather than obscure it.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Canicule: France records the hottest day of its recorded history