Surprised MAGA hasn’t floated New Temperance and Prohibition movements, revive 18th amendment, to go with their anti immigrant crusade

I haven’t seen a joint statement from Democratic governors saying ‘no fuckin way’

If the Nobel committee wanted the sickest burn they’d give the Peace Prize to Kushner

Kindergarten level liars running the government, same ding-dong tactics

Mike Johnson knows he’s on the rope bridge from The Sorcerer and has a denial outfit on made of iron and bricks

is there gonna be a sequel to National Treasure where the hidden, locked, and buried cache in secret catacombs are the Epstein Files?

Amelia Earhart intrigue thickens as evidence surfaces she ditched navigator Fred Noonan for assignation with pearl diver Red Herring somewhere in the Gulf of Distraction

Underway…

Apropos of current violent status quo, taking poll of most Epic Zevon Song. MY VOTE, Hit Somebody

shadowed by marines today

Who would’ve imagined missing Jeff Sessions?

“We’re taking you in. From your pax pen, Spyder pocketknife, Burton bandana and City Lights Dianne diPrima poems.. you pose a clear threat to national interests”

“History, history, history STFU already with your history. What is it with you people and this history thing?”- Fascists

These hearings are not just combative. It’s bad theater. Onstage and backstage drama, not many if any consequences

Natl guard called up to stop Holden Caulfield calling MAGA phonies

Flawed discernment, ignorance, and hubris will bring MAGA down, but we can’t just wait for it. The clock is running

one of Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Half circus, the other full array of municipal structures.…once each year one day workmen disassemble hospitals, towers, docks…and move all to next town, leaving tents, carousels and trapeze standing Sounds familiar

What has Trump said when directly asked, ”..if you have nothing to hide why not release Epstein files…”?

For millennia warmongering could only happen at the speed of feet and horses, now every incursion is imminent

Does GOP think because they covered-up Reagan’s mental decline- we got this?

Thinking about narratives with immense evil and small resistance. Gilgamesh, LOTR, Star Wars, One Battle After Another…Tricky balancing story when protagonists are overmatched

Wonder if Rs have a reverse lie detector machine, measuring capacity for mendacity

Eager to see if Amazon offers any sweet deals on Democracy for this year’s Prime Days

Movies set us up for an expectation of catharsis, it’s a high bar given how cynical we’ve become. Life offers no such promise, and nothing is guaranteed

saw One Battle After Another. I have thoughts… We, outside the movie, are in deep shit. But anyone on here reading this already knows this. No spoilers. I want to know how this all ends, outside the movie and its formulaic logic

What I know from skippering a boat, when there’s an emergency aboard, me and crew act with *much more* urgency than our elected reps. So, either stop mouthing the alarm, or get in high gear, Democrats

For all their concern Dems don’t seem so concerned

You’d think all these thugs and goons out everywhere were bred in a lab…oh, wait

The algorithm will protect us, said nobody, ever

I can’t fathom how people remaining unmoved by *all this* could believe they are being neutral

*Twenty times* as many people watched the last Tyson fight, as compared to numbers at No Kings Protest. That gap is telling, and problematic, to say the least

What is stopping us from a general strike?

Out sailing today, hit a wind shear, violent swing of the boom 180 degrees in an instant, could've killed me…instant flash, even with the gusty forecast, how like these times this sudden ripping moment was

Reading Moby Dick has me thinking we online have much in common with baleens…no real teeth, big heads, and sucking down huge quantities of krill and plankton (tiny skeets) which we filter for nutrients

Apparently, until the EO is given that all Democrats must report to local authorities for pepper spraying and punch in the face nothing will change

Finding my appetite for 70’s nostalgia has vanished. Too painful a contrast?

massive irony in that the year 1984 was setting of Orwell’s prophetic book… and also nascent moment for bloom of today’s reality with Reagan’s reelection, start of Fox News, and rise of moral majority

I know it‘s an unpopular opinion but I’ll say it again, without economic teeth and consequences to production, no kings event will be treated like a loud fart the administration just lets pass

New meaning in the phrase ‘tilting at windmills’

All the stars at Riyadh will no doubt use their big payoff to box out others for seats off-planet as Exodus to Mars kicks in

History will echo the brutality of behavior as much as the heartlessness of policy

Seems like everyday we see countless clips on the level of the Rodney King video and public response is negligible

As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better

Not enough high profile people are vociferously condemning the drift into America’s demise. The disgruntled are showing up to some extent, but a push is needed to get those dimly aware or uninvolved into the mix

Checking in here is like voluntarily choking down a tumbler of drano every morning

it’s too easy to mistake intensity for intelligence

A screaming comes across the sky. Congress has not authorized the use of military force

very little consolation in thinking all won’t be lost due to fascist ineptitude and overreach rather than resistance and organized countermeasures

If we don’t check the gaudy spree asap, secretary of ornamental gold paint will become a cabinet level appointment

Wolves, whales, crows, whatever…I just don’t see other animals putting up with the conniving and simpering bullshit..only us people