The current situation is coming quickly to the big question: Since Trump is clearly incapable of doing his job for even the tiniest of tasks, why are Republicans not sufficiently alarmed? Why are they not acting to remove him? Why are they defending the indefensible?

Jeezuz! He fell asleep looking at Kegsbreath, while Whiskey Pete was friggin’ TALKING TO HIM!

A government that celebrates cruelty, weaponizes culture, and mocks due process is telling you exactly what it plans to become... hartmannreport.com/p/is-viral-p...

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Get real. This is America, where they tell us we should have kept our mouths shut, and should have been “good girls.” Fair treatment? For women and girls? In America? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s a good one!

Are there any far righties who are NOT pervs?

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

I have officially “had it” with Republicans in Democratic “centrist” drag. We don’t need them. We *need* Social Democracy. Ref: Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and all the happiest countries in the world. Fuck “centrism.” It’s just “right wing humanitarianism” in drag. That is, none at all.

Are you comfortable having a “president” who claims every day that he doesn’t know anything about what his capos are doing? Isn’t it his *job* to know?

A peace plan for Ukraine could be very short, directed at Russia: Get Out! Two simple one syllable words that cover the whole thing. If you like, add two more simple words between the first two, for emphasis: the fuck.

The hell with defund the police. Defund the Trump police state. Democratic governors: Introduce legislation to allow federal taxes to be held in escrow until he is gone. The Red states can’t afford to exist for long, without blue state money.

Lessons from history. Available in print and audio.

Larry Summers, Epstein Emails and the Origin of the Great Recession — Palast talks to @btlradionews.bsky.social host Scott Harris about his latest article. btlonline.org/larry-summer...

Sounds a lot like the 9/11 distraction that Bush needed. And the continuation of Vietnam that Nixon needed. And the Grenada attack that Reagan needed. Or the Gulf War that Bush I needed. Poll numbers tanking? Attack a virtually defenseless nation.

Seriously, does no one around him give a shit enough to say, "Dude, stop talking about the cognitive test. It makes you sound like you need another cognitive test"?

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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

And we did it more than once.

Shut the fuck up, Donnie!

96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days. Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend. Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power… hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-...

His marks can call and complain when they finally receive their $500 Trump phones.

What made Miller a contemporary ghoulish Nazi collaborator, a Kapo? Not his own family history, that’s for sure. He brings shame on his family.

OK, America—are we going to let the Trump cadre of criminals and traitors get away with it? How much more of his fascist authoritarian nonsense are we going to tolerate? When is enough purely and thoroughly, enough?

Asylum seeker from Texas makes a short return to Mordor. "I suspect most Texans don’t know this, because I certainly didn’t until I got back, but living in Texas turns you into a psychopath. Everything in your daily life puts you in competition with every other person you encounter."

Trump says he'll pardon the former President of Honduras, serving time for flooding the US with coke—while all but announcing he’s going to murder the President of Venezuela. Trump declared a no-fly zone over Venezuela and laid siege to the nation, acts of war.  www.gregpalast.com/trump-declar...

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with hate. We will not succumb to the ravings of a venomous president who wants us to hate each other. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-bigot-in-the-oval

Zeteo has made a searchable database of all new 26,000 files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Despite Trump saying this is a scam with "all arrows pointing to the Democrats," these have a whole lot of Trump in there. In fact, he's mentioned in these more than anyone else. Take a look for yourself:

This weekend, I’m watching Ken Burns’s latest accomplishment, on PBS, The American Revolution. It’s well worth the time, as are all of his American history series. Though I am really familiar with that history. I am learning a lot I never knew before. Deluded conservatives couldn’t be more wrong.