Happy Memorial Day Weekend Keep this in mind when the Commander-In-Chief and his lackey wax all patriotic about "the warfighters" or whatever they're calling them this week. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

Post your warning sign.

UNESCO: "Press freedom has experienced its steepest decline since 2012. Information manipulation - including AI - is weakening trust and national security. Self-censorship has grown by more than 60%, driven by fear of reprisals, online harassment, judicial intimidation, and economic pressure..."

Never be the first to sit down.

That's not the face you'd want to show when you're asking to be let into any country you'd actually want to go to. OTOH that would be a fun page to stamp.

Invoking Space Force just nudges the whole post into "We're Living In A Mad-Villain-In-A-Gerry-Anderson-Series" territory.

DHS "disputed that they were seeking to use the department’s powers to advantage Trump, writing that its employees “are focused on keeping our elections safe, secure, and free” and working to “implement the President’s policies.” What if his policy is "win the election, regardless of the vote"?

It seems clear that at some point there will be an accounting, and the stories are already starting to come out. It also seems clear that as part of that there will be a body count, and that when that happens the numbers are going to be really ugly.

That feeling when you realize you've just gotten the JDV Death Touch...

“What are we going to do tonight, President Brain?” “Same thing we do every night - try to RUIN THE WORLD!”

"Until then, if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a rake—forever." <golf clap>

"Democracy Dies In Darkness" Visitors to the U.S. Capitol now have a visible marker of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and a reminder of the officers who fought and were injured that day... The installation was witnessed by a WP reporter at about 4AM EST Saturday. apnews.com/article/capi...

Trump to Europe, 2025: "U R Weak. U R Decadent. U R Irrelevant." Trump to Europe, 2026:

Do ALL the deportation jets get " a bedroom with a queen-sized bed, a bar and four flat-screen TVs"? You'd think they'd note that in the self-deportation ads...

Flooding the war zone…

Armageddon is apparently a Feature, not a Bug.

I don't want to think that I've become numb to all the crazy shit coming at us 24/7 lately, but last week it was Obama and DJT vague-posting about Aliens and this week the NYT is floating a theory that humans (and everything else) evolved from cyclopes, and all I can think is "sure, why not...?"

Here's a first look at those coal-powered "Trump-Class Battleships"

The messaging is already starting for whatever evidence Tulsi Gabbard is about to fabricate. REMEMBER: Every person in the Trump administration 1.0 said there was NO outcome determinative FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE in 2020.

None of this was hidden. He did it last time. He bragged about doing it last time. He gave a speech saying he’d do it again. What more do you need? Apparently, for a lot of newsrooms, quite a bit more. trib.al/1qA4Eq9

Thanks, ICE!

Imagine having the need to spell this out ...

You'd think undergoing gender affirming hand surgery would make him more sympathetic to trans rights issues.

Hieronymous Bart looks back at The Year In MAGA

Nothing petty or crazy to see here...

<chef's kiss>

human deprivation? check mass suffering? check promises equality but delivers it selectively? check promises security but delivers surveillance? check promises fairness but delivers oppression and democide? check Apparently unfettered Capitalism is just Socialism in disguise!

"The 'lying press' strategy has evolved. It is no longer just about lies. It is about silence. And if we allow the press to be silenced by humiliation, we will find that the only voice left speaking is the one barking the insults." contrarian.substack.com/p/from-fake-...

"If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would be devastated to see that not only does the problem Ruby Bridges confronted 65 years ago still plague us as a society, but that his own work has been marshalled for the cause of persecution toward immigrant communities and people of color."

In the spirit of the sponsored branding of major buildings (a pet peeve, but never mind) all of the "donors" to this project should get their turn owning their work. I'm sure the companies would be proud to see "The Amazon East Wing", "The Caterpillar East Wing" and so on...

Guess which White House tenant isn't getting his security deposit back? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And when they do cover one: - Downplay the scope in the headline - Allude to the real magnitude in the article without mentioning numbers - Add a sidebar link explaining (to one man in particular) that it's not a Size Thing - Move it off the home page ASAP

Far from "draining the swamp", they've managed to transform it into a Superfund Site that'll take decades to detoxify.

"Federal records reviewed by WIRED show that [ICE] is seeking private vendors to run a multiyear surveillance program … Their job: Scour Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms, converting posts and profiles into fresh leads for enforcement raids." www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

If PORTLANDIA got him that fired up, I hope no one shows him ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, or THE WARRIORS, or GANGS OF NEW YORK...

Seriously, if these are your happy meal, “splinters” are probably the least of your worries. Still… this is why we can’t have nice-things-on-a-stick

Today's Top Story: Emperor demands entire world admire his incredibly beautiful new clothes, unbelievably beautiful new clothes like we have rarely seen before and probably won't see again.

Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reading from his works in Brooklyn this week. It‘s a shame that - rather than sounding dated - his 40+ yr old anti-racist/anti-fascist verses sound more prescient than ever In 2025.

"The kind of authoritarianism I fear is emerging in the United States ... doesn’t involve the outright criminalization of the opposition or formal martial law. Instead, it depends on perverting the law, modifying and twisting it with the intent of incrementally undermining the opposition ..."

Make sure they bring their checkbooks... "Give me your fat, your rich, Your swaddled classes yearning to spend free, The spoiled refuse of your foreign shore. Send these, the yacht-blessed oligarchs to me, To leave their gifts inside the golden door"

Also from today’s press conference: “Without the United States, everything in the world would die.” We all know he’s no stranger to hyperbole, but this must be the biglyest of his exaggerations to date.

Trump 2025: "I am thrilled to report that the US Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known *from this point forward*, as 'Rocket City'." Huntsville 1957: "Hold my beer..."

I had already gotten email from a company that I've ordered tea from in the past saying that today was the last day they would be fulfilling orders from the US. DHL was not delivering US-bound mail for the foreseeable future, and DHL Express was so expensive as to not be an option for small buyers.

A look at a century of radio broadcasting, and how the last few decades have seen a slow but steady takeover by right wing voices that no doubt laid the groundwork for our current state of affairs. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

World leaders attending the White House summit were encouraged to exit through the gift shop.

The Future (2024): we were promised jet packs! The Future (2025): we were promised handbaskets!

What's that saying about how “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”? "Trickle down" has been a fraud for a century already. Ask Will Rogers...

"Don’t get me wrong. Things are dire. But the evidence seems to suggest that loudly calling attention to the fact that the government is run by cackling extremists is not the winning strategy that whoever is running Homeland Security’s social media thinks it is." tinyurl.com/yudz6vcn

The MAGA embed at Columbia is being called a Monitor. The MAGA embed as part of the Skydance merger is being called an Ombudsman. When Stalin had political officers embedded everywhere, they were called Commissars. No reason we shouldn't just use that word too.