If Americans look at reports like this from the remaining democracies and sigh wistfully at what comparatively minor transgressions of norms are a national scandal there, remember we got here because we stopped caring enough about minor transgressions of democratic norms to exact consequences.

At this point, comparing them to Idiocracy is an insult to the Camacho Administration.

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

Why it's almost as if he had some kind of serious well-understood mental disorder identified in the DSM-5 that makes it literally impossible for him to endure even the slightest criticism or contradiction and to obsessively seek revenge upon those who cause him those psychic wounds.

I'm not live blogging the Trump v. Slauighter args (can Trump fire everybody args). I will be writing about it. But I come here to say: Dear Liberals, please STOP ASKING former Republican clerks to argue our side of the case. I know you think they "speak Republican." But they also SUCK.

Remember that time we begged people on the left not to vote Green or do a write-in because control of the courts for a generation was at stake? If you're confused, it's probably because it happened more than once. "Scaremongering," they scoffed.

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

A "FIFA Peace Prize" is tantamount to getting an "AutoZone Best Actor in a Dramatic Play" award. And "I want to really save lives" is rich coming from the homicidal slob who is murdering people on fishing boats in the Caribbean.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

I am constantly struck by how the 21st century sucks about as much as post World War II 20th century science fiction authors, filmmakers and series producers thought it would.

But Biden, amirite?

This is all very normal. It is perfectly normal in democracies with rule of law and not a thing ordinarily associated with dictatorships and monarchies.

AOC: This is how our healthcare system got deregulated. People talking about Americans should have the personal choice of getting totally fleeced by insurance companies.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

Man, every time angry tweets about Canadian, Aussie or Brit politics passes thorough my timeline, the reminder of how comparatively benign the things that pass for an outrageous transgression of norms or a political scandal in democracies are leaves me sad and a bit nauseated.

You have the right to record ICE. You have the right to film any operation happening in public as long as you do not interfere or impede it. Your camera is proof, but keep a safe distance. KEEP RECORDING.

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

But Biden, amirite?

71 million views. Another brilliant PR move by the outstanding WH comms team. They owned the libs again by attacking and demeaning Sabrina just because she asked them not to steal her music for one of their sick deportation videos. Thanks for the new voters.

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Now that "Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?" season is here, just wanted to note that no finance know-it-all showed up with a legit reason Nakatomi would have (with coupons), $376,000,000 in 2025 dollars worth of bearer bonds. We stopped printing them in 1982 because they mostly only useful for crime.

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

I feel like maybe the "forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown" strategy of willfully ignoring the moral, legal and ethical dilemmas presented by the DSM's identification of a category of mental disorders whose diagnostic criteria happen to correlate strongly with evil is reaching the end of its utility.

The latest entry in the "Flowers for Algernon" Google Assistant decline story "When does open enrollment for the ACA close?" now returns "Sorry, I don't understand." Who can say where the enshittification business model, Techbro oligarchist agenda service and Trump appeasement begin or end now?

Today is when I realized that there are people who have been exposed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity without instantly recognizing it as a complete explanatory model of MAGA. Usually for reasons that are either emotional or ideological (assuming for argument those are distinguishable).

I hate that like the internet has nuked people's brains, I saw someone bitching about "why is the President ALWAYS! like 90!" Obama was in his 40s, so was Bill Clinton, W was 54, just in the last 10 years have Presidents been old (and people could have voted for the 59 year old)

Sometimes I get this feeling of utter frustration as a generation points and says "hey, they can't do that, can they?" at each thing that happens without being able to piece them together because they somehow got the idea that democracy is a sham not all that much better than the alternatives.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

It makes me very sad that Tatiana Schlossberg has to spend any energy whatsoever on RFK, Jr. A true indication of how awful he is that his dying cousin is spending what little remains of her time on earth denouncing him.

I was zooming in and out of a stock price chart and realized I was trying to slide the x-axis past today to see what happened next week. And then, right after I said "heh, you wish," I imagined the psychological, emotional and endocrinological shock trauma I'd have experienced if it had worked...

The answer to all sentences that contain the words "Donald Trump" and end with a question mark is "Narcissistic Personality Disorder." And yet, in his second term, people seem even more determined to not believe or understand that than they were in the first.

CNN's bothsidesing of POTUS demanding the execution of political opponents is pretty much all you need to know about CNN and its collaboration with tyranny by creating epistemic crisis. No link but on youtube. And here's the headline they wrote for it: "Claims." He put it in fucking writing, FFS.

In a profession where the most prominent journalists are increasingly jockeying for position on the best-seller lists and talk show circuits, you'd think one of them would've figured out that punching the bully back would be the most effective way to distance themselves from the pack.

Important life tip kids: affidavits aren't "just lawyer stuff we need you to sign." They're your testimony under oath. If it says you have first hand knowledge of things you don't or states facts you know are untrue and you sign it, it's a felony and whoever made you sign it will not have your back.

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

I don’t think it’s asking too much for press or ppl w large followings on social media to stop saying anyone tormenting immigrants is ICE. Separate from jurisdiction, mission, etc, ICE & Border Patrol operate very differently (like CBP regularly gassing neighborhoods, big Kavanaugh sweeps, etc)…

/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention. Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe. But some tongues were made for the boot.

/12 And there will absolutely be somebody — some Ilan Wurman, some Jonathan Turley, some John Eastman - who will arise to slobber an oily veneer of legal authority on the President’s lawless threats.

One wonders whether the query was "write a story about Trump demanding the arrest of Democrats for sedition" and the LLM's training made it assume Bothsidesing was mandatory or else the query was "Bothsides Trump demanding the arrest of Democrats for sedition." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?

The only people who didn't see this coming and who will credulously believe the files are perfect are in the MSM. Indeed, beyond scrubbing, I fully expect frame-ups. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

Oh no!

Man, there's nothing like extreme anger and alienation of the center-left from establishmentarian centrists to separate the democratic socialists from the trust fund dilettante ideological circle-jerk leftists.

Johnson sounds like he's about to cry, but watch Scalise, McClain and Emmer. All of them have have that "my poker face is breaking because of the sweat trickling down my back" look. And check out that blink rate on Scalise and McClain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=noSy...

NO KIDDING MIKE JOHNSON IS LYING Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

I first heard of "movements," and "periods" in art and learned two of them were "Art Nouveau" and "Art Deco" more than half a century ago. And I still have to stop and take a second to sort out which is which in my head every time because dammit, Art Nouveau is more decorative and Art Deco is newer.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance