"I think [Trump's] a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office." -- Lindsey Graham, February 2016 "What concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label [Trump] as some kind of kook, not fit to be president." -- Lindsey Graham, November 2017

contrast: fair to celebrate "king trump" on the national mall vs "no kings" rally to oppose trump on the national mall

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

I miss the great American tradition of not thinking about the president constantly.

Fight. Don’t cower.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

It is the year 2026. Why does the iPhone STILL not have a two-finger gesture to rotate a photo 90 degrees?

It's also Murc's Law to the max. "We had no choice but to embrace fascism because of you!!!"

this is just an expression of the conservative belief that it was outrageous for barack obama to try to win an election

Anyways here's pictures of fossil fuel extraction.

This is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

Live your life in such a way that people don't gather in person and online in masses to watch your name be taken off of a monument.

The world's first trillionaire. To our eternal collective shame.

You need to hear this beautiful, uplifting, totally joyous a cappella cover of SWV’s “Weak” performed by New York Vocal Collective. Wow!

I hope they boo so loud and long that it breaks records.

This map is wild

Incredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game

So sad to hear that Marcia Lucas has died. Her editing career was short but absolutely incredible. Her work on Star Wars, Taxi Driver, and American Graffiti alone make her a legend. And despite George Lucas's efforts to do so, nothing can erase her from the history of Star Wars and Lucasfilm.

Awakenings (1990). Beautiful and devastating. Fantastic lead performances from Robert De Niro and a refreshingly subdued Robin Williams. Gorgeous score by Randy Newman. Wonderful direction by Penny Marshall. Seems to be mostly forgotten these days but it’s an all-time great tearjerker.

Happy 76th birthday to one of my favorite musicians and humans, Stevie Wonder! I’ve had this sticker on my laptop for years as a small but heartfelt tribute. His music and activism and impact make him truly one of one. Here’s to many more!

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

The flu killed around 45,000 US soliders in World War I, almost as many as were killed in combat. US servicemembers have been required to get the flu shot for 80+ years. But thanks to Hegseth and RFK Jr. and Trump we can finally MAKE INFLUENZA GREAT AGAIN.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

Has your representative said this yet? If not, contact them and demand it.

The CNN and NY Times headlines covering this genocidal madness both say Trump "issues grave threat." Congress is obviously the most culpable for propping up this evil and increasingly unhinged man, but the press is running a close second with their (mostly) gutless coverage.

I will donate $500 to Trump's presidential library if they promise to show on a continuous loop his 1987 CNN Crossfire interview where he bullshits his way through questions about his favorite authors and books (when he hasn't read anything, maybe ever) then claims his earpiece isn't working.

I’m reminded that hundreds of people lost their jobs for their posts and statements after Charlie Kirk died. Some for doing nothing more than quoting his own words.

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

What if another country attacked us, unprompted, on the grounds that we have nukes, & we’re actually the only country in history to have ever used nukes on an enemy, & our leader is so unstable he can’t be trusted to be responsible w/ them? If we agree that wouldn’t be justified, how could this be?

Another illegal attack. No UN backing. No congressional approval. We had a deal with Iran in 2015 to keep them from building nuclear weapons. Iran was complying with the terms, including strict monitoring and inspections by the IAEA. Trump tore up that deal in 2018. 1/

I love @letterboxd.social and pay for the pro service. But I can't believe how utterly broken and limited the search functionality is. Even the "advanced" search terms don't let me do things like search my diary entries for a particular movie. Come on, Letterboxd. This is the most basic stuff.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

I just cancelled my Plain Dealer subscription. If they don't respect themselves and their readers enough to write their own stories, I will at least have enough respect for myself not to read it or pay for it.

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

We're gonna need a bigger cross.

Giraffes have 7 neck vertebrae. 7 is the Biblical number of completion. Jesus was a giraffe. 🤯

That's design.

This paradoxically positions centrism (a political ideology) as something not tarnished by the biases and blind spots that may come from having a political ideology — which is arguably an even bigger blind spot than just admitting you have an opinion

Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested 29 times for his nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, or "direct action" as he called it. He had a 75% disapproval rating by the American public at the beginning of 1968, the year of his murder. 1/

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

It's the Kennedy Center and always will be. It's a memorial to a fallen president. Period. It's going to feel amazing to see his name taken off all these things after he leaves office. Like peeling off an old scab. Small comfort in the ocean of abuses we're living through, but I'll take it.

Rob Reiner was a monumental talent and a passionate progressive activist with a huge heart. His 5-movie directorial run of Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and a Few Good Men is one of the most impressive accomplishments in movie history. 1/

There’s always a Far Side

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"