Have watched the first five episodes of Ken Burns The American Revolution. It’s not looking good for the Americans.

No more heroes.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Rubio: Maduro had “many off-ramps.” Off-ramps = bribes 💵💵💵💵

Trump insanity on full display.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Per SCOTUS, we can now raid America’s basements and round up all the young white men we find there. You just know they’re up to something. It’s common sense.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Marco is the Lindsey Graham of Mitch McConnells.

Have there ever been two more corrupt justices on the Supreme Court than Alito and Thomas? Not simply wrong, but corrupt.

#ToucanTuesday or #ToucanTuchusTuesday? A Collared Araçari showing me its backside at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #toucans

Um, hi.