Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

Please let that be the Mother Ship. We will deliver our Leader to your doorstep.

Rich people kill you for money. They are not your friends.

This kind of thing doesn’t happen to me but I did see Rudy Tomjanovich at Mass once because we went to the same church.

He's never leaving.

I’m guessing it will hard for Ds to conduct a Congressional investigation into Trump’s actions after he puts them in jail.

The man has nuclear weapons and our D leaders are talking about waiting to act until the win the House and Republicans respond to subpoenas, which will be never.

We know what will happen with the people who become disenchanted with Trump because we saw what happened with George Bush. Those people switched over to supporting Trump. God only knows what monster they will support next, but it won’t be a D.

The man’s brains are scrambled eggs but he also sees no problem with taking another country that doesn’t belong to him, which is a big honking warning sign.

Eccentric detective from Louisiana. No, not that one. The other one.

don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it

Bless his heart. I hope someone is holding his hand when he crosses the street.

See also: Texas.

You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.

People pile up billions of dollars to live a life without restrictions and then they imprison themselves behind security for fear of losing any of that wealth.

So we have restarted the American slave trade, in a way.

The purpose of putting Turning Point into the schools is to get free campaign labor.

It‘s not unthinkable. Parents think about it from the child‘s birth. They schedule vaccinations, take kids to the doctor, and endure the screaming and crying. All because they thought about their kid dying if they were not vaccinated. You trust measles more than the shot? How did that work out?

Their origin story is seedy country preachers telling grannies, on tv or radio, to send them money to save souls and get a lurid pamphlet in return.

My grandmother contracted scarlet fever and became deaf.

The people who elevate loyalty to a personality over the good of the nation. Like Trump fans, they believe the leader would solve the nation’s problems if they were not being held back by internal disloyalty and external sabotage. Thus purging the party is their solution.

A person who buys an immigration Golden Ticket buys houses. An immigrant joins with other immigrants or family and rents a house or apartment from an investment group that bought up hundreds of houses. And yet the right never blames the rich.

I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.

And if they ignore the subpoenas? Will they be jailed?

The climate alone. It’s hotter than hell and where I live the humidity makes it infinitely worse. Hurricanes, tropical storms, derechos, flooding. Few natural places of interest such as lakes, mountains. Galveston beach is horrible compared to other coasts.

Liberation is unequivocally better for all women and any woman with an iota old sense knows this. The women who sell out other women to abet fascism will find themselves in the same hole as every other group with less power than the Christian white male. Eventually they too will be persecuted.

Once again, conservatives perform stupidity in public to enforce their agenda. How humiliating.

She has three children under 5 and a busy work life. She is not raising those babies herself. And she can always quit and watch her husband walk out the door to work every morning while she… doesn’t. You are what you do, not what you say.

They should come to Texas in August and test that theory.

If we don’t dismiss Kennedy out of hand as a lunatic, it really seems that he wants to kill and/or inflict suffering and debilitation on a bunch of people. You are what you do, not what you say.

They would rather have (white) women stay at home and work 24/7 without pay so there are more jobs for (white) men, and so men don’t ever need to obey women.

When an authoritarian‘s demands exceed his plausible claims to authority, he defaults to a god to back him up, since he also claims that gods have ultimate authority. Gods can’t be questioned and won’t contradict the authority.

I don't think the rest of the world is going to just accept Trump invading and overthrowing another country. Especially Canada; the US is going to be eyeing those agricultural fields as we accelerate climate change and they need to be concerned that they would be next.

Him: I had a better time at Ardennes. Her: In my head, I’m cleaning the stove.

So they’re using Black neighborhoods as a dumping ground in Houston and here’s the police response… “On Tuesday morning, ABC13 saw police along South Lane and a tow truck that pushed the boat off the road into a ditch. It's unclear why it wasn't towed away.”

Or 73 years, you might say.

Mantis Incense Burner, Japan — 1800s

5️⃣ THE NUMBER FIVE TOM THE DANCING BUG OF 2025 - Q-Nuts, in "All Hail the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," from the week of 4/28/25

The White House kept all the crime for themselves.

I give a Christmas Tea party every Christmas Eve but we wear jeans and tee shirts. Maybe I should raise my game.

I gave a copy of Finnegan’s Wake for Christmas. The recipient was delighted.

This is one of the better annual internet writing traditions and I'm proud to be a part of it! And there are a LOT of great essays in here! Dive in! vagabondscholar.blogspot.com/2025/12/jon-...

How convenient that fascist decided that obedience to authority is the essence of citizenship. “Honor/Obey your mother and father” because they pass down and reinforce authoritarianism via the family unit. “We are Christian” because the demand for obedience backed up by a deity can’t be refuted.

This research is what convinced me. "Furthermore, women’s contributions were viewed as “equally balanced” when women spoke 25% of the time or less. When women spoke as little as 30% of the time or more, they were perceived as dominating the conversation." medium.com/swlh/speakin...

When life gets extremely difficult for narcissists, they give up. Narcissists thrive on people who give in to them. It’s meat and drink for them. We, individually and as a party, need to obstruct, deny, and demean on a massive scale, until this is no longer fun for him.

And that something being taken away is “everthing.” If every opportunity is not devoted to these white men, they feel cheated. You must compete with a bigger group than you would prefer? Outrageous! Something must be done.

Thread.

Thread. I am more likely to trust someone who says they will help the city or state if I see them help the neighborhood. If we only voted for this type of person, we might end up with a decent country.

We need to mock them until they cry.

Every time we get rid of one Terminally Wrong White Guy, another pops up. And yet there are so many other people who are under-appreciated. Maybe we can make 2026 the Year Of Celebrating People Who Are Smart And Good.