L'État, c'est moi 🤡 #Versailles

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

June 14, 2026: Happy … Obama Appreciation Day ❤️

Ah, yes: The American “ideal” stands for grown men beating each other to a bloody pulp in front of the White House 🤡

The Germans have a word for this: "verschlimmbesserung." To make something worse by trying to make it better.

Opinion: The Trump sign was bad, but it is not the main issue with the Kennedy Center.

The Epstein Ballroom, defended by “suckers and losers.”

Of course he is. All while the Parks are understaffed and in various states of disrepair. With gas prices still volatile, perhaps this our #stayhome summer? Gift link 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/c...

Memorial Day, 2026: “Remember Their Names.” 🇺🇸💔🇺🇸 By Dave Granlund

A Golden Age for thee, but not for me 🙄

A cool thing in journalism is when a news org publishes an explosive story, gets sued for it, and responds with another explosive story.

Nope to US tax dollars for the #EpsteinBallroom 🙅‍♀️

Putin on the Ritz

Springsteen saving souls in SF: “Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything I wanna go out tonight I wanna find out what I got … I believe in the hope, and I pray that some day it may raise me above these Badlands” m.youtube.com/watch?v=7CIE...

“I see nothing!” - Sgt. Schultz www.tiktok.com/@rj.gannon/v...

As a seminarian in the early 80s, the future Pope Leo was a big fan of “The Blues Brothers,” the iconic movie filmed in his native Chicago. How’d that theme song go? “I’m a soul man” 😎

Methinks the Orange Man and his Da Vinci Code Crusaders won’t be thrilled by this historic — and major, adult global leaders confab — between #PopeLeo & #Macron at The Vatican 🇫🇷 www.france24.com/en/video/202...

The endless two-week *ceasefire* regime *change* 🤡

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

"The suggestion that one has 'sat on' revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typography, and a coordinated morning-show rollout is both reductive and hostile to the long tradition of political nonfiction."

Call Congress? Unfortunately our “employees” in the House & Senate won’t pick up until Mon., April 13 — when they’ve returned from yet another (paid) 2-week vacation. Still, grateful for the sane & compassionate wisdom of Pope Leo 🙏🕊️

Dark Side of the Moon 🌘🌑🌒

Let’s go, dear San Francisco! 💖

“On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars and marked by a hatred and indifference that make us feel powerless in the face of evil.” - Pope Leo XIV 🕊️ @seattletimes.com

The *best* people 🤡

Let them eat Lobster tail! 🤡

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.

And has *leadership* apologized yet for the Dow falling below 50,000 *dollars*?

“The Paper” premieres 32 years ago today. Not just a stellar cast (including Duvall, #RIP 🙏🏼 ) .. .. but David Koepp’s script beautifully captures the sarcastic, weary and competitive nature of a local news editorial meeting.

Well … if museums, unfettered by an imposed political ideology, still exist in the future 🤦‍♀️

WATCH: “Amid all the chaos and death, how did our wartime president spend the afternoon? By palling around with internet personality and aspiring boxer Jake Paul in Kentucky—and of course, dancing to the YMCA,” says Chris Hayes.

Devastating read. Sans a coherent plan, the WH *braintrust* assumed they’d score a TikTok “excursion” win. Instead, they’ve reenergized the brutal Iranian regime. And failed innocent, everyday Iranians.

Except for @davejorgenson.bsky.social & his fabulously dramatic wig, this cringe clip is a real deposition by a DOGE bro on why he wood-chipped NEH grants 🤦‍♀️

DOD (or whatever, DOW 🙄): Let them eat King Crab! 🤡

Asked if the US can trust that Russia has not shared military intelligence with Iran, a real estate developer-turned *diplomat* assures a once noble nation, troubled by rising soldier casualties, deaths & soaring gas prices: “We can take them at their word. Let’s hope that they’re not sharing.” 🤡

“The fact that he’s costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn’t want may be a good place to start.” 🤡 @mjtoma.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2074... via @newrepublic.com

As millions of Americans were kicked off SNAP and lines are forming in the Bay Area for $6 p/g gas, the Pentagon declares: Let them eat King Crab! 🤡 newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

Remember when folks went into a meltdown over the appropriateness of Obama wearing a tan suit, in the DC summer, at a military news briefing? 🤡 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Dear Lord — please let our real “Daddy” return home 🕊️ #Obama #Hope #SiSePuede 💪

If this is not a “war,” how can the illegal mongers demand, “Unconditional Surrender”? #SurrenderDorothy

Happy Primary Season 🫣

Operation Epstein Fury, Day 3:

Obama: "Right now we're being tested. And the good news is what we saw in Mpls and St. Paul, and what we're seeing in places across the country included here in LA, has been the American people -- at least a good number of them -- saying 'we're going to live up to those values we say we believe in'"

The Golden Age.

In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, historian Robert Kagan says all major US institutions have buckled before Trump. Only the people are resisting, he says, citing the scenes from the streets of Minneapolis which utterly infuriate Trump and his cronies, driving them to lethal violence.