Maybe he meant by that that if you looked in one of his ears, you could see out the other one.

What I'll never understand is why any of them think anybody would want to be like them, to look like them, to act like them, much less have them running a popsicle stand, not the country and tearing down the whole world. Anyone who doesn't believe in good and evil has to be reformed watching this.

I said it before, but an addendum to Voltaire's remarks is that if hell did not exist it would have to be invented

What was that talent show where they had that cane and they would hook people with it and pull them off the stage. The Gong Show?

lest i be accused of not taking this stuff seriously, i think we absolutely have to prepare for violence in 2028, and it is very important that democrats control the Maryland and Virginia national guards

Networking is so key. Incredibly effective, low to no cost, and enables rapid response. Everyone has a job and knows exactly what it is and what to do when they get the call. Someone, maybe @whstancil.bsky.social said Minute Men. 250 years later, back where we started: Not putting up with this shit.

Something to keep front of mind:

@arkdems.org , Arkansas evidently has some anti-American outsiders trying to sabotage the primaries. #ARpx

Two family members got got this text today. I didn't, and can't find anything about it. I cut most of the content. Authoritarian style disinfo is obviously going to be rampant this election but I find it interesting they're already dumping so much money spreading slime in this race. Begin 🧵

European governments are also using #Palantir products. Will they be using ELITE as well? Maybe this would be a good moment for all European governments to come clean about their ties with palantir. And cut them.

June 2024: "Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack‘s [(R)] son James Phillip Womack was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine." Jan. 2026: Trump pardons James Phillip Womack. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... www.justice.gov/pardon/media...

#ARpx #midterms

the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party

Wow, y'all are absolutely writing the book for the rest of us.

From someone who has the cultural development of a plain baked potato.

We've all been focusing on the wrong things in this economy for years now. We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't provide a basic standard of living for everyone. Our rich are the filthiest rich in the history of humanity. Something's gotta give.

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We've got it going on this election! #ARpx #midterms #Arkansas

We've all been fond of saying accountability, but we have been very narrow in our applications and targets for it. We need to be serious and it needs to be pervasive in our major institutions, public and private, once we're on the other side of this mess, or we'll be back in it in our lifetimes.

If this keeps deteriorating at this pace or even accelerating, by the time of elections if he tries to pull anything major, the general population is going to go apeshit. I'm beginning to wonder if he'll make it to the midterms. He's risking a global economic crisis, which may be the tech-bro line.

I don't think is a matter of being dismissive of the danger or how serious it is that he'll try such things. There's no limit on what he might *try* to do. But these are still incompetent buffoons prone to magical thinking, most of all than the man himself.

Trump’s chaos can obscure the bigger picture But the data is clear Pro democracy litigators are winning two thirds of the time And 76% when including immigration cases @democracydefendersfund.org is part of that coalition Your support makes it possible to push back and win against autocracy -TN

I've been thinking that. Happy 250th anniversary to us.

To be fair MSNOW is trying, but it's not enough because corporate media dominates most of what's not far right. But I've learned we have some incredible representatives I'd never heard of, and a few really good senators. It's pretty much on us to amplify them by following here and reposting.

The only question is when.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Man, Miller knows how to turn a phrase.

2/ let's not forget this. this is all on SCOTUS. these tariffs are comically, absurdly illegal on their face. but even if SCOTUS strikes them down in the coming days they've allowed to be in effect for more than a year, reorder the US and global economies. a one year dictator mulligan isnt democracy

There'll come a tipping point, not where people start standing up to him, but where he's just saying this stuff until it lacks all meaning and people just go on about their business like he doesn't exist. They're trying to do that now, but so far it isn't working.

At least he engaged instead of just blocking--yet. Kudos for that.

Why are we condemned to entertaining this lunatic's bullshit twenty 24/7/365 (that's rhetorical, I know why). TBH, that's starting to piss me off at the people who got him elected as much as anything else.

FYI, this response is predictable, and a good illustration of the disconnect between even liberal publications and their potential readers. It's a lazy way of dismissing any questions about what you're asserting in your pieces.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I wish the Supreme Court would hurry the hell up.

"I'm going to keep punching myself in the face until you give me what I want."

*Sigh* #ARpx Whatever happens nationally, red states have been and are continuing to be pimped out to the first bidders, not even the highest bidders.

Until we accept not that we elected a felon, that much is clear, but that corporations and corporate media funneled the country to that choice intentionally, we're not going to recover from this.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

If they could manage to charge even one of these for a violent crime committed while on the job, it wouldn't end what's happening, but it might make them rub a few of their brain cells together before doing some of the shit they're doing.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. The fact that they're broadly ignorant is about to become their problem.

Contentless clickbait. If all you're going to do is mimic what has been done ad nauseum by Politico & co, what's the point? Name names and give specifics, or this is just published shitposting.

Miller, otoh, is a tiny man who has no alliances, including with the man whose job he's doing right now. If he ever ceases to be useful to Trump or worse, Trump sees him as a liability, he'll dump him right there. And he won't grant a pardon. Why would he? Miller doesn't have anything he wants.

He thinks he's gonna set off World War III and survive in there to rebuild civilization in his own image afterward.

He posted this an hour ago, with the music “Join ice” by Jesse wells. I think he’s ok.

Republicans, especially in the last a few weeks, seem very deer-in-the-headlights compared to Jan 6, where they did all that tough talk against Trump and then walked it back.

She's climbing out on a very thin limb with a saw. She's protecting somebody besides Trump in those files.

Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.

This needs to be a huge part of the Democratic Party's message. 1 and 2 don't have any strength without 4.

The entry to the Mexican restaurant (Don Julio) in my hometown of Forest Lake MN that closed as a result of ICE has become a shrine. Two-thirds of voters in Forest Lake supported Trump in 2024.