It was a raid as shocking as it was extraordinary: Last month, the FBI entered the main election operations center of Fulton County, Georgia, and seized records — including ballots — from the 2020 presidential vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

That same acid-eating staffer who sent out the racist meme about the Obamas is at it again. Now he's saying China's going to end hockey in Canada. What a fucking whack job. They really need to fire that guy.

China will "permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup." Behold the predictive insights of our mad king, who convinced a healthy third of American adults to vote for his leadership. This moron is not only walking erect and jabbering at the world, he's doing it in the name of the United States of America.

The Christ child and a windfall for dentists laboring amid the cracked and damaged mouths of tourists who had no clue.

Since 1987, the entire construct of the U.S. mandatory sentencing code is that convicted defendants can only receive reductions in sentences for displaying remorse and fully cooperating with prosecutors. The perversity of Trump and his guilt is that for a pardon, Maxwell must display the opposite.

To be a NY Jets fan is a magical journey, is it not? Today was just another scenic view on the long and wondrous road to hell.

It seems that Epstein was pretty damn good at manufacturing consent.

AI slop is getting harder and harder to detect.

I'm no expert on search functionality, but is this a smoking hot gun as to the corruption of the process. Why redact "don't" in ordinary sentences? And why search for any name or moniker in the files? Shouldn't they be reading the documents and considering redaction issues on each person regardless?

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

"Transformation." Yeah, that's a word for it. Back to the British tabloids with his ass; he crossed the pond long enough to butcher one of the great grey ladies of journalism. What trash he proved to be.

I can only hope that they are stale and unsalted, as the sonsabitches deserve no better.

"Trump refuses to apologize" is the inevitable headline that follows every misdeed. Apologizing requires a measure of integrity, self-awareness and, yes, confidence. Deep down, this man knows he's a shitpiece. He's terrified that if he's seen admitting an error, he's exposed...

Impossible to respect people that allow themselves to be openly robbed on this level. From Congress to the courts to ordinary voters, Americans have become slow, stupid and pathetic -- a citizenry incapable of operating our once-promising experiment with self-governance. We are, all of us, marks.

This. As I've been arguing for decades now in prose and on film, we are now living in a time when human beings are worth less. Some of us have more and feel empowered, but most are betrayed. And society is firmly structured for such.

Fifth grade student who went missing in Minnesota was spotted at ICE center in Texas, school claims trib.al/wdU82aY

Or just go to a quiet corner of a room and say Kaddish.

This is entirely true. The policies being undertaken at the federal level are, issue by issue, deeply unpopular. But our electoral outcomes are corrupted by constitutional anachronisms, gerrymandering and organized voter suppression. Government by the people is farce.

I have to concede, when human hypocrisy achieves its purest form, it has a strange and luminous beauty that defies explanation. It's something that would make Swift lift his quill or Kubrick, his camera.

Sonny Jurgensen has departed, and with him, a huge burgundy chunk of my childhood. A favorite story: Late in his career, when pulled off the bench to run a 2-minute drill and pass to a game-winning TD, Jurgy told his huddle: "My only question is what're we gonna do with the extra forty seconds."

I have no surprise left to summon that Donald Trump felt no moral restraint when posting vile, juvenile and hideously racist imagery of President Obama and his wife. I am, however, astonished that it remains up to this moment and the White House is even attempting to defend itself.

WWJD? He would get the fuck out of that prayer breakfast.

It really says something about our national descent that the President of the United States and the most damaged, onanistic submoron in the country are now, somehow, the same exact person.

Compromise. Name the tunnel for him. It's way more fitting, as they're both holes of a kind.

In the overstuffed closet containing things about which I shall never give a listless fuck, the status of alternatives to nationally-backed currencies or recognized commodities will forever reside. These are Dutch tulips. This is a long-con pyramid game. Every rube should lose his last nickel.

It doesn't look like much from the outside, but the V.I.P. room is, well, if you know, you know...

I confess this foaming, rabid conspiracy theory once sounded more to me like Occam's Flamethrower than Occam's Razor. The shorter logical distance seemed to be an indulged, self-obsessed, extremely affluent asshole who was caught, doomed and couldn't jail. Nowadays, well, hand me the flamethrower.

Our American horror show.

This is an insightful overview of the anti-Semitism now coursing through the New Right and the opportunism that powers it. Blame the Jews is currency that never fails to spend with shitheels and angry rubes, and well, they're the elemental audience for that political movement.

Framber Valdez is not an Oriole. This is the kind of shit that happens in a world gone very wrong.

You can't shine shit. Not even if you coat it in gold. It's still a piece of shit.

Thread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...

To be fair, Christ was a bit on the down-low for the whole of Old Testament and only starts to pop in the ensuing fan-fic. By contrast, Trump seems to have started his Epstein character arc from as soon as he could snag an invite to the first party.

Beginning October 2023 (still pinned on X), have routinely criticized Israeli policies, from conduct of Gaza War to the WB settlements, and called for Netanyahu and his allies to be in the Hague. What vexes you is my equal contempt for Hamas and its Iranian sponsors. Fuck extremism. Fuck you, liar.

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Do you think the Trumpists have been polite up until now? Fuck all, the cruelty of family separation and kids in cages began Trump 1. Sorry, the Godwin rule not longer applies to this American run at fascism; they've been pressing buttons and pushing boundaries from jump. Next up a Kristallnacht.

At least the Nazis went to the trouble of passing the Nuremberg Laws and making the brutality and totalitarianism street legal. The gutlessness of the American run at fascism is that they want to do it simply by pretending the Bill of Rights never existed or meant anything.

This descibes the entire Iraq War, by the way.

Anyone with a heart and soul should agree that children and babies do not belong behind bars. Thousands of kids will carry a lifetime of trauma and PTSD, done in our name, funded by our tax dollars.

Genuinely, if she was that big a crazed asshole because she was utterly faced, I'd be marginally more sympathetic. If this is her stone sober, it's an argument for unrelenting alcoholism.

At least you are looking out. Good on the bunch of you.

To be clear, it was certain to be ruled a homicide as the legal definition for such is ANY person's death caused by another human. All killings -- accidental, justifiable or not -- are de facto homicides. The key distinction is whether a grand jury will call it a murder or even manslaughter.

There is no manner in which ICE agents now present themselves, no language they will direct at citizens or immigrants, no abuse or brutality they undertake, and no slaying they will commit that can at this point shock or surprise me. These thugs are not law enforcement. They are S.A. brownshirts.

Ladies and gentlemen, professional American law enforcement. We are the shithole nation. We are the country that needs regime change. We are the beshitted totalitarian state.

Raw fascism, this:

No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again. And nothing above is hyperbole. God, but you are not a leader for this time.

Let no one say that as a nation, in spite of all the current ugliness, we have lost our sense of humor.

The phrase you are looking for, sir, is theological appropriation.