I checked my relatively dormant Twitter account this morning and saw a post with a picture of Obama, with the accompanying tweet asking “didn’t the downfall of the USA begin with the election of this man?”, followed by hundreds of replies in agreement. MAGA and twitter are now out and proud racists

Flipping through MSM on TV this morning to hear them all gushing about Israel and Hamas have agreed to “a framework” for a peace deal thanks to the strong American leadership in the region. How many frameworks have been agreed to during the past 2 years only to fall apart? Boy the MSM is lionizing T

I am aghast to learn that Attorney Lindsey Galligan graduated from a Jesuit college - Regis University in Colorado. But then again Justice Kavanaugh graduated Georgetown Prep HS, another Jesuit School. I have the utmost respect for many Jesuits, but am upset that many of their grads chose the dark

What is Vivek Ramaswamy up to these days?

I was just mopping my kitchen floor and turned on NPR, only to hear Charlie Kirk being lionized as a great, far thinking conservative celebrity, so I switched to a yacht rock station.

Turned on Morning Joe to discover Joe vociferously defending MSNBC management’s firing of Matthew Dowd for truthfully discussing how the hateful speech of Charlie Kirk has contributed to the country’s violence. I switched to The Weather Channel

Where were the women officials in the press Utah “press conference”? Oh, I forgot, in Mormon-centric Utah, women are only football cheerleaders and baby makers…..

As an American, watching the leaders of the tech industry fawn over and lavish praise on Donald was deeply depressing and mortifying

Donald continues to lie about the extent of crime in DC and how the presence of the National Guard and federal has effected restaurant traffic in DC

I see that the advertising agency for Jardience has reanimated Busby Berkeley to direct/choreograph their TV commercials

I give up. I’ll be 77 in 10 months. Fascists are now in control of the USA. My father bombed fascists to hell in 1944-45 when he was 20-21 I had friends register black voters in the 1960s. I marched against Vietnam 1968-70. We adopted the Voting rights act. 1/2 Today our opponents use the law to

So I see that the investor class and wall street traders just love authoritarianism and facist rule in America as long the market continues to go up…..

So EJ Antoni got his undergraduate education at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, a college that prepares young men for the priesthood, then went on to Northern Illinois University for his MA and PhD in economics. So he washed out of the seminary, but found his calling as an economist

I think I’ve finally figured out how Trump bankrupted his Atlantic City casinos, his airline, his steaks, his university, etc. - because he only hires people to run his business ventures who are loyal to him alone, regardless whether they are incompetent or not

Jim Lovell, the Apollo astronaut died today. Jim stood for the best in America in the 1960s and 1970s. We will miss him. I will miss him.

Made the mistake of taking a look at Morning Joe this morning, only to hear him normalize Trump’s proposed meeting with Putin to discuss Ukraine…as if Donald will be different now than he was with Putin in Helsinki

I remember back in 1971 and 1972 when I was in grad school at Wesleyan (Middletown, CT), the highlight of each week was always Sunday, when my housemates and I would chip in to buy 2 copies of the Sunday NYT and 2 copies of the WAPO and sit around, with an always percolating coffee pot, just reading

I’m beginning to think that Donald has decompressed into believing that he has become the reincarnation of Louis Quatorze so naturally he’s trying to turn the White House into Versailles, replete with faux gold throughout the WH and a new ballroom he hopes will recreate the gilded splendor of Louis

‘Fundamentally ignorant:’ Ex-Treasury chief torches Trump's 'downright scary' math skills https://twp.ai/4iovmG

Why do media figures like Nicole Wallace continue to refer to the current situation as “America’s march toward authoritarianism”; we’re already there folks. Just ask those poor souls already kidnapped by ICE; those Democratic officials prevented from access to ICE facilities; colleges shaken down…

I don’t know about you, but I found the current Amazon TV commercial for low cost back to school items profoundly offensive, when it referred to school age kids as “freeloaders.” That’s how Repubs characterize everyone who is not a millionaire or a millionaire to be

So how is it that 45% of the US population voted TWICE for dumb Donald

Sure is. Sure is.

This past June we celebrated Pride. I remember back about 15 or 16 years ago waiting to testify before a Massachusetts State Committee in support of transgender rights, when a conservative leader from Western Massachusetts stood up to declare that God, by sending a tornado 1/2

In the 1600s and 1700s it was the stockholders of the British West India Company and other mercantile companies that controlled the economy and politicians of America. In the 1800s and early 1900s, the control over the economy and politicians was taken over by the Robber Barons who owned the 1/2

In case anyone has missed that there’s something happening here: we are witnessing the Orbanization of American government, education, and science/medicine in real time. And our MSM are going along with it by normalizing everything Trump, MAGA, and Christian nationalists are doing, as if it 1/2

Why did Trump suddenly cancel yesterday’s intelligence briefings of Congress? You have to ask? We already know from the “leaks” of the preliminary intelligence assessments of the B-2 bombing run that the attack did NOT, as Trump contends, obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. So Trump needs more 1/2

Watching Trump get angry at both Israel and Iran for breaking the cease fire “he” negotiated, I was stuck by how much weight he seems to have gained!

Has anyone else noted that Trump wears his red MAGA HAT all of the time. Why?

Is this a Defense Department briefing or just another Cabinet member’s nonstop kissing of Trump’s behind?

Over the past 4+ weeks, I’ve been trying to do things that help me from becoming depressed, so, for example, every morning I take each of my 4 terrier mix pups for a walk. I used to listen to NPR’s morning edition, but I now listen to 1960s and 70s music as well as Copeland’s Appalachian 1/x

PREDATOR was released 38 years ago today. Among the most popular science fiction/action movies of the 1980s, and one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s biggest movies, the behind the scenes tale ain’t got time to bleed… 1/36

Why do I think the thugs who physically forced Senator Padilla out of the room yesterday were probably employees of Constellis, formerly Blackwater, hired to provide security for cosplay Kristi?

I spent the summer of 1969 hitchhiking and mooching off of college classmate families throughout Western Europe. In August of that summer, I travelled with three classmates from Vienna to Prague to be there for the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which was put down violently by the 1/x

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have no interest in living my golden years in an America that is being “Orbanized” by Trump and his sycophants

Share this far and wide. It will only get worse.

@jfallows.bsky.social Missed you at our class’s 55th Reunion

I haven’t watched Morning Joe since Joe and Mika trekked down to Mar-a-Lago to genuflect before Trump. So I tuned in this morning to see if anything has changed. And who do they have on? David Ignatius, the WAPO correspondent who spent Trump 1.0 doing everything he could to normalize the Orange King

The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

Trump: how dare the Pope, chief spreader of the woke mind virus, upstage the world’s attention on me by dying!

Parker's newsletter is always so good! And also John does such a good job of cutting through bullshit and speaking with moral clarity on his television show!

Are ICE agents paid based upon the number of immigrants they kidnap and send off for deportation?

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

When is Trump releasing an EO telling the NFL to get rid of The Rooney Rule, which is an overt DEI initiative?

Reagan used to sing the praises of the USA as “the shining city on the hill” and within 2+ months of his inauguration, Trump has turned it into a noxious dung heap in a gutter

Who'd have thought the guy who lies constantly about literally everything, wants to develop cybersecurity with our enemies, and stole top secret classified documents including war plans when he left last time would not be responsible when managing sensitive information?