The Child Molester in Chief says the New York Times is a “threat to the National Security of our Nation” and a “TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.” The same child molester that fought to keep Jack Smith's second final report secret.

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

LoL'd at an email I received today. CC interest stayed around 14.5% from 2009 to 2018. Only recently have banks gone off the rails thinking 21.74% is a great balance-transfer deal. In other news: Trump has ended the CFPB, which will close down in 2026 due to lack of funding...

”There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue would cause political backlash from the Somali community, which is a core voting block for Democrats.” Only a problem if A) this statement is verbatim from the AGO, and B) the writer is in a position to know. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

So I just read about how Trump's USAID cuts are causing more starvation in Africa...and I'm honestly of two minds about it: 1) No one on earth should ever starve to death. 2) If fixing starvation in an area is impossible, then people shouldn't live there. $7B/year in perpetuity seems short-sighted.

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!

Did anyone see a clear and concise list like this during the congressional standoff? Anyone seeing an arguement like this even now? I whipped this up in literally 20 minutes. Our elected officials SUCK at communication.

The Pentagon has diverted $2 BILLION of its money to support the Trump admin's deportation operations. And Congress just voted to give them $8 BILLION more. We need to stop this egregious funding for an agency that hasn't even passed an audit EVER!

I've had family and co-workers who are gun enthusiasts. Heard all the excuses against gun laws. But every excuse involves either selective attention, irrational risk management, ignorance of the phrase "well regulated militia", or relies on a outdated understanding of US exceptionalism.

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A spinning top’s wobble precedes its eventual fall. Every rule and tradition that’s destroyed in favor of empowering the executive branch adds more wobble between administrations. Soon entire presidencies will be spent simply undoing what’s been done by the previous administration.

Hopelessly convoluted research topic: If ICE needs masks, why don’t normal uniformed police need masks? Don’t they deal with more significant threats? Recent debate on X went unchallenged by the few left-leaning folks in the chat. A main pro-Trump point ignored this basic question.

Since it seems we continue to let six unelected, lifetime-tenured conservatives act as an unchallenged ultimate authority, here's a three year old reminder of how perverse our US Supreme Court has become: afj.org/article/how-...

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

Trump giving himself fake medals. I've been to countless award ceremonies and I've never, not even once, seen the person take the award from the proffer and put it on their self. What's going on? Is this AI slop? It looks like AI slop.

Typical Republican incompetence: Spend significant time trying to condition your military for an eventual coup, then blow it by throwing them under the bus too early. So thankful that these machiavellian morons never bothered to actually read Machiavelli. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There's a difference between freedom of speech and permissive disinformation. We're in an epidemic of disinformation. The only way forward I can see is to connect every false statement to financial loss and flood the courts with suits for fraud. Eventually the pain point will need to be addressed.

Autoimmune disorders must really suck. There's undoubtedly a lot of people suffering. I feel for these people and hope we discover causes and cures fast. In the mean time I'd appreciate it if YouTube would stop insisting I need meds for Crohn's, IBD, and ulcerative colitis.

Hunh, who would have ever guessed that some of the most influential pro-MAGA accounts on Twitter/X are actually foreign agents. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Clear contrasts:

First World Problems this morning. My family bakes a lot of cookies in December. Is it too much to ask for cookie tins that can hold more than a dozen cookies? My family used to have tins big enough to hold a pizza. Now Google "Extra Large Cookie Tins" and everything is fun sized.

Looking for a Republican/conservative podcast to balance the Rachel Maddow Show. Rachel always lists verifiable facts when complaining about Republicans, but I can't find a conservative podcast that does the same. So far Drill Down was closest but 20 min in and they're spinning BS like the others.

So, let me get this straight: Schumer is going to cave to the false Republican claim that no deal can possibly be made while the government is shut down, as long as they "promise" to "vote" on extending tax credits in December...and he believes them. <sigh> Can we 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 get rid of this guy already?

Thank you @governor.pa.gov Well said 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #TheOppositionIsAliveAndWell #WTFAmerica

Factions have rendered US Congress corrupt beyond repair. Loyalty to the dear leader is required and there is no effective opposition in play. But the great news today is that No Kings and local Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Zohran Mamdani are sounding a loud wake up call. Turn up the volume!

We the people task Congress to make laws, oversee the Executive branch, and run the budget. Regardless of why, they are clearly incapable of performing their asigned duties. We have given them feedback, an improvement plan, and time to fix their flaws. It's now time to let them go. All. Of. Them.

If you're trying to make BlueSky users believe you're one of the (apparently) hundreds of young, female, Asian, beauty business owners living in San Francisco, or if your DM asks to connect on "a more private app", do me a favor and unfollow. Let's save each other some time, yeah?

Trump Administration targets grocery stores offering discounts to poor people who relied on SNAP before Trump refused to pay the benefits www.commondreams.org/news/usda-te...

Finding normal brand-name items on Amazon is becoming increasingly difficult. I've just about had it with all the re-sellers and knockoffs. Add to this all the old movies becoming pay-for-view on Prime Video and I'm seriously leaning toward quitting my use of this company.

Disinformation, misinformation, bologna. It's only getting worse; I'm becoming a disgruntled old man about it. Right, left, or in between: if you don't have the peer-reviewed academic source and/or scientific consensus to back up your belief then make the world better by keeping it to yourself.

I use Alexis and ChatGPT. I ask everything from "what's the best seasoning for salmon" to "did [insert celebrity] ever say anything considered racist." So far, I've learned that Alexis will happily pass on internet misinformation while ChatGPT will avoid directly answering. We need better options.