Unfortunately, government is not who taught kids to see themselves as the center of the universe, entitled to whatever they want, whenever they want it, and that violence (which, like most other actions) has no consequences and is the appropriate way to express disagreement. They did aid and abet.

A long read, but I don't see any glaring logical errors in it, and it looks well researched. An analysis that should appeal to many of us on Bluesky. www.noemamag.com/the-politics...

When I first saw the tag [Bondi Shooting] I went "Oh, wow!" Then I found out it was in Australia, against a Hanukka celebration.

And what's scarier is that they are not all white. Seems to be a lot of self-hate rampant in the populace.

Will be destroying? Rather, have been and are destroying.

Or, perhaps, Maybe Activate Guillotines Again

I don't believe that Trump helped to run the trafficking ring; there isn't any evidence that it was losing money.

It may be that he is not benefiting personally. His family, especially his sons and son-in-law, are also getting rich as the money flows in.

They'll find a way. After all, they're all lawyers.

Not fair. This administration tells the American people lots of things. It's just that few are germane and most are not true.

Perhaps not continent-wide. I'm sure Orban would approve.

Not in the first year of his second term, no. Later? If the cult holds together, maybe.

We need accountability especially because the GOP have been the party demanding accountability for every penny spent in research grants and welfare disbursements. Sauce for the gander.

I feel there's something in this for many of us here. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Funny, but I thought that was what he had been trying to do for the last three-and-a-half years. freespoke.com/stories/GP4G...

A study of how memes develop, especially on that other social medium. www.cip.uw.edu/2025/12/03/3...

Congratulations. You seem to be doing a very effective job.

And this is different from other conducts of politics how?

I think you have just defined the source of his popularity.

And the Congress that is supposed to provide checks and balances is weaker than either.

If it looks like corruption and has cash flowing in like corruption and has benefits flowing out like corruption,.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

And Watterson drew this before social media.

Maybe his Chief of Staff would start writing his Truth Social posts.

As if. 21 days is only a law. And we have seen what respect Bondi, Patel, et al, have for the law.

Congress gave up on that power in 1964.

The two conditions are not mutually exclusive. The operative term should be "and," rather than "or."

Fellow logophiles will find this one interesting. My instant reaction to ‘Adults think with their mouths open’ was "and with their minds closed." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Be careful what you wish for. JD Vance is next in line for the office. Different is not automatically better, no matter how bad what you currently have is.

30 years ago today. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Nicely turned "phrase." A fine analogy.

Oh, there's certainly more than merely one. There are several in the Cabinet alone, and a lot of MAGA and the traditional "Better Dead than Red" crowd who support it.

CRUSH ICE!

A report on the effects of DOGE. The body count is pretty well documented. The effects are still developing. The consequences are unlikely to be satisfying to those of us who like to see a functioning government. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

I am an aficionado of political/editorial cartoons. Many of my long-time favorites are no longer with us. One who is deserving of attention is Ron Cobb. His website is roncobb.net/index.html I highly recommend it.

Aha! The motivation for cutting SNAP and WIC is revealed. In 1970, by Ron Cobb. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Nearly all of what Epstein did was done before the tech-bro oligarchs signed on to the surveillance state and made the DoJ capable of following everything that happens online. Of course, CIA/NSA/DIA were intercepting nearly everything, but they were rarely if ever sharing with the policing agencies.

Your "fierce independence is guaranteed" until a Peter Thiel decides to sue you into oblivion. May it be long indeed before that happens.

MAGA: "See? He's not Hitler; he's really Chamberlain." reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Most of the people who would take exception are essentially non-violent. And besides, he has a phalanx of Secret Service people that you would have to get past. Non-violence is probably most important, though, since many of his cultists make the same noises and walk around with uncaved faces.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce Well, he nailed that one. Bierce wrote in the Gilded Age. This quote gives one of the main reasons that the Trump administration wants a new Gilded Age.

This puts chimps ahead of some scientists, most politicians and nearly all of MAGA. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Since the sales data are being misreported, we have to wonder how much is because the media oligarchs are in collusion with the fossil-fuel oligarchs. Accurate reporting of gas-car sales would cut into stock futures for the oil companies. We can't have that. hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/...

Don't be silly. Everyone knows that you can't prove a negative. There is no innocence to prove.

There was lots of noise about the 8 Dems, but almost nothing about the 8 GO Senators who got catered to. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/g...

Hope! www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-letter-t...

Wasn't there a post a while back of a picture showing Bondi at an Epstein party? Maybe Trump isn't who she is trying to protect.

Elite impunity isn't anything new in America. In the musical Finian's Rainbow, the song,"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" observes: 1/4

But isn't it the case that in most residential neighborhoods a goodly percentage of residents are themselves renters? And more than a few of those renters are themselves BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.)? Emerson rules. Noone thinks his mind is small.

I fear that this is an overly optimistic view. There are several Justices who would like to overturn Obergefell and Lawrence, and even Griswold but seem to be waiting for a case with the appropriate standing. This one wasn't it. But they are still waiting.

WE NEED LEADERSHIP IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.