Heck of a read from back in February www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

There appear to be a lot of Americans still devoted to Trump. At this point, anyone still identifying as Republican is embracing the stupidity, bigotry, fraud, dishonesty, cowardice, lack of integrity, & phony religiosity of the GOP. If you approve of Trump, you support pedophilia & sexual assault

On the verge of collecting that foregone hour back to MDT, my annual sunrise graphic (for Boise, ID) shows "the cliff" is near. With more darkness to enjoy the penultimate full moon of 2025.

Not to put too fine a point on it... He's destroying America He & his family & much of his cabinet are corrupt He's in clear mental & physical decline "Trump is a crook. He’s corrupt. He’s in this for himself. He doesn’t care about you and your family." open.substack.com/pub/marccjoh...

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Here's an excerpt. This was a little think-piece-y amid this week's stampede of breaking news, but I hope you'll take a minute to read the whole column and tell me what you think

Blessed are those who know "enough"; unfortunate are those who do not.

Joyce Vance's Sunday Morning Wrap-Up us worth the read, and the jumps open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that Gregory Bovino and other officials can be questioned under oath over agents using chemical agents on protesters, journalists, and clergy in Chicago. A lot of ICE agents still mistakenly think that they’ll never be held accountable. They will.

"It sort of looks bad," our unreformed felon says, with a glimmer of self-awareness. But he'll certainly go forward with the self-dealing, abetted by his team of sycophants. It's not vindication; it's another crime. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

It's sickening to see the current occupants' destruction crew take an EXCAVATOR to the East Wing of the people's house. And all the Republican quislings are smiling and nodding along, and throwing shade at Democrats.

They know they're lying, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old. Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name. That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

If one of your Senators is one of the four (Thune, Scott, Lankford, and Johnson) who has come out v Ingrassia for his Nazi views, you might call and ask when they're going to call out Stephen Miller, who is also a white nationalist, but who also serves as a gatekeeper to what Trump thinks is true.

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

"For Trump, religion has always been lighting design: a halo for the headline." And then Time turned his freaky hairdo INTO a halo, and he didn't like it, go figure! Loyalty Up, Never Down "Trump equates loyalty with servitude and betrayal with independence." open.substack.com/pub/mjfree/p...

Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.

The "Party of Law & Order" is surprisingly partial to pardoning and commuting the sentences of convicted criminals who disobey the law and disrupt the order.

God bless Daniel Dale www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/p...

Trump hosted a dinner this week for donors to his White House ballroom project. Now he's heading to Mar-a-Lago to host a $1 million-per-person dinner for his super PAC. Meanwhile, 700,000 federal employees are furloughed, with nearly as many working without pay due to his government shutdown.

It's been a long time coming, but good news. Also... "The plant will continue ramping up operations in the months to come, and the vitrification of the most hazardous radioactive waste is slated to begin in..." Wait for it... Keep waiting... And waiting... "2033."

The US Government just created and videotaped a FAKE RIOT in Portland, Oregon ~Senator Jeff Merkley

I'll take my shot at refutation. I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is. You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.

Speaking of mishandling classified information... who's old enough to remember 2023? www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

"I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner. Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist." www.wired.com/story/owning...

Contemplating the job where you carry a club, prepared to beat people, with a face shield, so their blood doesn't spatter into your eyes. While the flat-brimmed hat people in the back push your line forward. #IllinoisStatePolice

Good morning, Chicago.

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

Tidying up images languishing in \temp, I came across this evergreen item from a forgotten NYT news quiz.

"When leaders retain staff who admire Nazi ideology while invoking antisemitism to silence campus protesters, we are not witnessing contradictions—we are seeing a strategy that normalizes some extremes while punishing others." open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...

The spokesperson for our criminal president, who has been fomenting violence for more than a decade now. "Beyond the pale" to be sure. And a demonstration that she has zero credibility. "The media" should cancel her airtime until she can tell the truth about something.

"What was once America’s highest civilian honor has now become the Medal of Fidelity, an amulet for loyalists who die in the service of delusion." That, of course, is not the worst of it. Mary Geddry fires for effect. marygeddry.com/p/nobodys-be...

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

Donald Trump is a wartime president. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Latinos. War on California. War on institutions. War on history.

“Congress and the public simply can’t follow what the Trump administration has done with federal spending. And now the fiscal year is over, with untold sums unaccounted for.” The Administration has no idea what happened to American tax dollars. Sheer incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

"On Wednesday, Roberts came one step closer to cementing his status as the equal of Justice Roger Taney, whose opinion in the Dred Scott case is universally acknowledged to be the low point of Supreme Court jurisprudence." open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

Not to put too fine a point on it, our misspeaker is a facile liar and a quisling for the authoritarian regime of Stephen Miller and Russell Vought.

On the eve of what appears to be another attack on the Voting Rights act by the Roberts Court. The Two Section Twos open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Who thinks today would be a great day to open the government, swear in Adelita Grijalva, and release the Epstein files?

So @hcrichardson.bsky.social has encouraged us to record or write what it means to us to live in a democracy. So today I spent some writing things I want from a democratic government. We had these things as recently as last year, 2024. And that gives me hope that we can/will have these again.

Ross Douthat has about never been my favorite read, but after watching him toe to toe with Doug Wilson, I have gained a good deal of respect. I don't usually find time for hour+ podcasts, but I'm glad I did. (The NYT also has an edited transcript.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...