We're at the Caligula stage of presidential madness

“A republic, if you can keep it.” I’ll just bet that even in all his wisdom, Benjamin Franklin did not see in 1787, when he made that remark, that the mad King George III, whose reign over the American colonies stirred revolution, would be replaced by another mad king.

I cannot understand why it is taking Trump so long to pardon El Chapo so the cartel boss can join up again with the drug-dealing ex-Honduran president Trump already pardoned. Isn’t the bribe big enough? bsky.app/profile/donm...

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

You can't "train" fascism

At least two of the NATO nations sending small contingents of their armed forces to Greenland — Sweden and France — have Patriot missiles in their arsenal. If Trump!(and war-dreamer Pete Hegseth) make good on their threats to take over the island, it could make for interesting times.

It's now been four weeks since the deadline set by law and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

ICE diners give restaurant nastiest Yelp review ever. bsky.app/profile/thet...

“This is not the time for resignation; it’s a time of heightened urgency” Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

I cannot understand why it is taking Trump so long to pardon El Chapo so the cartel boss can join up again with the drug-dealing ex-Honduran president Trump already pardoned. Isn’t the bribe big enough? bsky.app/profile/donm...

Donald Trump cannot decide from hour to hour whether he wants to be remembered as the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi or of George Patton. There are quite a few other options.

Animal agriculture is by far the single-largest source of agricultural methane emissions. Manure and enteric fermentation (digestion) contributed an estimated 36.7% of total U.S. anthropogenic methane emissions in 2023, according to the EPA. And that’s not all. civileats.com/2026/01/13/o...

Donald Trump cannot decide from hour to hour whether he wants to be remembered as the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi or of George Patton. There are quite a few other options.

This counterproductive policy must put a smile on the face of the notoriously unsmiling President Xi as the U.S. actively seeks to fall even further behind China’s clean energy juggernaut. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

ICE diners give restaurant nastiest Yelp review ever. bsky.app/profile/thet...

It’s really no fun reading the headlines each morning to see how much more of a shit hole our country is becoming

If you are engaging in following ICE or any kind of organized resistance you really need to do that on encrypted apps.

Stephen Miller's invasions are utterly atrocious but they're also renewing civil society in every city he invades.

When Fascism came to America, no one crawled on their bellies and kissed the boot more willingly than those who once defiantly shouted "Don't Tread On Me!"

Kirsti Bergstø, Norway’s Socialist Left party chief: “Trump will no doubt claim that he has now received [the Nobel], but it cannot be transferred, and Trump’s repeated threats toward Greenland clearly demonstrate why it would have been madness to award him the prize.” tinyurl.com/2wwuraur

It’s hard to imagine how anyone could taint the Nobel Peace Prize worse than Trump has by begging the Nobel committee to give to him, then tell the real winner — Maria Machado — to hand it over. Well, maybe she tainted it worse by doing it.

Trump suggests 2026 elections should be canceled. Then, the White House insists he was only joking. But we know our Outlaw Prez doesn’t joke.

Trump suggests 2026 elections should be canceled. Then, the White House insists he was only joking. But we know our Outlaw Prez doesn’t joke.

Schumer misses the moment with what would have been a useful speech in pre-election 2024. How dry can that powder get? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Once, corrupt American politicians tried to keep their criminality covert, but the Trump regime seems to have no qualms about displaying their crookedness in plain sight. And still, congressional Republicans are silent about it, apparently hoping for their own slice. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

From E&E News: www.eenews.net/articles/18-...

Schumer misses the moment with what would have been a useful speech in pre-election 2024. How dry can that powder get? bsky.app/profile/atru...

A $1.6m study of hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau, funded under the purview of HealthSec RFK Jr., has been canceled after outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent the disease in a country where it is rife. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Once, corrupt American politicians tried to keep their criminality covert, but the Trump regime seems to have no qualms about displaying their crookedness in plain sight. And still, congressional Republicans are silent about it, apparently hoping for their own slice. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Here we are, a year into Trump 2.0, and it shd be 100% clear even to the most benefit-of-the-doubt folks that not only will congressional Republicans fail to challenge the man’s anti/constitutional wrecking and brazen corruption, they also won’t even move against his outright, ever-growing lunacy.

You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.

Matt Gaetz was Donald Trump's first choice nominee to be Attorney General of the United States. Now he's on his weird TV show claiming the Jews are burning down Argentinean forests to set up another Jewish state in the Americas as part of a globalist masterplan.

Let me get this straight. The journalist house's raid was authorized by the guy who snatched classified docs when he left office, showed some of them off as a brag to a few people, lied about what he had kept, then deliberately moved documents to hide them from federal investigators? That guy?

This is brilliant. substack.com/@oldreddrago...

On a QAnon podcast a few days ago, election denier David Clements said he met with U.S. Agency for Global Media's Kari Lake "for about an hour" & she told him that if VOA got more money than she wanted, she'd spend the funds on "content to the rest of the world about how rigged our elections are."

Here we are, a year into Trump 2.0, and it shd be 100% clear even to the most benefit-of-the-doubt folks that not only will congressional Republicans fail to challenge the man’s anti/constitutional wrecking and brazen corruption, they also won’t even move against his outright, ever-growing lunacy.

State Dept. spokesman Pigott on pausing visa OKs for 75 countries: “The Trump administration is bringing an end to the abuse of America’s immigration system by those who would extract wealth from the American people.” Hmmm. What about the $163 billion extracted by ultra-rich US citizen tax dodgers?

Let me get this straight. The journalist house's raid was authorized by the guy who snatched classified docs when he left office, showed some of them off as a brag to a few people, lied about what he had kept, then deliberately moved documents to hide them from federal investigators? That guy?

Financial Times: US evacuates personnel from Qatar military base as Trump threatens action against Iran. The movements come as concern grows that instability in Iran could spill into neighboring countries if Trump follows through on his pledges to intervene in support of the anti-regime protests.

State Dept. spokesman Pigott on pausing visa OKs for 75 countries: “The Trump administration is bringing an end to the abuse of America’s immigration system by those who would extract wealth from the American people.” Hmmm. What about the $163 billion extracted by ultra-rich US citizen tax dodgers?

is there anyone out there who doesn’t think that at least part of what’s on our Outlaw Prez’s mind is building a Trump resort in Tehran like the ones he plans in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Gaza, and possibly Caracas and Havana? www.nytimes.com

They beat up a tenth grader! (Who is a US citizen, but it shouldn’t matter, why the fuck do you beat up a kid.) They stole his phone and tried to resell it!

Mom knows best.....

It’s simply astonishing that a country like Sweden must send troops to Greenland so that Denmark can defend the nation against America Yes, the extent of the threat posed by Donald Trump is so great that NATO states are preparing to defend one another against the US-their supposed ally

There’s every possibility the regime in D.C. will take action that makes matters worse not better for the people seeking to overthrow the mullahs. The situation deserves international attention. But Trump prefers the solo make my day” approach to foreign policy. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Some good news from Germany. I am surprised the Trump regime hasn’t outlawed heat pumps. (Yet.) They have, of course, killed gov’t incentives for them. Backward steps supported by backward people intent burning every molecule of hydrocarbons on the planet. www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-...