There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.

Called out, the U.S. Coast Guard reverses course, will keep classifying swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags as hate symbols. https://archive.is/2025.11.21-151423/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/21/coast-guard-policy-hate-symbols-swastika/

I need to reiterate how batshit crazy this is: When Trump’s handpicked interim #usattorney #lindseyhalligan briefly took the stand Wednesday, she said only 2 grand jurors reviewed the final #indictment it handed up against former FBI Director #jamescomey. Comey’s attorney then argued Halligan’s […]

Remember: the only reason that makes sense why #ice would deny clergy access to the #broadview detention facility to minister to the detainees is because they believe the substantial bad press and messaging damage from publicly denying clergy access is less bad than the damage that would result […]

Damn, I love being more literate than they are.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) calling for his party’s leader in the other chamber, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), to be replaced because “If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?”

Sonicstate just did a nice post about my modules. https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/11/07/gregsbrain-dspec-xvox/ #modularsynth #eurorackmodular #eurorack #synthesizer #modularsynthesizer

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

made me giggle for sure 😂 #adulting #silly #humor #cats

Tonight’s election results mean Virginia becomes a blue-trifecta: Dem governor, Dem majorities in both houses of state legislator. I will be adding a food bank in Virginia to the group Mastodon for Hunger Relief is raising money for. https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115447427266419158

Instead of Patel being fired for using federal government property to fly around with his barely legal girlfriend, the 27-year veteran of the FBI who blew the whistle on him got fired.

UPDATE: Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel just fired a guy he blames for outing him for taking a jet to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match. ‘Veep’ had nothing on this crew. 🎪 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Ridiculous #rfkjr Orders #cdc to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore #windfarms HHS Secy RFKJr directed CDC staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar with the matter, as #trump marshals his admin to thwart the #cleanenergy source he loathes […]

“They were careless people… – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - from the actual novel, by F. Scott Fitzgerald […]

If you are a California voter, please vote Yes on Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to counter the Trump-Republican rigging of U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control. They declared war on democracy. Support Prop 50 to fight back […]

"Gargoyles serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

From NBC News: ICE officials only later discovered that some of the recruits failed drug testing, have disqualifying criminal backgrounds, or don’t meet the physical or academic requirements to serve, the sources said. ... Staff members at ICE’s training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently […]

FOB. Friends. Of. Bessent

New module now available on www.gregsbrain.co/dSpec It's a dual VCO based on spectral synthesis. It builds waveforms from a bunch of sine waves. It is pretty unique in how it generates a core spectrum from various parameterized integer series and all the different ways the core spectrum can be […]

A hearty “told you so” to everyone who can’t unlock their front door due to the AWS outage #awsoutage

Proper vanishing point! (Don't worry, I checked carefully for trains.)

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

The reported indictment of NY AG Letitia James is chillingly frightening. James secured verdicts against Trump and his private company for fraud, violating New York State law. He’s not using the full force of the U.S. government to retaliate against her. Trump is a dictator.

A quotation from **John Adams** > I am happy to find myself perfectly agreed with you, that we should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions consistent with morals and property, shall enjoy equal liberty, property, or rather security of property, and an equal chance for […]

Sen #joshhawley is going off about “Biden tapping Republicans’ phones” — To be clear, THIS DID NOT HAPPEN. IT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT. The FBI obtained phone data from several Republican senators in 2023, as part of the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election […]

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

As it turns out, Kamala was right about everything. Trump Is No Longer Denying Support for Project 2025: What to Know | TIME #uspol https://time.com/7323278/trump-project-2025-government-shutdown/

"With five congressional seats at stake, virtually all of our national legacy media made the choice not to send anyone" to cover a hearing on whether what Texas did was illegal. Democracy Docket is there, however. More evidence that we now have to rely on small outlets […]

The party that controls both the House and the Senate, not to mention the executive branch, would like to remind you that the government being shut down right now is entirely the fault of the party that has no actual power right now.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

The gop controls all three branches of government, if their government shuts down, then the gop are the one’s who shutdown their government. #uspol #Shutdown

Trump and Hegseth are as cluelessly narcissistic as they come, but I can’t help think of how diminished they must have felt, somewhere deep inside, as they stood before a room full of silent, stone-faced generals who all saw them for precisely the fools that they are.

Oregon sues to block ‘illegal’ deployment of 200 national guard troops to Portland | Portland | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/oregon-trump-national-guard-troops-portland

@renewedresistance Sinclair and Nexstar overplayed their false narrative and lost millions of dollars in ad revenue, got exposed to the wider public about how biased they really are, and had to come crawling back. What a good example of what can and should happen to these media companies and […]

For a family of 4, that'd be a net negative tax on households making less than $360k/yr But go ahead, tell me how flat taxes are regressive... keep repeating that tired propaganda that ignores the UBI component.

An 18% flat tax on income plus 18% GDP/capita UBI would end all poverty in the US. And if you make less than $90k/yr per person in your household would be a net negative tax for your household.

Seriously, how much does it cost to make sure everyone in America has quality food to eat daily? Net cost, undoubtedly negative (ie. it pays for itself in problems we no longer have to deal with) but just the cash cost of buying the food... I'm gonna go with an upper bound undoubtedly massive […]

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report

These fucking people. The waste. The pain. The sheer stupidity. No Republicans EVER AGAIN! Hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE are being asked to return by the Trump administration […]

'Russia's answer to Eurovision' Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc has won Russia's Intervision song contest, held in Moscow on Saturday. Well fuck a duck! Could be the next Will Ferrell movie. Source: BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cvg998q0557o

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information. https://archive.ph/3GGyU Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist. But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

Not sure whether to say "no shit" or "par for the course" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/17/trump-golf-course-in-scotland-accused-of-breaching-sewage-limits

I suppose Bill Cassidy said “what the hell” when voting to confirm RFK. His legacy was already sealed. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) : “Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women.” And this guy’s a fucking physician. MAY-2022 […]

Trump has called his political opponents "vermin" and "lunatics." Trump declined to call the MN governor after the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman in May 2025. Trump elected not to fly the flag at half staff following the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in 2017. Trump […]