Here's the problem. They just raised their base subscription rate from $18 to $23 per month. Unwarranted. Hey, you want news? Subscribe to your local paper before it's gone.

Here's the problem. They just raised their base subscription rate from $18 to $23 per month. Unwarranted. Hey, you want news? Subscribe to your local paper before it's gone.

“We’re working around the clock to ensure that justice is served and also as part of the oversight to figure out why justice has been delayed for so long,” Johnson said. (Politico 10/21/25) He may have to call for the usual suspects, which makes me realize who he reminds me of...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Our national debt now equals our GDP. Interest paid on that debt is now nearly a trillion per year. DOGE, despite thousands of lost American jobs, failed to reduce any of this.

Who says cartilage doesn't heal? This is an ad for Miracle Ear. Out of decency, he really should cover up that pharyngeal vulva.

Finally, a clear message explaining what’s worth fighting for against Trump Republicans and their cruel, sociopathic cuts.

Supreme Court back in session. Black shroud seems appropriate for both its undefended opinions and work ahead. (Image from Tierney L. Cross for the New York Times)

Spot on.

Our government is officially seized up, Trump is calling for the (now unpaid) National Guard to take over large cities, we're sending $20 billion to Argentina, enabling it to ship soybeans to China, RFKjr is undermining public health, and the Dow is up 119 and the Nasdaq 25. We're all nuts here.

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence". - Charles Bukowski

No data, no problem. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Definitions from Oxford Languages Black Hand noun A secret criminal and terrorist society in New York during the early 20th century.

Build it in America and you won't have to worry about tariffs. Other things, well….yeah.

So much for free market dynamics. How does it feel to be an Intel, or U.S. Steel competitor, knowing the US government has its thumb planted on the scale? Madness.

Don't even know how to break it to them. Been a long time since they last jumped the net.

“I wouldn’t say [Putin and Zelenskyy] are ever going to be best friends, but they’re doing OK, and we’re just going to see,” Trump said. (Politico) "They're doing ok"? Russian bombs fall, unabated. Stunning that the world holds its breath, waiting for the next nugget to drop from this nincompoop.

Donald Trump is not a political story, it’s a crime story. And understanding him does not depend on political science, but psychology.

You might be losing your job, your health care, and your future, but consider this - we're working to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

Yes

And then we elected the high sheriff of Mar a Lago to be our President, and all lived miserably ever after.

Just to confirm that my dog did NOT drop a log in your front yard.

From today's Oval Office meeting. The gold on gold on gold signals the chief executive's humility and dedication to service for the people who elected him. (AP photo - Evan Vucci).

Yesterday Trump announced a 50% tariff on imported copper. The price of copper reached an all-time high. Over 80% of our copper comes from Canada and Chile. Are they supposed to move their copper mines to the US for relief from this tariff??

Gotta give some props to Josh Hawley. Saying you’re doing everything you can to stop Medicaid cuts in the same statement in which you announce you’ll vote for Medicaid cuts is a new level of ghoulish shamelessness.

Nothing like shared sacrifice to pull people together. From Jack Blanchard in Friday's Politico:

Couple of things here. First, the standard two weeks, as if this is some kind of reality show with semi-weekly cliffhangers. Second, Trump issuing apocalyptic threats and posing as the king everyone needs to beseech. Bibi says, nah, we're good. Absurdity abounds.

I hereby issue a formal "love your cat!" May I please be excused from future posts of it.

No, lame would be duck. Trump is pure chicken.

'Move fast and break things', in health care, will cost lives. This, from Medicare and Medicaid's new head: “Sometimes, stuff breaks when you try to make a difference,” says Oz. “I’ve told the team this multiple times: If we get everything right, we didn’t take enough chances.”

Chicken TACO recipe featured in today's NYT. Exquisite timing.

Yes please. Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"

From Moodys. A lot of disruptive things have happened since 1917. Embarrassing and scary that nothing compares to now. substack.com/redirect/76b...

He's also been CEO of Waste Management, so he's got skills in both pickup and delivery.

Keep the faith, show up, bring someone, be loud. Sooner or later, you'll wake the others from their sleep. (Photo: Portland; April 5 2025 Joni Auden Land/OPB)

Paradox to be boosting defense spending while dismembering what it is that we're defending.

"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics." The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health: bit.ly/4iFKe8K

Our director of Homeland Security can't keep her handbag close, but has a firm grip on illegal immigration. Kristi Noem had her bag stolen from a D.C. restaurant where she was eating dinner last night, losing her passport, keys, DHS badge, $3,000 in cash and more

When all problems have been discussed and addressed, social media will only be a reel of frickin' cat photos. Cockroaches of the internet. I've blocked cat posters till my mouse finger bled. Please….

#caturday feels

St. Louis, MO; April 19th, in the rain.

Lying about the price of eggs, he added that gas is very affordable, "$1.99 a gallon in some places." Wrong. The national average price for regular is $3.155 per gallon. The lowest price in the US is $2.67 per gallon, at a 7-11 in Florissant, MO, as of April 14, 2025. Can't trust anything he says.

Er, Marco should hand it to King 47, who promised to end the war with a single call before even being inaugurated. Easy breezy, bud. If not, can 47 be trusted with other promises?

"When you dance with the devil, well you haven't got a clue; for you think you'll change the devil, but the devil changes you."

If Pinocchio was the standard, this guy's nose would need buttresses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnu...

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

Got a problem with a president that doesn't know water flow from water pressure, and proves it with an executive order. Got a problem with his HHS secretary, who calls autism an epidemic when it's neither widespread nor contagious. Got a problem with confident incompetence.