They're pepper spraying US senators now. Gaslight, project, attack. Fascism 101.

An incredible photo and an incredible musician

And Bob Dylan and Neil Young Fighting in the captain 's tower While Joni Mitchell Iaughs at them And Tiny Tim throws the flowers Right now I cannot see too good Don't send me no more emails, no Not unless you send them from Desolation Row

Never Forget: "I go to bed with models every night... " ...Dating is like being in Vietnam. It's the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. It's like war out there." — Donald J. Trump, Howard Stern Show, 11 January 1993

And Randolph Hearst and Donald Trump In a rowboat on the Seine They scratch and claw for hours and hours In the end no one remains Except for the blind man on Quai des Orfèvres Walking with a stick he calls Citizen Kane...

And Bob Dylan and Neil Young Fighting in the captain 's tower While Joni Mitchell Iaughs at them And Tiny Tim throws the flowers Right now I cannot see too good Don't send me no more emails, no Not unless you send them from Desolation Row

The Things They Carried

And on the seventh day the white evangelicals said let us make a god in our own image, and from their imaginations, from movies and television, from colonial myths and folklore, they fashioned a tall, bearded, long-haired, muscle-bound white man with a gun and a flag, and called him Jesus.

And on the seventh day the white evangelicals said let us make a god in our own image, and from their imaginations, from movies and television, from colonial myths and folklore, they fashioned a tall, bearded, long-haired, muscle-bound white man with a gun and a flag, and called him Jesus.

I had never watched the 1922 German film Nosferatu until tonight. I am struck by the visual antisemitism in a way I didn't expect to be. It is quite overt.

Fast-forward this film: Sociopathic narcissist who has gained the US of America presidency through demagoguery and feigning sympathy with extreme religious constituency, hoping to avoid court judgements and prison for named and unnamed crimes, both white collar and unspeakable, coming to end of

Such curious realizations when one wakes up early in the forest. For example: the evangelicals who put a fascist in power, many if not most who believe in magical disappearances and that the Earth is six thousand years old, are driving to and from in vehicles fueled by fossil fuels. FOSSIL fuels.

This is one of the important questions of our time: which will white American evangelicals destroy first: the US of America or their own a-historical perverted version of Christianity?

You say Mega-church, I say Maga-church, let's call the whole thing off (It won't break my heart...)

Hot take: Instead of drawing inspiration from Montesque and classical Greece and Rome, the US of America's founders should have adopted a parliamentary system, but they were too pissed at the British Parliament to think straight.

Mass psychosis is real.

So depressed. The world is his casino and there are no House Rules, only waiters serving Trump bibles and dancers genuflecting by a fountain spouting shit.

A functioning democracy needs at a minimum two viable political parties, not one viable party and one (damaged) personality cult.

An illustration of what I mean by transactional fascism. And the cause of the US of America collapse in a nutshell. Mafia ethics.

A parliamentary system would ease much of the current crisis. Too bad it is not a plausible solution.

The full mainstreaming of evangelical white Christianity (replacing what I call Eisenhower Christianity) to the point where these people now control one of the only two viable US political parties + the second coming of Donald Trump = US democracy suicide.

The world is his casino now and there are no House rules.

There should be swelling minor chords, syncopated rhythms, shrill violins, a thriller film score to accompany the US democracy's collapse. Instead, the yammering of bauble heads, and off in the distance, the call of a meadowlark that doesn't give a damn.

Cargo ship travel = coming trend.

Reached that stage in life where I don't recognize my physical self.... "I woke up in a Soho doorway, a policeman knew my name..."

If you never read @hcrichardson.bsky.social's 'How the South Won The Civil War' there's never been a more appropriate time.

I leave social media for twenty-fours and come back and everything is accelerating. US society is Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas" and cracking open the seventh bottle. Give me more, give me more, give me more...

The sometimes laudable, according to Ezra Klein, Elon Musk:

When this is over maybe the British need to return ala 1812 and burn his fucking ballroom down.

"And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better!" — Yevgeny Zamyatin, in his novel 'We', published 1924. One of the first Soviet dissidents, Zamyatin died penniless in Paris in 1937. George Orwell's '1984' owes much to Zamyatin's novel.

"And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better!" — Yevgeny Zamyatin, in his novel 'We', published 1924. One of the first Soviet dissidents, Zamyatin died penniless in Paris in 1937. George Orwell's '1984' owes much to Zamyatin's novel. Cf. Trump's U.S.

It is not too soon to start talking about a new US constitution once this is over. It could be a while.

"And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better!" — Yevgeny Zamyatin, in his novel 'We', published 1924. One of the first Soviet dissidents, Zamyatin died penniless in Paris in 1937. George Orwell's '1984' owes much to Zamyatin's novel.

What do you see? I see a man, perhaps a fallen king, his head in the upper middle of the image, eyes closed, small nose, straight pursed lips. His right shoulder rounds down from the face (he is bent over), his torso is thrust upward in the upper left third of the image Perhaps I see Sisyphus.

What I do find laudable about Mussolini is that he makes the trains run on time... Ezra Klein still needs to go back to school.

Remember his 'Don't Believe Him' column shortly after Trump's inauguration? Waiting for the follow-up. SMH.

The great replacement theory is racist horseshit. The mainstreaming of extreme right Christianity and takeover by the far-right fringe extremists of the Republican Party is the replacement theory that is verifiable by empirical evidence.

Thinking about Buffalo Springfield's 'For What Its Worth'.

Your regular reminder that mass voter fraud does not exist, in the same way that the Earth is not flat & the sun does not rise in the West. We know this, scientifically. Allowing these beliefs to become mainstream & shape national political discourse over decades is a total media & societal failure.

Love in the time of the dinosaurs. Santa Fe County, New Mexico. 01/05/26

Apropros of nothing, Emma Stone in this scene in Birdman is one of the best things on screen ever. As is the camera work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn48...

Working on lyrics for a country song, full of nostalgia and longing for another time. A snippet: It's still the Gulf of Mexico And Greenland loves its Danes Children have a chance to breathe And the president is not insane...

One way to think of this US regime is as fascist performance art: Talk show stage. Characters from Star Wars bar. Jabba the Hutt center stage. Cabinet members seated on both sides of Jabba. Warlord Pete to Jabba's left, Better Call Blanche to right...

Preschoolers and pregnant women have been leeching off the hardworking podcasters and supplement salespeople who power our nation for far too long

"They were right, my dear, all those voices were right And still are; this land is not the sweet home that it looks, Nor its peace the historical calm of a site Where something was settled once and for all..." —W.H. Auden

There is a sense in which the US impasse at the crossroads of democracy and fascism is a result of differing views of time. Cf. Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia.

Fabrications of Reconstruction

A short explanation of the new US authoritarianism: I am not sure which is worse: the white Christian evangelical threat to US democracy and international diplomacy and cooperation (which is two pronged: 1) the pop culture apocalyptic Huckabee/Graham/et al. variety; 🧵

A short explanation of the new US authoritarianism: I am not sure which is worse: the white Christian evangelical threat to US democracy and international diplomacy and cooperation (which is two pronged: 1) the pop culture apocalyptic Huckabee/Graham/et al. variety; 🧵