Cartoon by
Bob Englehart

Imagine losing your Secretary of the Navy, Army Chief of Staff, Attorney General (oversees FBI) and Secretary of Homeland Security all during a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. As Simon says below, it is a "shambolic shitshow."

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

I don’t watch Fox clips very often so continue to be shocked by the avalanche of lies coming out of these public figures’ mouths. No different than Russian plants.

& Roberts might be counted as one of them.

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

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Midweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US History Trump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism

“The US government is now arguably the most corrupt institution on earth”

Philips O’Brien in his analysis of the Iran war with an eye to the larger scope of things

phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

File under “Putin’s puppet”

It’s as if nothing was learned in US news reporting & public perception from the “I’ll end the Ukraine war on day 1” campaign promise followed by a year of ceasefire bluster resulting in nothing more than the US completely abandoning Ukraine while Ukraine strengthened truer alliances

Midweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US History Trump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism

Hi all, just sent out free midweek update on USA-Iran. Normally bad superlatives are used about war--the worst, the most destructive, etc. These are rarely warranted. However in this case we have one superlative, we are witnessing the most corrupt war in US history. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Don't feel bad for Nunes (not that I thought you were)—

From Feb, 2025: "CEO Devin Nunes Made $47 Million While Truth Social Parent Company Reported $401 Million In Losses In 2024"

(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006) YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic

We Don’t Need that Fascist Groove Thang

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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940

Adagio Lento, from Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s 1952 Symphony in F-sharp, composed in loving memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

🙏🏼🌎🕊️

Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this corruption.

Wouldn’t this be if you don’t count the Emoluments clauses in the document known to be the highest law in the land?

We wouldn't have a 250th birthday to celebrate if Gen. Washington hadn't mandated the smallpox vaccine for the Continental Army ("Should the disorder infect the Army...and rage with its usual Virulence, we should have more to dread from it than from the sword of the enemy"), but okay sure

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

200,000 acres of Native Hawaiian land. 100 years of federal trust obligation.

Trump's move: reclassify them as a racial group, not a tribal nation. Same land. New legal category. Zero obligation.

That's not a budget cut. That's a legal erasure. #taxtherich

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

MAGA Inc, where record unpopularity among voters translates directly into record slush fund cash for campaigning

MAGA MO: accusation = confession

Didn’t experience side effects for either first or second shot besides sore arm. Got both doses at age 54. Have read others experienced debilitating side effects.

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.

But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.

New paper & thread 👇
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Avant-Garde (magazine) - Wikipedia

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Ralph Ginzburg - Wikipedia

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Little dive into “the fonts”

Drawn in late 60s by designer Herb Lubalin, first as titling the magazine of same name, later developed into typeface family

Lubalin was given idea for it by the magazine’s editor & editor’s wife. Ginzburg had earlier written this book. Radical, but opposite of Jones

Absolutely.

"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."

That's a pretty simple and effective message.

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.