Next time someone asks why Im so skeptical of contemporary Republicans, I’m going to reference this. Click for the full paragraph.
(From The New Yorker, 4/13/26, “No Enemies to the Right”)
Prep for No Kings Durango
Thanks, Wil! I just subscribed.
Do you people want racist Skynet? Because this is how we get racist Skynet.
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I don’t know whether Maduro was complicit in the drug trade, but I really don’t care. The US has no business invading another country, kidnapping its head of government, and announcing that we’re taking over. Trump has no concept of why rules matter or why he should be restrained. He’s a criminal.
If either or both of the national guard soldiers who were shot in DC today die, the Washington DC District Attorney should charge Donald Trump with felony murder.
Thanks, Alex!
Per my post earlier today, a high school friend’s husband is dealing two two different forms of (highly treatable, thankfully) cancer which complicates the plan and, of course, increases cost. If you can help out, please do. gofund.me/55ab08679
There is a TON wrong with the US medical system, but yesterday my 94 year old dad had a lifesaving procedure done on his aortic artery at MGH in Boston and he was chipper as could be a few hours later.
You know it’s bad when you’re reading political news to distract you from the anxiety the rest of your life is causing.
@ chuckschumer: you feckless waste of space, please stop referring to yourself as a leader and retire already.
Dick Cheney, as Vice President, was a pox on the world. He was no longer a danger, but it’s a shame he never faced any consequences for the misery he caused.
Trump tearing down the White House is just such an obvious metaphor that if you encountered it while reading a novel, you’d call it lazy writing.
I’d have paid good money to be in the room when Trump found out that the Nobel Peace Prize went to a Venezuelan woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
OF COURSE work on the $200 million monstrosity of a ballroom will continue during the shutdown. That’s WAY more important that sending out Social Security payments or paying soldiers. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/live-up...
Keep practicing!
This is not satire. Nor is it a screen grab from Idiocracy.
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Let me guess—Warren will tear him a new one during the hearing, then when it comes to a full vote, Murkowski and Collins will hem and haw before voting to confirm.
There’s a ridiculous Powerball jackpot again—like $1.7 billion. The odds of winning around something like 1 in 300,000,000. I’m still going to play because wtf. If I won, I could start a charitable foundation and spend the rest of my life helping worthy orgs do their work and that’s a nice dream.
Katrina, 20 years later. It’s hard for me to fathom how it feels so recent.
My nomadic life over the next few months.(click to get the full picture)
Yeah. An old, painful favorite.
Happy birthday, mom
I’m probably making a mistake by listening to Strangeways, Here We Come Again after a day on my own.
Which is it that listening to this kind of stuff feels like wiggling a loose tooth, and is just as seductive?
“We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30% or 40%, which would be great. Not 50% or 60%. No, we’re gonna get them down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%,” Trump said at a Republican dinner. “Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.”
So, good news: we’re going to get paid to take drugs.
I’ve been spending some time today wondering what would be included in a new Declaration of Independence. It strikes me that many of the Framers’ concerns would need to be repeated.
The single most important qualification for employees in a fascist government is loyalty to the leader. Competence is a distant concern.
It’s not “Alligator Alcatraz” as much as it’s “Alligator Auschwitz.”
So I see our job now as to build our own movement and plan meticulously for the transition back to democracy whenever it comes. It’s not enough to hate Project 2025. We need our own project.
