Bondi, that awful excuse for a human being, is out as Attorney General—because, apparently, she wasn't effective enough at being awful. She tried her hardest to be the shittiest A.G. ever, but, evidently, she wasn't truly horrible enough for Trump.
What a fucked up timeline we're living through.
Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax.
It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
In case you need more convincing that this administration is full of grifters and corrupt opportunists, here's a good @propublica.org summary.
link.propublica.net/view/6764c19...
Like clockwork.
Trump, as Lord Farquad from Shrek, saying, "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make."
Callous motherfucker...
"Sadly, there will likely be more, before it ends. That's the way it is," President Donald Trump said of deaths.
www.npr.org/2026/03/04/g...
I canceled my @actblueorg.bsky.social account, for 2 reasons. (1) As noted in several recent articles (e.g., readsludge.com/2025/11/06/t...), ActBlue continues to allow bad behavior. (2) I'm tired of being flooded with emails just because I donated to a few campaigns via ActBlue. Do better, ActBlue.
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social, maybe stop spamming me with emails. I donated once, through your network, and you've flooded me with emails ever since. I have to unsub from each one individually. Your strategy has backfired: I'm adding email-filtering rules for emails sent via your org. Great job.
If they have your data, they 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 sell it—especially when revenue starts to drop, as has been happening at BetterHelp. They used personal information to sell ads. And, as gateway to a conglomeration of therapists, BetterHelp presumably has a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of personal information.
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
There is, literally, no bottom to the vileness Trump will spew. "Narcissist" doesn't begin to cover how awful he is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I cannot recommend this podcast highly enough. If you're not already listening to it, you really should be.
Utterly predictable and utterly horrific.
This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.
Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.
Spot on.
Oglaf cartoon depicting hilariously disgusting D&D spell. Search for: Oglaf Conjuration V,S,M
It's so tempting to homebrew "Velvet Embrace." #dnd #D&D #oglaf
A must-read for AI enthusiasts, from Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/b...
"Slopsquatting" is a nightmare scenario.
Conversation in a D&D game tonight:
Me: What's the D&D equivalent of a Geiger counter, anyway?
Other player: A Gygax counter.
The DM understandably awarded inspiration (after everyone stopped laughing).
FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!
A good moment to re-up this.
If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.
Well... This, and straight up bigotry.
These are the consequences when you put a vaccine conspiracist in charge of making sure Americans can get safe and effective vaccines. This is a disgrace.
abcnews.go.com/Health/exper...
"In an industry full of grifters & companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a … worse actor than Meta, whose platforms have been fully overrun with viral AI slop, AI-powered disinformation, AI scams, AI nudify apps, & AI influencers…"
www.404media.co/meta-invents...
I'm firmly convinced, after seeing far too many of YouTube's awful and insipid ads, that being a "creative" whose job is to create such ads must be an utterly soul-destroying experience.
100%.
Also, if you aren't listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's "Weird Little Guys" podcast, you really should be. It's extremely valuable in understanding how we got to this awful place.
It’s so funny how every time one of these guys ruins their life doing violence for the fascist cause all their heroes are like “actually he’s a trans communist and a federal agent.”
I attended the No Kings protest in West Chester, PA. About 90 minutes before I arrived, this apparently happened: www.pottsmerc.com/2025/06/15/v...
I don't know whether the guy with all the ammo is MAGA, though it seems likely.
There are a lot of violent cult members, and some of them are local.
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Protestor holding a sign showing Hitler killing himself, with the caption "Follow your leader"
The most mind-boggling thing I heard at a No Kings protest today was a 40-something white woman who yelled, "God save the King!" as she drove by.
It really is tribal; actual thinking does not enter into it AT ALL.
But I did see a fellow protestor holding this sign, which made my day.
