Correct. This is about decades of corporate campaign donations buying warped political policies that angered people enough to elect a madman.

Maybe that’s the good news about Trump: he’s fundamentally unserious, with no interest or skill in building an actually functional autocratic state. He’s a mentally ill man playing with the USA the way a disturbed kid tortures a puppy, with no idea of an end result. That could be what saves us.

Maybe we’ll ultimately catch a break with Trump: he’s fundamentally unserious, with no interest or skill in building a functional autocratic state. He’s a mentally ill guy playing with his country (and the world) like a disturbed kid torturing a puppy, with no end in mind. Maybe that’s our opening.

Afroman Wins Verdict Rejecting Lawsuit Filed by Ohio Cops Over Mocking Music Videos Afroman won a jury verdict rejecting a lawsuit from police officers who claim the rapper defamed them by mocking them in social media music videos.

Afroman found not liable.

A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney.

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Afroman 2028! I want the T-shirt!

Why not accuse them? Not of artificial cheering, but of selective editing and/or muting? Major media have been busy normalizing Trump’s presidency — because they can’t find the courage to call him who and what he is: a mentally ill dictator.

Washington DC March against ICE Sunday Jan. 24.

I truly understand the pleas for ICE to leave Minnesota. But leaving MN to go terrorize other states isn’t what anyone wants.

ICE/DHS is kidnapping and murdering people in the streets AND IN DETENTION CENTERS.

Abolishing ICE - and holding its leaders & agents accountable- is the absolute minimum.

Murderous amateurs. Gestapo wannabes. Courtesy of a criminally insane president.

Be safe, BlueSky family.

Reminder: The Epstein files aren’t delayed.
A law is being broken.
We’re still missing 99%.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

“Yes I can!!!! I can have whatever I want!!!!”

Yep, that’s one lesson. Another is that it does little good to jail one group of bitter white racist thugs while gangster capitalism keeps manufacturing millions more of them every underpaid, overpriced corporate day.

The lies are spectacular, and not surprising for a person so profoundly and malignantly mentally ill.

What Are the Patriot Games? All About the Athletic Competition for the United States' 250th Anniversary President Donald Trump announced that the first Patriot Games will take place as part of America's 250th anniversary and will feature two high school athletes from each state and territory. Here's eve...

What a spectacular disaster. Imagine all that can go wrong with Trump’s plastic lackeys and sycophants in charge. Talk about epic satire.
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Urgent update.

Our bipartisan petition to force a vote on a straightforward extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has 218 signatures.

Mike Johnson should bring the bill to the floor immediately.

Protesters interrupt Noem hearing with Exorcist line: ‘The power of Christ compels you!’ Two protesters disrupted House panel hearing, with one yelling line made famous in 1973 horror film

sociopath: noun. A person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society, as in Kristi Noem.
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I don’t know that there’s any such thing as spending too much time watching an otter.

Indiana Republicans reject effort to redraw voting maps in rebuke to Trump Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats

Some Republicans reclaim basic decency and the rule of law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is at least an honorable trade! I’ll order two, please: one for me and one for my publisher.

What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work

This new Guardian piece debunks our romantic, tidy image of the Montgomery bus boycott— and exposes it for the long, punishing and perilous slog it was. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Why’d they send us here? Everybody knows the real enemy is small fishermen in tiny boats carrying tons and tons of illegal drugs.”

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

So why is Israel not in this Guardian headline, when the story informs us that “Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children.”
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It really does come down to common decency, doesn’t it?

Yes, good morning to all. And may the fatal corruption of the final hateful throes of feudal corporate capitalism not spoil our each finding something to enjoy today as we defy their hordes.

The “Peace President” Kills Again | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich YouTube video by Robert Reich

Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...

Israel shredding Gaza ceasefire while US distracted by Ukraine Jerusalem acts with impunity as truce violations, and civilian casualties, mount

Helena Cobban quotes security analyst Paul Pillar: “There is no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip... Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement 591 times between October 10 and December 2…The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that during this period, 347 Palestinians have been killed and 889 injured.”

So many tragedies here: the sexual abuse of a minor; the self-denial and compensatory embrace of hatred toward others; and the harm done to society when a right-wing political cancer thrives on unresolved rage.