Brexton O'Donnell

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Anyway damn everyone who over the last 10 years tried to gaslight us into believing that we were not seeing what we were obviously seeing.

Ohtani finally hit the ball squarely

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

This is literally what terrorists do.

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

At this time back in 1862, George McClellan's Army of the Potomac was aligned along Antietam creek, prepared to attack Robert E Lee's left flank before first light. It would be a piecemeal and totally uncoordinated battle, ultimately becoming the bloodiest day in American history.

A Palestinian boy walks to school as Israeli tanks fire and quadcopters fly overhead.

This is just fucking obscene.

Even in the annals of the second Trump era, the Haitian TPS deportations may be the most morally reprehensible and indefensible act.

ICE is a domestic terror group.

Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

"One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase."

I just can't get over this. How unveiled it is now. If any other POTUS said this... oh what the fuck this is America now.

Also: the Trump presidency isn't even half over yet, and the maximum alarmists weren't nuts. ICE is operating as a death squad or is at least building up to it. Birthright citizenship nearly died in court. Mass corruption. Iran War. Haitian ethnic cleansing. Concentration camps. It's very bad!

I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.

look how i'm treated for making a tongue-in-cheek joke 😔

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Our “house”—national parks—are being defunded to pay for what he considers to be his house. Not hard to guess where most Americans would like to see their money spent—NOT on pointless ego-serving renovations.

lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

elementary school: slavery caused the civil war high school: complicated economic issues caused the civil war College: slavery caused the civil war Grad school: the civil war was a struggle between feudalism and capitalism Your 30s: the civil war was a metaphysical struggle between Good and Evil

I do 100% think that "Never Ever Doom" is one of the single strongest and most consistent themes of everything Tolkien ever wrote lol. Dooming is *always, always* the wrong call, it always leads to worse outcomes, and defiance is always right even when there is literally no hope

Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.

Correct. Complaining about an entire ethnicity or nationality as a whole is racist. And it is very bad to be racist.

If you think a quote from a suffragist in 1889 is too “woke feminist ideology” or that Black people as soldiers or immigrants as patriots are such offensive ideas they must be erased from the public memory, your problem isn’t “woke”- it’s just other people existing in history & having rights 🗃️

every day a new story comes out that would be the single most corrupt act by a president in american history if done by anyone else and barely makes the top 10 for this one

War hero and president James Garfield describing Lee as he should be remembered.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He's located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10

“I think everyone should have rights” is always going to be less fractured than competing lists of who you believe shouldn’t have rights

America made a mistake electing the dumbest president in American history who has handed control to an administration of ignorant sociopaths.

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Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.