Brian Beker

One thing Dems could campaign on in the lead up to ‘28 is mandating that all brains from deceased magats be placed in glass jars the way Jeffrey Dahmer’s was so they can be studied, preferably by Dr. Fauci personally.

If you happen to come down with something serious and you’re on Medicare it doesn’t take long to find out that it’s designed to bankrupt you.

The argument that trump doesn't meet the constitutional criteria for treason goes out the window if Russia's military aid to Iran enters the equation. And impeachment doesn't need a criminal statute; only prosecution under fed law does. Dems better prosecute if they ever get the chance. But won't.

A long French/Times piece about trump/Ukraine THAT MAINTAINS A TONE OF MYSTIFICATION at why trump does what he does. He skirts it: Just affinity for putin? A whiff of corruption? But in keeping with Times editorial policy, French does not so much as mention the elephant shitting the room: Treason.

Putin tightens the screws on trump and his doing what he's told is obvious treason. The softening that @markjacob.bsky.social spoke about in his interview with the Times is never on more glaring display than in their failure to quote any of the many quotable people who would say it out loud.

My first day as a new flight instructor I gave Chuck Barris of Gong Show fame his first lesson. He liked it and when he booked more lessons with me I got fired because the chief instructor wanted to be the one to fly with the celeb. Barris never went back there.

This is why it’s surprising that no one has replied to criticism of Democratic Socialism by saying, “We live under Republican Socialism now and how’s that working out for you?”

Every case that so-called serious thinkers and journalists make against trump serving putin relies on the single foundation that it can't be true because it is unthinkable. We know that no amount of evidence can convince them because there has been more than enough of it for decades. And here we are

Simply astonishing that any Dems continue to use twitter. The delusion that they reach an important audience in algorithms controlled by a megalomaniacal Nazi villain is absurd and the lack of principle and weakness it takes to stay there is nauseating.

So please tell me again why it would be wrong to nationalize a company whose tech its owner uses to help Russia defeat our ally? SpaceX must be nationalized. Period. And Elon Musk treated like the criminal he is. Otherwise America accepts that it is powerless against money.

Elon Musk should be personally considered a legitimate target by Ukraine.

Why, in a language as varied and rich and nuanced as English, does there exist no word for a large amount of money other than ‘whopping?’ Is using whopping for everything from the price of a gallon of gas and concert tickets to the U.S. national debt specified in journalism contracts?

So when trump scribbles on a piece of paper that absolutely everyone employed during his administration is pardoned for any and all federal crimes they may ever have committed is the Dem response (should there be a Dem admin in ‘29) oh, well, that’s that, he got us?

Vermont, which, contrary to its picturesque reputation, is largely a poor slum state dotted with pretty autumn colors, votes Dem for Congress but keeps sending R Phil Scott, who allows 6-day blackouts in 10° weather so as not to inconvenience power companies and war zone roads, to the gov office.

Window of a Beacon Hill plumber's shop in Boston Leica IIIf/50 3.5 Elmar, TMY #filmphotography

Pokey Beker, Jr., Jr. wondering why I am dilly-dallying in my duties as her chauffeur. #dogs

Texas mythos: Lean Real Americans™ in weathered Levis, straw cowboy hats and hand-tooled belts with silver rodeo buckles. Texas reality: Fat unshaven slobs in Walmart t-shirts and knockoff Adidas shorts slung low under beer guts and ass cracks with long, filthy toenails in $3 plastic sandals.

Moody Pokey is reminded of her days as a meth head street puppy on a walk in Brattleboro, Vermont. Leica IIIf/50 Elmar 3.5/TMY #dogs #photo

Dems should introduce legislation that creates a colossal fine and a permanent ban on future business with the federal government for any demolition or construction company that destroys American monuments without congressional approval.

Up in the Vermont woods today where I take Pokey Beker, Jr., Jr. on her mouse safari we just encountered a totally buttass naked guy hiking. He said, Sorry! and I said no problem and he asked me for directions to some ancient quarry.

Ray of sunshine and #Bollywood star Rajeshwari Sachdev in her dressing room on location in Kathmandu. #filmphoto

U.K. film producer Jeremy Thomas just passed away. This shot of two of the women who played royal courtiers is from the set of Little Buddha, which he produced. On a set defined by the cruelty of the Italian half of the crew, he, like the rest of the UK crew, was always smooth, kind and calm. RIP.

Millions of Americans have been welcomed in #Nepal, one of the poorest and most beautiful countries on Earth, with grace and hospitality for decades. And trump brags about sending $500,000 there from the US in a time of such tragic need?! We are the most disgraceful shithole country on the planet

What a nightmare catastrophe in poor, beautiful, blighted Nepal.

Dolly had an apartment in the same building as my dad 40 years ago. Everyone—janitors, doormen, everyone—loved her. She was a big star who cared about them, always stopped to chat and was legendarily the most generous and consistent tipper anyone had ever heard of. She made everyone’s day every day.

SCOTUS’s reasoning today is that trump can order agencies to prepare to start shooting Americans in the street and it’s okay because since it’s only a plan states don’t need to prepare and therefore don’t even have standing to complain about it. What utter scumbags.

No one knows exactly how wings work.

Pokey’s always ready to ride #dogs

Another terrific thread from Edith Mirante, author (most recently) of the beautiful collection of essays, Where the Mithuns Are #books

Pokey Beker Jr., Jr. running through the high grass in Vermont today. M6/50SM, TMY #dogs #photography

trump literally sold a pass for Taylor Farms to allow human shit in lettuce for a million bucks, but MAHA amirite

Bonesaw murderer slips his favorite cheap date a fifty.

If the next Dem president doesn’t outright confiscate the bribe jet, all that has to be done is for the next FAA administrator to cancel its airworthiness certificate, thereby turning it into a paperweight with the stroke of a pen. trump’s other plane could also stand some much closer inspection.

Talk about a close one. On a cosmic time scale I came THIS close to getting whacked by a meteor. Whew!

Horror movie here in the Vermont woods. I started the lawnmower and immediately got swarmed by a bunch of yellow and black stripey things. A few stung the bejeezus out of me. I think it’s a bald-faced hornet nest. All I can say is they started this war.

Every time someone is in the chair for a Senate confirmation hearing and they refuse to answer on the grounds that they won’t discuss a hypothetical the response should be, “Then why are you here? Your confirmation is hypothetical, too.”

I was walking my dog in Eufala, Alabama one day about ten years ago and took this photo on an iPhone. I do not remember how I got this effect other than by just editing and then running the shot through more of the same edits after saves. Looks like it could have been on a Confederate dollar.