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When will Trump threaten to annex or invade England if the Oxford English Dictionary resists including his new word “mutilization” and removing the old word that is fake and has low ratings and nobody’s ever heard of?

I am sure if the maker of this meme knew what year this happened and had a link to a source it’d appear here.

And then did Berman ask Moore: “Why did you just say: ‘We had much higher inflation under Biden?’”? Transcript stops too soon to say if he did or not. Doubt it.

Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com

Ed Sheeran didn’t need to come out in favor of Palestinian rights. He just needed to come out against fat cat censorship of a fellow artist who did support Palestinian rights. How embarrassing that he couldn’t even do that.

Newsweek once was a terrific weekly magazine. Now it’s a soggy bag of crap like this.

The least discussed consequence of the attacks in 2016 was getting the entire country *including Democrats* to question election integrity. We will not have a single national election for the foreseeable without major segments of the electorate rejecting the results That was Putin's victory.

RFK, Jr. is an eugenicist curating our population by culling the herd of unwanted conspecifics via federal health(sic) policy based on fake science he knows is both fake and bad.

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

Tight oversight when he packs what he deems his personal belongings and moves out of the White House, I trust.

Three parenthetical phrases at start: what nuance reads like, repurposing a chant for democracy. Nuance and democracy both increasingly fugitive today. Enough about now. Check out this new Paris Review essay on a 1982 book about a mass death incident in 1978. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/08...

2012 www.nature.com/articles/nco... 2024 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Optional viewing: “Mercy” (Timur Bekmambetov, 2026) “Justicia Artificial” (Simón Casal, 2024), “Judge Dredd” (Danny Cannon, 1995)

Biophotons: very very very faint emissions of light are signs of life or “liveliness” and are cell-to-cell signals. Or the dance of science and pseudoscience. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The information landscape in the United States is busted. Billionaires are using the powerful social media platforms and media outlets they control to curry favor with Trump.” Public Information, Substack It takes a minor outlet to report a fact that major outlets omit in their reporting:

Trump’s four tweets predicting Obama would start war with Iran “to get re-elected” and “to save face.”

Trump’s social media platform, branded as Truth Social, mistakes posts from psyops trolls who caricature MAGA cultists for real Truths by real MAGA Truthers.

Donald Trump thinks Stephen Miller is Roy Cohn. (demonizing Communists and other Others)

And— Sir— do you believe them? Thank them for their love? Tell them you love them too!

Did the audio deep fake at the other end of the line(sic) let the individuals record, on the record, for the record, that these individuals could not record the following 19 and one half minutes?

What the President saw today in his Truth Social feed.

Day by day, what exactly were the marks you exactly hit so far?

VARGAS: Trump revealed that he and family raked in $2b. Does that make it harder for Republicans like you to argue that he has their affordability in mind? MIKE LAWLER: I can tell you one-party Democratic rule in NY has not resulted in affordability VARGAS: You didn't answer my question

Research from 2024 shows feelings > facts when the under-informed repost misinfo to outrage. In whose interest is this? Online I see near zero curiosity or concern about that, nor how living in low-info outrage impairs critical thought and disables the body politic. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As if Hitler has a Will-into-Being in LLMs openreview.net/forum?id=TPR...

A free new 118-page book. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

undiagnosed guilt for his vote against healthcare could have been an underlying condition or co-factor for Kean’s diagnosed depression

Found this two-year old take on Trump by Nate White, across the Atlantic, posted by Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. A sensibility and mentality downloaded and installed throughout online MAGA Land, I’d say.

Articulate theologically schooled Yale alum says on camera that belief in Jesus rising from the dead is ‘crazy.’ Amen.

London Review of Books essay on “Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750” by Noel Malcolm begins by quoting a Tweet from the very last days of Trump’s 2024 campaign.

“… the terms that were agreed to, in writing.” Then show us the writing, in cursive, in Farsi, in Sharpie, whatever

“Lying is a sacrament in the Church of MAGA, an affirmation of unquestioning loyalty. If you’re willing to debase yourself with outrageous dishonesty, welcome to the club.” Which is not to say that all Republican lies are the same. I think they come in 10 flavors. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Our[sic] president is an apex prevaricator. Incarnating a perverted variant of “the will to believe” that William James philosophized and psychologized about back in 1894, 1896 at Harvard. Optional reading: www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/... iep.utm.edu/doxastic-vol...

United States Postal Service just delivered a fundraising letter and a summerwear catalog both worded with “American.” In our times.

Wall Street Journal using AI to write or edit? What in the world— in early 21st-century U.S. English— does this mean: “A few moments later, the camera goes out of frame. A shot can be heard.”?

Will a reporter ever ask Trump, “Sir, what’s wrong with your hands?”

I've called for cancellation of the correspondents' dinner, but Margaret Sullivan prefers a "radical reimagining" to boost the free press, not its enemies. I'm thrilled that Margaret recommends reading my newsletter, in which I object to seeking "unity" with politicians. 1/2🧵 @sulliview.bsky.social

For rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner get that Mission Impossible false-face mask-maker to let Kimmel and Obama go undetected to the dais, peel off their latex, discharge a double-team roast of Trump until counterterrorism operatives take them down and disappear the duo to a black site.

Instead of looking down on people for reading the headlines but not the stories, maybe the news media ought to consider writing better headlines.

Author of subheadline “Marci Rodgers couldn’t dip into Michael Jackson’s archive” read article? Or fault of VF’s AI? See nothing about anyone or anything blocking this costume designer’s access to original garments in Jackson’s wardrobe archive. Never had to hallucinate costumes from whole cloth.

Menu for the White House Correspondents' Dinner: / Gulf of America shrimp cocktail / Leni Riefenstahl salad, sanewashed and served with normalized onions / Quisling stew / Quiet Piggy pork roast / Sauvignon Blanc, very blanc, imported from South Africa / Orange sherbet / Let them eat cake

“taking aim”? are typhoons acts of nature or attacks by God?

Finally the NY Times publishes a substantial story about Trump’s mental unfitness. Peter Baker writes: “Never in modern times has the stability of a president been so publicly and forensically debated.” That’s an interesting statement, considering that NYT has tiptoed around the issue. (Gift link)

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Good luck getting them back in D.C.— Iran’s #1 target for retaliation. Mar-a-Lago #2. Just to piss off Trump, our Sanctuary Cities will be the last to be hit.

Congress is on vacation

The White House Correspondents Dinner has always made DC journalists look bad by showing them partying with people they're supposed to be covering. The 2026 event later this month will be even more embarrassing because of the planned attendance of Trump, who aims to destroy freedom of the press.