Dan in the Midwest

Come on @brandonfriedman.bsky.social. We all know our current planes are a bunch of beardos, weirdos, and fatties. Hegseth is just decommissioning them in favor of some High-T Warfighter Advanced Turbo Combat Attack aircraft. Hoo-ay!

“First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I did not watch Jimmy Kimmel.”

When L.A. trips up your political aspirations, we call that a Pratt Fail. ba-dum-dump

Tiny bullshit like this would’ve been on a Fox News 24 hour blast for weeks if Obama or Biden handed an umbrella off to a member of the military to close.

Pam Bondi was a sycophant but she didn't completely redact Trump's name from the Epstein files and failed to secure prosecutions of Trump's political enemies. I suspect the humiliating SCOTUS performance yesterday by the DoJ lawyer was the final straw. Loyalty is a one-way street. Next flunky up.

So I think there is a reasonable chance that Claude was asked to package the release code and Claude slipped in the source code. If so, then we need to grapple with the fact that Claude may be interested in reproduction of itself.

Why anyone ever bought into Rubio being serious is just beyond me. He's always been a finger in the wind guy; completely void of substance.

Or maybe they are telling YOU what they know YOU want to hear and voting the way they want to vote. There is no way to know for certain, but in either case they are enabling fascism and are bad people. Full stop.

How do they miss this? Just look at the wall-to-wall morons in his cabinet and leadership positions fer. If brains were rocket fuel they wouldn't have enough power to propel a mosquito halfway around an anal bead.

In the stage of my father-in-laws dementia where he was mostly present but prone to forgetfulness and errors, he would obsess over gaining access to a bicycle. We had to talk about bikes for fifteen to twenty minutes at the start of our weekly zoom calls during the COVID times. This rhymes:

CNN was never so happy as when Wolf Blitzer was reporting on location while SCUD missiles were inbound. It was obscene.

What damage is this illegal war doing to the military's reputation as non-partisan, by the book organization? Gotta fuel some centrist voter appetite to cut crap out of their budget - especially if they aren't seen as supporters of constitutional law.

@nytimes.com Hey fascist clowns. We see you!

Has anyone asked ChatGPT about the best way to bring down the bro-ligarchy and dismantle corporate capitalism?

If you continue to support Trump, you are saying racism isn't a deal-breaker for you. Most of us have known this since 2016, but make every GOP supporter of Trump wear this. It just doesn't get any more racist than this image. This is the visual equivalent of saying the n-word.

Has Venezuela considered simply cutting the Trump Family Cartel in on some oil revenue? Probably cheaper than war.

A drone strike followed by another drone strike an hour later isn’t even a “mist of war” let alone a “fog.”

A win - or even coming within a couple points of winning - stops the gerrymandering nonsense in its tracks. No Republican will want to narrow their margins to gain an extra seat for a demented lame duck president.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

If you make gunz illegal, only criminal pets will have guns. #2a

Senate Democrats have forgotten how strikes work. There is shared pain to accomplish your goal. As long as you keep the public on your side (they were) you can break management. @schumer.senate.gov this is beyond pathetic.

Dems need to start speaker election process. Call this lying mfer’s bluff. Bring some actual attention and accountability. Just do it Dems. Not hard. It may be performative but it’ll generate press.

Always refer to it as the Epstein Ballroom. Tie all of these corporations with that name. Apple, Microsoft, and Google. Proud funders of the Epstein Ballroom.

Imagine if Democrats had spent any effort developing a messaging apparatus as robust as the right. Then we could generate the appropriate outrage response instead of relying on <checks notes> billionaire owned media.

Is there an ACT Blue for Democratic candidates that say they will fire everyone currently working for ICE and then prosecute these jack-booted MFers?

Can't enforce watermarking. We need to digitally sign video frames that come from phones and cameras in much the same way we use certificates to authenticate websites.

Stay in school kids. No. For real. Now is not the time to be looking for a job: finance.yahoo.com/news/adp-rep...

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

Insurance companies also believe in global warming. Huh.

Trump is such a deeply stupid man. It sucks that our way of life is being destroyed by such a god damned idiot. I could almost accept getting played by a Lex Luther super villain, but this fuck knob? Embarrassing. x.com/highbrow_nob...

For those of us who work in the higher ed arena, a thousand times this. He was not going about it the right way. He 100% sought to shut down free speech and research at universities through threats of violence and intimidation.

and yet, yesterday —>

When Trump dies the GOP goes full Lord of the Flies and will eat each other alive. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

I think this may be what they're worried about ... Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

Are we sure the consultants shaping Democratic messaging aren’t being bribed by the GOP? How else to explain how spectacularly bad they are at this.

Seems we’re no longer talking about the Epstein Files. Why aren’t our Democratic leaders continually pushing this front and center? Make your points on whatever, but end with “and then there is the Epstein Files which show our President is a child rapist - or at least knew about it and did nothing.”

Maybe they’ll stumble upon the Epstein files while wandering around DC.

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Josh is making a very important point here. Democrats need to set markers for what they will do if they get the power of the purse. Defunding the ICE expansion is clearly a goal that will motivate the base and then some. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

What's left of humanity in the Year 2125: What were people focused on during the climate catastrophes one hundred years ago? Historians: As near as we can tell from what information remains, "Whether or not people born male are using the correct bathroom."

Excellent news for John McCain!

"Art of the Unilateral Deal" by Donald J Delusional

Hassett wakes up each morning hoping he gets the chance to huff a Trump fart.

This. And don’t tell me it’s not what liberals do. This would be true justice and dissolve a clearly radical and dangerous court. I’m sure Harlan Crowe has a nice island he can set them up on and then they can be permanent judges on “Survivor - Seasons 100 to 125”

*Republicans* did this. Republicans.

People. Time to start thinking of ways to scam all the billions of ICE dollars through bullshit start-ups. Be the Schindler’s List you want to see in the world.

As soon as it is clear that a hospital won’t survive the demise of medicaid that hospital will close as healthcare workers will seek jobs at viable hospitals and vulture capitalists will extract whatever value is left in the property. I expect visible impacts before the midterms.