Erik T. 🇺🇸🇳🇱🔛🔛

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

Oh, it seems record voter turnout has the corrupt war criminal worried. Good.

Special guest appearance by the human tapeworm

James Carville, Please Go Away, a column by me: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest." ~ Abraham Lincoln @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Ahhhhahahahaha

Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

Why “do your own research” doesn’t work. The mother believed she “researched” raw milk. On Facebook. She discarded the science behind pasteurization and the dangers of consuming raw milk. 🧪 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

After yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General.

THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

Fucking A! 👏👏👏👏👏

A hilarious summary

“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.

Sweet Lord, is this getting bad... $4.44 Unleaded. $6.40 Diesel. Where are all the republicans who were putting out daily "Gas is too expensive" videos when it was $3.20 a gallon under Biden? gasprices.aaa.com

“Participates” @gettyimages.com lol whut

This is bad

Well that’s it. AI’s gonna kill us all

Also, FFS

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

“No one truly appreciates the scope of Trump’s clusterfuck” Evergreen sentence right there

Your regular reminder Republicans in Congress fully support this.

Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"

Donald calls non-communists “communists”—and real communists “friends.”

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social its almost like Temu Odd Job has a insult wheel he uses to come up with these dumb retorts.

An old man repeatedly saying “young beautiful girls” is a sentence that should make everybody’s skin crawl.

"Put more simply: documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...

I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.

SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

what a fucking asshole

Jeanine Pirro should stick to doing what she does best—being a braying boozehound.

There's a famous story about Joe Stalin making a speech in 1937. When he was done, the audience began clapping wildly but then everyone was afraid to stop. They kept going for 11 minutes. Finally one guy had enough and stopped, and then everyone else could too. That guy was imprisoned for 10 years.

BREAKING: GasBuddy data showing national diesel prices have just hit $5/gal again. diesel powers the trucks that move nearly everything you buy — groceries, goods, supplies. higher diesel = higher prices down the line.

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/

Good.

Okay this is going to be unpopular, but Pochettino should sit Balogun tomorrow. Integrity matters, even if Trump will never understand that.

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

Automatic license plate readers track our every move and funnel our personal information into enormous databases that police can access to spy on us without a warrant. Surveillance company Flock Safety is the largest provider of these cameras — it's time we get all of them out of our communities.

The corrupt president’s corrupt son-in-law corruptly involved in US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. That now requires a follow up: Which corrupt son-in-law corruptly using America’s Middle East policy to get money into his own pocket?