John Coate

Typical Trump BS - this time Melania - to claim all the credit for a ceasefire without saying anything about the Pope's calls to Russia and Ukraine days before. All the news reports seem to just be taking her word for it.. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump and his right wing minions love to call their opposition "communists" while they are doing everything they can to remake the USA into a slicker version of the Soviet Union.

Time to nationalize Starlink/Starshield. Take it out of Musk's hands. He cannot be allowed to determine national policy. And like everything else he "owns" it, like Tesla and SpaceX, was all possible because of our tax dollars.

Starlink received $661 million from a Federal Government grant. That means we, the taxpayers, helped subsidize Musk/Trump/Putin mass murder.

With a growing population and increasing wealth concentration in a small minority, and with few of those ultra rich showing any concern for the overall society that grows relatively poorer, society in order to survive should take steps to remedy it. Thus Prop 40 in CA. Flawed but necessary.

GOP candidates running, walking or quietly slinking away from Trump only proves how craven they are after years of slavish loyalty. They do not get a pass. They have to own their actions. But then, their new distance from Trump only shows that they are as selfish unprincipled as he is.

At this point there is no possible reforming ice. They have lost all credibility and trust and it is not retrievable. It has to be abolished and the mission completely re-thought. 

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." - Dashiel Hammett via Sam Spade

"The logic here seems to be that if anyone is going to cause a mass extinction event, it had better be an English-speaking AI, because it would be a huge loss to America if the planet were destroyed by one speaking a foreign language." - LA Times columnist Anita Chabria

The GOP is a tainted brand. Distancing themselves from Trump only proves how cowardly and unprincipled they all are.

The president of the United States works for the people. Trump thinks the people work for him.

In case anyone wonders what a dumbass Jared Polis, the Governor of Colorado, is who pardoned this criminal. Now she's working for the most right wing county in California doing the same election-denying dirty work. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Taxation without representation was the summary complaint that motivated the American Revolution. By allowing gerrymandering of Congressional districts to restrict minority representation, this Supreme Court violates America's founding principle.

Is there another time when world leadership was worse than it is now? Maybe the 14th century...

The day Trump finally leaves office ought to be a national holiday.

Some GOP senators talk big about defying Trump before an important vote. But as Fecal Midas likes to say, they fold like an umbrella. Profiles in cowardice. History will not be kind to them.

What is AI going to do for the climate? This planet is burning up. I don't see any tech bros who even seem to care about it.

"The Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman voted with Republicans to sink the measure, the only Democrat to do so." - The Guardian. WTF is wrong with that guy??

Maybe, hopefully, finally the American public understands how ruinous GOP policies are for the nation. Take from working and struggling people and hand the money to the rich. Make sure white men dominate public and private life. Endorse lies over truth when it suits them. Throw these bums out!

Is it a coincidence that the tech bros driving the massive AI buildup appear to have no humanity at all?

Heard on the Muzak at the dentist: Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Just clarifying...there was election fraud in 2020 when the GOP was in charge and Democrats won but none in 2024 when the Democrats were in charge and the GOP won?

When I was growing up back in the 50s and 60s we used to say that we Americans don't start wars but we finish them. Now we start wars and don't finish them.

"If you ever knew what it took to get to this job you could never vote for the person." - LBJ to my father in a private conversation. (My dad was CA Democratic Party Chairman.)

TN gonna go full white supremacist?

Could there be further proof of a mind devoid of any creative or critical thinking than reducing himself to calling his opponents "communist" as if this was 1954? I guess it assumes ignorance in his audience that they go for that tired old bogeyman.

Now you're talking...

It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.

Pack the Court ASAP. What SCOTUS is doing with full collusion from the President and the neutered GOP Congress breaks the system of checks and balances that make this government function. Instead we get a government dominated by a convicted felon whose main goal is looting the treasury and revenge.

One could argue that the real worst thing GW Bush did was nominate Alito for SCOTUS. Bu then the Senate did not have to confirm this cretin who belongs nowhere near any court.

Reading about our surrender to Iran, which is what it is and you all know it, and how the rest of the world is rewiring itself to route around us, could we have screwed up things any worse than electing Trump? His utter incompetence and dishonesty have ruined us in the eyes of the whole world.

When Trump said shithole countries, who knew it was an aspiration?

American foreign policy: Now that we have completely fucked up in Iran, let's go do the same in Cuba.

Trump's UFC event has a lot of commercial advertising on display. This is not legal according to Section 5104 of Title 40 of the United States Code.

Maybe instead of an elephant the GOP mascot should be a toad as in toady, since this is what they all are now.

Gov Whitmer gives her voters the finger..This kind of thing is what ruins the Democratic party's reputation and confirms that some Dem leaders are not on the peoples' side.

So now war crimes against civilians looks like US policy. Way to go Donnie. Will he next build a monument celebrating the My Lai massacre? open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The world has begun to treat the United States as a bug and is routing around it.

Money for the Jan 6 rioters and nothing for the Epstein victims. No sane society would do this.

Could it be finally dawning on a majority of Americans that this President is as dumb if not dumber than the people he constantly calls out.

A novel idea for the US military: instead of spending more, spend smarter. We, the people, are clearly not getting our moneys worth.

Mike Johnson:

Today's federal government: disenfranchise black people while paying off the traitorous Jan 6 insurrectionists. This is making America great? Trump's description of shithole countries must have been about envy since that is what he is doing here. Ultimately Trump is just about personal enrichment.

The GOP if it is honest, which of course it is not, will replace their elephant mascot with a crow and call it Jim..

The GOP was founded to stop slavery. But now their way forward is to shaft black people into something not far from slavery.

And yet again, this time thanks to the morally bankrupt GOP, black people in America get the short end of the stick. Let's face it, we treat our minorities like dogshit. The idea that not doing it is somehow discriminating to white people is right out of 1984 and is complete bullshit.

Trump must have felt envy when he described "shithole countries" given that everything he (and his chickeshit GOP enablers) does makes the USA into one.

As usual, Alito's uses bad data to support his racist decision. Institutional gaslighting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...