Mark Bois

This is some Ceaușescu-grade self-aggrandizement.

Oh my god, they killed Cartwright!

Y-Ike's!

Looks like the Maine U.S. Senate race home stretch will soon be featuring Susan Collins' newest plus one, none other than Joe Manchin. That means not one, but two — COUNT 'EM, TWO — walking electoral bowel obstructions that have thus far avoided being shat out. Sooooo looking forward to it.

Here's a thought: How about we stop permitting states to persist in this barbaric shit and pass a federal death penalty ban?

Day old news, sure. But I'm weighing in to give this lovely shade of coffin lid a thumbs up. It really does put the 'why?' in 'dying wish.'

Fucking perfect.

There have been so many examples of Trump making out-of-the-blue demands so asinine as to practically broadcast their having originated with his Russian creditor taskmasters. The military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue comes to mind. This is clearly another one of those.

I'm wondering if Eggseth isn't clandestinely conducting an experiment to test his hypothesis that reduced caloric intake increases man juice potency.

Yeah, replacing the moniker 'Kegseth' with 'Eggseth'. Given the degree to which ol' Pete's waxing lubricative over his masculine protector ideations here, I can only assume he must have been ovulating when he came up with this shit. (Or channeling Lindsey Graham.)

Osama Mitch Laden: Toppled the still-standing-though-largely-vacated edifice of America’s limited democracy via parliamentary hijacking, now the alleged originator of postmortem propagandistic messages released with his likeness and in his name. Truth is, he’s fucking dead.

My post(s) yesterday which posited that Mitch McConnell's absenteeism may in fact be heralding our deliverance to full-blown necrotocracy may have been somewhat premature as they overlooked another rather obvious possibility. Cryotocracy. As in, "Move over, Walt."

If Platner's foot-dragging his race withdrawal paperwork until the last possible second in order to sweat the MDP, he should think again. The jilted nominee stalker look doesn't exactly add credence to his "untrue sexual assault allegations" claim. And I say that as one of his former supporters.

Not backing off my prior indictments of Susan Collins's tacit affirmation of Trump's toxic masculinity at every turn, not to mention her explicit endorsement of Kavanaugh's character despite his several credible accusations of assault. However... This shit's frustrating as all hell. That said...

What I want to know is: Have they tried Ivermectin?

Deflecting Pool

RIP Walter Parazaider. I grew up listening to Chicago, and am sorry to learn of his recent passing. Hope he's managing to iron shit out with Janis Joplin.

Two decades ago, then Attorney General John Ashcroft had blue tarps placed to conceal the breasts of Art Deco statuary at the U.S. Justice Department. Apparently today President Nipple Monger has insisted upon his own shame curtain. Or maybe he's just fixating on his own recent hospital gown-ings.

Graham Platner's acceptance speech currently being met by, as far as I can tell, a resounding chorus of Bluesky crickets. Hilarious. Personally, I think he has a genuinely plausible shot at unseating Collins, arguably the best of any Democrat over the last two or three Senatorial election cycles.

Looks like we're gearing up to celebrate our nation's semi-Vince*-centennial. (*Vince McMahon, that is)

Yo, 83.3, 47. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I'm reading that Trump's been evacuated. Also, the Secret Service whisked him away.

Lately I've been entertaining hope for the "Epstein-ification" — i.e. the growing public awakening to the moral rot — of our blowback industrial complex. Robert Koehler's long been way ahead of me. www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-...

Hate to admit that it took me this long to figure out, but it finally dawned on me what the deal is with Trump's TS use of mid-sentence first-letter caps which, to this point, I've chalked up to illiteracy. They're dynamic marks, accents usually (i.e. '>'). He's literally playing his followers.

I guess they're figuring that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz will have collapsed the economy to the point of shutting down OTR trucking by the time these licenses are set to expire, so no biggie.

Trump's claiming his illegal war with Iran could last as little as 4 weeks. I'm reminded of the 6 mo. "Friedman unit" conceived during our last illegal regime change war 20 years ago. I'm not sure 4 weeks is entirely random, however. I'm guessing that was also Trump's avg. geezer sex pest interval.

The 1980 "USA! USA!" men's hockey gold medal heralded the onset of the Reagan Revolution which launched a nearly 50-year trajectory that brought us to today. I'd like to imagine this 2026 US men's hockey gold medal is perhaps the bookend herald of the final closure of that period. Drink up, Kash.

The video of the post-game locker room beer chugging and fraternal back slapping between Kash Patel and the US men's hockey team leads me to think that if you were to have stripped those players of their ice hockey talent, a number of them likely would have wound up becoming present day ICE galoots.

Can't help but note the irony of the success with which the U.S. turned to ice to mine gold.

While I know nothing of hockey, it sure looked to me like the better goalie won today.

The surge in violence meted out by ICE absolutely should continue to be condemned, but I think a lot of people didn't realize or care that activists have been facing life-altering injury from cops for generations. "Law enforcement" has always been the violence. It ALL needs to stop.

Olympic Men's Slalom: The skier leading after the first run straddled a gate and DQ'd on his second run, only to then proceed to yard sale all of his shit in a fit of rage. I probably haven't seen such a dearth of coping skill in any competitive sport since, well, me — playing high school tennis.

Which begs the question: At what point do our little grey fartless space hobo overlords finally decide they've had enough of our shit?

The Democratic party of Nancy Reagan-grade enablers, no doubt on the advice of their Joan Quigley-grade consultants, have again gone all in on the status quo. Meanwhile, Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Il) has moved decisively into the lead for the Barbara Lee award for actual courage and moral clarity.

Someone in Stockholm please give Trump his "This Maximalist Imperial and Authoritarian Dictatorial Bullshit's All of a Piece" Prize.

ICE dubbed their most recent NC immigration raids 'Operation Charlotte's Web'?! What the hell did E.B. White ever do in life to deserve that? And what short primer did those fascist knuckle draggers think that he wrote, 'Elements of Stasi'?

While I'm not inclined to buy into the premise of any sort of 'rehabilitation' on her part, I have to admit she does appear to be at least somewhat more astute—or perhaps just more manipulative and cunningly agile—than I gave her credit for.

At this point, waiting for Senate Democratic "leadership" to even attempt to examine where it lost its collective spine in this shutdown fight is like waiting for a goldfish to go spelunking. It's that fucking pointless.

Right now the Democrats don't so much look poised to vote to reopen the government as they do poised to vote to run the gathering resistance energy of the past few weeks straight to fucking ground.

I'm pretty sure the photo attached to the headline I just saw proclaiming that a deal to reopen the government was taking shape in the Senate, and which featured Susan Collins center frame, told me all I needed to know. Leave it to the fuckin' mainstream corporate Democrats to cave. Again.

"South Carerdddd" Narcoleptic typo or phonetically deciphered dictation? I say that one's a coin toss.