Paladin 55

I'm Paladin 55 (@B_L_Mencken) on Twitter/X. Included a photo of my home page w/ my "bio." Just testing Blue Sky for a bit...Not sure if I'm going to remain on Twitter or do anything in bsky. Don't follow if you're MAGA-I'll block you.

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

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Lots of good news today for Dems. Don’t get complacent. Check your registration. Go vote - early if you can. Let’s win this fucking thing.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: The Da Vinci Code For Tax Purposes.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: The Rapture...For Tax Purposes

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: They Call Me Bruce For Tax Purposes

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Trading Places For Tax Purposes

Watchdog group @citizensforethics.org files legal challenge, asking court to block Jared Kushner from serving as Trump envoy They allege he's “breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.”

Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.

They both did it.

BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

BREAKING: A complaint has been filed with the California Bar against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, citing Popular Information’s reporting, for “the Unauthorized Practice of Law and for Holding Herself Out as Entitled to Practice Law.”

Wow, there were 85 vandals with 85 box cutters? It's like a caravan of vandals crossing the Potomac.

The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.

Christopher Columbus's Legacy? Give him "credit" for bravery but he was a horrific first contact "ambassador" to the "New World" from the old one. His cultural superiority, ambition, & moral/ethical shortcomings doomed millions. Instead of a Christ, Europe sent them a Trump. (Yeah...I said it.)

Ruin a book by adding a word: From Russia With Love Boat

Ruin a book by adding a word: Gone With The Wind Chimes

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“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

There are 4 official FBI interview reports, but only 3 unredacted handwritten notes of the alleged 13-year old victim of Epstein & Trump were submitted to the judge in my case. The missing note’s link to South Carolina & how Todd Blanche has yet to explain where it is: youtu.be/5TEPxgVe18E?...

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

He makes a good point.

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

Always a tweet.

Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:

Christian Bale is a real one for this www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...

Why are the tech billionaires afraid to display paid ads on their social media sites for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary, that is opening up on October 9th?

Streisand Effect, Activate.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)

Adam Hamilton going for the kill against Roger Marshall: "I was eight months pregnant and I said please do not handcuff me in front of my daughter."

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

He is STARVING Cuba and then calls them a failed state??? We all say the same about the U.S. A big old FAILED, USELESS, SAVAGE, RACIST STATE

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Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. His administration is a criminal organization. Of course he is trying to shut down the International Criminal Court.

Probably not a coincidence that Trump is banning multiple media outlets from the White House at the same time that we have confirmation that the White House has been lying about military casualties in this illegal war in Iran.

My deep state sources tell me it was this scene in Night on Earth which made Kash Patel more aware & accepting of bestiality as a form of sexual expression... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFnm...

My family’s pet cockatiel, Nibbles, just passed away. She adopted us back in 2001, when she appeared in our driveway, hungry and scared. She hopped onto my extended arm, and has been a member of our family ever since. Nibbles was at least 30 years old — an extraordinarily long life for a cockatiel!

Still waiting on the Supreme Court to rule on USPS's mail ballot restrictions. Every day matters. Democracy Docket is tracking it and will respond in real time. demdock.com/4w6emld

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