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I, for one, would rather live in a world with an active Iranian nuclear program yet still had an America that was the leader of the free world and shining city on the hill.

It's perverse that we seem to be able to pay attention to gas prices, with virtually no discussion of the utter immorality of the "Iran Excursion." How does it feel to be pounding our chests for being on the OTHER side of Pearl Harbor?

What sort of evidence would be required to show that personal bribes (Saudi, Qatar, UAE) to Trump et al were the real driving force behind our attacks on Iran? Has the Roberts court rendered this impossible with its nonsensical immunity ruling? See why Foreign Emoluments were so feared?

NEW: Insurrectionist pardoned by Trump has been arrested for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

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Breaking news!!!! reviews are in for the new Melania movie

The country I was born into ended today.

I hope people understand that people who poo-poo the brutality of ICE tactics are people who'd be OK with gulags.

Without reliable economic reports, the only question at this point is whether it will be known as the "Trump Recession" or the "Trump Depression."

Go Ireland!

Worst of the Worst’? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind. www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

We don't have a President, we have a PIG.

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace. Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed. These extremists are sick people.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first of the nine schools to reject the Trump administration’s offer to grant priority access to congressionally authorized federal funds in exchange for signing a “compact.” #ImpeachTrumpNow

How much would it cost for my state (CA) to hire a chunk of the federal DOJ? And FBI? This has nagged at me since Musk's absurd RIFs. But the stark realization is how f*cked we are by what's happening to legitimate law enforcement above all else. Could CA & NY ++ bond together and fund all of it?

@johnsmillie42.bsky.social regarding heat pump technology, wouldn't coastal San Diego be optimal for that approach? Rarely a frost, not often over 80. But I have not seen them promoted. Am I missing something?

Why is it that we use the term "government shutdown?" We haven't had a government since January.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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@fearonika.bsky.social My favorite line in Christmas Story was "he worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. I t was his true medium. A master."

How is it that I am supposed to find common ground with people so stupid that they don't understand what a valid test of drugs is and too arrogant to admit they don't understand.

One of my all-time favorite movie lines is Auda Abu Tayi telling Colonel Harry Brighton: "Give thanks to God, Barton, that when he made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face." Why is it that every MAGA on stage makes me think of this? Hell, the whole movement reminds me of it, doesn't it you?

Is anybody watching this? It's about the hookiest cheesy phony "ceremony" I've ever seen. Goddamn. It's embarrassing. America will never live down this shameful display.

Every Sunday in America we give a pretty good indication of our preference for a good story over the truth.

@lizpas09.bsky.social even when n you marry her! Well hell, maybe it was the mid west in her that I married? Yikes.

Thank goodness we'll have records of heroes like her when this American nightmare is over.

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

Even something as simple as an FBI press briefing now has to begin with a LIE. There's no way that this is the most tips from the public since the Boston marathon bombing. January 6th 2021 generated far more as I recall.

@katiegail79.bsky.social Southern California

Don't tell me I am obliged to mourn Charlie Kirk (I'm looking at you Jake Tapper). Kirk did nothing but whip up hate and help to destroy the America I once knew. None of that crowd had a peep to say when MN state lawmakers were slaughtered, and that includes Kirk's Orange Lord in the White House.

I am decidedly NOT a Rand Paul fan, but watching him try to explain to Fox moron Will Cain why the US can't blow up ships willy-nilly in international waters was fun. How do literate Americans take clowns like Will Cain seriously?

Wow. I like the News Mix channel. It's a great way to keep an eye of the Fox garbage being swallowed by a great many of our neighbors. But today it also alowed me to see Jake Tapper give an absolutely no-pushback platform to always available Fla Rep Gimenez spewing Trump regime lies about Chicago.

A moment in time: the FOX clowns right now are whining about Congresswoman Omar's stock portfolio. It's one day after the Trump family's cryptocurrency windfall.

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I can't imagine showing up at college this fall and not immediately joining mass campus protests about the Nazi in the White House and the violation of educational freedom.

@msnbc.com Gotta say that I've (for some reason) seen John Kasich more than normal. He's brutal. Speaking as someone who made the mistake of voting for W in 2000, it's guys like Kasich who made MAGA happen. I appreciate that he has the good sense to know Trump is a joke. But...

@neeratanden.bsky.social Bedford friends sent this to me today. Thought you might get a kick out of it. thebedfordcitizen.org/2024/08/a-la...

Ball sucking a war criminal in public. Can we call it a new low?

So Joe Rogan has soured on Trump? Great. That dumbass couldn't figure out until now that Trump is a worthless lying sack of sh*t? Good grief. Do people really listen to someone so slow on the uptake?

A heartfelt R.I.P. for Ozzie!

I honestly just saw Lee Zeldin, head of our EPA, say, on camera, that he was going to fully investigate the part "weather engineering" played in the Texas flooding. Nutcase space laser stuff. RFK Jr. brainworm fantasies. I don't think we can imagine half the nonsense these clowns must talk about.

We all need to understand that by the time they did it, EVERYTHING the Nazis did was legal according to their courts.

Always take "the under" when betting on Donald Trump.