Third Verse

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... CIA: “Bay of Pigs? Nope doesn’t ring a bell.”

www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor... Geneva Convention IV (Article 33): no protected person may be punished for an offense they did not personally commit. Collective penalties, measures of intimidation, terrorism, pillage, and reprisals against protected persons and their property are explicitly banned.

san.com/cc/a-detroit... “Other claims that the Metro Times said Rogers lied about were…” Gee, if only there was some ne way SAN could verify Rogers claims instead of “he said, she said”-ing the whole affair and framing it as a partisan issue.

www.zmescience.com/science/hist... “… he assumed command and quickly turned the makeshift settlement into his personal kingdom. He replaced members of his ruling council with conspirators, forced followers to swear loyalty…” Reminds me of another corporate psychopath currently running the country.

www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wa... The Administration is normalizing public executions to desensitize Americans to State violence and cruelty, just like it has used the National Guard to desensitize the public to soldiers policing our streets.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The re-invention of the rip-off

www.wishtv.com/news/politic... “When you have complete misinformation coming out of the White House, that affects our relationship with our foreign partners, that affects our relationship with our foreign enemies,” Todd Blanche said, momentarily forgetting to lie.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se... “Very Online conservative Christians really think portraying Christ as a lion, a carnivorous beast with notoriously smelly urine who sleeps 23 hour/day and steals meat from hyaenas, is beautiful sacred art- But having Christ portrayed by a woman is sacrilege.”

Truth in advertising.

www.salon.com/2026/08/19/b... Since corporations are people, let’s punish them like people.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal... Being a literal pro-lynching, “Jews-will-not-replace-us,” White Supremacy flag-waving Nazi is not a disqualification for the GOP. It won’t even cost their endorsement.

Ed Sheeran has a net worth of $400 million. If he were really concerned about what losing arena gigs might cost his support acts, backing band, and crew, he could easily just fucking pay them. Spineless.

Threats intensify against Israeli directors of Gaza documentary NAZA

We Found the Most Galling Argument of the Upcoming Supreme Court Term #Slate

Ditto.

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

Fascism is here!!!

Pure, unmitigated Evil.

www.rawstory.com/wild-horses/ Remember this story when Trump tells you he lowered the price of “beef.”

Frankly, I'm totally shocked that rich and powerful bankers are, at their core, ruthless, immoral, greed-driven businessmen. Who could ever have predicted this? Oh, right --

Shane has identified the equilibrium point, beyond which his desire to inflict pain upon others is overridden by his desire to avoid inflicting pain upon himself.

Fun fact: The US is the only developed, democratic nation with a legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” for government officials and LEOs.

“… I make no claim as to whether the approaching end is the end of this cycle of elite impunity, or the republic itself—but it will be one of the two.”

When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth

Ever notice how the "physics" bros who sneer at female action heros because "I'm sure a 125 lb girl is going to be able to take out a group of genetically engineered super soldiers" are the first to line up for 5'7" 150 lb Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher and Ethan Hunt? www.fangoria.com/onslaught-tr...

"Look at me, Donald. It's all for you!" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-maki... Perfectly put: “No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.”

FDR, 1944, on our rights: “The right to a good education. All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.”

ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights Things used to be normal. We used to be doing alright here in the United States, limiting ourselves to catching people at the borders or... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/ice-opportunism-expands-to-passengers-on-domestic-flights/

New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."

Eight hours after Trump threatened to "bomb the shit" out of a major ally and still not a peep from the Republican Congress.

God bless this person in particular! 😂

Just saw a Meta commercial explaining how they are optimists and humans should embrace AI and technology advances. The background song was “Five Years,” by David Bowie. You know, the one where we find out that the earth is dying and we’ve only 5 years to live?

Watch an executive coup being plotted in real-time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EMT...

Apparently, bringing back 19th century gunboat diplomacy wasn't regressive enough, because Trump has now brought back 18th century privateering. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“That includes over 30,000 of Americans who have phoned our passport call center since July 4 seeking a chance to apply for this passport,” the spokesperson claimed. I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $500, Alex!

ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism

Trump has declared that four servicemembers who were killed last don’t count, because they occurred after he had declared a ceasefire in late April. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

www.texasobserver.org/sboe-bible-c... Some truly sick shit in Texas.

www.businessinsider.com/trump-strait... Trump is ordering the US military to engage in piracy. Since the military is actively murdering civilians in international waters, I doubt the generals and admirals will object to a little extortion on the side.

It does look like the entrance to am Assisted Living facility.

“Anti-woke” is nothing but a euphemism for pro-racist, pro-misogynist, pro-fascist. Don’t let the bastards define the narrative.

www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-i... As far as metaphors go, the masturbating white pervert cosplaying as Uncle Sam seems a bit on-the-nose, but here we are.

www.huffpost.com/entry/thomas... This article reminds me of Pink Flamingos, where all the main characters are trying to claim the title of the Filthiest Person Alive. Except, Thomas Massie is no Divine, Lauren Boebert lacks the raw charisma of Edith Massey, and Fox News Digital is still Fox News.

www.alternet.org/alternet-exc... We see it everyday in our news feeds.