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Just an old curmudgeon from the Nutmeg State.
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Jesus Mary Joseph and the wee donkey

Post of the day.

This is good.

Perfect.

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

It’s called taxing the rich, buddy.

For Reals

The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Love this. Good people stepping up when the system fails our kids.

Back in the day, conservatives and liberals only disagreed about how big government should be and how to make it work more efficiently - not whether the government should exist. I look forward to getting back to that.

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

In case you haven't yet met your daily quota for the number of times you mumble (or shout) "WTF?" www.wcvb.com/article/milf...

End the interview right there

What a beautiful day! Never underestimate Ukraine…. Слава Україні 🇺🇦

Ukraine zerstört offenbar Dutzende russische Flugzeuge #Ukraine #Russland #Drohnenangriff

headline construction masterclass

Are there billions more people on earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing | Jonathan Kennedy

The @rollingstone.com hed is a little more direct than the @nytimes.com. 🤡 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Ya think? What gave it away? 🤷🏼

So there are allegedly 11m undocumented immigrants, and Trump goes after the half million we let in who are here legally and documented as part of his effort to go after undocumented criminal gang members ? I got it. Or may he just doesn’t like people with any color in their skin.

Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

Oh, look, I wrote this two months ago.

I know I’m late to this but **fun***

Jake Tapper's ratings are at their lowest point in a decade. This is what happens when you betray your audience in hopes you can sell some books to Trump supporters (a bad strategy since they won't read it and hated you to begin with)

The internet is so quick

I take the subway by myself multiple times literally every day and the most memorable things that have happened recently are that a very cute dog in a purple sweater was on my train car a few days ago and today a guy with a cane got on and literally four people immediately sprang up so he could sit

You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech.

ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

Said it before, I’ll say it again. We shouldn’t privatize NASA. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/s...

Although the Cold War luckily did not end in nuclear fireballs, many of the 220,000 US veterans who observed and participated in 215 atmospheric nuclear tests from 1945-62—along with many civilians working at or living downwind from test sites in the Pacific and Nevada—still paid a very steep price.

There have been young douchebros around my entire life. It’s just that until recently there wasn’t an industry telling them that they were entitled to be douchebros without anyone calling them douchebros.

I’ll miss Charlie Rangel, a beloved icon and public servant of New York. He was a proud veteran who loved serving his Harlem constituents. He urged me to run for the Senate and later was an invaluable colleague. Rest in peace and power, my friend.

‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

Red state Dems…

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

In other words, he promised repeatedly during the campaign he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours and he was just bullshitting everyone because he doesn’t have the first clue what to do, he gave away all negotiating leverage months ago, and his special envoy is a dope.

LMFAO

Thank you to everyone who read my tribute to Bode and has offered condolences and kind words of support.

Stolen Pallor

The United States abandoning of Ukraine, and that’s what this is, is both the most shameful and stupid move in the history of US foreign policy.

I really try hard not to swear but these guys are making it next to impossible.

My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin." member.democracydocket.com/the-medias-o...