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Hit my quota of news by noon, no more til Monday [yeah, sure] Will I now swim thru swamp of despair, & everything I already heard, to find anything funny or diverting? Are you hating & doomscrolling more & enjoying it less? That's why I was done with the #hellsite in 2017-18 #Dysopia

Sufficient unto the day From the deathless B Kliban !

Not so long ago -- remember ? Those tax cuts made the annual deficits really grotesque, where they were absurd before. Covid was only a part of that Now for the Senate to save us ? #GOP

Bongino ? No, really? "Nothing worse than Patel is possible", we said. Such trash never appeared above my horizon but still -- Just for a moment, I thought "4 yrs NYPD, 12 yrs Secret Service - qualifications !" Anyway, with geometric logic I have established: HE […] [Original post on mas.to]

What profit-making idea have they for selling off 7000+ EV chargers from Fed facilities ? No, send 'em to the dump to make a point I guess. [were they all preloaded with Russian malware to get into the car's systems? Would it be a surprise?]

nor will I send this: Cast off with a Yo-ho-ho Hang the man who just says 'No' Navigate away from here Can we face life without beer? Sing a song of damned nonsense Laugh all day without pretense Waste your time but don't waste mine Hide yourself where stars don't shine all rights resv'd […]

I've had a nose-full, as the Germans say, & guten abend from the deathless B Kliban !

You may be represented by super- liberals in Congress - "I don't need to tell them anything" -- very comfortable cop-out. BUT you can help get out the votes in Benighted States, donate $ to red-state House candidates, state legislature campaigns [do you know what ALEC is?], ACLU, Democracy […]

BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR: The GOP is headed for an unforgettable stomping in 2026, whether El Disgusto is in nursing home or not. They can see it. What then will they do, but new levels of voter suppression or everything worse than that ? Get ready ! #GOP #GoodbyeAmerica

"One must swallow a toad each morning, if he would be sure of encountering nothing more disgusting during the day" -- Chamfort Toad or no toad, enough ! #Quotes

Now should we burn more natural gas, pollute more water, to run more data centers,, to use AI for what we can't do ourselves (for shame!), or deem too unimportant, eliminating our own jobs to get worse output and create irretrievable new problems ? [Like systems dependent on the internet […]

Are you living with an FBI director who wrote a children's book with a King Donald & his wizard Kash ? Was your AG had in the foulest way for $25,000? & then there's "Grotesquo", Giuliani You're living in a Batman game #Fascism #Treason Dr Seuss cartoon: March 20 cartoon - 'The Columbian'

Remember to ask self -- have I got nothing better to do ? and so goodnight

Job 1 was to see that Obama would be a 1-term President, he said [so, nothing good was allowed to happen] There was 1 rule for Obama SCOTUS nominee in an election year, another for A C Barrett {Merrick Garland might have done some earthly good on the Court; anyone else would have been better as […]

All this gab & yet no one mentioning that Bond died? "No Time to Die' was better not being made, like most movies. In 'Spectre' Bond saved us, and the lady, who had also suffered enough, retired & drove away, in decency that should have ended it. 'No Time to Die' was just annoying all through […]

Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir, take your leisure like a god on pension & don't be walking abroad. Sure you'd only lose yourself & wet your feet maybe with the foggy dews about. Meeting some old sick bankrupt or a slut snoring with an impure infant on a bench […] [Original post on mas.to]

BERNICE'S SHEEP ============= This night I lable down to sleep With hefty heart arid much saddened With all the bubbles of the world Bratting my boulders Oh dear sheep I slapter counting one be one Till I can cow nomore this day Till bethny hard aches leave we […] [Original post on mas.to]

The Bugle ! Where we got John Oliver from ! This week Andy Zaltzmann hosts Alice Fraser ! Josh Gondelman ! ** Who was described as "a merciless tyrant, obstinate but without firmness, ruthless without enterprise, crafty but without strategem, envious, jealous, vain, a bantam in success,[ a […]

So much to say, "The Man Who Knew Too Little" -- wonder if this week, someone enlightens tRump about: the Holodomor [a genocide, only some 12 years before he was excreted into this world], or why Ukraine had some independence since 1954. Putin's hero Stalin had his […] [Original post on mas.to]

Perhaps you know offhand what a Doge was. [at least if you saw Heath Ledger in 'Casanova'?] If the Gang of Assholes wants to use the name, they should have to wear the hat

NYT story: White House threats to **...teaching about concepts such as structural racism, “white privilege” and “unconscious bias,” by threatening their federal funding. The order also promotes “patriotic” education that depicts the American founding as “unifying, inspiring and ennobling” […]

Love this: Hostile government takeover (as featured on John Oliver's show last night). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8GKzNAPQ

Surprised Trump’s minions haven’t yet been dispatched to deface the Statue of Liberty.

Types of faces: Can you picture Alabama Gov. Ivey's face grinning up at you as you're lynched ? Easily. Can you picture Bove at the prosecutor's table in the People's Court [the original one]? Quite well. You know there were some facial types in the 1930s that you […] [Original post on mas.to]

BBC Sounds ! Radio 4 ! If you don't know Saki, you haven't lived. "The Unrest-Cure" -- some people have become entirely too comfortable. 30 minutes, "freely-adapted" - [it's interesting what they did here] you would get a shock if you read the original ... artefact of its time ... #Literature […]

"All my life my heart has sought a thing I cannot name" I got your Valentine right here !

I'm Lenin toward lovin you

The sunk-costs fallacy: 'I gave up my marriage, my friends, my $, self-respect--can't quit now" I took that ride already -- No true disciple questions the Master; beings like Him aren't judged by a thing like you; if you hear about 13-yr old girls and Swiss bank […] [Original post on mas.to]

Remember Nast cartoons: Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall? [I don't] Good old NYC. Why is Eric Adams so arrogant? Well, he had an NYPD Captain's badge - "A prince of the city"; fine old traditions of corruption there. [& defendants who won the Asshole Prize in court might […] [Original post on mas.to]

Had enough ? from the deathless B Kliban ! I'm going where fierce indignation can no longer lacerate my heart ... for tonight