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I love weird stuff: fantasy, horror, and science fiction movies, shows, novels, and stories. Except for politics. I like my politics to be sane.
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Today we launched a website to track how much orange assface plays golf. We’re guessing this thing is gonna get a workout! Bookmark it. Enjoy! More: TrumpGolfTrack.com

“He’s running the government like a business!” That business? Stupid Dum Dum Shithead LLC

Gold? No. Crypto? uh no. Stocks and bonds? As if. The future of my family is secure in 1994 Conway Twitty Mardi Gras Doubloons.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Again: tech journalism is meeting this moment in a way the mainstream establishment newspapers and cable channels just aren’t. I can’t emphasize enough what a big deal this is.

Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

BRB new campaign just dropped

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

We've come a long way from "I will lower prices on day one"

"Wrongful spending" -- since DOGE hasn't produced any actual evidence of fraud, Hannity has made up a new term to gaslight his audience

How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies? A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t touched your Eggo-brand alcoholic Appalachian sippin’ cream

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

The reason the USA is so messed up is because everyone thinks bad things will never happen to them.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

The Texas Observer has identified an “overtly racist social media account” on Twitter as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden in Dallas. Color me not shocked that a white supremacist is an ICE agent.

Elon, community noted *and* ratioed.

Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14. Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo

Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

oh no oh no oh no oh no storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ME: *deals cards* okay boys what’ll it be QUARTERBACK: i pass HOCKEY PLAYER: i check ROOFER: i raise TELEMARKETER: i call OPTOMETRIST: i see ORIGAMI ARTIST: i fold

I got up, worked out, did a nice 1 mile walk. And now it's coffee while I work. I've got an apple cinnamon candle burning. I'm also so mad at so many things and worried about so many people. My anxiety is not great, because of all the everything. But I remember that spite will do. So.

In physics one of the most interesting things is the Correspondence Principle: at large scale everything averages out. It's an intractable nightmare trying to calculate what a single big atom is up to. Get 10^23 of them together and basic algebra works good enough to describe what it's doing.

If you were REALLY looking for corruption, you wouldn't be firing independent inspector generals and using your DOJ to force a corruption case against a Democratic Mayor in NYC to be dismissed.

People literally died from Covid while claiming it doesn’t exist. There is never going to be a wake up call for some people. A lot of people. It’s not about convincing them if they can’t be convinced. IMO it’s about overwhelming them entirely with opposition.

Dear third-party voters, you’ve been awfully quiet. What’s up? What’s the game plan for the next 3 years and 11 months? Asking for 75,017,626 friends who did the right thing because we wanted to avoid all of this shit!!!

A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency. 1/8

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

Bill Bramhall, @nydailynews.com

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

BREAKING: Massive protest rallies are happening today across the country, blasting DOGE and the guy that nobody voted for. There will even be a protest at SpaceX headquarters. SPREAD THE WORD. 🙏💪

Listen up yall. You guys need to understand some basic ideas, ok? DOGE *is* saving you money by slashing spending. But they're not going to mail you a refund check. It'll come in the form of you having to pay less in taxes. Also you need to already be extremely wealthy. Otherwise you're fucked.

the right controls the entire government, control over information and what gets censored by the government, the mainstream media, every economic institution and the right is still pissed off about some people putting pronouns in emails

Yes. There's no voting our way out; how can the rest of the world be reassured that our fellow Americans won't vote like this again, or worse? As a nation, we've lost their trust for at least a generation. And we've lost the standing we've benefitted from since WWII. Doubt we'll get it back.

Here at Melsonia HQ we are migrating away from US mega-corps slowly but surely. The latest is using Mojeek, and it's like going back in time to the Good Internet, where searching the internet was like rummaging through a scrap yard. 10/10

Ok, we’ve got the fifty story hulking lizard monster…like a dinosaur but it breathes fire. But we need a potential nemesis…something that could take on this titan and win. Ideas? 🙋‍♂️: Moth.

RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.