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What a different world we could have.

Every lawyer should be required to read this. commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

I’m forming my own team of inglorious basterds. Please apply below with your qualifications.

Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)

celebrate #InternationalWomensDay by fighting like a girl

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

What has DOGE done? - Fired the people tasked with keeping Americans safe from the bird flu. - Gutted the IRS workforce during filing season. - Fired the FAA workers who make sure it’s safe for us to fly in planes. Does that sound like efficiency to you?

I think the entire construct of alpha males and beta males is deeply stupid, totally contradictory to the science and a way for stunted men to make sense of the world. That said it's very funny that every man in Trump world is basically a beta male to Trump.

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, died on Monday. On Friday at midnight, Parton released the song "If You Hadn't Been There" in his memory.

Everything got so stupid so quickly.

The longer Trump is President, the more incompetent he becomes.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

We cannot let the goal posts be moved and, equally important, we have to recognize when we are unconsciously allowing them to be moved in our own reaction to current events. The question isn’t just what’s happening; it’s whether we recognize it for what it is.

SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.

To quote FDR: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

4 in 5 Americans support raising taxes on the rich — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes for the rich and pay for it by slashing funding for nursing homes and school lunches.

Pretending you’re at Sotheby’s isn’t going to stop fascism.

I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.

I sure would like to know who has been buying the dips right before Trump announces he has changed his mind and reverses a tariff. Seems like valuable information in the markets to know when he announces a tariff and when he’s going to rescind it.

I have to say I kind of admire the restraint ProPublica showed with its understated headline. At the same time, I must say that the headline that I would have written— “SENATOR BANGS MILITARY LOBBYISTS” —would have been clearer and gotten more clicks.

NOT. A. MANDATE.

That's over. Ok back to your regularly scheduled program

I am proud to be transgender. I am proud to be a woman. I am eternally thankful to be made in God’s image. I feel bad for people like Donald Trump, who will never know the comfort and acceptance in his own skin that I feel in mine.

None of this is normal

Trump has been president for 6 weeks.

This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Our stock market is crashing. Our economy is contracting. Our government is dismantling. Our allies are fleeing. Our grocery prices are rising. But at least we now call it "The Gulf of America." So it all evens out.

This is Oakley, Kaos, and Charlie. They are proof that if you like something, you should get it in a couple colors. 13/10 for all

Two market meltdowns. One common denominator.

There has never been a better time to ignore all the Republican fake culture war bullshit they are rolling out to distract from what Trump is doing to our economy and national security. Focus on the stuff that matters - that people are feeling. We can’t let nonsense distract us.

Lindsey Graham is the definition of a weak, sniveling, gutless opportunist — an unprincipled political weather vane who grovels before power with embarrassing desperation. A hollow man with no convictions, no integrity, and no spine, shifting his loyalties whenever it serves his personal interests.

Chicago 🇺🇦🇺🇸

For the first time in our history, the assistant to the President will be delivering the State of the Union tomorrow night.

This is the Atlanta Fed warning us of a big economic contraction. Trump owns this.

As requested by a third grader in a letter to my office: Happy Third Graders Day, Minnesota!

Why are American taxpayers going to bail out scam artists losing money in the crypto markets? We are going to borrow more money to pump it into the crypto market to enrich scammers and leeches who produce nothing of value for humanity?

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

"Knock, knock" "Who's there?" "Ah" "Ah who?" "Werewolves of London"