…I don’t want to let this wind up going the way tuesday did…but…there’s…too much…too much?
This is an extremely alarming story. This goes much further than even Bondi's reversal last year of Garland's journalist subpoena policy, which I covered here: www.lawdork.com/p/bondi-reve…
…& it is…& that’s a thread & an article & all on its own in a regular-ass world that would be the sort of thing we talked about like a “something-gate”…&…I’m just guessing…based on having had fucking no idea where to even begin with today…that it wasn’t the top line on why you woke up feeling some kind of a way about “the administration”?
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering – where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
…we…could have maybe bet on it…while we seem to be making some hasty wagers & the wildest proposition bets since amarillo slim’s book came out that time…so…the antes…can be…misleading
Why did he put the money into a Qatari bank account instead of the US Treasury?
…nobody really should be needing to tell the “president” & his secretaries how the tripline thing works or what that shit means…but…some bells you only gotta ring the one time
Brother, if the US actually invades Greenland, you will witness a maelstrom of death and choas that has not existed in the American mind for nearly a century. Everyone will lose because that's the death of the world we know and the birth of one we can't begin to conceive of.
…I’d leave that at that…but…I dunno…it kind of had a lead in that makes for a pretty stark contrast that might have felt instructive…so…a lady with solid form in the knowing whereof she speaks said a thing
i feel like if the president actually went through with invading greenland, it would implode America
…seems…pretty straightforward
like it’s one of those things that would end up creating an instant american failstate
…meanwhile…a self-selected spokesman for “a certain point of view”…came through
More than an attempted coup, where a mob tried to seize Congress on live television did? There’s not going to be an implosion about anything. It’s either a slow slide towards oblivion where everything gets incrementally worse as people try to live normally, or a slow grind in the opposite direction.
If Trump invades Greenland, the Europeans won’t fight back, Republicans will defend it, Democrats will issue statements, there will be protests, and most Americans will disapprove of it enough to earn Democrats a bit more of the vote in November. Then on to the next thing.
…that…is what your boy ed was replying to, there…or at least the top half of the unbalanced statement from the representative of the “can’t tell me shit about shit” caucus
i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
Part of why I feel most useful as a commuter (i.e. roaming patrol) is that any ICE activity that gets reported immediately generates a massive response. So the highest value comes from actively hunting them on the road
…osita…is the “the world ain’t gonna do shit, neither” guy…what a difference a year makes, huh?
It amazes me that so-called "serious folk" in the US are failing to realise that the next two generations of European policymakers are going to be incredibly more inclined towards anti-Americanism than any generation since the interwar era.
hey, boys, let’s go to Maine in the absolute dead of winter and make sure everybody there REALLY fucking hates the GOP right before a pivotal Senate election
BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally.Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
BREAKING — Mark Dion, Mayor of Portland, Maine just released this media statement re: ICE coming to the Portland and Lewiston. He says "While we respect the law, we challenge the need for a paramilitary approach to the enforcement of federal statutes."Full statement shared with me:
Portland Public Schools published this notice in their community newsletter yesterday as rumors of ICE coming to town began to circulate: www.portlandschools.org/calendars/pp…
…maybe that’s why that guy who was still running *after* the SS-tattoo thing just lately left town…it stopped being fun?
i don't, like, *know* that Platner has significant campaign finance governance issues but i cannot actually see the candidate through the forest of red flags
Lots of people quoting that Margaret Atwood line after Renee Good’s murder—“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”—and it’s making me feel a kind of gendered chauvinism. Imagine being so scared just of being laughed at.
As a small woman I think it’s pathetic to feel the need to carry a gun everywhere to feel safe. If I don’t feel the need how tf do these men that think they’re so big and tough.
like yeah on this basis I am forced to conclude I am in fact a harder fucking operator than a strapped 6’2 guy from Dallas who shits himself with raw terror when he sees a Ethiopian restaurant
…is killing it
I really wish people hadn't demonized calories because the one thing that calorie count is really, really good for is being able to say "Wow those are starvation rations."
…&…I dunno about a will to power but there’s a whole lot of “power to will” going around
okay one tip for automotive ICE trackers, go ahead and remove the progressive insurance tracker from your car before you start. they’re not gonna like what they see
“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it. “I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
The amount of ICE agents slipping on actual ice is out of control lmao. They really sent motherfuckers into Minnesota in the middle of winter who don't know how to run in snow let alone on ice. It's having an effect that makes people less afraid, like someone straight up jumps on this ICE loser lmao
X updated its terms of service to declare that any lawsuit against it, even ones which are ongoing (as Musk’s suit against Media Matters is), must be heard by Reed O’Connor in Texas. Basically.
…but…that definition of terms I whinge about getting mistreated while nobody ever seems to notice much less give a fuck about its welfare?
If you had told me a year ago that retired French military officers would be talking to press about fighting Americans to defend Greenland before I turned 35, I would have assumed you were talking about the 0.0001% chance timeline.
…haven’t figured out how to get a clip in a non-shareable one to embed as just the video & think this one came from twitter based on the handle in the watermark so
related: it’s funny reading the french retired general who is just salivating to fight the yanks
assuming the Europeans won't fight back is a giant assumption that i don't think this is born out at all seeing as they're already deploying tripwire forces
…it’s like…if…I dunno…maybe…you think you’re genghis khan…but…you vizzini…or…you know the bit in game of thrones with the guy & the “damn, even goldfinger did that shit with just paint…that some cold-ass molten shit to do to a dude, dude” thing…anyway
This piece will absolutely *marinate* you in that unique blend of disgust, dread, and deep, deep sadness that is so characteristic of our age.
…that’s what happens when you replace your heart & soul & the space you could have filled with a brain with a bunch of sludge you got from the bog of eternal stench…I don’t make the rules…but we all saw labyrinth…you don’t get to claim nobody warned you
There appears to be two Mahan Air flights from China still trying to make it to Tehran, but otherwise its airspace is now empty. Whatever our stupid president is planning, I hope it waits until those civilian aircraft have landed. Second image is what it looked like eight hours ago.
…traditionally my understanding is that it’s tuesdays you expect the taco stuff…but…this sort of shit will spike a pizza index into heart failure at this rate
A senior U.S. official said late Wednesday that Mr. Trump had not set aside the military options his commanders had presented in recent days, and whether he ordered any depended on what the Iranian security services did next.
But after Mr. Trump’s remarks on Wednesday afternoon, the Pentagon was ready to have troops return to the base, said a U.S. military official, who described the president’s comments as “an off-ramp.”
Long-range bombers in the United States had been put on alert to conduct secondary strikes if needed, but that appeared to have been paused as of Wednesday afternoon, another U.S. official said.www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u…
…there’s stuff flying that isn’t designed to go boom again…which would also make those “overnights” close to being as big a splash in the news as the things that didn’t go bump in the night generally are…&…by way of where that implies the baseline is…if you still feel like all other things being equal (even if we all know those aren’t) you have your head above water & might still be able to wave without drowning…congratulations on being one of the lucky ones
X says Grok account will stop undressing women. I just tested the standalone Grok app, which immediately complied with my request to undress a photo of me. This is illegal, according to the legal experts I spoke with.
…for the record…the “capability” for those kinds of model-based generative routines to produce that stuff existed at the very least some months in advance of this becoming a thing…& there may be a few niche places you might have been able to find online that would because they’d found a way around or had their own models that couldn’t be controlled…but all the “major player” ones nixed those & did some more than cursory stuff about that not being an easy jailbreak kind of a “fix”…the asshole is trotting out lines that would be legally convenient about not having been aware until as recently as this week that the generated material included “kiddie stuff” or whatever he probably called it that I can’t be bothered to look up again or I won’t be able to keep this to just a quick rant & we’ll be here all day until I’m talking about the impact of the functional limit of the production capacity of RAM wafers on the outlook for the bill of goods economy like apparently close to the whole world is content to let just ed zitron do so we can all make out we can’t hear that noise…but…what the observable facts suggest is that he turned on a traffic driver he knew would put out the anti-bat-signal to juice his numbers on that dying shithole of a drain circling sinkhole where there used to be a social media platform of utility that was disproportionate to the size of its userbase…&…not for nothing…that seems an awful lot like the pains ICE seems not to be taking for its induction process…&…well…this other lady who seems to know a few things about a few things…said a few things under a heading that…might have spoken to me?
…& I might not love the part where she seems likely to be right about these people doing worse before things get better…but…they can?
This is the real reason the party pulled out all the stops to try to defeat him. Their careers are built on the idea that they want to do good things this while always having some reason that they just can't yet.This guy busting in and doing this kind of shit within weeks gives away the whole game
…so…I could…&…let’s be honest…almost undoubtedly will at some point…in this post or another or some bunch of comments…go on ad bloody nauseam…on any number of strands of this tapestry of egregious bullshit we continue to accept as a supposedly working definition of our social fabric…but…for anyone who isn’t otherwise constructively employed…or deployed…or just not ploy-‘ployed…in which case…new day, new rules…still the home of the brave
people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us
…technically it matters which unlikely place that acknowledgement for stancil sprang from…but that dan isn’t the dan that can set you straight about why not to pick up canisters of deployed riot suppressants with your hands so I don’t pay him much mind & apparently he doesn’t want his name shared with the words under that…you get the idea, though…I imagine
So on the one hand, I think this is correct but on the other hand I would never underestimate the power of crude national interests to compel countries together even in the absence of trust.Any sane US administration (so not this one) shares a lot of interests with our (former) European partners.
…still…even if you’re will “honda fit” stancil…you gotta have some downtime…&…I don’t seem to come here with a lot of that…so…I’m stealing charlie’s bid to get that thrown at him
apologies if this is dumb but as somebody who has been reporting pretty extensively on the grok csam hellscape and also consuming news about the darkness of american politics…i am looking for a brief respite (stupid, funny, weird, joyful stuff that maybe i can report on/think about/or just read)
this is not dumb, i have been in this place (such a strange and physically heavy feeling) and now i’m blanking on anything good or even interesting but also i recently discovered this random mom’s videos and they’re weirdly comforting to watch?
I mean, here's a classic. Honey badger is fifteen years old (and doesn't give a shit)!youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg?…
Charlie, have you seen the Japanese TV show called "Midnight Diner"? It's on Netflix. There are two listings ("Midnight Diner," and "Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories") with several seasons. Episodes are short, lovely, charming, funny, deeply human. My highest, most heartfelt recommendation.
have you thought about what happens if you for them all at once? yeah it turns out they lose qualified immunity and military hardware. plus you can push back without getting black bagged.
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!docs.google.com/document/d/1…
As a black person in America I find the assertion that suddenly we gotta cool our jets when the murder was caught on video super funny. Even Luigi was arrested faster than this.
This is actually demonic & should strike as corrosive to the souls of anyone who considers themselves American. It’s the most dishonorable act imaginable.
It’s beyond disgusting.
Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota–a nation of the continent's original inhabitants–“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i…
🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
(now brainstorming 'Come Out ICE and CBP' after my wife played Black & Tans driving into town)
Yeah these are the most lawless, jackbooted, bloodthirty thugs in the entire family of feds, even including ICE and CBP more generally, who repeatedly blew off federal judges telling them to Stop Beating Civilians because it was their favorite thing to do, so if they're feeling NERVOUS…whew lad
I guess it really helps to have held and fired a gun before, but you really need to imagine you and a few of your friends facing off against several dozen people who are yelling at you from a few feet away. If you really put yourself in that position mentally, you’ll realize just how fucked you are.
Like your AR is not going to help you that much if they decide they want to beat you to death. You’ll get a few shots off before it’s grabbed, you’re grabbed, and the kicks are coming. And then maybe someone gets ahold of your gun and uses it on you.
Especially when these guys aren’t former Green Berets, they’re divorced failed crypto investors from Jacksonville who are looking to take out their anger at their ex-wives on SOMETHING.
30 rounds is ultimately not that much, shooting one direction means you can’t be shooting at a guy 10 degrees to the left or right, and nobody is that far away. They will close on you if they want to.
theyre also massive fucking cowards to boot
…meanwhile
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
…it’s…complicated…the good stuff still matters…there’s a truly insane amount of the bad stuff trying to make everyone lose sight of there even being better stuff to look to…but…looking at “both sides”…as is traditional…by rite & custom…UFFDA pink-hat lady…is one voice of many that if I’m brutally honest…puts honey badger in at best 2nd place in terms of what charlie asked for…before the qualifier in the 2nd half…because it sure as hell isn’t dumb…or low stakes…or necessarily funny…though for my money you get more bang for your buck if it is in a CoD is cash-on-delivery-life-is-not-a-fucking-video-game-much-less-your-pet-FPS way when they get laughed at in chorus at the point of their arrested development active incitement rodeo chaos clown cavalcade parade performance…but…stupid/funny/weird/joyful stuff[…] [I] can think about or just read”…what can I say…the lady kinda checks those boxes for me?
They have no idea how bad they fucked up by telling everyone they got covered in piss
I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.
eigenbot literally caught a domestic abuse charge lol
a significant fraction of tpot is extremely pro-rape and the correct conclusion to draw from this fact is that you cannot trust them for anything at all theasterisk.substack.com/p/reflecting…
the core main tpot centers of gravity like eg eigenrobot will just straight up block people who accuse anyone they know, including very credibly. it's not fucking great
I think it really can’t be undersold how soul-deep terrifying it is to guys like this to have regular people, unarmed, fearlessly screaming obscenities at them and telling them to get the fuck out
This dude, indeed, rules. I guess he’s an influencer of some kind, but I feel like so many people are, more or less. out there yelling “shoot me, bitch.” Every single threat and warning from an ICE agent is just met with greater disdain and more people in the street telling them to fuck off.
They have fucking assault rifles and we have whistles and they’re scared shitless, because they know we’d rather be righteous and dead than ever be them.
If anyone tries to Milkshake Duck the Shoot Me Guy…immediate block. I do not care one ounce what his background is. He is stepping up when needed.
It simply does not comport with reality as they wish to believe it is, it’s epistemically devastating
*SHOULD NOT be undersold, dammit, and this is a pet peeve of mine too
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
“I cannot think of another high-profile federal agent shooting case like this when the Civil Rights Division was not involved," a former associate AG under Obama told the Washington Post.www.jezebel.com/doj-leaders-…
…you shouldn’t need a map to know when you have your head this far up your ass…even if you never leave home without pitchforks & a burning torch or two…probably especially then…but…my how that mileage do vary between hear & proud mary as we keep on rolling down this road one more hail mary at a time
(Behind a paywall at Slate, but worth a read if you can.)How did abortion access get saved in Wyoming? Two main factors explain the ultimate success: Wyoming’s unique libertarian constitution and the savvy and determination of a woman named Julie Burkhart.
Congressman Ted Lieu, a former Air Force veteran, issued a stark warning to U.S. military members, that military action against Greenland without explicit congressional authorization would constitute following illegal orders. He reminded service members they swear an oath to the Constitution, not 🤡…
Plese repost & share: "The risks of using generative artificial intelligence to educate children and teens currently overshadow the benefits, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education."www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n…
Quit talking about Trump. Address everything, every issue to Miller and Vought. Make Trump irrelevant, his ego will not let him be out of the spotlight and you’ll see Miller and Vought removed and the rest of the administration collapse.
Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!
Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."
They beat up a tenth grader! (Who is a US citizen, but it shouldn’t matter, why the fuck do you beat up a kid.)They stole his phone and tried to resell it!
I actually think the contrast here is key to understanding American politics; it’s not just that Democrats and Republicans act differently, it’s that people have different expectations and demands of them. The people who celebrate Trump’s aggression would not reward the same from Democrats.
One classy (and quick) thing Biden did: When a guy said “let’s go Brandon” on a WH Christmas special, he said “Let’s go Brandon, I agree” and kept talking to him.
We don’t have a king. You’re allowed to talk shit to him!
…think it was jesse watters or watteva his name is that actually said the “why won’t they just give daddy what he asks for?” thing in earnest in those words in front of a camera while he knew he was on air in a broadcast that people watch…in case that all seems like a random mess of words
"TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old UAW Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post he was the one who shouted at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation. 'As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,' Sabula said"www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
"He estimated that he was roughly 60 feet away from Trump on Tuesday and that the president could hear him 'very, very, very clearly…' 'I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,' Sabula said. 'And today I think I did that.'”
I’ve got a list I made of accounts that post random or quirky things that I turn to when I need a break from the timeline. You can pin it like a feed if you want.
There is precedent for this; Swedish and Norwegian naval ships have QR codes so that when they return to port they can scan da navy in.
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
will stancil is proof positive that when the regime comes for us we can step outside of our internet slapfights and do the damn workhe's doing it, his neighbors are doing it, and if they come for our communities so can the rest of us
Will Stancil is writing ad copy the Honda execs can just use. He’s doing your job. Remember when Toyota got tagged for selling ISIS a bunch of pickup trucks? This is the opposite of that. He’s handing you money, Honda. Fit is Fit to Fight ICE
You guys have no idea how good this car is for what we’re doing. You can lurk in alleys or behind parked SUVs. It drives like a go-cart. You’re three feet off the ground with exceptional visibility so I can pull snap u-turns or cut behind convoys
…you couldn’t make it up…but…not to blow smoke…it took richard pryor to make me find it funny when a guy told me about the heart attack he had like a blow-by-blow…& I’m not trying to set the boy up to fail making hasty comparisons…but…I like that josh kid better damn near every week…swear down
…hmm…if it’s unavailable how was I listening to it this morning…&…right now…it’s all just mysteries wrapped in enigmas all the way to the middle of the onion, I guess?
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Go Mamdani!
/The Pill factory, really? YES, REALLY./
Sounds painfully familiar. The execubots at the pill factory told the late Barry Sherman they could only make so “much” from this team that I was a part of. I (and the team) came in made changes to their fucked up stupid processes and busted the doors off that “much” roughly X3s. Instead of huzzas and promotions we got ostracized and they tried to fire me when I gave them the opening and well… they tried so hard but couldn’t. I hung on for another 10 painful years…
/finally it’s over/
The Dims have been bought for a long time.
Obama is no Mamdani… Mamdani is what I had hoped Obama would have been.
I loved Obama as the actions he helped push thru saved us (as in the world) from financial ruin and I’m grateful (plus Obamacare would give me a job – even if it was the pill factory)…
But I think his worst mistake was not prosecuting those who nearly ruined us, the banksters and other financial shitbirds. I now see how internal dissent within the Dim ranks (which was considerable considering how bitter the primary fight was) disappeared when that happened. Ironically Hils’ big albatross for me that put me in the Obama camp was her and Bill’s love of Wall St money.
That, and giving away the store to Republicans on the ACA in the completely unrealistic hope that he’d get them to vote for it. I used to listen to his weekly radio addresses during the first year he was in office. So, it was a jarring shift when he stopped saying “healthcare reform” and started saying, “health insurance reform.” That’s when I knew we were getting screwed.
My first ever university snow day! Campus and the GTA got shut down. Got a foot of blowing snow -11Canadian or 12 degrees US Murrican with a wind chill of -25C or -13F.
My chem lab ain’t gonna happen. The same one I prepped for 3 hours is kaput… bleah!
…if he hadn’t won the first time odds seem pretty good his kids would have put him in a home before the end of that first term if nobody jailed that ass…they all thought they were inheriting life in the epstein circles…not the public eye
This YouTube guy has been banging the drum on Trump’s health for a while now in a huge number of shorts. While he is obviously biased, some of his points seem rather salient.
Trump corruption: Eh.
ICE invades cities: Well…
Venezuela regime change: Meh.
Open racism and sexism: [shrug]
Greenland threats: Whatevs.
Pentagon using a Star Trek episode name to shill evil: SIRS THIS INJUSTICE WILL NOT STAND, I SHALL FIGHT YOU UNTIL MY LAST BREATH, I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER BELIEVED IN, I WILL BURY YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER LOVED AND SALT THE EARTH BEHIND YOU
…at some point…if will stancil teaches us anything…it’s that the dwarf says to the elf “& my axe”
…it’s like the thing with the cartoon dogs & the strand of spaghetti…next thing you know they’re trying to give them their last meatball
…but…also…it’s…there’s…like a whole lower decks episode they should really watch about how that might be even dumber than all the memelord shit with the sauron-coded LotR “fan-service” bids for dystopian nominative determinism making everyone snigger at the future history books?
…if I let myself start tweaking the post I’ll wind up being late for the thing that’s a long way from this keyboard because I’ll still be typing after I ought to have hit bricks & pounded pavement but…without laying in all of them from all of them…to just grab a few more from the one thread?
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.
…you can feel some kinda way about any of those people & what is or isn’t an electoral liability or whether the legal or moral ones might ever line up under an authority ethical enough to follow through…but the same way walz made pretty clear that picking up a camera & streaming footage to somewhere it won’t be able to be snatched out of your hand…is not “doing nothing”…& part of what made the Jan 6th stuff an opportunity that did not appear to be adequately leveraged despite some attempt at a thing like the example from history jamelle brought to mind was the staggering volume of real-time intersecting footage…it’s the whole reason their SOP is unidentifiable faces & little to no identifiers of even the branch or agency whose authority they claim to represent…but…just based on material I could come across without seeming to try particularly…the source material exists to make that the sort of command performance that gets to have editorial input in matters of review…&…that the thing that means the current guy didn’t cop a guilty verdict…or possibly even plea in full art-of-the-deal style…for an offense with its origin in the klu klux klan act…resting on a supreme court decision…to me…puts that court squarely in the frame for review…& significant scrutiny…& maybe some revisiting of the principles of settled law & the fate of those who make their own beds but maybe don’t pay the tab for the feathering…on the back of some gentlemen’s understandings & a scratched back or two between your tee time & the retreat to the lodge with the guns you need the swanky gin palace on wheels to get to in…or…whatever clarence would like to snow over now winter is come…or…whatever?
Go Mamdani!
/The Pill factory, really? YES, REALLY./
Sounds painfully familiar. The execubots at the pill factory told the late Barry Sherman they could only make so “much” from this team that I was a part of. I (and the team) came in made changes to their fucked up stupid processes and busted the doors off that “much” roughly X3s. Instead of huzzas and promotions we got ostracized and they tried to fire me when I gave them the opening and well… they tried so hard but couldn’t. I hung on for another 10 painful years…
/finally it’s over/
The Dims have been bought for a long time.
Obama is no Mamdani… Mamdani is what I had hoped Obama would have been.
I loved Obama as the actions he helped push thru saved us (as in the world) from financial ruin and I’m grateful (plus Obamacare would give me a job – even if it was the pill factory)…
But I think his worst mistake was not prosecuting those who nearly ruined us, the banksters and other financial shitbirds. I now see how internal dissent within the Dim ranks (which was considerable considering how bitter the primary fight was) disappeared when that happened. Ironically Hils’ big albatross for me that put me in the Obama camp was her and Bill’s love of Wall St money.
That, and giving away the store to Republicans on the ACA in the completely unrealistic hope that he’d get them to vote for it. I used to listen to his weekly radio addresses during the first year he was in office. So, it was a jarring shift when he stopped saying “healthcare reform” and started saying, “health insurance reform.” That’s when I knew we were getting screwed.
My first ever university snow day! Campus and the GTA got shut down. Got a foot of blowing snow -11Canadian or 12 degrees US Murrican with a wind chill of -25C or -13F.
My chem lab ain’t gonna happen. The same one I prepped for 3 hours is kaput… bleah!
Interesting analysis considering the publicity about the stench wafting off of Trump. He definitely connects a lot of dots.
Medical expert claims Trump had a stroke — and Air Force One stairs video tells the story
…if he hadn’t won the first time odds seem pretty good his kids would have put him in a home before the end of that first term if nobody jailed that ass…they all thought they were inheriting life in the epstein circles…not the public eye
…& hulk hogan aged with more grace?
I’d say yes.
Tones of incest towards daughter.
Skeevy as fuck.
Bitterly clinging on to the celebrity they once had.
Racist as fuck.
Sons are moron never do wells.
This YouTube guy has been banging the drum on Trump’s health for a while now in a huge number of shorts. While he is obviously biased, some of his points seem rather salient.
Trump corruption: Eh.
ICE invades cities: Well…
Venezuela regime change: Meh.
Open racism and sexism: [shrug]
Greenland threats: Whatevs.
Pentagon using a Star Trek episode name to shill evil: SIRS THIS INJUSTICE WILL NOT STAND, I SHALL FIGHT YOU UNTIL MY LAST BREATH, I WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER BELIEVED IN, I WILL BURY YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER LOVED AND SALT THE EARTH BEHIND YOU
…at some point…if will stancil teaches us anything…it’s that the dwarf says to the elf “& my axe”
…it’s like the thing with the cartoon dogs & the strand of spaghetti…next thing you know they’re trying to give them their last meatball
…but…also…it’s…there’s…like a whole lower decks episode they should really watch about how that might be even dumber than all the memelord shit with the sauron-coded LotR “fan-service” bids for dystopian nominative determinism making everyone snigger at the future history books?
It’s the “it goes both ways” thing — the good news is that these people are idiots; the bad news is that these people are idiots.
The party of family values…
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-now-hes-going-to-for-child/
Now I understand the Greenland thing…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
Well that’s a strange coincidence…
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html
…if I let myself start tweaking the post I’ll wind up being late for the thing that’s a long way from this keyboard because I’ll still be typing after I ought to have hit bricks & pounded pavement but…without laying in all of them from all of them…to just grab a few more from the one thread?
…you can feel some kinda way about any of those people & what is or isn’t an electoral liability or whether the legal or moral ones might ever line up under an authority ethical enough to follow through…but the same way walz made pretty clear that picking up a camera & streaming footage to somewhere it won’t be able to be snatched out of your hand…is not “doing nothing”…& part of what made the Jan 6th stuff an opportunity that did not appear to be adequately leveraged despite some attempt at a thing like the example from history jamelle brought to mind was the staggering volume of real-time intersecting footage…it’s the whole reason their SOP is unidentifiable faces & little to no identifiers of even the branch or agency whose authority they claim to represent…but…just based on material I could come across without seeming to try particularly…the source material exists to make that the sort of command performance that gets to have editorial input in matters of review…&…that the thing that means the current guy didn’t cop a guilty verdict…or possibly even plea in full art-of-the-deal style…for an offense with its origin in the klu klux klan act…resting on a supreme court decision…to me…puts that court squarely in the frame for review…& significant scrutiny…& maybe some revisiting of the principles of settled law & the fate of those who make their own beds but maybe don’t pay the tab for the feathering…on the back of some gentlemen’s understandings & a scratched back or two between your tee time & the retreat to the lodge with the guns you need the swanky gin palace on wheels to get to in…or…whatever clarence would like to snow over now winter is come…or…whatever?
As it should!
I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mother-jones-sues-bureau-of-prisons-ghislaine-maxwell-records-epstein-trump-todd-blanche/
and this is a good history lesson & explains some things…
https://craigunger.substack.com/p/when-did-donald-trump-decide-he-wanted