Meanwhile, I've got almost a year without getting my shoelace wrapped around the pedal arm...

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

Imagine not only “losing” the Nobel Peace Prize, but also being specifically sub-tweeted by the decision-makers for your efforts to destroy democracy. Trump loses big. Congratulations Nobel Committee, well played.

If you love screwball, absurd comedy, treat yourself to this 20-minute mockumentary from @theonion.com. This is the funniest thing they’ve ever made, and we could use a good laugh right now. Don’t skip the credits.
youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU?...

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Two words that will never, ever be legitimately associated with the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Bravo, Nobel committee.

#resist

Donald Trump's ideal Democrat is @mayorbowser.dc.gov - in this case using her to justify slashing local emergency response grants.

“It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide,” says Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu.

GOP scraping the bottom of the educational barrel these days...

“… the President of the United States says a lot of crazy things,” said Gov. Pritzker. “I genuinely think there is something wrong with him. I wish that his family would intervene, because I do think he needs mental health help.”

Our kids are ready to ride, it’s the adults that aren’t ready for them.

Congratulations to María Corina Machado on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. It is deserved.

I know a certain blowhard feels this was a political choice. Often in the modern age peace is achieved via political means.

And when you deploy troops against your own people? That's not peacemaking.

#resist

Also, it's a song that has no business being performed at sporting events - full stop.

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Read and share widely.

The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus featured a bicycle race of modernist painters who were painting while riding

October 5, 1969

Friends — I’d like to talk with you about a difficult subject. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-national-trauma

Oh my goodness. What a gift she was!

Trump keeps proving that ignorance isn’t strength. He doesn’t read briefings, doesn’t understand policy, and thinks yelling counts as leadership. This is the man who once asked if we could nuke hurricanes! It’s not just stupidity but dangerous incompetency endangering lives.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

Popularists, or pollingists—or whatever you call the pundit/consultant thinking that dominates Dem politics—take on the straw man "no one should use data," but avoid the more substantive criticism "you're using data poorly."

This, by @anatosaurus.bsky.social, is an excellent version of the latter.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"