R Thomas Berner
coalcracker.bsky.social
R Thomas Berner
@coalcracker.bsky.social
Freelance editor, writer, photographer
So far, though, no one has died falling off a balcony a la Putin.
January 17, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Trump wanting to cap credit card interest and control card swipe charges is another feint on his part. It's just to make people who watch Fox News believe it's going to happen. Some will even believe it happened.
January 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Yes, the data is stupid, but the larger point is correct. Higher education in China is getting better. And what is Trump doing about it? Diminishing U.S. universities.
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
If the Democrats don't replace Fetterman in the next U.S. Senate cycle, Pennsylvania will have two Republican senators.
January 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM
And he'll invite the winner of the Super Bow later this year and expect to get a winner's ring.
January 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Thank you, Donald Trump.
January 8, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Norway doesn't give the Nobel Prize, you dumb sh*t. The prize is bestowed by the Nobel Foundation, not the government.
January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Yet another example of an elderly person who needs to step aside.
January 7, 2026 at 3:21 PM
You did vote for Kennedy, doctor, so what's left to be said?
January 5, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I suspect it's the norm wherever there's a big federal program. See Medicare.
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Shades of Iraq and George W. Bush.
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
But I bet he'll rely on academics and elites for sources. Otherwise, he won't have a show.
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Trump just gave Putin support for invading Ukraine. If we have a right to do what we want in our sphere of influence, why doesn't Putin in his?
January 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM