“Other than the fact it reminds me of the flag waving and choreographed patriotism of Nazi Germany…one party system in control of all three branches of gov’t…lapdog media cranking out propaganda for the administration that’d make a Nazi blush. Other than that, we’re doing pretty good” Kristofferson

O sleep! O gentle sleep!

Featured in the Museum of Failure. Seems fitting.

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues…”

Malcolm
Macbeth 4:3

We are the richest shithole of a nation to demonstrate our inhumanity in the long, miserable history of this failing planet.

If I believed in Hell I’d want Marco Rubio to experience it for eternity

“Millions of dead children” will be in the first line of Marco Rubio's obituary.

Nice that the only State Department comment here is that “the U.S. 'continues to stand with the people of Burma.'” Myanmar hasn't been called Burma since 1989, but since Trump is forever stuck in 1983, that checks.

Imagine that. The terror inflicted on immigrant workers is now being used to lower wages.

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

John Roberts Colorblind Constitution bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

Thugs

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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An encomium for the late Jonathan Lear, and thoughts on his books and those of others, including Laplanche on Freud and sex, Bion on psychosis, and Todd McGowan on Hegel and alienation--and many others!

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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Members of the GOP openly calling for a "cleansing."

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Alexander Pope

Image courtesy @robertallenpoet.bsky.social‬

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There are other examples but the Revolution is the most relevant for us, and that took years of escalation, of attempting peaceful politics, of protests and petitions, and of organizing for the eventuality. It's not some flip a switch and then ok, fight's on. That is how you get crushed, not win.

There is an escalation ladder here and he understands how that is the absolute last step, one you don't touch until all else has failed and you've done a lot of laying the groundwork. Things are bad, heading that way, it's deadly serious. But we're not there yet and he is right to not say it now.

The problem (at least in IL) is not that we have a feckless governor or mayor unwilling "to stand up to Trump." The problem is that over 80 years+ we the people have ceded vast powers to the Fed govt for good and necessary reasons and then, last November, we gave all those powers to Donald Trump.