Ron Cox
@monkyhead.com
A fine boatload of wooden noses.
strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Pinned
Ron Cox
@monkyhead.com
· Dec 18
You have limited political capital. Spend it judiciously.
What kind of constituency are you when your primary message is “I cannot be reached”
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
What kind of constituency are you when your primary message is “I cannot be reached”
Republicans are not leaders, they are play-acting in order to steal from you. If you put them in charge of important things, they will not care, they will not know what to do, and they will fail.
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Republicans are not leaders, they are play-acting in order to steal from you. If you put them in charge of important things, they will not care, they will not know what to do, and they will fail.
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
Republicans are bad people who do bad things for bad reasons.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Republicans are bad people who do bad things for bad reasons.
You just cannot overstate how shit these people are.
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You just cannot overstate how shit these people are.
if you ever reboot The Hobbit, please realize that Bilbo Baggins is not a snarky little prick
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
if you ever reboot The Hobbit, please realize that Bilbo Baggins is not a snarky little prick
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
This is nothing less than institutionalized rape as collective punishment, a vile practice used by the worst regimes for centuries.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
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Reading not especially deeply between the lines, it's another case where church leaders feel the victims are to blame for "tempting" the abuser.
Victims in this case were as young as 5.
www.propublica.org/article/minn...
Victims in this case were as young as 5.
www.propublica.org/article/minn...
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.
www.propublica.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reading not especially deeply between the lines, it's another case where church leaders feel the victims are to blame for "tempting" the abuser.
Victims in this case were as young as 5.
www.propublica.org/article/minn...
Victims in this case were as young as 5.
www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
I like cats. I think they’re nice.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I like cats. I think they’re nice.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
getting so much three-cueing vibes from the replies
Every time somebody (Halle Berry today) gets pissed off at Gavin Newsom for vetoing something, I have learned to find out why he did so.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
getting so much three-cueing vibes from the replies
Every time somebody (Halle Berry today) gets pissed off at Gavin Newsom for vetoing something, I have learned to find out why he did so.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every time somebody (Halle Berry today) gets pissed off at Gavin Newsom for vetoing something, I have learned to find out why he did so.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
I learned this when I found out he vetoed a bill that would have eliminated an already existing, better funded and wider reaching, program with the same purpose.
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She is ranking member of the oversight and investigations subcommittee on the House veterans affairs committee.
ME: Despicable way to further destroy the VA and Privatize it. They’ve wanted to privatize it for years —for corporate crony capitalists!
Service will suffer bc profit will be main focus.
ME: Despicable way to further destroy the VA and Privatize it. They’ve wanted to privatize it for years —for corporate crony capitalists!
Service will suffer bc profit will be main focus.
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
She is ranking member of the oversight and investigations subcommittee on the House veterans affairs committee.
ME: Despicable way to further destroy the VA and Privatize it. They’ve wanted to privatize it for years —for corporate crony capitalists!
Service will suffer bc profit will be main focus.
ME: Despicable way to further destroy the VA and Privatize it. They’ve wanted to privatize it for years —for corporate crony capitalists!
Service will suffer bc profit will be main focus.
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When I started DCinbox back in 2009 members of congress were howling:
"annual federal spending surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history"
Today we are projected to spend about $7 trillion.
"annual federal spending surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history"
Today we are projected to spend about $7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
When I started DCinbox back in 2009 members of congress were howling:
"annual federal spending surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history"
Today we are projected to spend about $7 trillion.
"annual federal spending surpassed the $3 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history"
Today we are projected to spend about $7 trillion.
“the fight”
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“the fight”
“Do They Know it’s Christmas” is just the Mary Tyler Moore Theme
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Do They Know it’s Christmas” is just the Mary Tyler Moore Theme
Republican philosophy is undergirded by the notion that some people are lesser, that some lives do not matter, and some deaths do not matter.
This is what you vote for when you vote Republican.
This is what you vote for when you vote Republican.
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Republican philosophy is undergirded by the notion that some people are lesser, that some lives do not matter, and some deaths do not matter.
This is what you vote for when you vote Republican.
This is what you vote for when you vote Republican.
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
British Redcoats: these blokes keep leaping out at us from the forest!
American Patriots: this ain’t no disco!
American Patriots: this ain’t no disco!
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
British Redcoats: these blokes keep leaping out at us from the forest!
American Patriots: this ain’t no disco!
American Patriots: this ain’t no disco!
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This message is for the people of Dearborn, Michigan, whom I support. I also agree with EVERY FUCKING WORD this gentleman said. 😳👇
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This message is for the people of Dearborn, Michigan, whom I support. I also agree with EVERY FUCKING WORD this gentleman said. 😳👇
Guillermo del Toro’s Gay Purr-ee
Guillermo del Toro’s Dora the Explorer
Guillermo del Toro's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s Gay Purr-ee
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Most ancient gods missed the old days, but Eris fed off strife perpetuities from melting down her golden apple into filaments that wired the backbone of the social media networks.
June 16, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Most ancient gods missed the old days, but Eris fed off strife perpetuities from melting down her golden apple into filaments that wired the backbone of the social media networks.
Costco without magas will be a considerably better experience.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Costco without magas will be a considerably better experience.
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Listening to Kash Patel speaking now reminds me that for most of my life I heard the heads of Federal agencies speaking in a professional and knowledgeable tone. But now I hear mostly play acting from reality tv people who are completely out of their depths.
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Listening to Kash Patel speaking now reminds me that for most of my life I heard the heads of Federal agencies speaking in a professional and knowledgeable tone. But now I hear mostly play acting from reality tv people who are completely out of their depths.