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A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe--you know.
Sometimes democracy dies in broad daylight.
“if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
Sometimes democracy dies in broad daylight.
“if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
I was told that there’s been a Gaza ceasefire in place for several weeks now. Is this a new one? Will fighting continue under this one too?
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I was told that there’s been a Gaza ceasefire in place for several weeks now. Is this a new one? Will fighting continue under this one too?
Did Jared tell him? Why are we doing international diplomacy on the Friends & Family plan?
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Did Jared tell him? Why are we doing international diplomacy on the Friends & Family plan?
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“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree
Also, after 10 Kavanaugh stops you get to commit an actual crime for free. So this "temporary inconvenience" could have a big payoff for her.
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Also, after 10 Kavanaugh stops you get to commit an actual crime for free. So this "temporary inconvenience" could have a big payoff for her.
Where are we on the "first they came for" ladder when they're doing this to white ladies? I thought Kavanaugh stops were only for--I mean, you know--only for--don't make me say it--
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Where are we on the "first they came for" ladder when they're doing this to white ladies? I thought Kavanaugh stops were only for--I mean, you know--only for--don't make me say it--
From the-writers-are-running-out-of-material department:
I drove by the headquarters of a nearby small-city newspaper and a sign on the door says “One-stop storage coming soon.”
(Apparently the building was sold five years ago; reporters work from home.)
I drove by the headquarters of a nearby small-city newspaper and a sign on the door says “One-stop storage coming soon.”
(Apparently the building was sold five years ago; reporters work from home.)
December 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
From the-writers-are-running-out-of-material department:
I drove by the headquarters of a nearby small-city newspaper and a sign on the door says “One-stop storage coming soon.”
(Apparently the building was sold five years ago; reporters work from home.)
I drove by the headquarters of a nearby small-city newspaper and a sign on the door says “One-stop storage coming soon.”
(Apparently the building was sold five years ago; reporters work from home.)
Their claim is that Carranzaas was smuggling the drugs to sell them but with Hernandez the 400 tons was actually for personal use.
The Trump Administration extrajudicially executed Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranzaas for alleged drug smuggling (without evidence), but pardoned right-wing ex-Honduran President JOH actually convicted of conspiring with drug cartels to traffic over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
If Juan Orlando Hernández was a poor fisherman accused without evidence of transporting illegal drugs by boat, the Trump Admin might blow him and his crew up without a trial. But because JOH is a former president of Honduras who shares Trump’s right-wing politics, he received a presidential pardon.
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Their claim is that Carranzaas was smuggling the drugs to sell them but with Hernandez the 400 tons was actually for personal use.
Stephen Miller watching the 2026 elections if there are any.
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Stephen Miller watching the 2026 elections if there are any.
Absolute goblins. On what basis is this happening? And happening. And happening.
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Absolute goblins. On what basis is this happening? And happening. And happening.
Even the NY Times headline writers have given up trying to both-sides the news.
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Even the NY Times headline writers have given up trying to both-sides the news.
Not to be too naive about military and political history, but 2025 sure seems to be the year when wildly asymmetric brutality as an openly embraced policy has crawled in through an Overton window.
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Not to be too naive about military and political history, but 2025 sure seems to be the year when wildly asymmetric brutality as an openly embraced policy has crawled in through an Overton window.
Hard to be modest when—as Trump‘s doctors do to him—the New York Times Spelling Bee insists again that I’m a genius.
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hard to be modest when—as Trump‘s doctors do to him—the New York Times Spelling Bee insists again that I’m a genius.
A tough decision, with so many good candida--wait: "FIFA never announced nominees and would not say how or by whom the winner would be chosen. The prize was announced by FIFA last month without prior approval from its board, the FIFA Council."
Another special prize for our Special Boy.
Another special prize for our Special Boy.
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A tough decision, with so many good candida--wait: "FIFA never announced nominees and would not say how or by whom the winner would be chosen. The prize was announced by FIFA last month without prior approval from its board, the FIFA Council."
Another special prize for our Special Boy.
Another special prize for our Special Boy.
Who could have known at the time that the opportunity to be a cartoon figure sitting in a virtual staff meeting wouldn’t set the world’s imagination on fire?
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Who could have known at the time that the opportunity to be a cartoon figure sitting in a virtual staff meeting wouldn’t set the world’s imagination on fire?
Doing a Kavanaugh Stop on the Voting Rights Act.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Doing a Kavanaugh Stop on the Voting Rights Act.
Was watching the “Heroes and Villains” episode from TCM‘s Power of Film series.
Narrator: “Heroes do things not asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ but because it’s the right thing to do. Villains do not.
Then I caught up on the news.
Narrator: “Heroes do things not asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ but because it’s the right thing to do. Villains do not.
Then I caught up on the news.
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Was watching the “Heroes and Villains” episode from TCM‘s Power of Film series.
Narrator: “Heroes do things not asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ but because it’s the right thing to do. Villains do not.
Then I caught up on the news.
Narrator: “Heroes do things not asking ‘What’s in it for me?’ but because it’s the right thing to do. Villains do not.
Then I caught up on the news.
A little worried about the Shuffalo bonus round
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A little worried about the Shuffalo bonus round
Not the most important issue here, but appearance was always so important to Trump (certainly more important than substance), and now half the time he looks like they pried him out of bed and slipped his suit on over his pj's. Not even combing his hair.
Q: If it's found that survivors were actually killed while clinging onto that boat, should Sec. Hegseth, Admiral Bradley, or others be punished?
TRUMP: I think you're gonna find that this is war. That these people were killing our people by the millions, actually.
TRUMP: I think you're gonna find that this is war. That these people were killing our people by the millions, actually.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Not the most important issue here, but appearance was always so important to Trump (certainly more important than substance), and now half the time he looks like they pried him out of bed and slipped his suit on over his pj's. Not even combing his hair.
NYTimes headline writers and le mot juste. Will Kennedy end our reliance on oxygen next?
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
NYTimes headline writers and le mot juste. Will Kennedy end our reliance on oxygen next?
Our president finally finds common ground with the opposition party— corruption.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Our president finally finds common ground with the opposition party— corruption.
It would be hilarious if after all the awful shit that Trump and his minions have done the thing that did him in was this. Not "No Kings" but "No Sleepy-Guy Dictators."
“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds of the meeting Tuesday showed that during nine separate instances, Trump’s eyes were closed for extended periods or he appeared to struggle to keep them open, amounting cumulatively to nearly six minutes.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It would be hilarious if after all the awful shit that Trump and his minions have done the thing that did him in was this. Not "No Kings" but "No Sleepy-Guy Dictators."
"____ is garbage. ____'s friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"____ is garbage. ____'s friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
Wikipedia poetry
In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers be pedicellate. The branches of a panicle are often racemes.
In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers be pedicellate. The branches of a panicle are often racemes.
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Wikipedia poetry
In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers be pedicellate. The branches of a panicle are often racemes.
In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers be pedicellate. The branches of a panicle are often racemes.
No progress, maybe, but they are exploring new ideas.
December 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
No progress, maybe, but they are exploring new ideas.
The new plan, based on well-established research (mostly the 1967 Disney movie) recommends sending infants to the nearest jungle to be raised by wolves. The CDC emphasizes that for now this will be a recommendation, not a requirement.
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The new plan, based on well-established research (mostly the 1967 Disney movie) recommends sending infants to the nearest jungle to be raised by wolves. The CDC emphasizes that for now this will be a recommendation, not a requirement.