TomBat
@thethingitself.bsky.social
The lolling bridegroom, beautiful, there.
- W. H. Auden
- W. H. Auden
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New interview! On Trump corruption in Central America and the Middle East and more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
Trump Ties to Russian Mob, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New interview! On Trump corruption in Central America and the Middle East and more
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
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This gal knows what’s up. Worth listening.
"Watch what Trump's inner cohort -- in particular, Kushner -- wants to do to Ukraine and what they want to do to Gaza, because it indicates what they want to do to the world at large."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jymh...
Trump Ties to Russian Mob, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This gal knows what’s up. Worth listening.
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It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion
Trump: "Right behind me by the way, in about 2 years from now, is a much bigger room. This will be the entrance. That's a knockout panel. It looks pretty nice right now but it'll look a lot better in a little while... The future entrance to something that's really become very popular, the ballroom."
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion
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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
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Fujita Fumio (b 1933)
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fujita Fumio (b 1933)
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.
Beech trees in Autumn, n.d.
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Margaret Bourke-White. At the time of the Louisville Flood, 1937
August 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Margaret Bourke-White. At the time of the Louisville Flood, 1937
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GLENN: You look fabulous in that suit
TRUMP: That's the one that attacked you last time
ZELENSKYY: I remember that. You're in the same suit. I changed mine.
TRUMP: That's the one that attacked you last time
ZELENSKYY: I remember that. You're in the same suit. I changed mine.
August 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
GLENN: You look fabulous in that suit
TRUMP: That's the one that attacked you last time
ZELENSKYY: I remember that. You're in the same suit. I changed mine.
TRUMP: That's the one that attacked you last time
ZELENSKYY: I remember that. You're in the same suit. I changed mine.
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This will be reported as a “joke,” but Trump is not joking.
(And I greatly appreciate @atrupar.com for not mischaracterizing it as such.)
(And I greatly appreciate @atrupar.com for not mischaracterizing it as such.)
Trump to Zelenskyy: "During the war you can't have elections? So let me just see -- three and a half years from me, if we happen to be in a way with somebody, no more elections. That's good."
August 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This will be reported as a “joke,” but Trump is not joking.
(And I greatly appreciate @atrupar.com for not mischaracterizing it as such.)
(And I greatly appreciate @atrupar.com for not mischaracterizing it as such.)
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Blue dots are UN aid distribution sites that existed in Gaza before the IDF and US mercenaries took over the process and blocked the UN.
Yellow squares are current sites.
The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.
Yellow squares are current sites.
The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.
August 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Blue dots are UN aid distribution sites that existed in Gaza before the IDF and US mercenaries took over the process and blocked the UN.
Yellow squares are current sites.
The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.
Yellow squares are current sites.
The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.
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One like
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One opinion about psychotherapy from a psychotherapist POV
(I will do 10-12 max.)
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One opinion about psychotherapy from a psychotherapist POV
(I will do 10-12 max.)
July 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
One like
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One opinion about psychotherapy from a psychotherapist POV
(I will do 10-12 max.)
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One opinion about psychotherapy from a psychotherapist POV
(I will do 10-12 max.)
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Stephen Colbert replies to Trump’s post on Truth Social:
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
July 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Stephen Colbert replies to Trump’s post on Truth Social:
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office
For three years, the Broward County Sheriff's Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest.
cbs12.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:55 PM
"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
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TV Presenter poses an unprecedented question to an elderly Syrian woman:
"You lived in the era of Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad, what do you have to say?"
"F**k both of them".
"You lived in the era of Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad, what do you have to say?"
"F**k both of them".
December 8, 2024 at 10:04 PM
TV Presenter poses an unprecedented question to an elderly Syrian woman:
"You lived in the era of Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad, what do you have to say?"
"F**k both of them".
"You lived in the era of Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad, what do you have to say?"
"F**k both of them".
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Helen Mirren in 1969, wears a deep red velvet dress, with sweetheart neckline and ruched puff short sleeves.
Source : The Helen Mirren Archives
Source : The Helen Mirren Archives
December 8, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Helen Mirren in 1969, wears a deep red velvet dress, with sweetheart neckline and ruched puff short sleeves.
Source : The Helen Mirren Archives
Source : The Helen Mirren Archives
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
December 8, 2024 at 5:34 AM
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
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⚠️ Trump endorses plan to declare “a national emergency” and use “military assets” to enact “a mass deportation program.”
November 18, 2024 at 3:19 PM
⚠️ Trump endorses plan to declare “a national emergency” and use “military assets” to enact “a mass deportation program.”
The price of POPularity. Wicked.
November 17, 2024 at 1:49 AM
The price of POPularity. Wicked.
