Wednesday Stuff

John of The Damage Report tells us of the latest grift from our ruling regime of bottom feeders, and that’s this idiocy with the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial...Dementia J. Trump wants to color it blue at an initial projected cost of $1.5 to $2 million (something exactly NO ONE has asked for), though the actual cost ended up being about $13 million, in part because the fraudsters in our executive branch bypassed the competitive bid process by declaring this job to be some kind of a national emergency...oh, but the Tangerine Toddler wants the pool to be blue by July 4th, huh, in time for the 250th? So of course WE THE PEOPLE end up paying for this mess (with Yasmin Khan...I think her “breakfast nook” example is apt, and if this damn pool is going to now be blue...and again, NOBODY asked for this...then the pool will no longer be “reflecting” anything as Khan says...more here)...



...and Rachel Maddow informs us that Louisiana Repug guv Jeff Landry is suddenly all “Hey, don’t blame lil’ ol’ me for trashing the primary election that’s underway – it’s all the fault of that danged Supreme Court for ruling the way they did in Callais!,” an explanation that will be believable at exactly half past FREAKING NEVER!...I know I’ve been beating the drum on this a lot lately, but I think it’s warranted...glad to see a Landry recall effort is underway; it will be hard sledding I know in that state, but it’s a battle worth fighting – zero percentage in lying down and taking this Repug garbage, and kudos to the brave folks in Alabama and Tennessee also...Maddow speaks with Kristen Clarke, general counsel for the NAACP (not a lot of tools in the toolbox, you might say, but whatever we have need to be used for sure, such as massive blue turnout as Clarke says, battling in the courts and the media, shaming these bad political actors on this wretched SCOTUS any way possible, etc.)...



...and Brittany Page tells us that it appears that the Philistines on the SCOTUS will let women have mail-order abortion pills (mifepristone) until tomorrow 5/14 – how generous of them (snark)...no problem with sending a gun through the mail, though...”proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free”...medication abortions now make up about 63 percent of the total, and I think it bears repeating that, if you ban medications used for abortion (which is wrong merely for that reason), you’re hurting the ability of women to access these medications for potential life-threatening reasons, such as managing miscarriages...speaking of life-threatening, we learn here that medication abortion is less deadly than childbirth, with higher rates for African Americans...also, it looks like misoprostol can be effective on its own, as we learn here, so OF COURSE Louisiana passed a bill stating that that was “a dangerous controlled substance” also (between this and the prior clip, I wonder if something is "in the water" in "The Pelican State"?)...



...and Kyle Kulinski says he believes that an alliance is taking place between liberals and leftists against Mango Mussolini and his minions; I hope Kyle is right, but I’m not going to concede that one way or the other...if I take out a policy position, I’m not going to care when Michelle Goldberg or Nicholas Kristof give me some “tut-tut, you loony leftist” screed on the pages of The Old Gray Lady, which is likely to happen (and that goes for this “ContraPoints” person too)...Kyle presents a clip of David Sirota interviewing Graham Platner, with the latter saying we should be done with neoliberalism...that policy worked during the presidency of Bill Clinton, allowing him to get back to the White House (and we hadn’t had a Dem there for 12 YEARS, people!), but those days are looooong gone...I think Platner is spot-on, to be honest, in saying that the Dems need to be all about populism and supporting labor to the maximum extent possible; also, there was a recent dustup with Platner saying we should lower or get rid of the gasoline tax and fix our infrastructure with a fund paid into by the rich – Platner is absolutely right that funding our infrastructure (to the extent that we actually do it) by a gas tax is regressive, and I think he’s correct on this also, though I’ll admit that the political reality is a whole other matter...also, the ascendancy of Pumpkin Pol Pot was more than anything else a “whitelash,” as Kyle aptly puts it, and Kyle is right also that we need to be as united as possible to go after the Trumpist life forms who would subjugate all of us (NSFW/H)...



...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show lets us know that Combover Caligula’s war of choice in Iran has pushed inflation to its highest rate in three years (and the bit about #47 saying “I don’t think about anybody’s financial situation – I don’t think about anybody” should indeed be played on a continuous loop in EVERY CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL BY ANY DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR OFFICE ANYWHERE THIS YEAR)...well, at least Pumpkin Pol Pot has flown to China – would that he would leave this country for good (and can’t the Secret Service just take gramps’s cell phone away from him at a certain point? Posting 55 times in 3 hours when he should be freaking asleep)...oh, and I’d actually forgotten about “Trump Mobile,” but of course that turned out to be yet another scam (and the ranting of that pinhead who got rooked into ordering four of these alleged phones is pretty funny, I have to admit...and to be scammed by Uday and Qusay and not even the “big man”? Sad)...and this Hantavirus scare isn’t amusing in any way I realize, especially since Bobby Brainworms and his boss have pulled this country out of the WHO...



...and this song was released on this day 60 years ago...also, I believe that Bob Spitz is working on a bio of the group, which will likely be good – Spitz’s tome on Led Zeppelin is the definitive literary work on the band IMO.

Tuesday Stuff

Awww, it looks like John Roberts haz a sad over the response to the recently awful SCOTUS ruling in Callais invalidating Section 2 of the VRA, as Mike Figueredo tells us...gee, Judge “balls and strikes,” maybe nobody is buying your bullsh*t anymore because, as Figueredo correctly says, you’re coming up with BS arguments to blow up precedents, some of which have been set by YOUR OWN FREAKING HIGH COURT!!!...and I realize our wretched SCOTUS doesn’t have ethical guidelines to follow (one of the MANY aspects of this situation that needs to be remedied), but I would say that it’s the appearance of a conflict of interest at a minimum to have Neil Gorsuch appear on Fix Noise and other wingnut media hawking his kids’ book...I didn’t know that our awful High Court waived the 32-day requirement to let other parties petition for a rehearing in order to let Louisiana redraw its maps and stop a primary election already in progress – naaah, The Nine aren’t “political actors”...not freaking much (more here)...I didn’t know that Trumper Steve Wynn is trying to find a way to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, which indeed is a landmark decision insuring First Amendment protections for journalists, raising the bar for a plaintiff to win a defamation charge against a media organization, as well as anybody else, actually (NSFW/H)...



...and one consequence of the awful Callais ruling is state legislatures rushing out racist gerrymandered maps as mentioned, trying to have them ready for congressional elections this fall, and in the case of Tennessee, that most definitely means erasing minority representation, as Jesse Dollemore puts it so accurately (and by the way, destroying the VRA is something John Roberts has been planning to do for decades since he worked as Associated Counsel under The Sainted Ronnie R)...sooo, Tennessee decides to get rid of the ONLY district in the state with African American representation, since one measly district is apparently too much in a state where blacks comprise about 17 percent of the population...great work by Garrison Hayes on this, as well as Justin Pearson...also, good work by Jesse to keep driving home the point that our utterly wretched SCOTUS can pretty much be broken up and put back together again to negate (to some degree anyway) its corruption at the hands of Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society...long overdue to institute ethics rules for “the nine” also (which, as Jesse says, should really be 13 at a minimum...mildly NSFW/H also)...



...and Kyle Kulinski brings us more numbers from CNN’s Harry Enten, who calls that damn ballroom “the shot heard ‘round the world,” and definitely not in a good way...I’m a little surprised that 56 percent disapproval number isn’t actually higher, but I guess we can write that off at least in part to suburban boomers who aren’t affected enough by this story to actually care (more fool them)...at least it’s nice to see that the whole WHCD almost-shooting thing didn’t move the needle on this one bit, but man, that damn ballroom is polling worse than ghosts or telepathy – ROFLMAO (NSFW/H as well)...



...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf informs us that Cheetoh Benito just killed a $500 million federal credit for Nissan to build EVs, with the plant located in Canton, Mississippi, shifting instead now to building hybrids (which is OK I guess) and pickup trucks – so much for the future of the planet (here)...BTW, the Magnolia State voted for the Lyin’ King by 60 percent in ’24 of course...womp womp...glad to hear Waldorf mention the federal EV tax credit of $7500 that was part of the Build Back Better bill from “No Malarkey Joe,” which is ancient history now tragically...good job also by Waldorf to discuss the negative ripple impact of such a typically boneheaded decision by Cantaloupe Capone...



...and Troy Iwata of The Daily Show asks what we could put into a time capsule to preserve our nation’s 250th anniversary (or if it’s worth preserving at this point)...kind of laughing through clenched teeth a bit, I have to admit (another NSFW/H clip)...



...and happy belated 85th birthday to Eric Burdon (of The Animals and War of course).

Monday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about a gold statue of you-know-who unveiled at Mar-a-Lago...naah, #47 doesn’t see himself as some imagined deity ruling over us all, does he? Not much...and I apologize for inflicting Cheetoh Hitler’s lying verbal flatulence on you once more, especially about the Iran war (and I’m SO GLAD to hear Cohen remind everyone that WE HAVE A STINKING NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN ALREADY UNDER OBAMA THAT THE LYIN’ KING WALKED AWAY FROM!!!)...oh, and #47’s “all about the Gospel,” huh? Which one(s), I wonder? Saint Luke, Chapters 6, 16 and 19 maybe? The ones teaching that wealth can hinder faith, while the poor are often blessed? And nice job by Cohen to remind everyone at the end that worshipping false idols really isn’t too cool if you profess to living a life of faith (seem to recall that the “good book” has something to say about THAT for sure)...



...and Farron Cousins reminds us that #47 wants to “serve” a third term, which is prohibited by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution...I agree with what Cousins is saying, but I heard that the Gropenfuhrer is planning to build a bunker under that stinking ballroom, which tells me that he’s going to have to get dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House when his reign is mercifully over at last...and this “100 percent tax write-off” for business is still more corruption from this stinking cesspool of a *presidency (and good point by Cousins about businesses not being able to apply the same write-off from this tax year in the future, so they are indeed “cutting off their nose to spite their face,” you might say)...



...and sticking with money matters, Belle of the Ranch lets us know about “Human Capital Stock” Kevin Hassett thinking it’s a sign of a growing economy when we’re piling on more credit card debt just to live our lives with basic necessities...this pea brain Hassett with his perpetual sh*t-eating grin basically admits that, yeah, everything costs more...and somehow that’s a GOOD thing? And I know Gavin Newsom, who’s pretty much the presumptive Dem presidential nominee as near I can see, has issues I know (mainly with LGBTQ folks), but good for him for jumping on Hassett’s BS, along with Bernie Sanders...



...and we now get more AI slop videos making fun of the Gropenfuhrer and his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...that first Lego video is pretty damn cool, and if that’s something else from Iran, then I have to say that they’re bringing their “A” game to this mess...the Flock of Seagulls parody isn’t bad either (Steve Harness of Really American tells us about it)...



...and speaking of humor, this “cold open” from SNL gives us Colin Jost as SecDef Kegseth, Aziz Ansari as Crazy Eyes Kash Patel, and Matt Damon as “I Like Beer” Brett Kavanaugh (great stuff)...



...and here’s a newer tune for “mellow music Monday” – hope you enjoy.

Friday Stuff

Thom Hartmann reminds us that the infamous “We Will Bury You” remark from former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is something that Vlad The Butcher is trying to enact for real...so the Tangerine Toddler talks to the Moscow munchkin and, next thing you know, #47 pulls out 5K troops from Germany, and that’s on top of removing sanctions on Russian oil while continuing to block US weapons to Ukraine as Thom says...Thom recounts the utter horror show of the cabinet appointees in this wretched administration...didn’t know that Kari Lake was at the Voice of America – only the very worst individuals...haven’t paid much attention to the utterly awful Chris Wright also at the DOE; only so much time in the day to catalogue this madness...I think Thom is spot-on to call this list of all of the malign Trumpist actors he goes over an “operational blueprint” to wreck our country...



...and speaking of some of the bottom feeders in our ruling cabal, David Pakman informs us that Trumpist lackey Lee Zeldin went on Fix Noise, got asked a tough question from Liz Claman about his agency allowing more natural gas flaring (which, in addition to looking nightmarish, is also utterly toxic), and Zeldin then went all “humuna humuna humana” as a result...sooo, Zeldin starts yammering about increasing water quality standards across the Delaware River basin (which I don’t believe) even though the damn question was about air quality, and then Zeldin starts running his mouth about environmental regs WHICH HIS BOSS IGNORES AND WANTS TO ABOLISH...



...and when it comes to bad actors running agencies under our ruling regime, you really need to include RFK Jr., who announces again here that he’s going after SSRIs (antidepressants, basically)...leave it to the clueless Kennedy scion to get this issue exactly wrong, though, as Page says, it’s not like we didn’t know that this was something he’d try to do...as she points out, all of this is pretty damn enraging all the same, with all of the cuts and layoffs at HHS affecting mental health services, including those provided for our veterans...so many attacks against us and the way we live our lives are laid out here, including deciding not to study food insecurity, which definitely contributes to mental health...also, I don’t give a damn about the heroin withdrawal experienced by “Bobby Brainworms”; he comes from a family that definitely can afford the very best care, which is not true of course for the vast majority of this country...good point by Page to brings up erectile dysfunction medications and the potential side effects and how that is glossed over by the ethically compromised individuals supposedly “calling the shots” for Our Clueless Orange Meat Sack of a *preznit...



...and Steve Harness and Nick Reynolds of Really American tell us about Mango Mussolini dumping a bunch of toxic soil (likely with lead and asbestos) from his stinking ballroom project on a public golf course...and oh yeah, it looks like Cheetoh Hitler bought the course recently kind of “on the QT” – the grift never ends with our ruling regime...didn’t know that golfers are prone to higher cancer rates; genuinely sorry to hear that...and once more, taxpayers are going to be on the hook for a billion over that ridiculous ballroom, courtesy of Sen. Chuck Grasshole of Iowa (vote out every POS responsible for this, people!)...NSFW/H...



...and Jimmy Kimmel lets us know that “Little Marco” was sent off to meet with Pope Leo at the Vatican, and I’m sure Rubio wore his Florsheim big boy shoes on the orders of Cantaloupe Capone...and of course the big topic was our *preznit’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran (“Operation Trust Me Bro”? Looks like Iran is winning the trolling war too)...and in true Putin-esque fashion, it’s not a “war” as far as Cheetoh Benito is concerned; it’s an “excursion”...in other news, FBI Director Ka$h Patel took a break from alcoholic binges (allegedly!) to sue The Atlantic for reports of his drinking (love the bottle joke also; audience Mother’s Day skit is clever too...interesting “person in the street getting interviewed” bit as well)...



...and happy 75th birthday to drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.

Thursday Stuff

Chris Hayes talks about Dementia J. Trump’s war in Iran maybe creating an oil shock that COULD lead to a green future (about freaking time)...sounds like Combover Caligula’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is going over like the proverbial lead balloon for about 59 percent (at least) of this country...oh, but ExxonMobil and Chevron are raking in the dough hand over fist, so it’s all good, right?...we get another reminder that the Tangerine Toddler is using hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars to cancel wind farm projects already in development...meanwhile, more EVs are sold in Europe than gas vehicles (I’ll have to look into the BYD vehicles, not that I automatically want to support China, but it looks like they’re on the cutting edge with this stuff - more here)...not too many people in the media beat the drum over environmental issues like Hayes does, to his credit, and EVERYONE ELSE should follow suit...Hayes speaks with writer Robinson Meyer...glad to hear Meyer mention the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden that could have put us on a better footing when it comes to renewables...”it’s totally insane to architect a world where you are reliant on (the Strait of Hormuz and other “choke points” to support dirty energy)” – absolutely for sure (more here)...



...and RIP Ted Turner...I know he has a bit of a complicated legacy you might say, but as far as I could tell, he worked his butt off to get where he ended up, and he sure was spot-on in discussing energy in this clip referencing what I believe was the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...he also supported film preservation, which makes his aces in my book to be honest...also, any discussion of Turner's impact has to include the Goodwill Games and a passion for environmental preservation (and I wouldn't wish lewy body dementia on anybody)...



...and I’d like to do something I don’t do too often, and that’s include two clips on the same topic; the first is an Indiana local news station report on last Tuesday’s Republican primary...I’ll admit that I don’t know a damn thing about what transpired on the ground in that locality in terms of political campaigns, but I DO know that a bunch of state senators for the “R” team commendably opposed the off-cycle redistricting scam from Cheetoh Hitler, and apparently all but one was voted out of office for it...sounds like the gene pool in that state needs a lifeguard...



...and this Damage Report clip gives us a bit of a backstory on what took place (yep, those pissants at the Club for Growth figured in this too)...looks like reps in Tennessee also got the boot since #47 wants to redistrict there too, as noted here (and more on the thoroughly odious Jim Banks is here)...yep, breaking up a historically black voting district ISN’T ABOUT RACE, YOU DASTARDLY LIB! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!!...and I don’t think it’s John’s imagination – this very definitely is the ongoing backlash to Reconstruction, hyper-charged by wingnut media and politicians (with Sharon Reed)...



...well, for everyone in the mood for something uplifting, Tennessee Brando informs us that The Onion has taken over Infowars, and it looks like they’ve truly turned it around in the best way...”Turn your piss into gold,” huh? Brilliant!...and yes, to be serious, don’t EVER think you can go too far ridiculing Alex Jones considering what he did to the parents and families of the Sandy Hook victims, who (and this can’t be mentioned enough IMO), were CHILDREN!!!...and I agree with Brando – I want to see EVERY CONSERVATIVE pundit and politician ruthlessly mocked instead of harmed in any way, despite what they want to do to us; as I’ve said before, the only person I ever advocated violence against at this site was Osama bin Laden, and I want to keep that intact...the person Brando mentioned who’d appear on Howard Stern’s show was Daniel Carver, by the way...



...and yesterday was the first day of National Nurse’s Week, and with that in mind, I present the following tune.

Wednesday Stuff

According to Rachel Maddow, the Tangerine Toddler is terrible at everything except this one thing...we’re reminded of the “ape memes” of the Obamas that our disgusting, flatulent orange meat sack of a *preznit posted at Truth Septic, along with #47’s “sh*thole countries” remarks...I give Maddow so much credit for facing the gut-churning racism of our ruling regime and not trying to “sane wash” it with some ridiculous language about this being the “new normal” or something, which it NEVER SHOULD BE...Maddow mentions the DOGE garbage from King Elon I’s merry band of incels and how the antics of this bunch in charge echoes the Woodrow Wilson administration, which definitely isn’t good when it comes to race...Maddow also mentions #47 rescinding EO #11246 Sec. 202 on his first full day in office, a move aimed right at people of color, along with removing the “Prohibition of Segregated Facilities”...oh, and the “Fair Housing Act”? Looks like that’s going the way of the dodo also because of this hateful bunch...black unemployment is spiking also because of course...all of this is put in the context of the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR putting the last nail in the proverbial coffin of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which Roberts has been itching to do for decades...



...and as a bit of a companion piece to the Maddow segment, Brittany Page gives us the following...I guess, with all of the utter madness going on, it’s easy to overlook the fact that our corporate news orgs, for some perverse reason, are trying to rehabilitate the image of The Swanson TV Dinner Heir, trying to obfuscate the fact that “Tuckums” is indeed a gutter racist, as Page so correctly points out...”a clean-cut Nazi is still a Nazi” indeed...the thought of Carlson having ’28 aspirations, sadly, has a lunatic logic to it, and leave it to our fourth estate to go into unquestioning stenography mode on this as they do with any other Repug who gives them their precious “access” so these well-sinecured lickspittles can crank out their opinion pieces and on-air commentaries and then hob-knob with the “smart set” of the political/media/industrial complex...



...and switching to the graft and patronage by the coterie of hangers-on for #47, John of The Damage Report (definitely NOT him) lets us know that the private prison outfit GEO Group is giving $1 million to a Trump-aligned group for the midterms, after about $426 mil in new ICE contracts to that company were frozen – yet another shakedown by our criminal regime (and yet another reason why private prisons should be illegal)...weird that, as John points out, our ruling gaggle of idiots is apparently looking at GEO Group to cut costs to the taxpayer for some reason when they PLAINLY don’t care about anyone else doing that...oh, but GEO funneled the $$ to Bronzer Beelzebub through a subsidiary that didn’t collect any government dough, so that makes everything A-OK somehow...still stinks to high heaven...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us the tale of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy getting hit for rising gas prices (I just spent about $52 to fill up the Honda Accord...thanks Trump!)...and we get faux concern on this by Stuart Varney of Fix Noise, who does his best to employ his English accent in the most studious way possible here...and PERFECT timing for all of this, with the summer travel season right around the corner...and are you assured by Duffy acting like it’s only a matter of time until the Strait of Hormuz is opened? Because I’m not (and “strong leadership” by #47? Looks like Duffy is trying to give Baghdad Bob a run for his money)...and that ABC/Ipsos/WaPo poll confirms for me that about 37 percent of this country is effectively brain dead...we’re reminded again of Spirit Airlines going belly up, and Duffy uses the same BS excuse for it that Scott Bessent used in the Majority Report clip; well, when the Spirit CEO blame high energy prices, I don’t know what kind of spin you can legitimately put on that (though I’m sure the Trumpers will keep trying)...and I know I’ll probably keep saying this maybe for the rest of my life (again, in response to Duffy, and this John Rose nematode), but once again, WE HAD A NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN UNDER OBAMA THAT PUMPKIN POL POT WADDLED AWAY FROM!!!...also, anyone with a brain knows about the ripple effects across our economy from higher energy prices, which are also now hitting agriculture and other food products, notably beef...oh, and when it comes to wildfires not just in rural America but everywhere, maybe somebody ought to try reading this to Brooke Rollins (in response to her ridiculing climate change, which is typical for this bunch I know...I have to admit, though, that the “screw worm” border excuse is a new one, for me anyway)...I also have to admit that I’m shocked that Joe Kernen of CNBC actually called out Steve Scalise for the latter’s lies on this subject...



...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show (whose time is winding down, sadly) gives us the latest...I never got a kick out of Cinco de Mayo, BTW...also, if you can figure out what the hell is going on with the Strait of Hormuz, lemme know, OK?...on top of that, I think it should be a crime for Pumpkin Pol Pot to appear in ANY venue near kids given that he’s all over the place in those files that this outlaw regime doesn’t want to discuss...and “in hockey, they say ‘uncle’”...??? What – is that what happens before the shootout at the end of a regular season game, or does that happen if a team gets called for offsides too many times? What a mental patient...and “kamikaze dolphins?” I’ll tell you what – I’m going to go buy a bottle of Boone’s Farm Apple Wine and chug down a bunch of Valium, and assuming I make it through that, please wake me up when this nightmare is over...and I care less than nothing about the Met Gala to be honest (also didn't quite get the Delta Airlines joke, but that's OK)...



...and usually I’m pretty diligent about remembering the anniversary of the Kent State massacre, but for some reason I forgot this year – however, I’d like to make amends for that now.



And by the way, let's not forget the role played by the late but hardly lamented Roger Ailes in this tragedy, as Gabriel Sherman discusses in The Loudest Voice In The Room, pgs. 69-70:

(From Ailes’ days as a political consultant):

In the spring of 1970, Ailes was in the middle of another contentious GOP primary race for an open Senate seat in Ohio, one that would have spillover effects for (the Richard Nixon presidency) and the country. Ailes was advising the Ohio congressman Robert Taft Jr. against the “law and order” candidate, Governor James Rhodes, who had been considered as a possible Nixon running mate in 1968. The race was pushing Rhodes even further to the right.

When Taft debated Rhodes in Akron in late April, Ailes walked onstage thirty seconds before airtime and handed Taft a note with one word written on it: “Kill.”

“Rhodes got shook up,” Ailes bragged afterward to a Boston Globe reporter. “I gave Taft the note, partly facetious, partly for a laugh – just to try to get Bob to be a little tougher in his answers.”

The gambit worked: the Toledo Blade noted that “the usually placid Mr. Taft accused the governor of lying about his record and told him he should be ashamed of himself.” A few days after the debate, Rhodes flew to Kent State University, which was engulfed in student unrest. At a press conference on the morning of May 3rd, Rhodes lashed into protestors who had burned the ROTC building the previous night and declaimed that the demonstrators were “worst than the Brown Shirts and the Communist element.”

Rhodes’s inflammatory speech intensified the conflict at Kent. In the chaos, National Guardsmen fired into a group of marchers. The volley of more than 60 shots in 13 seconds left four dead and nine wounded. Kent State, (Nixon Chief of Staff) Bob Haldeman later wrote in his book The Ends of Power, “marked a turning point for Nixon, a beginning of his downward slide towards Watergate.”

For the record, we’re coming up on the ninth anniversary of Ailes’s death on May 18th, and tragically, his influence still reigns at that trash network he founded, continuing to pollute informed discourse and utterly trashing well-reasoned opinions in favor of shameless propaganda, all in the service of a morally bankrupt corporate agenda that is doing all it can to drag this country backwards into the mire of xenophobia, racism and misogyny. And the harm that this has done to this country is something that I don’t think can ever be truly calculated, though I believe the weight of that burden will be carried for untold generations.... anybody who thinks that won’t affect the quality of the lives of the people of this country far into the future is truly living in a fantasy.

Tuesday Stuff

Ali Velshi points out that telling the truth about Cheetoh Hitler isn’t automatically an incitement to violence...I think we all know by now that any news account that Combover Caligula doesn’t like is automatically derided as “fake news,” but as Velshi points out, everyone in this sorry, disgusting cabal is now using that same tactic also pretty much, including Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt...I’d actually forgotten about that actual thug Greg Gianforte assaulting the reporter from The Guardian, and of course Gianforte ended up getting elected as governor of Montana...same with the murders of those five reporters in Annapolis, MD...and I definitely have issues with former FBI Director James Comey for the whole Hillary Clinton Email thing a month before the vote in 2016, but the whole “86 47 alleged threat” seashell thing on the beach is utter nonsense...



...and with the Velshi clip in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 5/3/17...this “Resistance” commentary from Keith Olbermann pertains to the words of Reince Priebus, the chief of staff during the first sorry reign of the Gropenfuhrer, and the threat of a Constitutional amendment to basically try and overturn the First Amendment in order to toughen our libel laws, all in the service of Dear Leader Mango Mussolini...as Olbermann puts it so directly, any such attempt to mess with our First Amendment freedoms would first and foremost be aimed at you and me, and in all likelihood, this humble blog would cease to exist (it’s been pretty well documented about all the ways our “fourth estate” is trying to curry favor with our disgusting ruling collection of bottom feeders)...revisiting Olbermann’s outrage is refreshing I have to admit; I don’t subscribe to his podcast, though I probably should to get more of this sort of thing I suppose...



...and Sam Seder, Emma Vigeland and the crew from The Majority Report bring us the tale of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lying and blaming Biden/Elizabeth Warren/Pete Buttigieg for not allowing Jet Blue to merge with Spirit Airlines and using that as the excuse for Spirit going under (that merger was apparently disallowed by a Reagan-appointed judge as Sam says, and the increase in the price of jet fuel hammered Spirit also since they apparently had no operating margins to get back to profitability)...and leave it to that shrieking harpie Maria Bartiromo to just go “uh huuum” because, as Sam says, she knows what Bessent is saying is BS...sounds like both airlines were carrying so much goddamn debt that it didn’t matter who merged with who; at least one of them would have gone under...airline story ends at about 5:12 and then they look at farm bankruptcies; maybe I’m being unkind, but I pretty much have no sympathy for our farmers because, as a bloc, they voted for Bronzer Beelzebub because I guess they bought into the utter fiction that the Repugs are better for the economy...that bar graph at about 5:47 tells the pretty damning story (and as they note in the clip, the increased farm bankruptcies benefit “Big Ag” for sure)...also, we get that clip of Don The Con making those remarks about affordability at “The Villages” in Flori-DUUH (in front of the ”pay no price, bear no burden” one percent wannabes), which, indeed, should be played on a loop in an ad for every Dem candidate in existence...Emma also mentions the stupendous idiocy of Todd Blanche saying you need voter ID for a restaurant (I mean, unless Blanche’s idea of a “restaurant” is a place where ladies perform while you stack dollar bills on the bar – heh)....NSFW/H for the Gropenfuhrer’s potty mouth...



...and speaking of planes, Belle of the Ranch discusses Canada and Sweden making out when it comes to defense spending by the EU...interesting history IMO on AWACS radar planes supplied to NATO and how they’ve been built by Boeing since forever (the E7 Wedgetail), but because of the antics of Our Demented Orange Toddler of a *preznit cutting spending about a year ago, it looks like the Swedish “Global Eye” powered by SAAB is going to end up as the plane of choice for NATO on this instead (Swedish tech in a Canadian plane, basically, with the US losing out on about $600 million per unit, potentially $6 billion overall – are you tired of the winning yet?)...



...and Mr. Newberger gives Repug mouthpiece Scott Jennings the treatment he deserves here (based on this)...



...and I don’t know if she’s coming to this area in the fall (in Europe this summer), but I’ll definitely be on the lookout for tickets – I’ll get in a plug here if I learn more about that.

Monday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen and attorney Marc Elias inform us that, with the SCOTUS’s latest wretched ruling on Section 2 of the VRA, Repug-run states mainly in the deep south are going to “move heaven and earth” to try and redraw their maps for this election cycle, and all of this is completely by design...kind of makes me wonder why Dems as a party haven’t made SCOTUS reform a higher priority all this time (some notable exceptions here are Dem Senator Sheldon Whithouse of Rhode Island) - beyond infuriating to see the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR just continue to take away our rights year after year while all we hear from the national Dem organization is a “tut tut” in response (and I think Dem governors should have tried to create some kind of a “consortium” or something like that long ago to come up with a joint strategy against voting nonsense like this, and likely for other reasons also, including standing up to the jackbooted ICE neanderthals)...looks like Louisiana is up first with their redistricting nonsense (this too), followed closely by Alabama, and then after that, it’s a “grab bag” of states taking their turns, as Elias puts it...Cohen and Elias are about 150 percent right when they say that Dem states need to step up, and I believe NJ Dem guv Mikie Sherrill “got that memo” as noted here...



...and awwww...Melania has hurt fee fees about Jimmy Kimmel making a joke about her old man potentially croaking on us, as Mike Figueredo tells us...good job by Zeteo to produce the clip of all of the hateful garbage from this pestilence of a ruling regime...and OF COURSE the FCC under human thumb Brendan Carr is going to use this moment to review ABC’s broadcast license, or something...and don’t expect much (or likely, any) corporate media outrage over this, since they’ve been effectively cowed by this godawful administration...nice to see the rantings of Cancun Cruz and Big Hair Blackburn (another southern state Repug who will probably skate into the governor’s mansion, along with “Coach Quitter” Tuberville) get called out here...nice job by Figueredo to remind us again about the bullsh*t DOJ inquisition into the SPLC...didn’t know about the YEAR-LONG detention of Columbia student Leqaa Kordia for protesting on behalf of the Palestinians...Democrats “need to be the threats that Republicans said they were” indeed, again, if we manage to take back power, and we need to keep working towards that goal (very NSFW/H)...



...and sticking with media stuff, Kyle Kulinski tells us that it looks like there was some stuff left out of the Gropenfuhrer’s recent “60 Minutes” interview, and as Kyle says, #47 screamed all over the place about editing of Kamala Harris’s interview by that program/network (which was likely just standard for what they did for ANY guest to squeeze the interview into the allotted time period), but as always, when it comes to yelling about “liberal bias,” working the refs and all the typical conservative horsesh*t, IOKIYAR...and as Kyle says, the SPLC funds informants to right-wing groups to get intel on these groups, and the SPLC turns over whatever information they get to law enforcement, but leave it to Cheetoh Hitler to get that EXACTLY WRONG...and by the way, one thing to do in response to this lying madness is to make a donation to the SPLC, and you can do that from here (NSFW also)...



...and this item form Melissa Chan of the German news service DW tells us about Japan, South Korea and Taiwan dealing with the unpredictability of the closure/non-closure of the Strait of Hormuz...as the report says, there’s a lot more of an emphasis on military spending by these countries now, and given the madness reigning politically here, who can blame them?...and yeah, the phrase “both alone and with the US” as stated by correspondent Rik Glauert is indeed more than a bit of a “tell” (and we know Japan is an industrial power now in itself and is nothing like what it was 80-90 years ago, but the thought of nationalism potentially taking over there again is discomforting to say the least)...as the report says, the biggest threat hanging over all of this is China’s potential invasion of Taiwan, which would be terrible both militarily and economically, and arguably, that has been made more of a possibility by our weakened military posture because of this latest Mideast madness in Iran...of all the ways that Bronzer Beelzebub has ruined the prestige this country once enjoyed, destroying alliances with our longtime allies (and this story is part of that IMO) is part of that for sure (doing the bidding of Vlad The Butcher once again like the Russian operative #47 truly is)...



...and this “cold open” from SNL recently brings us Colin Jost as SecDef Kegseth and Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel – when all else fails, there is always ridicule available in response to these cretins...



...and RIP Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of The Ronettes.

Saturday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us that the verdict appears to be in on the reign of Bari Weiss at CBS News, and it’s about what you would expect...the Nielsen ratings agency says it looks like the CBS Evening News hasn’t hit 4 million viewers a night, which I suppose is the ratings benchmark against which the prime time newscasts are measured...Cousins is spot-on in saying that, in a world where a shameless flak like Weiss isn’t in charge of what was once a prestigious TV news organization, that person would have been canned by now with ratings like these (NSFW/H)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know that California has enough signatures to get the billionaires tax on the ballot (this bunch would be taxed at 5 percent on all of their assets, and it would be a one-time tax), and leave it to Bernie Sanders to keep fighting for economic justice with the rest of us...of course, leave it also to plutocrats like Sergey Brin and his pals to have a collective hissy fit over it (not that we heard a word of protest from these characters of course over the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck from last summer – hell, they made out like bandits, so OF COURSE they kept quiet over it)...but awwww, it looks like Peter Thiel and that foul ilk are still on the hook for the tax if it passes because they would have had to have left the state in January – womp womp...and yes, the ONE-TIME tax would go for nutrition and health care benefits that the regime of the Gropenfuhrer destroyed by the aforementioned bill (and I’m not going to dignify the typical indignant bullsh*t of our *preznit who, let’s not forget, was found civilly liable by a New York jury on a charge of sexual abuse, which is basically r*pe without the actual word - here)...



...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us that it looks like Corpus Christi, Texas may be the first US city to officially run out of water, with giant oil, gas, and petrochemical companies gobbling up precious resources (according to the report, businesses use about 60 percent of the water)...the residents have to rely on city, state and federal lawmakers, and I would guess that a few of them have already been paid off since that’s usually how this stuff plays out...and if you guessed that a historically black community is impacted the most here, then you win an exemption from water over-usage charges during a drought, which apparently is fine and dandy for businesses in the “All Hat, No Cattle” state (apparently, water exemptions were promised to businesses to get them to relocate to Corpus Christi, which has “bad idea” written all over it)...it looks like they reached a tipping point over a desalination plant to try and address the drought, according to councilman Jim Klein...I think it’s plain that this Roland Barrera guy is pretty much a business shill who doesn’t give a damn about the residents...kudos to civil engineer John Michael fighting what must be a lonely fight to drill emergency wells...I just don’t know about this Bob Paulison guy; I’m inclined to think he’s in on the grift too, but I’d love to be wrong, and this Peter Zanoni doesn’t sound impressive on this either as far as I can tell...



...and taking another trip over to the UK for a minute or two, Jonathan Pie discusses the “dodgy donations” of Nigel Farage, including a 5 million pound gift by someone in Thailand...didn’t know the extent of Farage’s grift, but it Is indeed a growth industry to fly around the world telling conservatives what they want to hear...Pie really nails it on crypto in particular here; there should be a full-throated corporate media outcry against it because it’s used primarily by criminals, but good luck expecting THAT to happen (very NSFW/H, but funny IMO)...



...and I wanted to conclude things for the week with this item – in our current Trumpist BS era there is so much hateful nonsense going on with the people who allegedly represent us (though we know the reality of course) and so much overall idiocy that I wanted to provide this item as a bit of a “palate cleanser”...before a recent Stanley Cup playoff game in Buffalo (where they commendably sing both the American and Canadian national anthems), the microphone for the singer performing “O Canada” went out, so the U.S. fans finished singing the anthem instead...props to the great Buffalo Sabres fans for this moment, and congrats to the team for moving on in the playoffs (and to the “Fly Guys” also of course)...



...and this week ten years ago, 15 albums by Prince reappeared on the UK charts in response to the musician’s death on 4/21/16...kind of puts me in a mood to hear this number once again.

Thursday Stuff

Brittany Page sits in for Jesse Dollemore and discusses questions coming out about the official story of the attempted shooting of Combover Caligula at the WHCD...looks like the WaPo is doing an analysis of the facts that we know at the moment...the timeline of events here seems a little weird to me in that, based on the excerpted photos, it is hard to tell if the alleged shooter discharged his weapon before the cops fired on him multiple times...I’m not saying the cops should have let him run into the hall without firing on him if the alleged shooter didn’t obey orders to stop (which likely were issued to him), but I don’t understand why we’re not hearing a step-by-step analysis of what took place...I mean, did the alleged shooter fire or didn’t he (but then again, we’re talking about Mango Mussolini's henchmen here, so anything is possible)...



...and Chris Hayes informs us that the The High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR just threw out a voting map in Louisiana that was redrawn on the basis of that state’s population (one majority black district was added to one already existing black district), but our bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS blew that up in favor of a map that goes back to only one black majority district even though that isn’t representative of Louisiana’s population, and in the process, this guts Section 2 of the VRA because, according to Roberts and the SCOTUS conservatives, racism doesn’t exist anymore...and as Hayes says, Roberts has been after the VRA since he worked in the Reagan White House...and of course, Flori-DUUUH! jumped into the fray right after this horrible ruling to get a more gerrymandered voting map passed...Hayes speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill (the data presented on those two line graphs is undeniable)...our ruling regime and the “R” party in general want Apartheid America, and tragically, we’re on the way to that...GREAT point by Ifill that, once again, our renegade SCOTUS ran roughshod over its own precedents to pursue a plainly ideological goal...



...and sticking with legal stuff, Robert Reich and David Sirota discuss two upcoming SCOTUS cases that could destroy what’s left of our anemic campaign finance laws in the wake of Citizens United...and yes, that ruling meant that labor groups could spend like crazy also, but if you look at what has transpired since 2010, corporate spending has so far exceeded that spent by worker advocacy groups that it’s not even funny...didn’t know about Snyder v. United States, in which a “bribe” was somehow endowed with the legal fiction that such payment is instead a “gratuity”...we also learn about the NRSC v. FEC case, which would get rid of the limit on coordinated spending by political parties for candidates (with Couch Boy taking the lead on that one), and Sittenfeld v. US dealing with federal anti-bribery laws; P.G. Sittenfeld was convicted of accepting $20K in bribes (oh, excuse me...”campaign contributions”) in exchange for supporting a local development project; his “defense,” if you can call it that, is that “pay to play” is so widespread in our politics that it should no longer even be considered a crime...kind of makes me sick that Sittenfeld is a Dem, and naturally he was pardoned by Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy...in response, we can indeed push for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and also, the fine folks in Montana need to enact the law not allowing corporations to spend in elections (watch Strip Search Sammy Alito and Almost Silent Clarence Thomas lose their minds over that)...



...and this clip from Thom Hartmann harks back a bit to Citizens United also as well as other SCOTUS rulings...sounds like Thom has had a contest more or less for about 20 years for anybody to name a major piece of Republican legislation that has helped the average person of this country over the last 45 years, and nobody can name anything (I could’ve told you that, but that’s OK)...didn’t know that families in this country spend, on average, $5K more than families in Canada, but that sure tracks, I have to admit...I’m not the least bit surprised to hear about all of the negative ads coming our way from the “party of Lincoln” this fall (here come the “migrant caravans” again bringing more drugs and crime, along with bathroom bills and “protecting women’s sports”) since the “R” team has NOT ONE DAMN THING TO OFFER THAT’S ANY GOOD, AND DEFINITELY NOTHING ELSE TO RUN ON...by the way, Lewis Powell ruled in the affirmative on Buckley v. Valeo and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, and Powell was a Democrat, albeit a very conservative one...



...and I know we must all find it in our hearts to extend whatever compassion we can to everyone who endured the near-tragedy at the WHCD a few days ago, so I’m going to provide what I consider to be an appropriate commentary from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...



...and happy 85th birthday (I believe he’s still with us) to Johnny Farina of the duo Santo and Johnny, who had a big hit with this tune from back in the day.

Wednesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen gives us a report on King Charles visiting our shores and acting like a head of state is supposed to in his speech before a joint session of Congress, citing all of the ways our legal tradition intersects with that of the U.K., along with that important reminder that, yeah, there are “checks and balances” against Mango Musoslini, and I think Cohen’s analysis of Dems rising to applaud and then Repugs is spot-on...I think the same analysis applies to the King’s remark about Ukraine...to say I personally have been ambivalent towards the monarchy is an understatement, but I have to admit that it was nice to see how a REAL head of state is supposed to (again) act for a change...



...and in a bit of a related theme (i.e., our country on the world stage), Kyle Kulinski brings us the all-time-awful world approval numbers on Combover Caligula (anybody surprised by that?)...I think that plus-11 number is in Hungary; kind of embarrassed to be honest that my geography knowledge isn’t better on that...apparently, #47’s antics over Greenland have done the worst damage to our reputation, though I’m sure his idiocy over Ukraine hasn’t helped one bit either...I hate to agree with Kyle’s analysis that we’re defaulting to the Chinese century as he puts it, but I don’t see any way around that painful conclusion (NSFW/H)...



...and continuing a bit with global matters, Dina Doll of the Meidas Touch Network discusses a report from Drop Site News; apparently, our ruling regime is torturing survivors of the boat attacks near Ecuador (blindfolded and held hostage for eight days)...we’re talking broken bones and, in one case, a foot sliced open so badly that the boat filled with blood (all of this is done by our cretinous ruling regime in our name, people)... Ecuadorian fishermen were captured and transferred to the El Salvadorian coast guard, though the fishermen were eventually sent back to Ecuador because of pressure from their families...didn’t know that, apparently, the Trump gang has allegedly killed 174 people from these boat attacks...good point that the fact that these boats were sunk as opposed to boarded for collecting evidence tells you that this was basically an execution at sea of people who were likely completely innocent...we’re reminded once more of SecDef Kegseth’s claim that we bombed an alleged Ecuadorian drug compound which was actually a dairy farm...another good point is that this madness is taking place while Kegseth canned the Secretary of the Navy during #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran (here)...we’re reminded once more of Kegseth’s little rally about “the warrior ethos” while our military starves from being fed meals that you probably wouldn’t inflict on your pet (here)...important reminder that torture by our service personnel does indeed violate their own documented guidelines...



...and returning to domestic matters that are no less awful, Tennessee Brando lets us know that it looks like Ghislaine Maxwell is getting close to a full pardon...I mean, we’re talking about the Trump Crime Syndicate, so what seriously is going to stop them? Also, I’m not familiar with Scott MacFarlane, but it looks like he’s doing a good job with this story...also, good work by Madeleine Dean of our beloved commonwealth, trying to get that scumbag Howard Lutnick on the record over this horror show...and by the way, I think we just observed the one-year anniversary of the death of Virginia Guiffre, just to let you know (NSFW/H also)...



...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show gives us another “Let Them Eat Ballroom” bit...yeah, let’s just speed up development of the Gropenfuhrer’s vanity palace/bunker while our economy goes down the drain along with our international prestige (and leave it to Huckleberry Graham to take the lead on THAT)...and gee, I wonder how many hospitals and doctors could continue to operate along with providing all of the VA services our vets need if that $400 million was used for THAT instead?...and I know I’ve said it before, and at the risk of repeating myself I’ll say it again; why the hell anybody with a brain would watch Fix Noise is something I’ll NEVER understand...and yep, John Fetterman gets lit up here, and he deserves all of it, sadly (with Jordan Klepper)...



...and if I'm going to include this tune for the month of April, I know I'd better hurry up, so here it is.

Tuesday Stuff

Leave it to that worm “MAGA Mike” Johson to say that “Democrat” leaders are the ones that need to “turn down the rhetoric” or whatever, so of course we need that stinking $400 million ballroom to protect Dear Leader and God Emperor Trump (and Fetterman gets name dropped because he’s the one who made a mess on this issue for the “D” team)...and when it comes to “turning down the rhetoric,” there is also this of course (and even Joe Scar thinks that the recent call to fire Jimmy Kimmel is ridiculous as noted here...I probably wouldn’t have made that joke, but it certainly didn’t advocate violence)...



...and speaking of that damn ballroom, this clip from Public Citizen informs us that that organization sued to get the contractual agreement, and they won...we learn more about this mess, including the fact that donors can remain anonymous and exempts the White House from conflict-of-interest safeguards (Erin Burnett interviews P.C.’s Jon Golinger)...and let’s have no illusions that we the taxpayer aren’t paying for this mess, because we are through inflated contracts from the people bankrolling this idiocy, and that’s just one way that we’re on the hook (and I think the “underground bunker” part of all of this deserves a hell of a lot of scrutiny also...big time “quid pro quo” stuff going on here)...



...meanwhile, David Pakman gives us a clip that the “R” team doesn’t want circulating before the midterm election (a reminder of all of the times in ’24 that the Gropenfuhrer said he was going to bring down prices)...kind of got a perverse kick out of him making the ridiculous promise of “cutting your energy bills in half” and then saying in the next breath “you can get very angry at me if I don’t do it”...



...and Brittany Page tells us about Louisiana’s “convict leasing” bill that brings back the worst of Jim Crow, trying to criminalize homelessness in that state and forcing people into unpaid work (and this state rep Debbie Villio who introduced this bill HB 211 is truly a monster)...”connect them to service providers,” huh? I think all that's missing here is Strother Martin yelling, “What we have here is failure to communicate.”...and it sounds like incarceration is going to happen whether or not someone is convicted of a first or second offense, when In reality that should be an ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT...oh, and related to this, it looks like the Trump gang is building a homeless gulag on the outskirts in Utah, just to push the madness on this even further...apparently there is a provision in the so-called “Streets to Success” Act from this Debbie Villio person to get medical treatment, but of course, if you can’t pay the ridiculously high treatment cost (and once again, we’re talking about the HOMELESS), then you’re put to work – typical for a Repug (and great point by Dem rep Lesli Harris in response regarding what this will do to the criminal justice system in that state, namely overcrowding the already-overburdened courts with many more new cases...Harris also mentions that state’s “housing first” model, which is a MUCH BETTER way to go than that proposed by Villio, and it’s actually cheaper than to force a homeless person into an ER and/or jail; I keep wondering if the cost argument on stuff like this will ever register with wingnuts, but I don’t think it will – love to be wrong about that)...didn’t know about the Housing Not Handcuffs group – kudos (and more on the SCOTUS Grant’s Pass ruling is here)...



...and I haven’t had a Jesse Welles tune for a little while, so I thought I’d include this (John Oliver recently had a good segment on this topic)...



...and I don’t see any east coast tour dates for this band including Philly, but if I find out about more on that, I’ll make sure to update this post with that information.

Monday Stuff

Chris Hayes talks to Dem U.S. House Rep Robert Garcia of California on the all-time grifting of our “First Family,” starting with nepo baby Eric landing a $24 million contract from Cantaloupe Capone’s DoD, all going to Eric’s outfit called Foundation Future Industries that builds robotics...the whole thing was cheered on by Maria Bartiromo of course (gee, I’m old enough to remember wingnuts losing what left of their minds over Hunter Biden and Burisma and how “No Malarkey Joe” allegedly intervened on behalf of his son, which never happened)...Garcia puts this nonsense in its place IMO...oh, and I guess for sh*ts and giggles, Uday and Qusay have some drone interceptor company that they’re selling to the gulf states while this war with Iran that we’re winning well not so much we already took out their air defense capability no, their ability to retaliate remains we took out Iran's nukes last summer no, we have to bomb them to keep them from making nukes we’re reopening the Strait of Hormuz no we’re closing the Strait again NATO should offer to help no, NATO isn’t involved but China is now peace talks are ongoing in Pakistan no suddenly they’re not goes on...Hayes is correct for sure when he basically says that our corporate media needs to do a MUCH BETTER job of reporting on this illegal garbage...

Update 1: More here.

...and speaking of corporate media, Kyle Kulinski gives us a “hot take” on the WHCD shooting incident...I thought D.C. was safer now because of Bronzer Beelzebub’s ICE raids, or something...glad no one was hurt of course and apparently D.C. police got the suspected shooter...sorry, but I'm suspicious of all of this given the fact that we also had that incident in Butler, PA where #47 was allegedly shot in the ear, but he healed pretty quickly from that given that he's a 79-year-old man in poor condition living an utterly unhealthy lifestyle (NSFW/H)...



Update 2: Uh huh...

Update 3: And in response to these two numbskulls, I would only ask which political party was behind the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Also, I continue to be dumbfounded I must admit by the fact that Lex Luthor Scott is still taken seriously by ANYONE since he was behind the largest Medicare fraud in history as noted here.

...and Farron Cousins informs us that the “R” party knows that their redistricting scam for the fall elections may very well blow up in their faces (and yes, I know a wingnut judge in Virginia has put the Dem redistricting on hold in that commonwealth – case will likely go to the SCOTUS, and God only knows what that will lead to)...and gee, Ari Ari Bobari Fleischer from Dubya’s sorry reign thinks his party screwed the metaphorical pooch on this redistricting nonsense, huh? Pass the popcorn...and sooo, it looks like the “party of Lincoln” was going to run on “tax cuts for everybody” (another fiction), but they’re blaming the war with Iran for messing that up? Did Don Jr. and Eric Trump become the co-heads of the RNC and I missed that memo (while “making bank” as noted above)?? This is a whole new level of clueless idiocy (NSFW/H also)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 4/24/13...clip is a tribute to Dem one-time U.S. House Rep Bob Edgar...to say we need more folks in public service with his dedication is an understatement (and somehow I think that, if he were still with us, he would be leading the fight against the proliferation of data centers and lax government regulation of the type that led to the East Palestine, Ohio rail disaster, among other worthy causes)...



...and taking a jaunt “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie gives us a typically understated analysis of the performance of British PM Keir Starmer to date...I’m definitely joking (very NSFW/H as well)...



...and yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which was the subject of a terrific short HBO series; I think that calls for an anti-nuke tune, don’t you?