Friday Stuff

Alicia Menendez of MSNBC anchors a discussion with Melissa Murray, Andrea Flores, Amanda Carpenter, and Leah Litman about the latest legal atrocity from our bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS, denying legal protections to Haitian and Syrian refugees at our border...and oh yeah, our theocrats in robes also struck down a Hawaii gun law and said that, if you get cancer from Roundup, you can’t sue (more here)...as Murray says about the TPS nightmare, these hideous rulings make our existing statutes “parchment promises”...Murray also mentions this case of the Rastafarian man who had his dreadlocks shaved and sued, but he was told that, because his jailers didn’t consent to the man’s religious practices in advance, the claimant couldn’t bring an action; somehow I think the ruling would have been markedly different if that man had been a Christian...looks like our Philistines on the High Court are intent on whittling away temporary protected status to those coming from every location except a Nordic country and South Africa (if you’re white, that is)...aside from the human cost of revoking TPS, there’s also the economic impact, which no Repug seems to care about either...I think Menendez is right about our gaggle of conservative Neanderthals “hiding behind judicial review,” and I’m not a lawyer either...”The largest de-legalization effort in the modern era” is sadly apt also...GREAT point about how these people targeted by Cantaloupe Capone and his foul ilk (including Pee Wee German) often hold jobs as caregivers in our communities...also spot-on to note that this ruling will step up harassment against those here with TPS, who likely have been here for awhile...



Update 6/29/26: I guess I’m supposed to be happy that this utterly wretched bunch of political despots didn’t find a way to go after New York Times v. Sullivan, still kept the Tangerine Toddler on the hook in the E. Jean Carroll case, and found a way to absolve the Federal Reserve (for now) in its disgusting ruling that destroyed the 90-year-old precedent preserving the integrity of federal agencies, but I’m sure you’ll excuse me if I don’t feel like celebrating (here).

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/24/14, in which former President Hopey Changey makes high-minded remarks about our beyond-wretched SCOTUS respecting existing precedent, which is almost quaint to consider after all this time (oh, and Repug Sen. Chuck Grasshole stands up for aggrieved white people everywhere to decry our former Kenyan Muslim socialist president – bad joke at this point I know)...I realize Obama was all about taking the high road, and I respect that, but I guess I’m including this to show how far we’ve fallen if for no other reason...also, I know I didn’t say anything about the opening of #44’s presidential library, which looks like an absolutely stunning facility, but that’s only because I wanted to comment on other stuff instead...definitely miss the voice of Ed Schultz, especially these days...



...and this clip from J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup informs us that companies are reining in their AI spending, according to the Financial Times...yep, our august captains of industry promised AI to be a magical elixir to both raise productivity AND cut costs, but as usual, this mirage is slowly disappearing, with OpenAI and Anthropic facing the proverbial music here...usage caps on AI tokens is the first sign of “trouble in paradise,” with Uber and Amazon beating the retreat...next comes a chip shortage, which is yet another cost multiplier buffeting our economy (and data centers are indeed an ecological plague on this country – if we end up in something similar to the Great Recession of ’08, the collapse of the AI bubble will be a huge factor)...



...and this week also saw the exit of Labour’s Keir Starmer as Britian’s PM, their sixth Prime Minister in 10 years, as noted by Andrew Chang of the CBC (‘the charisma of frozen peas” – gotta love those zany Brits)...naming Peter Mandelson as Britain’s U.S. ambassador was definitely an unforced error on Starmer’s part, given Mandelson’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein...clip discusses Labour getting electorally creamed under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 and how it at least temporarily revived itself, up to now...Labour never really had what you could call a mandate, dating back to ’24...as I watch this, I can’t help but draw a parallel to former president Biden, who did indeed deliver positive change, but not as quickly as expected (accompanied by the usual utter failure of the “D” team to communicate its accomplishments to the voters)...didn’t know about Our Treasonous Orange Pustule’s idiocy on Truth Septic announcing that Starmer would step down before it happened, but that definitely tracks also...all of this is good news for Andy Burnham, but now, he has to try and deliver also, in a nation still recovering from years of economic pillaging by the Tories...



...and just in time for summer (which is official as of last Sunday), Lewis Black is here for more on the latest exercise trends (wonder what “sword yoga” would be like mixed with ample doses of alcohol? Might lead to misdemeanor charges in a court of law I guess)...and oh yeah, “pistols and Pilates” – can’t wait for the screaming headlines about mass carnage on THAT one either...



...and RIP David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears...probably too easy of a call on this selection, I know.

Thursday Stuff

Chris Hayes brings us the tale of Dementia J. Trump torpedoing the bipartisan Senate housing bill as noted here (with Elizabeth Warren as one of the architects) to try and strongarm senators into passing his garbage SAVE Act, which, once again, is a “solution” in search of a problem – actually, the bill does nothing but screw over core Dem constituencies, which is the true objective of course...also, all 3 congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani won in New York on Tuesday, leading corpora-Dems into a fit (led by this idiot, Carville I mean)...and oh yeah, Trump’s postmaster general wants to restrict mail-in ballots to blue states unless they hand over the voting rolls to the Gropenfuhrer – so many levels of illegality here that it’s truly hard to count them all...”he would rather cheat than win” indeed...



...and this report from the PBS Newshour discusses the incredibly-over-the-top sentencing of anti-ICE protestors to 30 to 100 years in prison, definitely longer than the sentences of the treasonous 1/6 insurrectionists as noted...I can just about guarantee you that these sentences will be knocked down on appeal, but the point of course is to utterly stifle dissent...and yes, I realize a police officer was shot which makes the protest a hell of a lot more serious of a matter, but these sentences are still ridiculously excessive...with correspondent Ali Rogin and federal prosecutor Paul Butler...big surprise that this prosecution is based in Texas I know...the legal fig leaf here is that the government has labeled Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no political organization known as Antifa in this country (here)...and I suppose it fits in a typically demented way that those accused of belonging to Antifa denied it on the witness stand, but only confessed to belonging to a book group (once more, an unbelievable waste of taxpayer dollars from our idiot ruling regime)...we’re reminded once more of Presidential Memo 7 passed after the Charlie Kirk murder aimed basically at any person/organization Our Ochre Abomination doesn’t like, even though lefties had nothing to do with Kirk’s killing (it also fits that our ruling regime wants to punish people for “anti-capitalist views” – what a typical disgrace)...



...and this report from CBC News informs us of AI bots taking over fast-food drive-thrus, which I guess isn’t surprising (with White Castle being first apparently)...looks like “Julia” is taking care of about 90 percent of the orders correctly (a little spooky that that’s a higher average than for a flesh-and-blood human)...great point by the Canadian labor rep that fast food employment is a “stepping stone” job, and if that goes away, what will come in its place, if anything?...



...and speaking of nourishment, Farron Cousins brings us the sorry tale of Cheetoh Hitler and his same-party pals threatening to starve kids and families in this country with SNAP cuts...I know saying Republicans hate children is kind of extreme, but how exactly is Cousins wrong here, especially when we find out about a study looking at SNAP benefit cuts and what that’s doing to this country...1.6 million kicked off that vitally important benefit program, including about 776,000 kids in 12 states (at a cost of about $6 a day, versus our utterly insane Pentagon budget)...Cousins also points out how the latest class warfare from these Trumpist numbskulls is indeed incentivizing states to kick more people off SNAP...and yep, if you guessed that the typical mantra here from Not Your Father’s Republican Party is “oh, we’re cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse,” then you win a commemorative photo of The Sainted Ronnie R giving a speech braying about “welfare queens” (which don’t exist and have NEVER existed, by the way)...NSFW/H...



...and I now give you the following from Mr. Newberger based on today’s headlines...



...and here's a newer tune to try and keep the musical selections here from lapsing into a collection of "moldy oldies," at least for the moment.

Tuesday Stuff

Kenny Hesse of Really American informs us that, apparently, it looks like the “bromance” between “Bibi” and our thuggish ruling regime (and that includes Couch Boy) has hit the rocks, given that Israel will likely continue to attack Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and God knows where else, alleged “deal” from the Gropenfuhrer be damned...yep, “Diaper Donnie” got played by our “ally” again (and yes, I know “No Malarkey Joe” was guilty on that score too, along with just about every other presidential administration)...and when you’ve lost The Swanson TV Dinner Heir (trying to look rugged without a tie I guess), then you’re truly losing the die-hard mouth breathers in your base on this...actually, VP “Hillbilly Elegy” shockingly makes some sense at around 5:00-5:20 or so; kind of makes me wonder what parallel dimension I fell into...I realize I shouldn’t pay much attention to “Tuckums,” but that remark “that was the story anyway” about 9/11 is typical for this self-serving puke – we lost 17 people from Bucks County based on a “story” as far as Carlson is concerned I guess (NSFW/H)...



...and we now go “across the pond” to Jonathan Pie, discussing “Trump The Peacemaker”...I hadn’t heard anyone drawing a comparison between this alleged deal with Iran and the fiasco with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, but yeah, they’re both peas in the same awful pod, you might say...I’d forgotten about the $2.1 billion in oil trades placed just before the start of hostilities – don’t know how the hell that’s legal, because it probably isn’t...I could tell he was going to go off because he also went without a tie (NSFW/H also)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us more on Repugs revolting over #47’s capitulation in his war of choice against Iran, including Trey Gowdy, who ended up on Fix Noise after a career in the U.S. House as a wingnut lapdog...I don’t know what the hell happened to Mike Pompeo – seriously, I hope he’s not ill, even though I don’t agree with a damn thing he has to say...oh, and “missiles aren’t the problem,” Combover Caligula? Gee, what would happen if a warhead was unleashed in the direction of Flori-DUUH! (which I don’t want to see, I wish to emphasize)...and once more, Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy are on their way out of the U.S. Senate, so they can actually speak truth to stoo-pid...there’s a lot of “doom and gloom” aimed at Not Your Father’s Republican Party at the moment, and justifiably so, but allow me to be a bit of a contrarian here and add that, likely starting just around Labor Day, there will be such a torrent of attack ad garbage on TV, online and everywhere aimed at the “D” team (who will likely be clueless to respond, if past is prologue) that that will likely cause the polling numbers to tighten up...believe me when I tell you that I want to be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this damn movie too many times before...



...and Thom Hartmann discusses “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard, on her way out as DNI, who apparently is endeavoring to come up with some devious new way to rig the fall midterms...her seat is currently occupied by Bill Pulte, whose Trumpist bona fides includes rifling through mortgage docs on #47’s political enemies as Thom points out...oh, and apparently there’s now a rift between the CIA and Gabbard/Pulte because the former doesn’t trust the latter two assclowns (don’t you feel safer already, my fellow prisoners?)...didn’t know that there was an ordinance in Philly saying that, if you’re in law enforcement and wear a mask and don’t identify yourself, you go to jail for 90 days and pay a fine – nicely done (and yep, the typical Trumpist goons reacted with “lawfare,” as they always do...definitely not the biggest fan of Larry Krasner, but props to him if he had anything to do with this)...didn’t know about that study involving deceased relatives, but I believe it to be honest...



...and by the way, in case anyone was wondering what the world’s first trillionaire was up to, I think this update from America’s Finest News Source answer that question (joke, but barely)...



...and here is today's regional weather forecast.

Monday Stuff

OK, I’m back and I’m going to get this thing going again...stop me if you’ve heard this before (and I’m sure you have), but the Gropenfuhrer hired a preferred contractor to do some work that got totally screwed up (and who likely won’t get paid anyway), and this time it involves the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial (I realize I’m behind the news cycle on this a bit, but I still think it needs to be pointed out)...this report from the CBC News gives us more background...it looks like we have peeling paint and algae bubbling to the surface, which is a strangely apt metaphor for this regime as far as yours truly is concerned...oh, and someone with a sharp eye pointed out that, in that fifth-grade-looking poster board that Cantaloupe Capone held up in that press gaggle, #47 didn’t include the antenna on top of the Sears Tower (I think that’s what it’s called) in Chicago, probably out of spite to make it look shorter...the whole D.C. landscape, which is pretty much sunk in a basin, makes it extremely difficult to keep various substances from bubbling to the surface; there would have to be layers of probably sandstone and rock to keep the algae out, and I realize that studying the issue to that level of detail is beyond the grasp of the Tangerine Toddler (a completely predictable update is here, and it looks like Jonathan Karl of ABC News got his hand dirty on this issue based on this)...



...and Belle of the Ranch tells us about Dementia J. Trump telling people he’s king...with respect to Belle, I don’t give Roger Wicker credit for a damn thing; saying the supposed deal ending #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is contrary to the *preznit’s goals or whatever is slathering perfume on the proverbial pig big time...and of course, Bill Cassidy is on his way out, so that means he can actually tell the truth according to their unwritten Repug rules of subservience I suppose...I don’t know much about this Jay Clayton guy who’s been nominated as the new DNI to take the place of “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard, but I’m sure I’ll find out (typical for this regime to nominate a mediocre white man to replace a woman in this administration)...and “I’m the president, and you’re not”? So what – we’ve got “Chevy Chase” Trump now? I also like Belle’s “Scooby Doo” metaphor here – “I’d have defeated Iran if it weren’t for those meddling kids”...definitely glad to hear Belle draw a line here from those cowardly Repugs acting like they have a spine at last to those same lickspittles having voting for the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...”the pushback isn’t out of principle – it’s out of political necessity” indeed...



...oh, and did you know that unemployment funds from the feds distributed to states (especially those with “Democrat” governors) are being fraudulently siphoned off to go to criminal gangs? Well, living in the world of reality, I didn’t know that either, probably because that’s not an actual “thing,” but in the demented musings of Trumpist Labor Secretary pick Keith Sonderling, that is taking place, which is another reason to disqualify this knucklehead (more here)...



...and I honestly try to not fill up this space too much with every stoo-pid thing that Our Ochre Abomination says or does, but I thought this was worthy of mention, with Don The Con blabbing that Italian PM Giorgia Meloni allegedly begged to have a photo taken with him, and #47 went along with it because he felt ”sorry for her” (once more, this supposedly big, strong man talks down to or tries to make fun of a woman)...I also think it needs to be emphasized yet again how Combover Caligula treats our allies versus our enemies (and I know there’s more than a little gray area there), as Meloni pointed out so accurately...and oh yeah, our Pretender-In-Chief abuses our allies with impunity, but yells his spoiled baby head off when they don’t step in to try and fix his mistakes, which are legion (including the mess in the Strait of Hormuz)...I think “total deference – zero accountability” as noted by Brian Tyler Cohen pretty much says it...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” at the reflecting pool idiocy..Cheetoh Hitler rambles incoherently once more like a brain-added octogenarian (and not all octogenarians are brain-addled, I wish to emphasize)...also, I actually think the term “unbelievable makeover” for the Lincoln Memorial pool is pretty accurate since it sure is unbelievable all right...and what would another screwup by Pumpkin Pol Pot be without the hyenas from Fix Noise cheering him on and ridiculing “the left” and saying “oh, it’s really the fault of the Dem haters who want to see our *preznit fail” – uh, no...our side lives in the world of actual reality, as opposed to you assclowns...and dumping peroxide into the water to kill the algae blooms? Yeah, that will last as a fix for this mess at exactly half past never...



...and RIP Walter Parazaider of Chicago.

Monday Stuff

Robert Weissman of Public Citizen discovers some conflicts of interest here with the Tangerine Toddler and his stinking ballroom...those who contributed received $50 billion in government contracts, which somehow is NOT illegal on its face, though I can just about guarantee you that the destruction of the East Wing of the White House most definitely is, as Weissman notes...as we also learn, about two-thirds of the companies making donations were facing enforcement actions of some kind, which of course the Gropenfuhrer sh*tcanned as opposed to going after his enemies...in terms of “return on investment,” Weissman also notes that these companies got 100-to-200-times what they shelled out for the damn ballroom in the way of the aforementioned contracts...kind of surprised to see Major Garrett practicing some actual journalism, but credit where it’s due...



...and Robert Reich makes a pretty good case here IMO on why and how we should end the “doom loop” in this country’s politics...among other places, this clip should be played continuously at the DNC headquarters until the message sinks in, assuming it ever does...



...and this video from CBC News: The National takes us into a TPUSA event with Erika Kirk...”Conservative women may not vote for Repugs in the midterms” is apparently the overriding message here, but I’ll believe it when I see it... and oh yeah, ”I don’t want a party that tells my son he can cut off his penis,” huh? Yep, we’re definitely in the epicenter of wingnut BS all right, no doubt full of evangelical nutjobs...just add this Savanna Stone person to the incredibly long list of folks who got utterly played by the Gropenfuhrer and his regime (and she doesn’t think women should vote? Really? I suppose that’s part of her grift too, and apparently for other women also)...it’s really pointless trying to argue with anybody who thinks Dems/liberals/progressives are at fault somehow for not enough “reading, writing and arithmetic” in schools...file this under “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”...



..and in a bit of a similar vein, David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more Trump voters having buyer’s remorse, this time in Ohio, including a woman who voted for Cheetoh Hitler 3 times, and now her factory job is disappearing; apparently, a company called Conn Selmer is moving its operations to China...when the Lyin’ King stood up and said, “I don’t care about you. I just care about your vote,” what the hell else was there to think about? Oh, and it looks like this “deal” emerging over his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran apparently won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on...and billions in a cash infusion to Iran, while this country continues to struggle with inflation and a cratering economy – are you tired of the winning yet? Is it starting to occur to you, Trumpers, that the guy who came into the world with millions but ended up having to declare bankruptcy six times DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE F*CK HE’S DOING???!! AS PRESIDENT OR AS ANYTHING ELSE???...Oh, and along comes Senator Foghorn Leghorn of Oxford (pretending to be from Louisiana) attacking Graham Platner; if I were the Platner campaign, I would just keep using these clips from Kennedy and other pols as more evidence that the Maine Dem is scaring the hell out of the D.C. establishment...once more, concerning Kennedy, I think you can still Google John Oliver, Song of the Summer, and enjoy the result...



...and speaking of John Oliver, I give you his report from “Last Week Tonight” on the New College of Flori-DUUH! (took a little while for yours truly to get through the whole thing)...looks like On-His-Way-Out Guv #DeathSantis, when he was trying to run for *preznit, chose to use the school for purposes of wingnut demagoguery and decided to sic the even-more-odious Chris Rufo on the place…I have to admit that I don’t think it’s so hot for students to design their own curricula, but then again, you can’t argue with the fact that many of them apparently continued their education upon graduation, so what the school did must have worked somehow (and I’m SOOO GLAD for SOMEBODY to give Stuart Varney the treatment he deserves)…the mascot story is indeed dorky, but a little sweet too IMO; not surprising that that was changed to a “steroid tree” by the incoming regime…yep, Rufo did indeed cherry pick from the consultant’s report on the school and tried to tilt the perception as negatively as possible…and boy, this Richard Corcoran guy brought in to run the school sure was a prize, wasn’t he?...so naturally, the gender studies program was the first casualty of the new regime, in favor of “culture wars bullsh*t,” with “scholars in residence” like Bruce Gilley (a member of this group), along with this Fred Piccolo character, who seems to have a problem with keeping it zipped up, you might say (allegedly!)...and this David Rancourt person is just a straight-up pig (can’t think of a word for the entitlement of someone who can even think what he says, let alone try that crap on “open mic night”)...probably comes as no surprise to find out that the “success” of de- wokifiying (word?) the New College came also from lowering standards and recruiting student athletes...”rebalancing the hormones and the politics on campus” – just no end to the wingnut grievance, is there?...oh, and on top of all of this, now it costs half a mil to earn a degree at New College, dwarfing the cost versus any other public university...also, it looks like Corcoran, the president of the school pulling down a mil a year (and again, for a PUBLIC university) participated in an open mic night also? Well, at least he didn’t say something grossly inappropriate like Rancourt did (maybe these guys ought to stay away from comedy clubs for a little while)...NSFW/H...



...and here is another summer selection...



...and with that, I now take my leave of you for a few days. I’ll plan to rev this thing up again next week.

Friday Stuff

I give you our “I Love the Inflation” *preznit (and no, I don’t plan to ever let anybody forget that he said that)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses Cheetoh Hitler saying someone ELSE’s past indiscretions makes him unqualified for office, referring to Graham Platner, which is borderline hilarious coming from Our Ochre Abomination...and if I were Platner, I would use that negative language about him in a campaign ad (calling Platner a “thug,” which is one of the Tangerine Toddler’s go-to insults as we know)...and naaah, the Repugs wouldn’t have Platner I know, because the “R” team would have PEDOS instead...also, I temporarily forgot about Ken Paxton in Texas, but it does indeed take more than a little gall to criticize Platner with “multiple scandals” Paxton running for the “R” team, as well as having once supported Matt “Are You Sure You’re Legal?” Gaetz...I LOVE how Cohen points out the double standard of the low bar Repug candidates have to meet versus the purity tests Dem candidates have to take (NSFW/H)...



...oh, and it looks like former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond has departed...in this clip, we learn of JP Morgan Chase bowing to lefty pressure from a group called Majority Action and removing Raymond as an independent director (though, as we also learn, Raymond still had a seat on the board of directors of JP Morgan-Chase)...Raymond did everything he could to ignore the scientific consensus that human activity is causing climate change and instead get these bogus “studies” published intended to ignore the climate crisis to ensure profitability for our dirty energy companies...looks like Majority Action was able to persuade shareholders in order to remove Raymond...I believe that the phrase that matters concerning Raymond at this moment is “rest in piss”...

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...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us U.S. House Repug numbskull Brian Mast of Flori-DUUH! “mansplaining” to Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib why she was wrong to bring up her war powers resolution intended to keep U.S. troops out of Lebanon...oh, and Mast says dead Palestinians need to prove they were innocent while getting bombed by Israel, or something...oh, and Mast wears his IDF uniform to work? Fine, then – fly over to Israel, live there and run for the Knesset, or something...oh, and Tlaib’s resolution is “unserious”? I think the wanton murder of Palestinians by the IDF (and trying to keep the U.S. out of Lebanon) is as “serious” as it gets...I’m old enough to remember when this country used to do the difficult work of peace negotiations with ALL SIDES in an attempt to stop this, as opposed to just sending more arms to the main perpetrator of this carnage...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on the Knicks’ miracle comeback in Game #4 of the NBA Finals, along with other stuff...oh, and Combover Caligula and “Couch Boy” were the “pro peace” ticket, huh? Add that to the unending catalog of utter lies from our ruling regime, especially when contrasted with all of the clips of the Tangerine Toddler saying he’ll keep us out of wars, in addition to everything he would make cheaper (once more, it takes a comedian to “bring the receipts” since our corporate media is otherwise not up to that task)...



...and this musical selection is a bit of a “two-fer,” given that June is Pride Month and today is the 10th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting (here)...once more, let me know if any child is ever “groomed” as a result of a lecture on gender tolerance or exposure to drag queen story hour.

Wednesday Stuff

Robert Reich discusses The Hidden Danger of America’s Wealth Gap...I know it’s not exactly news to find out how much the assets of the one percent (a fraction of that, actually) have “exploded,” as Reich correctly puts it, but the stats are still damning anyway...wealth appeared to grow fairly evenly until about 2010, led by this as Reich notes...also, after 2018, the wealth for these bastards was higher than the whole GDP of China, for crying out loud...also, daunting to see what kind of campaign spending the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch can lay out versus the rest of us...glad to hear Reich draw what’s pretty much a straight line from this economic madness to an authoritarian state...also important to point out once more why we need public financing of elections (good luck with that, I know)...



...but it’s always good sport for our corporate overlords to punch down at those less fortunate and encourage all of us to do likewise, as Britany Page notes...it looks like she and other good folks crashed a wingnut policy summit on homelessness in D.C. (as if The Cicero Institute actually cares about the problem)...yep, looks like the previously mentioned one percent and their lackeys want to criminalize homelessness and stick the unhoused into camps, just like Republican Jesus wants...this Joe Lonsdale character behind Cicero also founded Palantir, just to let you know; another case of following the money to see which industries (for-profit prisons and surveillance) stand to gain by Cicero trying to demonize people needing help (I think the phrase “homeless industrial complex” in this context is pretty damn repugnant, which is on the nose for these cretins...”it starts with dehumanization” indeed)...a related item from the execrable Nick Fuentes is here...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I realize I’m “behind the curve” a bit here, but I definitely wanted to get to this...David Doel gives us his take on the NYT “hit piece” on Graham Platner (update here)...I agree with Doel that the time for “purity tests” is the primary, but once you’ve settled on a candidate for the general election, you need to look at who is the best alternative among the whole field and put all that other business about checking every single damn box on the shelf...I just gave Glenn Ivey credit the other day; what a shame that he takes all that AIPAC dough (not surprising that “Disappointed” Susan Collins is #1 on the Repug side, and don’t get me started on Schumer)...and yeah, I think it’s unintentionally funny that the Times has a headline about Platner’s “unsettling behavior” with women when we have a *preznit who was found civilly liable in New York on a charge of sexual abuse, which is basically r*pe without the actual word...this Lyndsey Fifield person criticizing Platner definitely doesn’t sound like an impartial observer anyway, especially on Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk...and Fifield drafted Susan Collins’ remarks when Collins voted to confirm “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS, smearing those accusing Kavanaugh in the process...beyond ridiculous that the Times didn’t tell this Fifield woman just to go get lost, as opposed to giving her any credence whatsoever...I think Doel is right to say that the Times is going after Platner in part because he didn’t grovel appropriately at the mention of the state of Israel...NSFW/H also...



...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about dozens of people getting sick in Idaho (about 45 people that we know of) after Bobby Brainworms promoted drinking un-pasteurized milk and getting stomach cramps, fever and, in some cases, diarrhea...oh, but it’s all about “freedumb” of course to push back against that “big gumint” that, y’know, wants to keep us from FREAKING DYING!!...and 40 raw milk bills introduced across 18 states?? I know drinking the MAGA Kool Aid can be a hell of a drug, but REALLY??...and yeah, Thomas Massie has done some good stuff and he lost his seat for it, but supporting a raw milk bill is definitely a point not in his favor (and that goes for Dem Chellie Pingree also...just goes to show how red Maine truly is, sadly, and I know I just mentioned Graham Platner)...as Waldorf tells us, the CDC has been studying and documenting the danger of raw milk for-freaking-evah; turns out that raw dairy causes 840 times more illness than the pasteurized version, as we learn in the clip...we’re only talking about 15 seconds of applied heat to prevent potential life-threatening paralysis (from Campylobacter), among other awful effects...so many levels of “duuuh” here...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show mentions the Gropenfuhrer taking a snooze during the most recent Knicks-Spurs game... I didn’t see the contest so I can’t judge referee Mark Davis, but apparently Jalen Brunson of the Knicks was getting fouled with regularity with no calls forthcoming...and since the game was in NYC, there were a lot of stars at courtside, which is cool...and oh yeah, a certain Treasonous Orange Egomaniac showed up as noted, saluted, took a nap and then left to a completely justified torrent of boos...oh, and #47’s preferred choice for LA Mayor (and “reality” TV star) Spencer Pratt lost I see...c’est dommage...so OF COURSE “Don Snoreleone” started ranting about a “rigged election”...oh, and MAGA Mike Johnson, being the good little supplicant he is, took a break from watching porn with his son to allege fraud in the LA election also, citing a lack of evidence (God, this nonsense makes my brain hurt)...with Troy Iwata...mildly NSFW/H as well...



...and I thought this was a bit of a catchy newer tune to get us all through the “hump day.”

Tuesday Stuff

Eric Gardner of More Perfect Union lets us know about Apartheid Clyde privatizing the profit and socializing the risk again in a manner that befits the one percent, this time on the SpaceX IPO...sounds like a massive “pump and dump” scheme leveraging index funds, which are the type of funds designed to EXPLICITLY PREVENT something just like this from happening...clip does a good job of how King Elon just keeps rolling his companies into each other in the hope that he can inject profitability...as we learn, the fact that this initial public offering for SpaceX seems to be top-heavy with what you could call regular investors is indeed a “tell” that something crooked is going on...sooo, it looks like the “banksters” got rid of the “seasoning” required for a company to be listed on the NASDAQ and that’s how Musk is planning to get his company onto it...one driver in this is the competition between the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ vying for the SpaceX IPO and similar offerings, and again, that’s not going to matter to “mom and pop” investors after the stock craters...looks like shares on SpaceX may begin trading this Friday 6/12...mildly NSFW/H...



...and this report from the German news service DW lets us know about anti-Christian attacks on the rise in Jerusalem (report by correspondent Jan-Philipp Scholz)...I seriously think this country needs to tell the “children of David” en masse to f*ck all the way off between their wars without end in Lebanon and Iran (to say nothing of Gaza and the West Bank overall) and also for attacking priests and nuns, but I realistically know what the chance is of that actually happening in this country...we can blame the rise in Jewish nationalism most definitely as a factor here, encouraged by “Bibi” and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, both of whom should be held up to constant ridicule at a minimum...oh, and three guesses who made this problem much worse by announcing that the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (and no, it definitely wasn’t Biden)...with Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations...



...and if you’re still wondering how Israel gets away with this garbage, Thom Hartmann gives us an explanation – it seems that dozens of congressional reps and staffers have been gifted with luxurious first-class trips to Israel courtesy of an affiliate of AIPAC (the American-Israel Education Foundation, which is a non-profit that is somehow able to skirt lobbying restrictions) ever since the awful attacks on Israel on October 7th...kind of telling to me that Netanyahu has gotten a pass from our media this whole time over the fact that, like 9/11, 10/7 represented a massive intelligence failure...not surprised that 8 in 10 Dems have an unfavorable view of Israel and 6 in 10 Americans generally...Thom reminds us of AIPAC showering “moderate” Dems with cash while doing their worst to trash progressives, such as Pramila Jayapal’s sister as Thom notes...pathetic that we allow ANY foreign government to mess with our elections, as Thom also points out...with all due respect to Thom, I think his memory is a little fuzzy; Citizens United was decided in January 2010, not October...also, Google requests permission to release 32 million mosquitoes in CA and Flori-DUUH! to try and prevent diseases carried by non-sterile bugs (and I agree with Thom that our government should be doing this and not a for-profit corporation...hopefully it will work)...



...and Tennessee Brando tells us about Our Ochre Abomination creating a watch list for social media influencers (here), and right now the list includes David Pakman and Brian Tyler Cohen...as Brando says, this was probably inevitable after our ruling regime went after media companies, educational institutions, law firms, freaking comedians, other politicians – you name it...probably only a matter of time until everybody who has made a video that I embed here ends up on a Trumpist “watch list” also (and I’m glad to see this Tony Hinchcliffe weasel get dragged again)...NSFW/W but for a great reason...



...and it looks like Dementia J. Trump kept up his perfect streak of ruining everything he touches last night, watching the Knicks lose their first playoff game (and kudos to the MSG fans for giving our *preznit the welcome he deserved)...



...and here is another summer selection (sad that they're both gone now - oh well).

Monday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us of the latest meltdown from Our Treasonous Orange Man-Baby of a *preznit, this time storming out of an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC’s “Meet The Press” when she called him on his idiotic BS about a wide range of subjects...and oh yeah, he bolts the scene like a spoiled child after he calls her “stupid” (after all this time, it’s still hard for me to comprehend how the Gropenfuhrer gets away with behavior that would likely get any other politician drummed right out of office)...I don’t know who this Katie Zacharia person is, but she’s just another Trumpist lickspittle IMO (and kudos to Cohen for calling out her nonsense)...how anybody could think that Combover Caligula is some kind of a big man for relentlessly berating female reporters is something I cannot possibly imagine...



...and Jesse Dollemore informs us that it looks like Dem U.S. House Rep Glenn Ivey of MD busted the Gropenfuhrer on his “pay to play” pardons, so our course acting AG Todd Blanche is all “YOU FILTHY COMMIE DEM! HOW DARE YOU MAKE AN ALLEGATION LIKE THAT AGAINST DEAR ORANGE LEADER!!”...you’d have to be a stone-cold moron to NOT see the quid pro quo garbage here, and I realize that description applies to much of our ruling regime...I haven’t heard “money hungry goblin” before, but I guess I should add that now to my catalog of insults for #47...NSFW/H...



...and in this clip from Andrew Chang of CBC News, we learn about the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is the test that Cheetoh Benito keeps taking to measure his diminished brain capacity (and no, as we learn, it definitely IS NOT an IQ test)...by the way, I don’t intend to make fun here of anybody with cognitive difficulty – I’m genuinely sorry about that – but only #47 who keeps bragging about this subject and regularly calls other people “stupid” as pointed out above...gee, maybe the reason nobody has taken the damn cognitive test as many times as Our Ochre Abomination has is that NO ONE HAS NEEDED TO!!...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report inform us that we’re up to killing 202 people with up to 60 different boat strikes, and I’ll wager that every single one of them was innocent (additionally, none of those damn boats were heading to this country anyway)...and by the way, the drugs are still getting into the US in case you were wondering about that (good point by Jayar to mention the murdered Iranian school children, mostly girls, in our ongoing war; should never lose sight of that – more here)...



...and Mr. Newberger gives us a preview of future “restoration projects” from Our Satanic Orange Overlord...



...and by the way, I know I'm going back on my promise last week to not devote so much space to the Tangerine Toddler; I'll try to do better next time...

...and happy 75th birthday to Bonnie Tyler.

Friday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski discusses the firing of “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley at the behest of Bari Weiss and the Ellisons...I give Pelley so much credit for finally saying “enough is enough,” and of course he ended up paying for it by losing his job...oh, and by the way, this Nick Bilton guy (who I guess is now in charge of the program) is a British former tech reporter for the New York Times and “documentary filmmaker” who is ALSO IN WAAAY OVER HIS HEAD here (and based on the response from former and current employees of “60 Minutes,” it also sounds like Bilton is colossally full of sh*t when it comes to describing Pelley – and termination for cause is an extra layer of dickishness here)...oh, and all of this is making the wingnutosphere absolutely giddy as noted here (and I think Kyle is dead-on when it comes to predicting the type of “stories” we can now look forward to on that program – and why does this not surprise me either?)...NSFW/H...



...and speaking of this country sucking up to Israel as Kyle noted above, it looks like Repug U.S. House Rep Mike Rogers is proposing something called Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act of ’27 which would “expand U.S. and Israel military cooperation with joint research, testing, manufacturing, and sharing technology as well as promoting joint military training, information-sharing, network integration, and data fusion” (oh, and Dem House Rep Adam Smith also signed off on this colossal mistake)...report is from Drop Site News...sounds like the biggest takeaway is that all aspects of our military alliance with Israel would go into the same “black box” as that of our own military spending and development...also important to note that this increased alliance could support Israeli defense factories also, to which I say that Israel’s defense firms should stand or fall on their own without our help...good point toward the end about the industrial espionage carried out by Israel against this country, which I would call strange behavior from an “ally”...more here...



...and this report from PBS Newshour informs us of Our Ochre Abomination dismantling ocean monitoring systems, pulling out more than 900 deep water sensors from our Atlantic and Pacific coasts, with scientists in this country quite rightly expressing alarm...yep, Combover Caligula just wrecked a program to monitor climate change that was “decades in the making”...with correspondent William Brangham (and Hilary Palevsky also, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College)...hope you like our oceans boiling and mass extinction of underwater species, because that’s coming next (and all because Biden looked bad in a debate, I tell myself)...



...and Belle brings us another item tied to the Trumpist destruction of our government, and that has to do with the appearance of the “new world” screwworm in this country...she reminds us of Apartheid Clyde and his merry band of incels wrecking our government through DOGE (a plot hatched by Russell Vought of Project 2025 infamy, among others)...looks like the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service went kaput, and all they did was protect U.S. agriculture from foreign diseases and pests...you know, just dumb “woke” stuff like that...so now, we have the first known case of the “new world” screwworm in this country since the ‘60s, with its parasitic larvae eating the flesh of livestock, so we can just imagine what that will do to the health of herds and prices for food – are we tired of the winning yet?...more on the “Chesterton Fence” is here...



Update 6/8/26: And you'll NEVER GUESS who Repug asshats like Roger Marshall blame for the screwworm - I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count (here).

...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us an update on Dementia J. Trump and his madness having to do with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, which apparently is SOOO BIG that it needs a chart that looks like it was rejected from a fifth grade science project...oh, and along comes “farmer” and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to unveil the 250-dollar bill with Cantaloupe Capone’s mug plastered on it, as if that’s affordable for much of this country anyway...also, it seems that 97 of the 1/6 rioters freed by the Tangerine Toddler have committed offenses that landed them back behind bars – birds of a disgusting feather flocking together it seems...also, this Bill Pulte character is another Trumpist with apparently no familiarity with intelligence (kind of a “big basket” there I realize)...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I thought I'd give "mellow" the day off - hope it's a good weekend for one and all.

Diaper Donnie Tilts At You-Know-What

We all know how much our dearly despised abhorred reviled tolerated *preznit hates renewable energy because he can’t game the market and profit from it, and of all the alternative forms of power out there, I think wind is #1 on his hit list, as Desi Lydic pointed out yesterday. Well, with that in mind, I was recently visited by the muse, and I’d like to share the following:

Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Or the grumbling in your stomach when you miss a Happy Meal
Affection for your children that you feel just now and then
Or delusions of Joe Biden when he used an Autopen
As Ivanka Trump lay buried underneath the fairway green
Or those rallies with “the faithful” where you always make a scene
Showing all the gaps they find in the windmills of your mind

Like the wormhole that you follow to delusions in your head
Where a cognitive exam should find some common sense instead
When the bronzer starts to melt, revealing layers of your tan
As you escalate pre-emptive war without end in Iran
As Xi detects our defense posture slowly start to crack
Knowing full well that this century belongs to Asia PAC
It’s a pity just to find only windmills of your mind

Like the growing voice of protest that you’ll never, ever quell
Or your Mar-a-Lago bathroom full of classified “intel”
Or all the ICE detainees fighting bravely to be free
Or musicians that are bailing on “250” in D.C.
Or those who hope our economic hardship does relent
Or Russell Vought’s conniving to protect the one percent
Our integrity's declined from the windmills of your mind

Like the pardons handed out when all the bribery was paid
Like the pain to poor and farmers from destroying US AID
Our infrastructure crumbles, while you act so unaware
As your FLOTUS flouts compassion, showing only a blank stare
Like the swirling lies behind the dark spaces we all find
In the windmills of your mind

With apologies to Michel Legrand, wherever he may be (a parody of a song in a movie about a crook, appropriately enough).

Wednesday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us Robert of Cleveland, Ohio apologizing on C-SPAN for voting for #47...I suppose I should ridicule him for wasting his vote two years ago, and this man does deserve a measure of blame, but I’m sorry; I just can’t kick someone who’s trying to mend his ways...oh, but the Gropenfuhrer has yet another meltdown when he’s held to account over the Trumpstein files – how damn predictable...and yes, C-SPAN is indeed a treasure for reporting all of this madness with the deadpan accuracy it deserves...we also learn that the Trumpsters appear to be tiring of the antics of Crazy Eyes Ka$h Patel as FBI head, but don’t expect this regime to name someone who is actually competent if Patel is sacked (clip revisits Patel’s snorkeling excursion at Pearl Harbor, as well as some of the personal trips he took for himself and his girlfriend on a taxpayer-financed jet)...also, kudos to Michael Feinberg for cutting through all of this Patel nonsense...



...and Brittany Page lets us know that Trumpster Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed recently that food stamp recipients can buy a “Lambo” – WHAAA??? Yep, looks like Rollins put her foot in it again, with hunger worse now than at the height of the pandemic...obviously, I trust absolutely nothing from our ruling regime, but as Page points out, if you have the means to own a vehicle like the ones Rollins describes, why the hell would you then go through the trouble of filling out all kinds of paperwork for SNAP benefits?...also as Page says, if our ruling gang of frauds and charlatans could actually find ONE PERSON guilty of this claim, wouldn’t they then parade this person all over wingnut media? I guarantee you, if they found someone, it would be on 150 right-wing web sites, blogs, substacks...whatever...in about 15 minutes...didn’t know about Cantaloupe Capone intervening for a $620 million deal for Uday Trump, Jr. – gee, where’s James Comer screeching about that the same way he did about the “Biden crime family”?...I’d forgotten that our *preznit cancelled the annual hunger survey, which figures; I mean, he can’t talk about hunger if he has no data on it, now can he?...about 363 million people around the world facing acute hunger because of the ruinous policies of our ghoulish federal overlords (slightly NSFW/H)...



...oh, and did you know that, according to Repug U.S. House Rep Randy Fine of FL-06, that "many Democrats hate America"? I realize that that’s wingnut boilerplate for the reddest of red districts, but yeah, I still think it needs to be called out (Fine is the numbskull responsible for this, among his other misdeeds...one response is to click here, and yes, I know the electoral odds are long, but there’s no percentage at all in doing nothing)...



Update 6/13/26: More here.

...and Ali Velshi gives us a bit of a history lesson on how we celebrated the Bicentennial, contrasting that with the 250th anniversary...he includes a pretty spot-on accurate lesson of Philadelphia at a time when yours truly was growing up, with Frank Rizzo as perhaps the dominant, and most controversial, figure of that time; one of Velshi’s completely accurate points is that often a celebration like the Bicentennial back then is contrasted by protests of marginalized groups, which is part of our tradition also IMO...I give Velshi credit for saying that a lot of the political carnage going on right now goes back to the “unresolved sin” of slavery, and if anybody out there thinks that’s hyperbole, ask yourself if you SERIOUSLY BELIEVE that Our Ochre Abomination would have ascended politically without the animus generated by whites against our first black president...with Eddie Glaude, Jr...I knew about the VRA of ’65, but I’d forgotten about the Immigration and Nationality Act from that same year and its positive impact; good point by Glaude also that attacks on African American voting AND immigration are part and parcel of the same racist crap platformed and promoted by our ruling gaggle of miscreants and pretenders...”history may not repeat itself, but it damn sure rhymes” indeed...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show gives her take on Pumpkin Pol Pot’s battle against windmills...and yes, they are indeed wind turbines, but since we live in the worst timeline, I guess they’re back to being windmills, or something...



...and happy 87th birthday to Ian Hunter.

Tuesday Stuff

I’m going to go meta again with some stuff...I’m going to try and open things up a little bit so not every post is full of “what ridiculous, idiotic and possibly illegal thing did our *preznit do over the last day or so” since even that stuff is part of his strategy to crowd out other more important IMO info in the news cycle (there is some Trump-related stuff in this post, but again, I’m trying to rein that in where I can)...also, posting isn’t going to be on a regular cycle, you might say, for a little while still.

And as part of “opening things up,” I give you Don Lemon discussing the Minnesota state GOP, which recently held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin at their state convention in Duluth (yep, THAT Derek Chauvin)...but not to worry, because Baby Ben Shapiro jumped right into the fray to defend Chauvin (more than a bit of a “tell” that Shapiro says in essence that Chauvin’s conviction set back race relations due to the extent of property damage as a result of the protests against Chauvin, and I would SERIOUSLY doubt that dollar number anyway...this is a typical “law and order” wingnut argument, though, completely and utterly failing to recognize the human suffering of Floyd, his family and friends)...I honestly can’t think of a time when I’ve had an issue with Keith Ellison – he pretty much nails every issue he’s involved with as far as I’m concerned...also, I don’t know what it says about this country that some guttersnipe like Tony Hinchcliffe can be treated as an alleged comedian, but it can’t be anything good...NSFW/H...



...and keeping with legal stuff, Rachel Maddow informs us that the Gropenfuhrer is destroying the DOJ in court...we get an update on former border patrol officer Greg Bovino, who was relieved of his duties after he failed to deport a third of the population of this country, but not to worry again, because Bovino apparently is still able to jet to a white supremacist conference in Portugal...oh, and Bovino also apparently was trying to prosecute someone in Chicago who allegedly threatened him, but oopsie! – looks like we get still more legal nonsense from this regime, and the case collapsed...and apparently, the same thing happened to the case against the “Broadview Six” who protested at an Illinois ICE facility...nice work by the defense attorneys not just rolling along with the charges getting dropped and deciding to try and get to the bottom of this madness instead...not a good idea to try and hide prosecutorial misbehavior from a judge, you Trumpist legal nitwits...Maddow speaks with Chris Parente, a lawyer representing one of the Broadview Six defendants...



...and staying in that locality, Brian Tyler Cohen speaks with Dem nominee for the U.S. Senate from Illinois (and Lieutenant Governor) Juliana Stratton, who apparently would go after the SCOTUS (thank God!), to say nothing of trying to resurrect the John Lewis For The People Act...glad Cohen mentioned health care, since there has been roaring silence from the “D” team on that among other issues as nearly as I can tell (and of course, utterly forget about the “party of Lincoln”), and I have no doubt that Stratton would fight on that issue also – we definitely need to do battle once more for Medicare for All (I think she says a lot of good stuff here generally about a range of topics)...



...and Farron Cousins brings us the tale of HHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin trying to ban flights to sanctuary cities – this is still MORE illegality from this regime, since what Mullin is proposing is in direct violation of the Constitution as Cousins points out...also it would punish Dems, Repugs, businesses, individuals...and all just in time for the 250th and the World Cup...brilliant! (John Fetterman should feel really stoo-pid for voting to confirm this guy...also NSFW/H)...



...and I realize that The Onion News Network gets a little edgy at times, but given this, I think there’s a point to their humor here...



...and the weather is just too nice in these parts to not include a bit of an upbeat seasonal tune, so here goes.

Monday Stuff

OK, so House Repugs get a bill passed which basically is trying to “disappear” trans people by banning LGBTQ-plus clubs, as well as a knock-off of the “Don’t Say ‘Gay’” law in Flori-DUUUH!, and it also forces teachers to ‘out’ trans students to their parents, opening up this endangered group to possibly verbal and physical abuse (and kudos to Mike Figueredo for courageously telling his story)…”trans refugees” shouldn’t be a thing IMO, but it is in this country, to our shame…I’m sure you have an idea of where this is going, so I’ll just get there – EIGHT F*CKING U.S. HOUSE “DEMOCRATS” voted for this garbage bill along with every Republican – the 8 were Henry Cuellar, Donald Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzales, Marcy Kaptur, Eugene Vindman (I’ll remember this the next time I get a text from his brother Alex), and the utterly wretched Marie Gluesenkamp Perez…oh, and Gluesenkamp Perez, Gillen and Vindman are members of the Congressional Equality Caucus (truly, you can’t make up this stuff)…fortunately, Dem Rep Mark Takano actually knows what’s going on with this issue…and yeah, I’d like to tell Gluesenkamp Perez what she can do with her “banana bill”; looks like somebody is trying REALLY HARD to appeal to moderates with something of ultimately no consequence while those unicorn “moderates” decide to vote for the Repugs anyway (and as Figueredo points out, Gluesenkamp Perez is even wrong on the state reg she’s criticizing…so many layers of “DUUUH!” here) – I know we’ll need all the “D” seats we can get this fall, but it would almost be worth it if she lost…good for Figueredo to put up that graphic at 10:52 with the phone numbers to call these 8 frauds and tell them to leave Team “D” and join the intolerant fascists who they seem to align with…really deflating to see how odious the influence of AIPAC is on our side with NOT NEARLY ENOUGH politicians opposing those bloodthirsty warmongers…I would add to Figueredo’s observation about purging these centrist Dem election pretenders by saying that progressives are largely the ones going out and doing the “nuts and bolts” stuff to try and win elections (phone banking, texting, canvassing, newspaper Op-Eds, putting up signage, getting folks to the polls), so we should be listened to for that reason if for no other…the lady in that TikTok video also made a lot of sense IMO (NSFW/H)...



...and Belle of the Ranch gives us more on the Gropenfuhrer abandoning promises to our vets...didn’t know about the E.O. on 5/9/25 designating a “center for warrior independence” on the west LA VA campus where homeless vets in that area and around the nation can received the care and benefits that they’re entitled to...so the VA Secretary was supposed to present an “action plan” to Dear Orange Leader within 120 days for a facility to house up to 6K homeless vets to be built by 1/1/28...but oopsie! – there’s exactly nada in the budget for that...oh, and everyone associated with this project had to sign NDAs, just like how an honest and above-board organization is supposed to operate (#joke)...I agree that housing 6K vets in one LA location isn’t such a good idea (should be spread out across the country to make it easier to provide care and assistance); makes it reek of nothing but a PR stunt even more...



...and Corrine Straight of Really American tells us about Deidre Henderson, who is the lieutenant governor of Utah standing up for election security and debunking the nonsense from Great Orange Satan and his flatulent biped followers...that state’s Repug legislature was able to get some “opt in” measure passed for mail-in ballot voting starting in ’29, which creates another obstacle (almost shocking to hear common sense from a Repug, but credit where it’s due, and kudos to Henderson for doing all of the hard work to find out that 27 people out of 2 million in her state were confirmed non-citizens registered to vote...more on these Restoration of America cretins is here)...



...and Jen Psaki gives us a bit of an overview of the shady deals from Cantaloupe Capone (are there any other kind with him?) just in time for the 250th anniversary, as reported by the NYT, including of course the now-$13 million scam at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool...one firm was involved in the 1/6 insurrection, and another has to do with that stinking ballroom...and oh yeah, there’s also the matter of promoting a video game company behind this beyond-ridiculous steel cage fight on the White House lawn on 6/14 (which is also Flag Day of course)...also, this “250 pardons” scheme from Pumpkin Pol Pot has BAD, TERRIBLE IDEA written all over it (and all to shake down still more suckers)...Psaki speaks with Norm Eisen of Democracy Defenders...and of course, it’s not surprising that this regime of guttural lowlifes (at least the DOJ in this case) are pursuing charges against E. Jean Carroll, who apparently is at fault for having the tremendous courage to fight back against Our Sexual Predator-In-Chief (removing my tongue from my cheek on that one)...



...and speaking of the “American State Fair,” or whatever that’s supposed to be, Mr. Newberger gives us a bit of a preview...



...and I liked this newer tune as a bit of a “mellow Monday” selection – no argument with the title whatsoever.