It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Drugs are not weapons of war. They are drugs.

The president’s word on who is or is not a drug dealer is not trustworthy. He and his administration have been caught lying about that multiple times.

Even if blowing up random boats were legal under the laws of armed combat, it’d be stupid strategy.

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

“No amount of data showing that RFK Jr. is wrong will change his mind,” vaccine advocate Paul Offit writes in an open letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy.

www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/r...

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

I think the way to turn this administration’s tanking polls around is to have this creep talk about his plans for our children as much as possible.

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

Take a minute from your day and read this chilling story about how quickly we've gotten to where we are.

Friday, DOJ arrested a state judge in Wisconsin. Did she really commit a crime or is something else at work here? What are the law and the facts you need to understand to see the political machinations at work here? I try to take those issues on in this piece. joycevance.substack.com/p/arresting-...

WISCONSIN: The chair of the elections commission, a lawyer, breaks down what actually happened using the actual complaint.

Arresting judges like this is a wild fast-forwarding of our plunge into authoritarianism.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Look, it’s an unpopular opinion in metro Atl but fireworks is not a year-round thing. 4th of July and maybe NYE. The cities hire some great pyrotechnic teams so we don’t need them at all.

Somehow, some way… Iowa finds enough loose change in the sofa to beat Nebraska. Print it.

Thinking out loud here but it would be nice if @davideickholt.bsky.social or @chadleistikow.bsky.social would put together an “Iowa Hawkeye sports” starter pack thingy here on Bluesky.

This weekend’s quest is to find a good pumpkin pie in Atlanta. Mrs Hawkphanatic43 and I aren’t pastry chefs so we defer to the pros. Southern Baked Pie was appropriate but not worth $40. Little Tart is on the schedule tomorrow.

If you know a good ITP (or OTP) option - I’ll be here for it.

No congratulations required but I did it.