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Biding my time 'til I unplug Peter Thiel's cryochamber.

“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Angus King's rationale:
(From NYTimes live coverage, and yes I hate to be quoting that publication): King, who was one of the senators who negotiated with Republicans, said that the length of the shutdown had changed the calculus for some of his colleagues, pushing them to support a deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought. “I think people were saying, ‘We’re not going to get what we want,’” he said.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Panicky halfwit with a gun. Are we feeling safe, ladies?
And ill-trained, panicky, and unintelligent ICE officer pulls his loaded gun (held sidewise because he saw someone do that on TV) on a crowd of unarmed citizens loudly condemning another unwarranted raid.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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A pancake-sized drama queen at Woodland Park Rose Garden:
Party-sized amanita (do NOT eat!) lurking in the rose garden
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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They could fill an entire edition with Cuomo's wives.
NYPost headline: "Kerry Kennedy slept in bathroom to avoid Cuomo's abuse." Lede: "Near the end of her marriage to Andrew Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy slept in a locked bathroom to protect herself, according to a biographer."
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Reuters' summary of that article:
Reuters' summary of the posted article: * Vance criticized for suggesting AfD as political partner * Germany criticizes Vance's remarks as election interference * German defence minister calls Vance's comments unacceptable * AfD monitored by German security for right-wing extremism * Elon Musk publicly backs AfD
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And it sure AF isn't the rest of the world's job to save us from our self-annihilating dipshittery on election day 2024.
Repost of this glorious skeet: "If I am any country in the world right now (except Russia), I am looking at the US like a box that fell out of a truck driving in front of me that is marked "TNT." "
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Halligan, legal Einstein, invoking well-known retroactive "nevermind, off record!"
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I'm legit grateful I don't have to witness more of Mail Order Barbie's insights.
Melania in her "I really don't care do you?" hoodie. Very revealing, but not in her accustomed way.
October 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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ALSO:
Pasted skeet from Larry Levitt (KFF.org): "As debate goes on about the future of ACA premium tax credits, I wonder how many people realize that the federal government spent $384 billion last year providing a tax subsidy for employer-provided health benefits, with higher income people getting bigger subsidies."
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Just dropping this here so we know what slithering around our streets these days:
A post by Bill Grueskin linking to an nbc news item. Title of news item: "Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting." Grueskin's comment: NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Well, I guess tepid kudos to WSJ for publishing ONE photo that only hints at the scale of the destruction.

Even the now-mostly-execrable NYT gave it front page coverage this evening (online anyway--let's see if they mention it tomorrow):
NYTimes accidentally does news: "White House East Wing Facade Torn Down to Make Way for Trump's Ballroom." The NYTimes.com video of a large demolition machine ripping off an area several feet deep into the White House makes it clear Trump is tearing down a whole lot more than "the facade."
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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More "college chat" action from the "conservative" movement.
Elon's emphatic Nazi salute. The permission slip Republicans have been craving.
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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"Princess phones." 💅
My early childhood included one of these which, tho groovy AF, was not so good for slamming hang-ups.
Yellow donut phone -- 1970's childhood object of desire.
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Poster: "Draw a little encouragement from the fact that this is a Trump appointee saying that Trump's reasoning is "untethered from the facts." Reposting news that a federal judge (Trump appointee no less) halted Trump's attempt to federalize the National Guard based on phantom violence.
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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You're paying for our lawless trash heap of an administration to convert government web assets into one massive shitpost.
This is hud.gov right now:
A popup window obscuring the entire hud.gov landing page that reads: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."
September 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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🤌 What is religion for?
“Christians must learn to hate again,” a Texas pastor posted on X, citing a Psalm that reads, “Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?”
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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In the preface to a recent episode of his talk show/pod, Frum makes an excellent if indirect point about how Trump amassed votes with almost cartoonishly evil bait-and-switch promises. I wonder how many fell for this one (no tax on tips)? Frum does the math:
Excerpt from Frum Show transcript: A way to dramatize this point, a figure that I try to keep in mind is, this no-tax-on-tips gimmick that you’ve heard about, that expires in 2028. Over the life of the gimmick—from today until to the end of 2028—it purports it will deliver approximately $30 or so billion of relief to Americans who get the benefit of the tax break over the entire period from today to the end of 2028. In the month of August alone, Trump’s tariffs extracted that much money—the same amount of money as the whole tax-on-tips benefit in one month, August, of this year—and he extracted that overwhelmingly from middle-income and lower-income Americans, who are paying more for so many different things, and as we enter the Christmas season, who will pay more for many more things than that. Every kind of gift, every kind of decoration. Even their clothes, the Christmas trees, everything: They’ll be paying more for all of it. And Trump did that on purpose in order to make them pay the cost of the other benefits he’s getting.
September 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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"I became immune..."

I envy that! For now, this is me:
An old tweet showing a bird configured for a dive-bombing mission (wings and feet tucked in and a look of cold murderous fury on its wee face). Text: "This bird keeps itself in the air by sheer force of anger alone."
September 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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It's exactly what you'd expect
The racist slob who called in the ICE goons in Georgia. Can't wait to see the final bill on what her shameful "racism signaling" gesture costs the state and the United States in lost investment, training, and jobs.
September 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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What is US conservatism conserving?
Two posts in my timeline: one linking to The Reframe, noticing how school gun deaths (among others) are acceptable to supremacist conservatives, but not Charlie Kirk's gun death; the next, a "Fox and Friends" host calling for the execution of homeless people with mental health issues who refuse treatment.
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Just saw this:
September 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I dunno dude. What's with that? Maybe read your goddamned national security reports, if your sycophants are providing them, and formulate a response besides lazy puzzlement, you feckless lapdog.
Trump's response to news that Poland invoked NATO Article 4 is perfectly rudderless, lazy, flaccid: "What's with Russia violating Poland's airspace with drones? Here we go?"
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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SCOTUS finally lost Tom Nichols, who accurately skewers Kavanaugh's trollish concurrence ("it's ok if you're arbitrarily roughed up a for a just little while", which makes me wonder all over again about Christine Blasey Ford's accusations)
"In overturning the lower court’s decision, five of the Court’s six right-wing justices—there is no other reasonable way to describe them at this point—took advantage of their right to remain silent, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh gamely tried to speak up in a concurrence. If his goal was to be reassuring, he did not help matters: Such stops are usually “brief,” he explained. Again, I am not a scholar of the Constitution, but I had no idea that I could be deprived of my rights under the Fourth (or any other) Amendment as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments out of my busy day."
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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These filthy mofos should be fired into the sun:
[From the NYT expose on JPMorgan's soulless ghouls financing Epstein's underaged sex trafficking operations]: Another internal email noted that Cutler was reviewing Epstein-related documents “for Jamie.” Yet in his own sworn deposition, Dimon said he did not “recall knowing anything about Jeffrey Epstein” until 2019. Regardless of who made the decision, Epstein remained a client — “no change to relationship approach” was the final verdict — and even during his jail sentence, JPMorgan continued wiring money from his accounts to banks in Russia and Eastern Europe, where young women were being drawn into his sex-trafficking network, according to sealed court records. All the while, Staley was regularly backchanneling with his buddy. “I hope you’re hanging in there,”
September 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM