Phenobarbarella
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Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe. Peccavi. All you fascists bound to lose.
Idly wondering the degree (if any) to which the headline writers had to stop themselves from just saying “takes one to know one” or even “he who smelt it dealt it” for this one. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Idly wondering the degree (if any) to which the headline writers had to stop themselves from just saying “takes one to know one” or even “he who smelt it dealt it” for this one. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Not enough 🙄 emoji in phone for this. There’s video, if you’re a) masochistic and b) still have an account at The Bad Place™️, but no link from me to that garbage.
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not enough 🙄 emoji in phone for this. There’s video, if you’re a) masochistic and b) still have an account at The Bad Place™️, but no link from me to that garbage.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated ror Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated ror Pixar.
Every time I put on the hip waders, spray the BS repellant and go slogging through the Q/MAGA swamps, I think I’ve seen it all, and every time I continue to be surprised. Sometimes by the venality, but more often than not it’s just the dumbassery. These people were the Weekly World News audience.
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Every time I put on the hip waders, spray the BS repellant and go slogging through the Q/MAGA swamps, I think I’ve seen it all, and every time I continue to be surprised. Sometimes by the venality, but more often than not it’s just the dumbassery. These people were the Weekly World News audience.
My top-level reaction to this is: stop👏🏻 electing 👏🏻 Republicans 👏🏻 who 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 willing 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 put 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 D 👏🏻 after 👏🏻 their 👏🏻 name. Trump pardons Texas Congressman Cuellar and wife - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... 1/
Trump pardons Texas Congressman Cuellar and wife
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was granting a "full and unconditional pardon" to Democratic House Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, and his wife Imelda, who were charged with br...
www.reuters.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My top-level reaction to this is: stop👏🏻 electing 👏🏻 Republicans 👏🏻 who 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 willing 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 put 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 D 👏🏻 after 👏🏻 their 👏🏻 name. Trump pardons Texas Congressman Cuellar and wife - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... 1/
Same as it ever was (ceasefire or no ceasefire), only now with AI. www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of Gaza spoils
The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide.
www.972mag.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Same as it ever was (ceasefire or no ceasefire), only now with AI. www.972mag.com/ai-surveilla...
How are we about to go to war with freaking Venezuela? I mean, I know: seize their oil and “punish” or even overthrow Maduro. But neither of those are “legitimate” casus belli, even by our already lowered standards. Fuck these murderous, imperialist clowns.
The Trump admin isn’t even trying to manufacture consent for this illegal, destructive war.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Trump says airspace above and around Venezuela should be considered closed
The FAA recently warned major airlines of a "potentially hazardous situation" when flying over Venezuela.
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
How are we about to go to war with freaking Venezuela? I mean, I know: seize their oil and “punish” or even overthrow Maduro. But neither of those are “legitimate” casus belli, even by our already lowered standards. Fuck these murderous, imperialist clowns.
Who cares what the people who live there think? The nation’s energy future is COAL, folks, just as it has been since the Industrial Revolution. Progress! What else will we use to power all those data centers? 🙄🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m
Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Who cares what the people who live there think? The nation’s energy future is COAL, folks, just as it has been since the Industrial Revolution. Progress! What else will we use to power all those data centers? 🙄🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
Completely motionless, Midtown Atlanta. Comparing notes? Flirting? Or about to engage in a low-speed, low stakes game of chicken? You decide (I couldn’t).
November 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Completely motionless, Midtown Atlanta. Comparing notes? Flirting? Or about to engage in a low-speed, low stakes game of chicken? You decide (I couldn’t).
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My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My guess is that Zohran wanted Trump to like him while also not appearing like he endorses anything Trump is doing and unless I missed something mission accomplished buddy
This never fails to amaze me. Yes, there are Trump voters with no economic literacy nor desire to learn, but there are also plenty like this guy who, because of their work, know exactly how tariffs work and that they are import taxes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
![[Richard] Houston voted for Trump and still supports him. He said, though, that he hasn’t had an easy time coping with tariffs — a centerpiece of Trump’s economic plan.
“I’ve got tariffs on most everything I buy and I can’t pass them on,” he said. “If I pass them on, it’s going to be worse than it is now. If I pass them on, I might as well shut the doors and go home. I’ve got to absorb that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:df6kbanv5vooni5rdhuw4tar/bafkreieolugpzcv5ty7oljvvyxwa5jj7sci522zwpnmtzcucfeih35ntri@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This never fails to amaze me. Yes, there are Trump voters with no economic literacy nor desire to learn, but there are also plenty like this guy who, because of their work, know exactly how tariffs work and that they are import taxes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Ahh, @forbes.com — the weakly news magazine
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
Target Predicting Week Holiday Sales As Consumer Angst Weighs On Season
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
www.forbes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ahh, @forbes.com — the weakly news magazine
Hey folks. I know I’m a small account, and I just reposted this. And I suspect most of you need no introduction to Marisa. But if you do, or even if you know her work well but haven’t subscribed: do it. She is among the best of the kind of journalist we need today, and that is worth supporting.
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hey folks. I know I’m a small account, and I just reposted this. And I suspect most of you need no introduction to Marisa. But if you do, or even if you know her work well but haven’t subscribed: do it. She is among the best of the kind of journalist we need today, and that is worth supporting.
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I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade
Remember, Trump does not *need* to wait for congress to vote to force Pam Bondi to release the Epstein files As the President, he could just tell her to do it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In shift, Trump says House should vote to release Epstein files
Lawmakers pushing for the release of more files are planning a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday alongside victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Remember, Trump does not *need* to wait for congress to vote to force Pam Bondi to release the Epstein files As the President, he could just tell her to do it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Will MAGA abandon Trump over Epstein?!?!!?!
No. They will not.
No. They will not.
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Will MAGA abandon Trump over Epstein?!?!!?!
No. They will not.
No. They will not.
I really wanna snark about this, but I was alive when marketers thought this would be a good idea: youtu.be/bhuwjw6y1AY?...
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I really wanna snark about this, but I was alive when marketers thought this would be a good idea: youtu.be/bhuwjw6y1AY?...
Weapons makers have 'conned' US military into buying expensive equipment, Army Secretary says - also: water tends to be wet, puppies adorable, ice cream delicious, etc: www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Weapons makers have 'conned' US military into buying expensive equipment, Army Secretary says - also: water tends to be wet, puppies adorable, ice cream delicious, etc: www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
I think it is not a coincidence that most of the cavers are retiring anyway; it hides the real count of which other Dem senators were for this but didn’t have the courage of their convictions to stand up and say it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I think it is not a coincidence that most of the cavers are retiring anyway; it hides the real count of which other Dem senators were for this but didn’t have the courage of their convictions to stand up and say it.
I don’t know how anyone could call this anything but straight-up delusional.
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I don’t know how anyone could call this anything but straight-up delusional.
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After their big wins less than a week ago, someone asked how the Democrats would inevitably fuck up their momentum.
And here we are.
And here we are.
a car is driving past a blue wall with a camera on a tripod
ALT: a car is driving past a blue wall with a camera on a tripod
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
After their big wins less than a week ago, someone asked how the Democrats would inevitably fuck up their momentum.
And here we are.
And here we are.
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Shut it down, win the election, then give up
People can't change their vote after they cast it
People can't change their vote after they cast it
a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Shut it down, win the election, then give up
People can't change their vote after they cast it
People can't change their vote after they cast it
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Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Abolish the Senate.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.
It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.
Get rid of it.