Talos_XLIV
@talos-xliv.bsky.social
Thinking about how we've come to find ourselves in this mess.
No lists.
No lists.
Pinned
Ever since Trump's disgusting behavior towards the female, Bloomberg journalist while on Air Force One was revealed in the news, this one thing has constantly been on my mind.
ICE will push their unconstitutional behavior only as far as we allow them to. Remember these brownshirt-style tactics next November and vote accordingly.
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
ICE will push their unconstitutional behavior only as far as we allow them to. Remember these brownshirt-style tactics next November and vote accordingly.
FOB Trump was overrun decades ago.
Trump on the boats he's blowing up in the Caribbean: "These are a direct military threat to the United States of America. They're trying to drug out our country."
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
FOB Trump was overrun decades ago.
The mRNA Covid vaccines don't need a damn "black box" warning label on them; their empirical safety record is excellent. Instead, the thing with a screaming need for a black box warning label is RFK Jr. One should be permanently tattooed on his forehead.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/heal...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/heal...
Health Experts Slam Possible FDA ‘Black Box’ Warning for COVID Vaccines
The FDA is reportedly considering the addition of high-level warning labels to COVID vaccines, a move that some experts say may cause unfounded concerns over safety
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The mRNA Covid vaccines don't need a damn "black box" warning label on them; their empirical safety record is excellent. Instead, the thing with a screaming need for a black box warning label is RFK Jr. One should be permanently tattooed on his forehead.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/heal...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/heal...
Fetterman's flaming swan dive into a pool of gasoline as he immolates his political career has been a sad thing to watch.
Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterm...
Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fetterman's flaming swan dive into a pool of gasoline as he immolates his political career has been a sad thing to watch.
Incoming threats from Trump to cut Colorado federal funding if they don't publicly announce they're springing her in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Trump's really been working overtime to erase and delegitimize consequences for the J6 insurrection and other attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
Trump's really been working overtime to erase and delegitimize consequences for the J6 insurrection and other attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he has issued a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state sentence — even though presidents have no constitutional authority to pardon state-level crimes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Grants Tina Peters a Legally Meaningless 'Pardon'
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Incoming threats from Trump to cut Colorado federal funding if they don't publicly announce they're springing her in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Trump's really been working overtime to erase and delegitimize consequences for the J6 insurrection and other attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
Trump's really been working overtime to erase and delegitimize consequences for the J6 insurrection and other attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
Edith Piaf and "La Vie en rose" would like a word.
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Edith Piaf and "La Vie en rose" would like a word.
He's slipping. Surely it's 600%, 1000% . . . maybe even more. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Just incredibly big and very cool. Much intelligence.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Trump: "We also know that a big part our economy -- it could be 50%, 60% of our economy going forward for a period of time at least -- is AI and AI based.
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
He's slipping. Surely it's 600%, 1000% . . . maybe even more. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Just incredibly big and very cool. Much intelligence.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Likely just one reason this pathetic kook is doing this: he's broke, broke, broke. Running for a major office is a time-honored way for corrupt elements to funnel corrupt candidates serious $ via dark money donations. I guess he's owed a few favors for his 2020 election subversion attempts.
Mike Lindell, the fervent supporter of President Donald Trump known to TV viewers as the “MyPillow Guy,” officially entered the race for Minnesota governor Thursday in hopes of winning the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in 2026. https://to.pbs.org/4ad5tyo
MyPillow founder and Trump ally Mike Lindell to run for Minnesota governor in 2026
Mike Lindell, the fervent supporter of President Donald Trump known to TV viewers as the “MyPillow Guy,” officially entered the race for Minnesota governor Thursday in hopes of winning the Republican ...
www.pbs.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Likely just one reason this pathetic kook is doing this: he's broke, broke, broke. Running for a major office is a time-honored way for corrupt elements to funnel corrupt candidates serious $ via dark money donations. I guess he's owed a few favors for his 2020 election subversion attempts.
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WSJ has an interesting visual on Trump's pardons, and I'm glad for the increased focus.
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
WSJ has an interesting visual on Trump's pardons, and I'm glad for the increased focus.
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
One thing that's missing, IMO, is a focus on who is harmed by these pardons.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Amen!
Yeah I have a question can I have 20% of my screen back so I can RTFA
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Amen!
Hannity and the ghost of OJ need to team up and become a detective agency. 100 percent solve rate, guaranteed!
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hannity and the ghost of OJ need to team up and become a detective agency. 100 percent solve rate, guaranteed!
This is good stuff.
just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is good stuff.
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So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Nice to see the slimy senator get hoisted with his own petard by Berman in this exchange.
Fair to suspect that, given the chance, Cotton would counsel Trump to have NG troops fire live rounds on U.S. citizens on the flimsiest, most brazen of pretexts. He is salivating for a Kent State-like redux.
Fair to suspect that, given the chance, Cotton would counsel Trump to have NG troops fire live rounds on U.S. citizens on the flimsiest, most brazen of pretexts. He is salivating for a Kent State-like redux.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Nice to see the slimy senator get hoisted with his own petard by Berman in this exchange.
Fair to suspect that, given the chance, Cotton would counsel Trump to have NG troops fire live rounds on U.S. citizens on the flimsiest, most brazen of pretexts. He is salivating for a Kent State-like redux.
Fair to suspect that, given the chance, Cotton would counsel Trump to have NG troops fire live rounds on U.S. citizens on the flimsiest, most brazen of pretexts. He is salivating for a Kent State-like redux.
"I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat, loaded with drugs bound for the [U.S.], back over so they could stay in the fight," said Tom Cotton.
Cotton must think Ed Gallagher is a swell guy. Those men were never "in a fight"🙄 Criminals, yes. Combatants, no.
Senator your weasel words are shameful.
Cotton must think Ed Gallagher is a swell guy. Those men were never "in a fight"🙄 Criminals, yes. Combatants, no.
Senator your weasel words are shameful.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat, loaded with drugs bound for the [U.S.], back over so they could stay in the fight," said Tom Cotton.
Cotton must think Ed Gallagher is a swell guy. Those men were never "in a fight"🙄 Criminals, yes. Combatants, no.
Senator your weasel words are shameful.
Cotton must think Ed Gallagher is a swell guy. Those men were never "in a fight"🙄 Criminals, yes. Combatants, no.
Senator your weasel words are shameful.
They're stupid, but I'll give Trump lickers credit for one thing: They really know how to poke the hornets' nest.
Must be "distraction o'clock" again.
Must be "distraction o'clock" again.
In a post on X tonight, the State Department says it “renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
“Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
They're stupid, but I'll give Trump lickers credit for one thing: They really know how to poke the hornets' nest.
Must be "distraction o'clock" again.
Must be "distraction o'clock" again.
😅😂🤣
Grandpa really needs to take this act on the road—permanently. And by that, I mean the retirement home circuit in Palm Beach.
Grandpa really needs to take this act on the road—permanently. And by that, I mean the retirement home circuit in Palm Beach.
Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent."
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
😅😂🤣
Grandpa really needs to take this act on the road—permanently. And by that, I mean the retirement home circuit in Palm Beach.
Grandpa really needs to take this act on the road—permanently. And by that, I mean the retirement home circuit in Palm Beach.
Great development. I don't know if Trump's DOJ appeals further or tries another corrupt end-around, but Habba's already been on the legal stage in New Jersey for about nine months too long.
Bye, Felicia!
Bye, Felicia!
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Great development. I don't know if Trump's DOJ appeals further or tries another corrupt end-around, but Habba's already been on the legal stage in New Jersey for about nine months too long.
Bye, Felicia!
Bye, Felicia!
🤣
First rate material.
First rate material.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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First rate material.
First rate material.
"It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it."
Sure, Jan.
Sure, Jan.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it."
Sure, Jan.
Sure, Jan.
When you've thoroughly lost Goldsmith on the limits of executive power . . .
When does Trump pardon Hegseth and those directly or closely involved? Otherwise, they're all on borrowed time as war criminals and murderers.
When does Trump pardon Hegseth and those directly or closely involved? Otherwise, they're all on borrowed time as war criminals and murderers.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
When you've thoroughly lost Goldsmith on the limits of executive power . . .
When does Trump pardon Hegseth and those directly or closely involved? Otherwise, they're all on borrowed time as war criminals and murderers.
When does Trump pardon Hegseth and those directly or closely involved? Otherwise, they're all on borrowed time as war criminals and murderers.
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The journalists should do a collective "boo" or "shame" every time he does that.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The journalists should do a collective "boo" or "shame" every time he does that.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
Trump and his lackeys can either throw a tantrum and kick out the whole group or he can stop doing that shit because of how embarrassing it is to have an entire room call him out live on camera.
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This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
I'm not crying; you're crying.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, "D-Cow".
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, "D-Cow".
Happy Thanksgiving!
I miss my dad. I would have really strong coffee on. I’d be sautéing shallots and celery in butter, pulling the trays of bread cubes I’d been drying from the oven, gathering more and more of my stock, lots of sage, making the stuffing.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I'm not crying; you're crying.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, "D-Cow".
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, "D-Cow".