Artisland
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Because good government. A long time ago I was artisland. Happy wife, happy Wisconsin life. Friends say I can be intense, but they say it like it's a good thing, so... Oh, also #wiunion & Bruuce!
C.o.s.i.g.n.e.d.
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
C.o.s.i.g.n.e.d.
How it's done.
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
How it's done.
It's a time-honored GOP* tactic. Otherwise reasonable people will tell you something along the lines of "this country has thrown money at public education for years and it never works." In fact, tax dollars go waaay farther when they fully fund public programs in general.
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
Trump is stealing almost $4 billion from a program to prevent homelessness in Vets, by falsely claiming it isn't working. As usual, the facts contradict Trump's claims.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Trump's plan to gut program that houses homeless veterans prompts panic among experts
During Donald Trump's second presidency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to redirect $3.9 billion away from Housing First — a program that got underway under President...
www.rawstory.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It's a time-honored GOP* tactic. Otherwise reasonable people will tell you something along the lines of "this country has thrown money at public education for years and it never works." In fact, tax dollars go waaay farther when they fully fund public programs in general.
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
Calling extrajudicial executions "strikes" doesn't change the fact that they're murder. People will pay.
The malignant narcissist can’t stand America trying to have a peaceful Christmas without him.
December 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Calling extrajudicial executions "strikes" doesn't change the fact that they're murder. People will pay.
Wait, someone actually believed a word she said? 🤣
As she prepares to leave Congress, Greene’s last major bill, criminalizing care for trans youth, reveals that her rhetoric about civility was always a lie.
A heart filled with trans hate is how Marjorie Taylor Greene is choosing to be remembered
www.advocate.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Wait, someone actually believed a word she said? 🤣
Cosigned. It was such a lopsided cost-benefit proposition that I can't believe any person elected to represent the public good ever took it seriously. Yet here we are...totally fucked by these fucking greedy sociopaths.
We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power.
My god, everything's so stupid.
My god, everything's so stupid.
U.S. electricity prices rose 7.4% in just one year, and energy policy analysts expect them to keep climbing faster than inflation in 2026. Meanwhile, data centers powering AI could nearly triple their energy use by 2030. buff.ly/KE663ZA
December 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Cosigned. It was such a lopsided cost-benefit proposition that I can't believe any person elected to represent the public good ever took it seriously. Yet here we are...totally fucked by these fucking greedy sociopaths.
Ha! good one.
and so this is Christmas…
www.palmerreport.com
and so this is Christmas…
twp.ai
December 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ha! good one.
Even if it would cost us a trillion-trillion dollars...
Putting Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, Peter Theil and the whole Trump administration cabinet on Mars is a right proper idea. They could cosplay & pretend that they're John Galt & living in their Ayn Rand objectivism paradise.
If it cost the US a trillion dollars, it would save us money.
If it cost the US a trillion dollars, it would save us money.
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Even if it would cost us a trillion-trillion dollars...
Illegal anchor-baby mom, too.
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Illegal anchor-baby mom, too.
Yes. And then you can go to church with people who say they believe him and you should, too. What a great time to be alive!
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Yes. And then you can go to church with people who say they believe him and you should, too. What a great time to be alive!
After FASCIST felon Donald Trump, the Trump Admin or a Trump conspirator
tells law-abiding Americans there's a video we cannot see,
we will definitely watch the video! Example: "60 Minutes" video re illegal CECOT horrors Trump directed.
BRAVO for creative IT experts in Canada & the U.S.! ☺️
tells law-abiding Americans there's a video we cannot see,
we will definitely watch the video! Example: "60 Minutes" video re illegal CECOT horrors Trump directed.
BRAVO for creative IT experts in Canada & the U.S.! ☺️
CECOT Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes" by the Trump Administration. It aired in Canada, someone screen recorded, it was then posted to @archive.org which is the only reason some Americans can watch it now. Censoring or intimidating news outlets is fascism.
archive.org/details/60mi...
archive.org/details/60mi...
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
He just repeats whatever bedtime story Stephen read to him that night.
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
He just repeats whatever bedtime story Stephen read to him that night.
Reposted by Artisland
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
I seem to recall him saying something several months ago about how the U.S. was "gonna make shipbuilding great again."
President Trump will announce on Monday a new type of large warship he is calling “battleships,” marking a step toward achieving the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I seem to recall him saying something several months ago about how the U.S. was "gonna make shipbuilding great again."
No. Hell to the no! You had an entire month to PREPARE your options, DECIDE on which course would be taken for which scenario, and EXECUTE the matching option/course the very NEXT DAY! This is no better than tRump saying he has the concepts of a health care plan. 🤮
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
No. 2 House Democrat: 'All options' being considered in Epstein files fight
thehill.com
No. 2 House Democrat: ‘All options’ being considered in Epstein files fight
twp.ai
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No. Hell to the no! You had an entire month to PREPARE your options, DECIDE on which course would be taken for which scenario, and EXECUTE the matching option/course the very NEXT DAY! This is no better than tRump saying he has the concepts of a health care plan. 🤮
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
I understand how a psychopath like tRump would appoint him. But I am mystified at the delusional egotistical uncaring ignorance it would take to accept this position in the first place.
Another story about what a disaster Steve Witkoff is.
nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sudden-trips-security-lapses-steve-witkoff-marco-rubios-clashing-diplo-rcna249464
nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sudden-trips-security-lapses-steve-witkoff-marco-rubios-clashing-diplo-rcna249464
Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio’s clashing diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine
Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he handles security.
nbcnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I understand how a psychopath like tRump would appoint him. But I am mystified at the delusional egotistical uncaring ignorance it would take to accept this position in the first place.
What Dem president is he even talking about?
Rep. Russell Fry on Democrats criticizing Trump for illegally renaming the Kennedy Center: "I just find this incredibly rich coming from the party that spray paints monuments, desecrates memorials, tears down statues."
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What Dem president is he even talking about?
Natural born gaslighter.
The New York Times updated their story with a statement from Bari Weiss:
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Natural born gaslighter.
It would be a conflict of interest even if he held less than 10 cents in crypto investments. We used to have a government where that was the law, for obvious reasons. But the GOP* changed that law and that government it so that they could grift. They really like to grift.
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
NEW: Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ, issued a memo to shut down enforcement against crypto companies while he still held more than $150,000 in crypto investments, ProPublica found.
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
One expert called it “an obvious conflict of interest.”
Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It would be a conflict of interest even if he held less than 10 cents in crypto investments. We used to have a government where that was the law, for obvious reasons. But the GOP* changed that law and that government it so that they could grift. They really like to grift.
*Group Of Perverts
*Group Of Perverts
Sorry but we gotta claw back as much stolen/grifted $$ as possible, and that will take years of hearings, investigations and trials.
December 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sorry but we gotta claw back as much stolen/grifted $$ as possible, and that will take years of hearings, investigations and trials.
Yah, I'd find this strange in other circumstances. This one seems on par for me, though, because she's never struck me as bright enough to be well-spoken.
December 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yah, I'd find this strange in other circumstances. This one seems on par for me, though, because she's never struck me as bright enough to be well-spoken.
The U.S. basically bans pretty much anything renewable. Meanwhile: "This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June..."
Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The U.S. basically bans pretty much anything renewable. Meanwhile: "This year, renewables surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide, and solar and wind energy grew fast enough to cover the entire increase in global electricity use from January to June..."
The news CBS was trying to report www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/united-...
United States Frees Venezuelans Held in El Salvador Following Prisoner Swap - American Immigration Council
Trump carried out one of the worst abuses of government power in generations, imprisoning roughly 250 Venezuelan men at CECOT.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM