This is the consequence of the brutality being demanded and the impunity being extended from the top.

Rome survived worse, continuing on for centuries, with ever declining expectations about what was normal.

Well worth reading, but anyone who can’t smell the aroma of “let’s just see how many suckers there are out there,” is living in a dream world.

What’s stopping him is skullduggery. He will support the congressional release petition, but has already ordered the AG to open new investigations, so she will refuse to release them on grounds of ongoing investigations. If convenient, Trump will throw her under the bus in the end.

And then there is the little piece about trusting that political opposition is not grounds for military repression.

Yeah, one of the most obvious tell-tales should be the way we no longer have to scrape bug guts off our windshields in fine weather and that happened very, very quickly!

Why not FDR? JFK? Karl Marx? (He was a democrat, right?)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

This is not just wag-the-dog stuff, this is normalizing murderous violence on little more than the word of the president even as he is simultaneously declaring that vaguely defined domestic actors are also linked into "international terrorism." This is as dangerous as can be.

Simple truths: they are all bad guys. Some are worse, all are bad, every last billionaire. Elon is the worst on this scale since he has the most and gave anyone anything it the finger—or a Nazi salute.

This is disturbing not least because it shows the continuing moral vacuity of a major religious institution—in other words more of the same.

The “market “ for ai-free learning spaces is going to be niche, and the products of that environment are going to be much more like contemporary fine art (or maybe like the patronage systems of the late middle ages). Remember that most of the professional spaces are already using ai schlock.

They know that creating anti-AI (or appropriate use of AI limited to research assistance capacity for narrowing searches in large archives of data/documents) environments will put them in competition with other institutions where it is allowed for tuition paying students.

Rowling has a gigantic platform, so appropriate to focus on her. But let's be a bit broad (also), when was the last time you heard of ANYONE in the MAGAverse paying attention women's boxing? This is about keeping people in their places and the problem they have with Khelif is her performance!

The problem is that people lack political imagination. The kernel of truth is that "a lifetime of debt" has already been the default experience of a large portion of the population for decades and "home ownership" is either a dream or deferred indefinitely. We need to know it gets worse and it is!

Trump told us he has all the best words. He probably thinks he bought them from the dictionary czar.

Trump’s idea of aesthetic culture is gold plated toilets and copies of Versailles.

And as far as nature goes, he does love a golf course and there is nothing worse than windmills.