Chris Douglas

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

What a fucking joke. Every guardrail is gone as the oligarchy bends to the will of the authoritarian.

Legacy media outlets ignoring the Trump and Melania crypto scams, which at any other time with any other incoming Admin would be one of the biggest scandals in political history, shows how lost and unprepared they are for what is about to happen. They’re covering this like a reality show.

Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Zuck stands silent for a beat. Panel 5: "You're all fired," he says.

"Masculine Energy"

A young bald eagle.

(Two eagles flying up a creek, one below eye level and ahead of the other up above. Came close to getting them in one frame, but…. no. )

The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.

Arsonist Expresses Deep Concerns About Raging Fire

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” -Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

EXACTLY.

“For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness,” Quinta Jurecic writes. “For four—well, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice”:

I agree. There are some on the landscape who I think in some way are compromised… that is to say impelled by someone else’s hidden leverage over them into their behavior. Turl ey. Grah am. Dersh owitz. Sen. Johnson. Maybe Ru bio. Trump himself.

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.

This is an important and helpful read. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It may not be irrelevant that Bessent is not only pro-crypto, as it appears that the whole team around PMT (Pvtin, Mvsk, Trump) is, but he is reported to have been on the Sor os team in 1992That broke the British pound.

By the way, the briefing I attended was by a Wharton professor, and he was describing the intelligence gathering methods of state actors, and Ru s sia, especially.

And tracker. I’m skeptical of an account that is following 4000 accounts, let alone 14,000 accounts. If someone can explain to me what the utility is to following 4000 accounts, that isn’t big data tracking, I’d like to hear it. 3/3

If you have a follower that is following thousands upon thousands of accounts, it’s not a follower. It’s a tracker. And it may be positioned as an ally in order to track allied networks. It could even be of a hostile intelligence service. I don’t know what the cut off is between real follower 2/

Long ago, I attended a briefing on the means by which big data is gathered on social media, and influencers identified for the purposes of targeting. Since then, I’ve had no interest in my modest influence being tracked, and recommend the same for you. 1/

I regret to think the world has changed. I think Pvtin, Musk, Trump et al are gunning to take down the dollar, which is why crypto is going thru the roof. The dollar itself is in danger. That changes calculations. But Crypto pricing is still speculative and untethered.

It is not enough to just point out the inconsistency, or even to call it hypocrisy. This is fascism. A basic feature of fascism is its incoherence and internal inconsistency. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/h...

I agree. Pam Bondi was, like Flynn, leading chants in 2016 of “locker up” at the Republican national convention, which unAmerican slogan I regard as having been born in Mosc0w. For every nominee ask how that nominee would satisfy not Trump, but Pvtin.

Nancy Mace spent the entire day ranting about a trans woman member of Congress, who hasn't assaulted a soul, using the same bathroom as her.

Not a peep about the guy credibly accused of paying for sex with a minor.

Disgusting hypocrisy.

The Onion be spot-on

This reminds me of the picture of Trump at dinner with the hapless Mitt Romney, brought in to play with like a mouse toy.

Although, they did always say that they in fairness had invited him to speak… And it sounds like he finally accepted.

Twitter algorithm helping confirm.
Elon is the problem!

I have tended to watch Morning Joe, although it has long since stopped bringing it policy makers on, and become the same group of talking heads morning after morning. But at least I felt there was some integrity. It appears to me They’re bending the knee now. A sign of personal or business fear.