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The Jolly Roger flag

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows (Published 2024)

I feel like the financial journalists should check in on Trump's Chicago tax cheating.

www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...

“What's up at the NatC Conference”

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...

NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.

But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules Read more here...

ICYMI: The 3rd Circuit ruled Pennsylvania must count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, determining that rejecting such ballots was unconstitutional.
“Casting a ballot and having it counted are central to the democratic process,” a judge wrote.

Amid Hunt for Crime in DC, Whistleblower Implicates Ed "Big Balls" Coristine and John Roberts - emptywheel John Roberts and his Republican colleagues have granted a kid with ties to criminal hackers, Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, live access to every American's Social Security data.

Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...

If Texas does a non-census-year biased redistricting, California and New York should respond in kind with extreme prejudice.

It’s a shame, because CA’s current party-neutral process is where all states should be. NY definitely needs improvement.

“Imagine a bunch of guys sitting around a table, saying, ‘I've got a great idea. Let's give a $32,000 tax break to a millionaire & pay for it by taking health insurance away from lower & middle-income people. To top it off, we cut SNAP, food aid?’ Cruel!"—Sen. Angus King (I-ME) @lwvus.bsky.social

Listen, deaths are a natural consequence of violently arresting septuagenarians and caging them in terrible conditions away from their loved ones for alleged civil immigration law infractions. What are people complaining about?

Good scouting! Did you manage to get Alamy to properly tag the photo so that the record is permanently corrected?

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

“Rock Bottom” by Robert Wyatt

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”

@cbsaustin @velez_tx

I dream of a big blue wave of successful primary challenges.

Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

What does "rule of law" mean if you explicitly state that nothing the chief executive does in office can legally implicate him www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Yep. I enjoyed this quote on my visit to the monument last spring.

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

“Terry. Terry. I am the Pope. Did you see the picture? The hat? The beautiful white hat? The tremendous cross? Get him the picture.”

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone

Ten books in my bedside stack. Probably the least it’s been in a while. Wish I had more time to read. There’s a reason “tsundoku” is a thing.

Let’s have a conversation about what happens when someone is raided like this and instinctively opens fire on ICE agents.

In that scenario, at least one person almost certainly dies—possibly a federal agent.

That’s bad enough. But what do you expect this administration will do next?

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

Incredibly telling moment. Trump is completely sure he is right here.
We have a president that is pickled in his information bubble, high on his own supply, can't tell his administration's propaganda from reality.
Next the White House will insist Trump is right!

See the problem here?

This is obviously just Gorka BS but these threats — which also come from Tom Homan — inspire law enforcement officers to bully folks who advise immigrants, as exemplified by this new and terrifying post by the great @radleybalko.bsky.social

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

theonion.com/historians-q...