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Trump: "I haven't been watching it too much, the World Series. I'm disappointed they didn't put Pete Rose in. And with all the gambling you see now -- I mean, gimme a break."

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

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

“Part of!?”

Hello. I had a buttload of expensive scotch tonight. It turns out the solution for all of the general daily horrors is a buttload of expensive scotch.

You’re welcome.

“As a matter of current law” that’s so precious at this point.

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

B&W photo of a building facace

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

I know it’s not exactly the point but like… Someone just rented an excavator and… drove it to the White House? And someone else said “Great, the excavator’s here” and was like “Just rip down that wall, don’t worry about the windows or anything, just maximum ripping please.”

Yes but also your smart home does not HAVE to be tied into the cloud. At all.

George Santos defends commutation: ‘If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics’ | CNN Politics Former Republican Congressman George Santos joins CNN’s Dana Bash after his prison sentence was commuted by President Trump.

Bash asks Santos about his commutation, which voids his restitution sentence. "You were ordered by the court to pay $370,000 in restitution to the people you defrauded. Will you still pay that back?"

Santos: "If it's required of me by the law, yes. If it's not, then no."

It's not. And he knows it.

Totally insane. Then Trump government spiked its ongoing investigations of MS13 in order to cut a deal with a Bukele, a co-conspirator of MS13, to hold and torture American migrants.

The GOP is fully pro-crime

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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But a spokesman for Mr. Vance said the Marine Corps had assessed that the exercise posed no threat. "Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous," William Martin, Mr. Vance's communications director, said in a statement. "The Marine Corps says it's an established and safe practice. Newsom wants people to think this is an absurd show of force. The Marine Corps says it's part of routine training at Camp Pendleton."

A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance's protective detail, according to a patrol report.

How it started / how it’s going, JD Vance 155mm edition

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:

Every Republican on the Sunday shows should be forced to watch the Air Feces One video and then be asked, “Is the President sane?”

I’m just not sure Trump thought through putting the mother of all shitting himself out there, given the talk.

Can confirm :)

A post from Will Stancill trolling DHS

DHS trying to troll Will Stancill

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

A play in three acts

If you bring Rayhunter to a protest this weekend (or ever), please send us the results, even if you didn’t find anything! Negative results can still help us better understand how and when CSS are being used. efforg.github.io/rayhunter/s...

lol at the wh acct clocking an average of about 1000 blocks per minute for 7 hours now

Yeah. This’ll be the last straw. For real. This time. 🙄

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

Is anyone keeping track of cost of Trump's pardons in lost fines and restitution payments?

Santos "will also no longer be required to pay more than $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to his victims"

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What a thug trash administration.

“Campbell, who is running as a Democrat, refused to stop using the Campbell's logo. Instead, she posted “Lmfao y'all gonna me blow up and win congress easily I ain’t scary byeeee” to her social media.”

Should work out great

YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office AG Mayes Demands Speaker Johnson Swear In Adelita Grijalva | The Lead with Jake Tapper CNN

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation.

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*Talking to a Wired reporter who is writing down what I say* I am the proud owner of a Cybertruck, it has an AI in it that I talk to for therapy, I am now divorced and yes it's because of the truck