Grudgie the Whale

“He’s a criminal, a crook, and a dictator.”

@markhertling.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social that Putin’s strategy in Ukraine mirrors Hitler’s: bully, stall, rebuild, and strike again.
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About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.

Hundreds of immigrant children across the nation were detained for longer than the legal limit this summer, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has admitted in a court filing, alarming legal advocates who say the government is failing to safeguard children.

In the campaign the pattern was that there was a fake, imaginary Trump the media created, and the more the real incompetent Trump faltered the more the fake competent Trump was inserted into stories, analysis etc bsky.app/profile/lilb...

I will remind people on this website (not James, I suspect he knows) for what seems like the billionth time that Joseph Goebbels' PhD was in theater.

you now have to go all the way to the 19th largest city in Florida, Lakeland, to find an openly Republican mayor/mayor-elect.

Donald J. Trump & € @realDonald Trump It is my Great Honor to endorse Emilio T. Gonzales to be the next Mayor of the Beautiful City of Miami, Florida! A very successful Businessman, Civic Leader, former CEO of Miami Internationa Airport, and former City Manager and Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Miami, Emilio has dedicated his life to serving his Community. As the former

Miami mayor Candidate Votes MIAMI MAYOR 139 of 139 precincts reporting Emilio T. Gonzalez 14,799 VEileen Higgins 21,550 Vote % 40.71% 59.29%

Three weeks ago:
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)

Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.

I guess the president just announced he recently took his latest in a series of cognitive tests, this one in front of a room full of medical personnel observing him?

as a minnesotan, i believe “ABOLISH ICE” has a nice ring to it that stays on theme

I’d bet anything Trump is on IV-dosed Alzheimer’s meds.

Trump's cognitive decline is so severe he cannot recognize that speaking about it in this way reveals the deficiencies

“I’ve taken and aced 3 dementia tests in 6 months”….. uhhhhhhh

The two simultaneous WH messages on the economy (both used today) are:

1) It’s Biden’s economy and it sucks
2) It’s Trump’s economy and it’s an A++++

“Dr. Harold Bornstein died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 73. The place and cause of death was not disclosed.”🤔

Hegseth swore he had solid and inconvertible evidence of the guilt of each of these men, but they were absolutely terrified of letting any of them come near a US court. Their testimonies would convince people they were just fishermen (who may have smuggled), but definitely not trained terrorists.

Trump can go to Pennsylvania, mock the topic of affordability, lie that prices are way down, but that won’t change the trajectory. Holding a rally with supporters laughing along with him about affordability doesn’t make him look any less untethered from reality & the actual struggles of Americans.

Wow. Trump personally intervened to block more than 4,100 Jan. 6 documents records that injured police officers had subpoenaed as part of their lawsuit after being violently attacked by MAGA rioters. The Department of Justice confirmed in a new court filing that Trump invoked

It really should matter that Trump is like 12 steps below Sarah Palin on the “understands things” scale.

Full transcript: POLITICO's interview with Donald Trump The president sat for an in-depth interview with POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

This transcript is like reading some random, senile 85-year old bigoted uncle being put in charge of U.S. foreign policy. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

They seriously should

YES

RESULTS: Democrat Tim Keller has won reelection as mayor of Albuquerque.

He defeats a former Republican sheriff, who took issue with Keller's executive order that limited collaboration with ICE.

And that's not all: Liberal faction seizes majority a city council.

I just read this out loud to my wife. If you have a spouse or partner, try it, especially if they don’t know what’s coming. Hearing it out loud makes the bonkers-ness sink in.

Reading this to unsuspecting people should be a TikTok meme.

TO PREVENT US COURT CASES!!!

it's stunning that the pentagon asked this question, obviously, but it's also interesting that the lawyers at state were actually listened to

The NYT invented a Parkinson’s diagnosis for Biden but had nothing to say about this at all

Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files.

Seriously! The media just dropped the whole story after this. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Also recall Trump’s goons broke in and took his medical records. I’m sure because they were so excellent!

He died in 2021. This remains one of the biggest regrets of my career: Could I have done something else? Did I not push hard enough? What did he want to tell me? Was it anything important?

And now I’ll never know.

Here is a true story.

During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/