Don Weingust

Republican pols really don’t seem to get irony, do they?

Republican pols really don’t do irony. I mean, they’re great at manifesting its circumstances, but they really don’t seem to get it, do they?

Shouldn’t somebody be dumping something into Boston Harbor?

But he is thanking us for our attention.

Find the table where Trump is sitting, and look under it.

How powerful can the whaling and sealing lobbies possibly be? Or are they just trying make sure that we know that they’re cruel, demented zealots awaiting the apocalypse?

Yes, Republicans are fixing health care, as in having it spayed or neutered.

Spoiler alert: the speaker’s aging wife.

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video) Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

All y’all, LISTEN TO @timothysnyder.bsky.social!

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Norway, right. Nobel was originally from Sweden. That may be enough to make them suffer too.

Get ready for tariffs on Sweden to double tomorrow.

Only 1,199 more days.

Though he’s not at all as noble or thoughtful as the poetic character, and with the exception of his shared capacity with the Swede for blowing things up, when it comes to Alfreds, 47 is a lot more Prufrock than Nobel.

We must find anticipatory joy in the schadenfreude that will follow the downfall of this administration.

We’ve had mass deflation in this country before. It was called the Great Depression. The Yarvinistas would love to see it happen again, to hasten (they think) the coming of a non-democratic world which they control.

We’re seeing an incredibly rapid Orbanifiaction of the U.S.

“then you’ve got potentially San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe”
— sounds like Trump’s dream.

The theatre knows no bounds.

Maybe he meant plenipotentiary authority (no, that doesn’t quite work either). Ah, got it: penitentiary authority, in whose custody many of these bozos are going to be when this administration ends.

It’s good that there is some effective training going on.

Can you imagine being any of these people? We should probably open our hearts to them and have sympathy.
Wait, what, am I nuts?!

The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. This would set...

Qualifications are more than skills, though; they include questions of disposition and for this job, proximity to the executive (per the NYTimes Bondi and Trump have been close for years). Bondi should have been disqualified on both counts.

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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

HOW TO MUG THE JEWS AND HIJACK THE HOLOCAUST After decades of querying the numbers of dead Jews and the manner in which they went to their death, Holocaust sceptics of all stripes have made common cause: not in doubting Holocaust but in denying ...

Readers who appreciate JM’s posts and re-posts may also appreciate Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson’s substack. Here is a link to one of his recent articles:

jacobsonh.substack.com/p/how-to-mug...

HOW TO MUG THE JEWS AND HIJACK THE HOLOCAUST After decades of querying the numbers of dead Jews and the manner in which they went to their death, Holocaust sceptics of all stripes have made common cause: not in doubting Holocaust but in denying ...

“the Holocaust up in smoke” — I hope that some of you will take the time to read this substack by Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson.

jacobsonh.substack.com/p/how-to-mug...

A factually accurate statement is that Miller is a fascist.

If there are midterms.

It amazes me how so many of the tech elite, who have ample amounts of certain kinds of smarts, can be so clueless about Yarvin, think him a real intellectual, and even some sort of savior. A smart psychologist I know says that the smarter someone is, the better able he is to delude himself.

Of course all military targets. No targeting of civilians, certainly no war crimes. Yeesh. When does the rest of Europe realize that it is Europe that’s under attack, and actively join in the defense?

I thought “two weeks” was their shorthand for “never.”