Mike

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

YouTube video by Josh Johnson Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.

Remember more than 80% of US federal career employees work outside of the Washington DC area. EPA is shutting down its scientific research division, which helps keep our air & water safe. It’s overwhelmingly staffed in Cincinnati, Ohio, with ~1000 employees there. The OH & KY Senators don’t care?

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT.

The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.

Underrated tweet.

“Commissioner, will you form a special police task force to catch the Hillside Strangler?”

“I didn’t kill those people.”

Trump Walked in on Teen Pageant Contestants Changing Former Miss Teen USA contestants say Trump walked in where contestants as young as 15 were dressing

Are you telling me *this* man might have been involved in his best friend's sex ring of teenage girls? Does that sound like him?

It is still mind boggling to me that in 2025, “That’s loser talk, I am focused on the future” is supposed to be an acceptable response by officials whose refusal to build an emergency warning system (or even send out a phone alarm) in a flood zone makes them, too, responsible for over 130 deaths.

In case I wasn’t clear…

🔵: I think the convicted sexual predator who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein visited Epstein’s sex island and then tried to cover it up

🔴: Preposterous

Never been more sure there is something awfully damning about Trump in the Epstein files. He's crashing out.

A shot from Starship Troopers of Denise Richards, Jake Busey, and Casper Van Dien celebrating their victory over the “brain bug”

How anyone posting sincere celebrating-the-4th-of-July photos today looked to me

I’ve said it before, but given his starting point, Trump could have played golf for four years, done nothing of consequence, and probably retired relatively popular. He decided economic suicide and a multipronged campaign of human rights abuses would be more fun.

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."

– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

Also a good day to remember that Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s selfish decision not to retire is the reason that this court will continue to obliterate the bill of rights well into the second half of this century at the absolute earliest

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t. The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him.

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

There were 28 nationwide injunctions against Biden, and the Supreme Court didn't have an issue with any of them.

I wonder what changed.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?