D. McIntire

Trump approval score plummets with majority against troop deployments The president’s approval rating dropped after he told US military leaders that the National Guard should be used to target an ‘enemy within’

More fake news, I guess...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

They're lying about Portland again.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who is Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News? Ex-NYT writer who launched ‘anti-woke commentary’ website will report directly to Paramount Skydance head David Ellison

Walter Cronkite is puking in his grave

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Louis CK defends decision to perform at Riyadh comedy festival as ‘a good opportunity’ Comedian admits to mixed feelings but says event is a ‘positive thing’ despite human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia

Louis C.K. giving us another reason to totally lose respect for him. Putz.

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Nature, books and naked bike rides: Portlanders refute Trump claims they are ‘living in hell’ On the ground in the Oregon city, with rich fall colors and leafy hiking trails, things look different than on Trump’s TV

Dispatch from the war zone;

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2 killed, 12 injured, as gunfire erupts on the streets of Alabama's state capital At least 14 people were shot, two fatally, at an intersection near downtown Montgomery, Alabama, early Sunday, according to police.

AL not OR
Montgomery not Portland

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Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to child sexual abuse Robert Morris to serve only six months in county jail after charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child

oh, looky...not a drag queen, not a trans athlete...

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Generals silent as Hegseth ends ‘warrior ethos’ rally speech The ex-Fox News host railed against decades of work to diversify the all-volunteer military as he announced initiatives to effectively exclude women from combat roles and relax protections against haz...

Anyone with smarts and resources should be getting out of this country post haste.

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NOTHING THEY SAY ABOUT PORTLAND IS TRUE. NOTHING.

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’ Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

Gross. Absolutely disgusting. Lenny Bruce and George Carlin are vomiting in their graves right now.

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Republican legislator in South Carolina agrees to plea guilty to child sexual abuse imagery charges RJ May is accused of trading hundreds of photos of children involved in sex acts; he faces up to 100 years in prison

oops! not a drag queen...or a Dem...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

GOP; violent fascists
DEMS; spineless cowards
US; thoroughly fucked

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani "It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."

“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."

Democratic leaders refuse to endorse Zohran Mamdani, and their voters are fed up.

You're not going to the pub dressed like that, steve!

um...numbers do whut now?

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Reality has a liberal bias, it seems.

right...bUt thE MeTRiC sYStEm is cONfUsiNg...

Ben Jennings on the Minneapolis school shooting – cartoon Two children were killed and 17 people injured in a mass shooting earlier this week at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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I hold one share in the corporate earth and am uneasy about the management. -E.B. White

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. -Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate

Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities. -Northrop Frye, writer and critic

Every student needs someone who says, simply, "You mean something. You count." -Tony Kushner, playwright

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. -Nelson Mandela

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. -Ernest Hemingway

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. -Karl Popper, philosopher and professor

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer. -Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give. -P.D. James (Phyllis Dorothy James), novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)

No amount of belief makes something a fact. -James Randi, magician and skeptic (7 Aug 1928-2020)