Spooky Cold Brew

Today
"The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units... and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials"

3 days ago
"U.S. national intelligence director says former American strategy of ‘regime change’ is over"

I love the small of onions and mustard in the morning... smells like... victory. (Apologies)

When Discount Storytime, "Literature's Finest Dumpster Fire" invites you to read another story for free, you know you've made it as a 4th rate voice actor

Not wrong 👇

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

It’s hilarious how world leaders make so clear that they think Trump is an idiot and easily manipulated and he doesn’t realize it at all.

“Here little boy is the largest cookie in the whole world, made out of rare unicorns and dinosaurs.”

Forcefully burn every Gadsden flag you see

if a woman tells you you have “nice hands” she is doing everything in her power not to fuck you senseless please release her from her torment her friends are receiving the kinds of messages someone in prison would send

One year ago

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

During the shutdown, Trump could find $40 billion to bail out Argentina & $300 million for a ballroom to host dinner parties with billionaires, but he won’t tap emergency funds to prevent millions of American kids from going hungry?

How cruel is that?

I will repost this forever.

No one is perfect but I will give the folks at Tangle a lot of grace as they try to cover things with balance and nuance. This is a great example of their work.

https://www.readtangle.com/yes-things-are-pretty-bad-right-now/

it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

Not like, but also...

Seriously...if the DNC and all associated PACs don't jump on this as well as *other stuff* then well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3 because I'm a solid low order prime baby! (Wait, does that make me a 7?)

Can you combine anxiety with that? Anxipressingmaxing? Asking for a friend.

From the Pod Save America bros "Marjorie Taylor Green is like an animal that has learned how to use a knife and fork." And ya know, I think that is apt

An excerpt of a CBO report detailing the increase of cost in drug prices.

NEW: Trump's Big, Beautiful Betrayal includes an $8.8 billion bailout for pharmaceutical companies.
 
That's right. Premiums are about to go through the roof and 15 million are going to lose their health care—
 
But Republicans think Big Pharma deserves a golden parachute.

Living in Houston, I'd say there are so many other things to worry about. Just, ya know, stay away from the bayou trails if you are worried?

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Listened to the interview, looked at the picture, heard the pride in his voice. I don't live in Maine, but I'd rather see Collins clutching her pearls than a guy who JUST NOW figured his tattoo from 2007 was a problem.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Words to live by

Andor out there doing the work

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.