All of the horrible subplots of the Trump presidency are converging together.

Chappell Roan arrives at the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

Unreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists?

Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

straight up Gestapo shit

Shakespeare would have loved the cinema.

The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks.

Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.

Buttigieg on Fox News: "How did this criminal get a pardon from President Trump? Did he contribute to the ballroom project? Did he buy some of that cryptocurrency and make the Trump family wealthier? Why are these many fraudsters getting these pardons?"

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.

Decide. Who are you?

Origin: Middle English (as cukeweld), from Old French cucuault, from cucu ‘cuckoo’ (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest).

70s adult magazine photo of Susan Deloir (aka Sylvie Dessartre) wearing only bright red thigh-high knit socks, kneeling on a bed and looking at the viewer with a level gaze

This is an archive image from 2003, part of our "Think Pink" gallery, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625045060125/ __________________________________________________________ One of a series, this ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. Every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings. Between March and April 2003, researchers took full advantage to study the gas giant at maximum tilt, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to capture detailed images of Saturn's Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings. Image credit: NASA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) View original image: www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1074.html More about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

Ultraviolet Saturn (NASA, Hubble, 2003) - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/8LuCdh

This is obscene, a total fucking disgrace.

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.

*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

“If this is what they do when we can see, what’s going on in the places—planes and cars, detention centers—where we can’t?” Vinson Cunningham asks, after the public killing of Alex Pretti. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

"I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous."
~ John Malkovich

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

"I must be dreaming."

James Bond (Sean Connery) wakes up to Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) in Goldfinger (1964)

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

CASSINI-HUYGENS SATURN MISSION NASA/JPL/j. Roger

CASSINI (9) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKi99p

Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find Generative AI may already be inducing a state of "cultural stagnation," leading to a convergence of generic ideas, a new study has shown.

"No new data was added. Nothing was learned. The collapse emerged purely from repeated use."

Interesting to note that all of them routinely backpedal and/or change positions to suit the narrative of the day because they believe in nothing.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy leans back to fall into a mountain pond.

Remembering Paul Newman on his birthday 🎂
📷 Lawrence Schiller, 1969

"He achieved what most of his peers find impossible: remaining a major star into a craggy, charismatic old age even as he redefined himself as more than a Hollywood star."
- Aljean Harmetz