Manuel Royal

Bunch of right wing influencers did Halloween in black face. Let's talk about it.

My coffee's pretty good. Lavazza Italian Roast. Brews black as the facepaint on those walking pustules.

Collection of headlines after the Federal Indictment

This is an unprecedented historical moment that demands an unprecedented public response.

I’m incredibly thankful for the solidarity shown by elected officials, public figures, constituents, and others over the past few days.

Well, *of course* online gambling is the solution! Why didn't I think of that before? Easy Street, here I come!

(How did they forget my $240 monthly Fireball whiskey expense?)

Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes “Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.

"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"

taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/

Goddamn, I wish it had all been revealed two years ago. Might've prevented our current nightmare.

And, now I can't access Bluesky on my PC, because it thinks I live in Mississippi. (I think it's a problem with Chrome.) And, pity the people who *do* live in Mississippi. And, this feels like the early stages of the motherfucking Fascists clamping down on social media.

May Donald end as Saddam did.

Nothing is widely known except that the Fascists will try like hell to stay in power.

Truth!

It'll be o

3/ -it'll be outside the law and the Constitution. And I think it's what they want. ICE goons seem to be begging for an armed response, somebody using guns to defend themselves from kidnapping. I'm sure Stephen Miller has plans in his tiny Nazi brain for a brutal, overwhelming, unending response.

2/ The only other mention of "militia" in the Constitution is to note that Congress may call out the militia specifically to *put down* an insurrection. So, no, the 2nd Amendment is not permission for people to take up arms against the Federal government. If that actually becomes necessary --

1/ It's not; that's a fantasy. The 2nd describes a system of militia service (and slave-catching) that hasn't existed since the 19th century; it has nothing to do with private gun ownership. The founders, crafting a new Constitution, did not include a provision encouraging insurrection. In fact--

On October 30, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, ICE GOONS Backs into a U.S. citizen’s car and subsequently arrests her for documenting their actions.

Dear New York, at the very least, please give wonderful Democratic Socialist Mamdani a massive landslide victory so that he has a mandate.

Peggy Noonan is still around? And still full of shit?

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other.”

— Thomas Paine

Fuck the NYT. There was no "autopen controversy". There was a fake scandal based on bullshit.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

— G. Orwell, 1984

If you go to the website for Trump’s interagency DC Task Force—the personal Trump army designed to facilitate a *successful* January 6-style self-coup in 2029—this is its logo, I shit you not:

To be fair to Brian Kemp, he's a white supremacist and a mass murderer. Real piece of shit.

And apparently it's nearly impossible to make a Speaker do his job.

They should use "illegal" and "unconstitutional" and "Fascist" more.

There is no Department of War. It's still the Department of Defense; only Congress can change the name. People need to stop going along with Donald's delusions.

Even if McConnell did the right thing from now on, he won't live long enough to make up for everything he did to get us here.

"To any governors or state legislators out there... if you are in a position where you have the power to redraw your maps... if you have the ability to meet this moment with the urgency that it deserves, I'm calling on you to do exactly what we're doing in California and to fight fire with fire."