Michael King

Totalitarian Taste

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Indeed. I'll spend my off-season feeling sorry for the Dodgers & Yankees

I tweet: "people who see 50% of their monthly paycheck go to rent don't care if a candidate eats with their hands. they want to hear what your candidate is going to do about housing." John Galt 2025 replies: "Move if the cost of living is too high."

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Lots of words to say "I've never given my wife an orgasm."

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

GOP. Congress. ‘Nuff said

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute learned that the Government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade," dated April 25, 1987. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address, and the Government of Ontario did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter. We encourage you to watch President Reagan's unedited video on our YouTube channel.

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.

The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Of Tyranny 199. As usurpation is the exercise of power which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. And this is making use of the power anyone has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage. When the governor, however entitled, makes not the law but his will the rule, and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion

Locke, Second Treatise of Government:

Government by Billionaire Whim is also a ritual of Domination & Submission: His underlings must applaud everything he does -- theft, destruction, murder on the high seas, kidnapping, etc. Or they risk excommunication. Or worse.

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

Extraordinary record of massive ignorance & arrogance of Trump's baby prosecutor. Maybe at least she won't have as much time to vandalize the Smithsonian.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Mary Abbott, American (1921-2019), Untitled, oil on paper, 58.4 x 73.7 cm, private collection

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

Any act of violence against federal officers is a grave event, and I do not diminish the serious nature of the criminal acts that occurred. But the acts of violence catalogued in the record—heavily emphasized by the majority’s order and the concurrence—do not reflect the day-to-day reality of the protests, particularly in the weeks leading up to September 27. On most days, the most notable aspect of the demonstrations here was the presence of people dressed in chicken, frog, or birthday suits.

allusions to Portland's naked bike ride protest and the now famous inflatable frogs in Graber's dissent

We just got the White House East Wing job. Maybe we should ask for the money up front, T.

“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky

Hi Americans your president is siding with a war criminal and threatening Ukrainians with annihilation if they fight back, just fyi, if that even bothers someone

In tense meeting, Trump told Zelensky to concede land, meet Putin’s demands In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms to end the war, according to people familiar with the meeting.

The Great Peacemaker's "solution" to Russia's war on Ukraine: Ukraine should surrender.

wapo.st/4qrm8E3

#art

#NoKings Columbus & Clintonville

Will anyone in the White House press corps ask if the president believes the proper response to citizen protest is to shit diarrhea upon them?

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Imagine having this kind of money and still sucking up to someone as pathetic as Donald Trump. Some people will always be losers no matter how much material success they achieve. In that sense I suppose Sacks and Trump have something in common

Yes this is great. But after FL, MO and other R states redistrict and SCOTUS kills the VRA, Republicans will have the technical means to make the baseline House balance +5 R on the national popular vote.

And it will all be perfectly legal.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

As seen at No Kings Atlanta: