Kilgore Trout

Elizabeth Warren Is Onto Chump's
Evil Ways ! The Fine Print says
"these funds are available even during a government shutdown",
Chumpster.......

Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Carl Sagan’s Demon Haunted World

Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.

News summaries from AI chatbots have major accuracy problems A study from the BBC and EBU found that 45% of responses had significant issues.

A far-reaching study from the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union found that current affairs-related summaries from four major AI chatbots were rife with errors. www.techbrew.com/stories/2025...

The US hasn't even been able to pretend we're a meritocracy for decades.

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

What We Choose to Nazi The Department of Labor is posting Heroic Realism propaganda. What, exactly, are they telling us?

"Today’s Justice Department is the law-enforcement arm of the Trump administration, and the Trump administration’s political dictates don’t just determine who gets targeted; they determine what facts the Justice Department is permitted to consider true."
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

Geert Wilders faces shutout as centrists hail huge gains in knife-edge Dutch election Far right neck and neck with liberal D66 but all major mainstream parties have ruled out working with anti-Islam firebrand

“We’ve shown not only to the Netherlands, but also to the world that it is possible to beat populist and extreme-right movements,” D66’s 38-year-old leader, Rob Jetten, told supporters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.

Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

Thomas Jefferson firmly believed that a well-educated citizenry was essential for the survival of a republic. His many quotes on education emphasize its importance for preserving liberty, guarding against tyranny, and promoting human happiness.

Art of the Deal.

These key defections show Trump is losing his grip Kids and cops got tear-gassed in Chicago, a judge is holding ICE/CPB officials to account, Americans are horrified by the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, and even UFC fighters are starting to turn away from Trump.What’s going on? Is he really as strong as he appears to think?In 1999...

OPINION: Kids and cops got tear-gassed in Chicago, a judge is holding ICE/CPB officials to account, Americans are horrified by the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, and even UFC fighters are starting to turn away from Trump.

“The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.”

–H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: A Selection

“The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.”
- H.L. Mencken

Wow! It’s not even close. Food banks can’t keep up with the need…

Question: “How long is this sustainable.”

Food bank director: “It’s not… for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Nuclear testing isn’t something you greenlight in a post, but turning national security into a fear show is how authoritarians rule.