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AC off.
Windows open.
Belgian ale in hand.

DC area break from hot summer is the best.

On Adm Leave till September 30 . . .

The new Epstein addition must be a grand space as befits our Orange King.

The new Epstein Wing.

There is a strong disconnect between the people running our party and the base. It’s causing us to lose supporters to anger, cynicism and just not voting because they cannot support immoral policy on Israel and other compromises by the leadership (see Election 2024).

No - the North Dakota tsunami would come from Lake Winnipeg to the north (along with single payer health insurance.)

The Post has really gone rancid. I dropped my subscription last year, but sometimes drop in to see headlines. I’m usually appalled.

Seems pretty normal for Republicans - utterly wrong, but doubling down.

The number of people that think Joe Biden was president in 2020 (one of the worst years in U.S. history) is also remarkably high.

When so much of the population is that stupid the truth is roadkill.

That is not a guy you would have a beer with . . .

Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking Operation Might’ve Been Bigger Than We Think A Treasury Department report describes over 4,700 money transfers connected to him. I have a pretty good guess why the president wants this all to go away.

Noting Judith Owen music on Charlie Pierce’s Esquire work.

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Thanks - very enjoyable read.

Yep

Hopkins Farm Creamery in Delaware has the most amazing pistachio ice cream ever (outside of Italy and gelato.)

Why does the NY Times treat the violence in the article title like it’s separate from the perpetrators of the violence?

It’s mind-blowing stupid.

Doesn’t the Orange Monster just drink Diet Coke.

Trump is not lying- he’s making it up. He typically bullshits first and lies later when he double downs on the BS.

Trump is the greatest BS artist this country has produced (so far).

The First World War, in Sharp Focus An English chronicler of the trenches, and his wartime romance, captured in long-lost photographs.

I'm not sure if people share stories here (or read the ones that are shared) but fwiw, I've got a new story out in @newyorker.com today that means a great deal to me. It's about a writer I love, and an amazing cache of long-lost photographs from WW1: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Terrific story. Now I want to see more of the glass plate prints.

Thanks!

It would be nice if media could get itself together after 10 years of this stupidity to understand that Trump doesn’t lie (at least at first.)

Trump makes up everything. Usually on the spot. It’s all BS. He repeats his made-up stories when he figures out that some humans like a particular story.

It would be nice if media could get itself together after 10 years of this stupidity to understand that Trump doesn’t lie (at least at first.)

Trump makes up everything. Usually on the spot. It’s all BS. He repeats his made-up stories when he figures out that some humans like a particular story.

It would be nice if media could get itself together after 10 years of this stupidity to understand that Trump doesn’t lie (at least at first.)

Trump makes up everything. Usually on the spot. It’s all BS. He repeats his made-up stories when he figures out that some humans like a particular story.

Same

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Social media organized the Axis.

At this point it’s mostly for Wordle and Connections, non-opinion pieces, and a few columnists (like Bouie, Gessen, Polgreen, and Michelle G.).

I dumped out of WaPo last year, but still enjoy reading Philip Bump in other sources like Bsky. I imagine I will do the same for the NY Times eventually.

I have strong doubts zombies will decide to not stay zombies, but we gotta go for the hopeful solution of democratic change I guess.

And then there must be consequences for our buffoon fascists.

I wonder if there will be pressure for a Constitution Convention?

We cannot go on (as Driftglass and BG would say) half free and half FOX.

Time to update the democracy jalopy that we’ve driven for 250 years? We’ve only had a couple serious changes with the Civil War and the Great Depression?

Poland recently found out (and we found out with the Biden adm.). The progr/democracy party cannot come back into power and think we can just get back to normal.

You’re likely right, but the reality is there must be harsh treatment for people like Miller. It’s all the fascist mind understands.

Miller will deserve and require harsh treatment in 2029 (DeTrumpification has to happen to bury this buffoon fascist impulse).

I wonder if the Democrat in the presidency in 2029 will understand that reality.