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Capitol after January 6

Crime scene, DC: January 2021.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

The Wilson kid making his case, sir.

YouTube video by atarigrannies Hildegard Knef: 'Holiday Time'

"Lazy days / Leo days
August time / Not my time
Hate this weary dreary holiday time"

The greatest August song ever recorded is Hildegard Knef's "Holiday Time."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FZ...

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

When I posted this morning about how devastated I felt about the New York Times' contempt for its readers and demolition of its reputation, this is the precisely sort of article I would introduce into evidence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

She won't.

LIVE 12m ago Trump to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C. The U.S. military is preparing to activate National Guard troops in the capital as part of President Trump's campaign against crime there, an official said.

Nothing says “Well-functioning State” like troops patrolling the streets of your nation’s capital. Add irregularly-uniformed, masked secret police bundling people into rented vans, plus constant public shakedowns by officials and you have what Political Scientists call the “Democracy Trifecta.”

As a journalist with 40 years in the trenches this coming November (and 4 teenage years delivering papers), what the New York Times is doing to its readers and its reputation right now is destroying me.

I get my Sunday print edition now and ... phew. Through the looking glass stuff.

"Strap Up, Cowboy:" Will Donald Trump Oust Cory Mills? - emptywheel Today, Trump will claim to care about people who commit assaults in DC, like the hundreds of his supporters he pardoned after they assaulted cops. But Trump means teenagers from DC, not people like Co...

When Cory Mills allegedly abused his girlfriend, Eagle Ed Martin did nothing, allowing Mills to allegedly harass ANOTHER woman.

When some teenagers beat up Big Balls, Trump invaded DC's streets.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/11/s...

Impossible for me to understand how people forget what actually happened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tent morgues. Watching loved ones die on Zoom or Whatsapp. The illness itself if you caught it. The naked fear.

The selfish blundering perfidy that produces RFKJrs seems bottomless now.

Upside down cake baked, frosted, with frickin' sprinkles.

YouTube video by pandoramachine Let the Darkness In

LET THE DARKNESS IN is a short film about American #Lysenkoism. (11 min)

A public health official's last message to her team about the collision of science and politics.

Featuring Christa Kimlicko Jones & directed by Andrew Bellware. Prague Fringe Festival 2021

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2jv...

Lysenkoism on full blast

Uecker laughs

Sir? @dicknixon.bsky.social

A "truth in advertising" title if ever there was one.

Monstrous.

If we didn't already know that he held this American landmark in contempt, this POTUS held key events of the 2020 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION at the WHITE HOUSE.

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this is a very, very good essay

"Everything was now only a matter of 'one hundred percent approval of the correct line of the Executive' ... Why not three hundred percent approval?"

Victor Serge, MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY

Talk about a tell.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

Thank you.

What a mess.

"German outlet BILD reported .... that [Witkoff] misunderstood Putin's demand for Ukraine to withdraw from the remainder of Zaporizhia & Kherson oblasts, in addition to the remainder of Donetsk Oblast, as an offer for Russia to withdraw ..."

www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

As a 25-year resident of the District (until last year, in fact), you could see this latest distraction gambit coming miles away.

Greenblatt's division between Zionism and "Political Zionism" is the real crux of the present debate.

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Tsvetaeva.

THE SWANS' ENCAMPMENT is the greatest reactionary cycle of poems ever written.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.