H.L. Mencken..ish

a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up and says `` not gonna do it '' ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a thumbs up and says `` not gonna do it ''

Rank nonsense.

Since Tr$mp has retaken office, nearly a million Americans have lost their jobs. That's the largest number of layoffs since 2020, during his previous term.

The fact that we are at a point where a reporter is asking the President of the United States about serving a third term shows just how far the country has fallen in just 9 months.

Discovery is going to be lit!

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

She is describing a dictatorship.

Lofgren: Now, instead of the president weighing in, we’ve got him doing weird little dances as he lands in Asia, and he’s missing in action. The Senate is refusing to negotiate across party lines, and the House of Representatives isn’t even meeting. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this.

"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." ~James Baldwin

His Ball room......

#ProudBlue

Hegseth’s Pentagon meeting w/top military officers may not have been toxic but it was the idea of an inexperienced & unqualified “mid-grade officer” trying to be tough & failing

He should learn & understand strategic concerns before lecturing experts

How do the officers follow a fool

The US is seeing the largest number of layoffs since 2020, with nearly 1 million people losing their jobs so far this year.

Fire and ferocity.

Some relevant background reading:

Cynthia Fountaine,

Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich,

10 ST. MARY'S J. ON LEGAL MALPRACTICE & ETHICS 198 (2020).

commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Background: Jurists' Trial Verdict | Holocaust Encyclopedia The Justice Case, or Jurists’ Trial, of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings tried members of the German justice administration. Browse excerpts from the verdict.

A bad faith "legal" opinion by puppet lawyers shields nobody.

Nazi lawyers accused of judicial murder and other atrocities, committed by destroying law and justice, using emptied forms of legal process for persecution, enslavement, and extermination

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GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy The GOP is anti-democracy party

GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
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Tyler Huntley was on the practice squad until Friday, and he's led the Ravens to 30 points today against the Bears.

Correct. A high crime.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

I am looking forward to America's Nuremberg trials when sanity and democracy are restored. There simply can't be amnesty for the shit that is happening now.

A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.

Hitler's Inspiration and Guide: The Native American Holocaust While attending the annual Garifuna Film Festival held here in Los Angeles, we watched films about indigenous cultures, and saw the 1985 Academy

Just a reminder: as a youth, Adolf Hitler loved Karl May and stories of the American West in the nineteenth century. And he was particularly impressed with the techniques used by the US Army to exterminate American Indians like the Navajo through starvation and herding them into concentration camps

“.. A broad range of specialists .. have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal .. murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs.”

@charliesavage.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Trump has effectively dissolved Congress and seized despotic power.

The Coup That Finally Worked: How Mike Johnson Succeeded Where the Insurrection Failed Through procedural paralysis, the Speaker has done what violence could not: silence Congress and hand Donald Trump the powers of a king...

hartmannreport.com/p/the-coup-t...

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.