Mark Olbert

Kristi Noem - Wikipedia

Saw this meme and thought it was a joke. But it’s consistent with Wikipedia, so it very well might be true:

Kristi
Lynn
Arnold
Noem

K L A N

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Texas A&M Lecturer Who Was Fired Over Gender Lesson Sues University

Apparently, discussing gender is such a Big Scary Issue to Texas’ leaders that they run screaming into the night when the topic comes up.

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I love it when judges decide they’ve had enough of Trumpanzee idiocy from administration officials and tear them and their arguments apart in pointed rulings.

Go back to the Dakotas, Noem! Decent people don’t want you and your demented mind running anything.

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If you’d like to see a Federal judge — in Texas, no less! — have some fun reaming the idiots overseeing this administration’s vile (and unconstitutional) deportation processes, take a minute to read this.

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This is cool! I’ve traveled more than 831 billion miles since I was born!

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Thanx to @jefftiedrich.bsky.social for this!

What We Know About the Man Who Sprayed Liquid on Representative Ilhan Omar

Another deranged conservative loser throws a tantrum. My, the modern GOP sure seems to attract a lot of losers, particularly among guys.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

“You can’t walk in with guns,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a speech in Iowa on Tuesday. “You can’t do that,” he added.

Yep, that should satisfy the NRA :).

I wonder how long it will take this moron to alienate every constituency in the country?

White House Wobbles, Distancing Trump From Initial Response to Minnesota Killing

Caroline Leavitt trying to distance Trump from the murder of Alex Pretti after initially going with the "he's a terrorist" nonsense shows that she has no decency, no honor, and no morals.

If she had any of those, she would've resigned.

What a fucking prick.

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Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others

“He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world.”

I doubt there’s a single person in Trump’s senior team who has that ethos. Which is fracking pathetic.

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From today’s @pkrugman.bsky.social subscriber email:

…the people running the federal government — Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and more — are monsters. It has been equally obvious that ICE and the Border Patrol are now filled with sadistic thugs.

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Yep, that sums it up

From Borowitz:

[Bessent] uncorked a gob-smacker for the ages: “The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency.”

…a subsequent guest on the show …sneered, “Now we’re declaring emergencies to prevent emergencies?”

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You know things are bad when Rand Paul is on your side 😆

Minneapolis Live Updates: Videos Contradict Federal Officials’ Account of Killing

What?!? You mean the Trump administration might be lying to us?!? Shocked, I am. Shocked and appalled.

Not.

I'm glad I didn't vote for him either time. Else I might be spending all my time washing the blood of ordinary people off my hands.

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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

The self-centered pricks leading MAGA are defending individual choice while taking the nation into hell.

Can we ensure only the idiot MAGA leaders and their enablers will be devastated by or die from these diseases? I’d be fine with that.

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With all that’s happened recently, if you think this President is the one for you, I feel very, very sorry for you. Because you’re likely a moron, a delusional paranoid or both.

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks

You can identify a delusional paranoid, or a moron by how they explain away everything, by shifting their story to an uncorroborated arena.

Noem is a moron and a delusional paranoid. Here’s hoping she gets her butt and hair extensions kicked back to South Dakota.

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I regret that I only have two fingers to give for my country 😆!

“the state-sponsored murders will continue until morale improves”

Fracking horrifying but funny as hell! Another great Tiedrich write up!

If only… 😀

From G. Elliot Morris:

Trump and his supporters do not believe in …the legitimacy of the opposition. Members of the MAGA tribe are authoritarian in their wielding of power…They believe in the unrestricted use of military power. And their leader is a liar and a cheater…

Yea, verily!

Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy

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What your news diet says about your politics Breaking down Trump's approval and 2026 midterms vote by Americans' primary news source

Worth reading.

And I hope to hell those stalwart Fox et al viewers get the shock of their lives this November.

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The power to make things better for all of us belongs to all of us. We just forgot that for many years.

January 2, 2026 Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as may...

Why indeed are his doctors and aides testing his cognitive capabilities so frequently?

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