Thoughts of Rob

Forget about pedophilia vs hebephilia vs whatever. We don’t have to split hairs. The topic is “raping underage girls”. Evidently it’s a hobby for a lot of prominent people, and a lot of *other* prominent people are, at a minimum, willing to cover for them.

Release the files and start the trials.

So QAnon was actually *right* about the whole “elite pedophile ring” thing, just not about it being run out of a pizza place or Trump being out to shut it down?

Release the files and start the trials.

After the Oval Office is stripped of all this Hobby Lobby Rococo vomit, and it’s time to build the Trump Presidential Library and Casino Resort, if they plan ahead they can use the *original* gold-spray-painted Home Depot plastic doohickies in his Oval Office replica

Hey hey hey now, somebody needs to tell these two to leave enough room for Jesus in there

It’s just horse race horse race horse race, with a side of sanewashing Trump

When modern Christians say “it’s not the government’s job to help the poor,” they’re not echoing Jesus, Paul, the prophets, or the early church.

They’re echoing figures like Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity’s communal ethic of compassion and called altruism a “moral evil.”

“We must take the pass of South Carerdddd!”

“We are not living in a functional democracy any longer.” - Sen. Chris Murphy, via @hcrichardson.bsky.social:

What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location.

Camp David. NYC. Moscow.

If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission?

The answer now seems to be: Sure.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

If your personal experience is that this close connection between sex and gender works well for you, congratulations! Enjoy! But don’t imagine that sex really does, can, or should determine gender. Don’t imagine that other people can’t have a different experience of sex and gender than yours. (2/2)

“Gender reveal” parties do not reveal gender. They reveal sex, and then the socially constructed gender expectations associated with sex get projected on. Sex reveal, gender assignment. (1/2)

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

“Conversion therapy” is torture. Torturing kids is not free speech.

Trump’s War on America Is Expanding The president is now unleashing state violence at home and abroad, illegally and with impunity.

There are troubling signs the administration aims to attack critics of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and ICE in much the same way that it is attacking immigrant communities. trib.al/cWzElja

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A

It’s a monstrosity. They should tear it down at the first opportunity, in whatever state of completion it happens to be.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie New NYT Column — Republicans Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Yes, Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade really said this about homeless people: “Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em."

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

Just over here hopescrolling, not wanting to miss it when Trump Actually Checks Out

“The Most Transparent Administration in History!”

Oh, what’s going on is transparent, all right

Active Shooter An original poem. Bar the doorsEveryone under your desksBe stillQuiet nowQuiet Hide where? Where tanks rolland bombs falland fields burnand flies gather? Hide under desks? There’s no school l…

I wrote a poem in response to the pressing reality of mass murder. Just now, I learned of the latest school shooting.
thoughtsofrob.com/2025/08/27/a...

Until they once again believe that their anti-democratic power grab is *worse* for them than practicing actual democracy, they will have no reason to back down. That’s why fighting fire with fire on gerrymandering is so important. If they’re allowed to do it, there will be no going back. 🧵2/2

A thought: Bipartisanship, compromise, consensus…these all depend on the parties agreeing that their best alternative to a negotiated agreement (“BANE”) is *worse* than agreeing on a compromise. What we see from Republicans now is the conviction that their BANE is to simply seize power. 🧵1/2

‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

inexcusable... in a foreign country we would sanction the perpetrators under Magnitsky Act: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...