Howard Burkett

Fitzgerald wrote of the careless rich who “smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.”

A century later, it’s still true, only now the party’s at Mar-a-Lago, while millions are at risk of going hungry. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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God I guess it’s time to be super annoying about the fact that when we switch the time tomorrow that’s the REAL TIME. The time of nature and the universe. We’ve been living in fake time since spring and it’s bad for everyone’s health!

Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.

*Allegedly* carrying drugs.

“Mom, what’s for Thanksgiving?”

“We’ll find out when we get to the soup kitchen. Jeffrey Epstein’s ballroom isn’t going to pay for itself.”

"Stoked rather than quelled" is an important distinction in testimony from the Police Chief.
From yesterday’s testimony in the Portland deployment case.

“SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA, A YOUNG HISPANIC GIRL IS HIDING IN AN ATTIC WRITING A DIARY.”–Machine Pun Kelly

This is not history. This is not Anne Frank’s attic. This is today.

Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds

Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

6 Economic Lessons from Books About Power, Propaganda, and Decline What Tolkien, Canetti, Girard and more can teach us about discord, scapegoats, and the test of institutions.

People aren’t just “fooled by algorithms.” They’re living with real pressures. The economy is weakening. Young people have very different priorities in life, and there is continued divergence between young men and young women.

open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/6...

The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive

There is no current writer whose wisdom and insight I respect more than @mollymckew.bsky.social’s. This piece beautifully sums up where we are, what we face, and how we shall prevail, and it has left me in tears:

The Roberts Court is anti-democratic.

Say it loudly and frequently so they know we see them.

oh yeah that happened (am in London right now)

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YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

U.S. Is Repatriating Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

Those men are super dangerous drug smuggling terrorists, which is why . . . we are letting them go.

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

Just remember when they make false claims that #NoKings hates America - it's because they think THEY represent America.

Demographically, that's 100% false.

In 2016, John Cena teamed up with Love Has No Labels for their We Are America​ campaign. 👇🏼

I'm sure the stats are even more diverse today. ✊🏼🇺🇸

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast 1975 Schoolhouse Rocks!!! No Kings 🚫👑

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Montana may do this, but Delaware and Wyoming will probably not, and what then? Where are most US corporations incorporated?

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Cartoon by John Deering.

Political cartoon by: Clay Jones ICE agents standing in front of small children saying to each other: It’s easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol…

January 6th thugs = ICE thugs…

Nah, we just want you to leave the bayou out of it (though we do have bayous in North Louisiana, too - I grew up in Natchitoches), Johnson is a product of a very different milieu than "bayou bred" would suggest.

The raid certainly had that look. I was wondering why the reporting was that apartments were emptied of furniture, mattresses were being thrown into dumpsters, etc. What would you need to do that for, in an "immigration raid?"