Debbie Byers

Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Every senator who voted for this jerk should be ashamed of themselves.
THEY are responsible for this mess.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social nutshells it.

The cover of the Lancet says it all.

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

Both the men’s and women’s USA hockey teams won gold, yet Trump joked about “having to invite” the women to the White House, and the room laughed. This is the party that ran on “saving” women’s sports, and by that I mean used it to shoehorn bigoted messaging into a campaign.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

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Curiosity is something more folks should embrace. Curiosity sparks learning. And learning is a good thing.

Did you now sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart, a behavior known as rafting.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?

I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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Biosecurity

"NIH has terminated or frozen 116 cancer research grants ($273 million), 65 Alzheimer's research grants ($94 million), 68 diabetes grants ($83 million), and 71 heart disease grants ($111 million)..."

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This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) reacted to Trump personal attorney-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche discussing the DOJ's intention to appeal the judges decision releasing Liam Ramos.

"Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?" he posted

“The reason Trump didn’t apologize for the Obama post is because he is a small, petty, fragile man who cannot take responsibility for his own actions. And the second reason, frankly, is because he is a racist.”

It's obvious but still striking to consider that we have a United States government driven solely by one man's emotional dysregulation and dysfunction.

Saying something like “this is not normal” would go a long way in cutting through this BS. Either that or “LOL Ms. Leavitt”

there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.

Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.

Third world America.

Now that's something.

@davidfrum.bsky.social

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice:

State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official