D.C. McElroy

#NoKings
New York

More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

Philly showin' up today

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Colorado Springs! #NoKings

#NoKings
Philadelphia

Holy shit, New York!

Here’s the full view.

#NoKings #50501Movement

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

The phrase “money can’t buy happiness” is total bullshit.

Every working and middle class American knows it.

Money solves problems and makes things much easier.

You have to be crazy rich to starting getting diminishing returns.

What does China really think about Trump? They know about humiliation and won’t take it from him Economically, the trade war may be bad news for Xi Jinping, but ideologically and politically it is a gift

This tracks.

"Whatever equity the US has built up over the last century as a reputable trade partner has been largely wiped out by a businessman-president best known for his bankruptcies."

-- Brian Barrett, WIRED, "The Trump Tariffs Are How Everything Works Now."

No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.”
– Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes

MAGAs went around putting Biden stickers on gas pumps. Now Waffle House is putting a Trump surcharge on their All American Breakfast specials.

Just read a Guardian story with the hede "From nepotism to staggeringly bad contracts: the NFL’s most hopeless franchises," just so I could enjoy the fact that the Bears wouldn't be among the list for once.

Waiting for the Walkies

“How do you think the president was prepared to issue all these executive orders? How do you think they were prepared to make all of these appointments in such quick succession after he got into office? Project 2025.”

- U.S. Rep. John Rose (R-TN), speaking to a local reporter last week.

Afraid so.

During a game of “finish the sentence” with a journalist on Tuesday, the premier of Western Australia was asked: “JD Vance is a …”

“Knob,” he replied emphatically, prompting laughter and applause from a crowd of mostly business leaders in the state’s capital, Perth.

-- The Guardian, 03.04.2025

The president of Ukraine in the Oval Office, and VP Vance asks him why he isn't wearing a red clown nose like everyone else in the room.

Rep. Tom Suozzi gets huge applause and a standing ovation after calling out Trump’s ambush of President Zelenskyy at the White House.

Suozzi is a Democrat who won a special election in a red district—more of this, please!

Every single Dem should be holding town halls across the country RIGHT NOW.

Back in 2004, while reporting on a related topic, I learned that an Israeli physicist was doing research into the behavior of bacterial colonies. My shitty Top 100 US Metro employer refused to pay for a phone call to Israel. And that's how I discovered #Skype. Skype's gone. That shitty paper isn't.

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.