not a novel observation but worth repeating every time - there are basically half a dozen things a day, every day, that would have been the biggest scandal of every administration for the first 30 years of my life.

There are no "reasonable Republicans" because they long ago ceased to be a political party.

A political party tries to court your vote. An authoritarian regime tries to keep you from voting, and all votes from counting.

“.. This week, [Stephanie] Keith received a George Polk Award for photojournalism.”

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The corruption and failure of America’s justice system is a national scandal with many authors and Trump and the Epstein class as prime beneficiaries. The world is showing us how far we have fallen. My latest.

Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control.

Yup.

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting

“We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility.” presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

If these venal mass murderers escape the harshest punishment, we have failed as a country and as a society.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Nope. Out for me. We need to reset the country. Not coddle the fascists. We can talk about "working across the aisle" after prosecuting everyone in the Epstein Files and everyone in the current administration and a significant chunk of Congress.

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

an example of this is somewhat gloomy belief as follows:

1. Republicans create policies/make decisions that make US poorer, less secure, and less free

2. Dems take power and have to clean it up, electorate/media blames Dems

3. Republicans take power, do worse things

4. Repeat

The regime will be responsible for a larger death toll certainly than Pol Pot. Historians in a hundred years may ascribe it with an even larger death toll than you know who, depending on how the death rate from the pro fossil fuel, pro virus and anti scientific research crusades work out.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.

Per the ImpactCounter dashboard, approximately 88 people an hour are now dying as a result of Vought and Musk’s murder of USAID.

They must be brought to justice.

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Quick takes: Death toll from USAID cuts, withdrawal of chikungunya vaccine, funding for updated Ebola vaccine A model that tracks the impact of USAID funding cuts estimates that more than 760,000 people have died as a result of those cuts since January 2025.

“Terminated USAID funding has also resulted in more than 164,000 additional child deaths from pneumonia, 125,000 additional child deaths from diarrhea, 70,000 additional adult and child deaths from malaria, and 48,000 additional adult and child deaths from tuberculosis.”

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

This goes way beyond “Grifters gonna grift” to the fundamental belief of the GOP - namely, that the wealthy are real people, and the other 7.5 billion people on earth are NPCs, whose lives do not matter.

I continue to believe that the inevitable J.D. Vance presidential campaign will be destroyed when someone fills one of these awkward pauses by simply yelling "you suck, dork!"

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

This is hell.

FYI Covid infections can re-activate the Epstein barr virus in the body (most of us have been exposed). The virus is mostly associated with Mononucleosis (the kissing disease) it's also linked to chronic fatigue syndrome. They want us sick and unable to function

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab The nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute.

"In his egoism, Trump exhibits an overarching desire to squeeze the nation dry, including by converting as much of America’s wealth to himself regardless of the consequences. What Trump can’t take with him, he would just as soon ruin."

Anyhoo, the US has now thrown away another major strategic advantage as one of the world’s destinations for high skill immigration. Good luck attracting the next generation of mRNA researchers when you now know your family’s legal security is based on 40,000 low information voters in WI

But if Trump stated ‘ you know, we should have a path to citizenship for people who have been living here working peacefully for years (basically Reagan, Bush orthodoxy) or any other sensible immigration reform (Rubio circa 2013) his support would collapse.

Trump is often fond of saying ‘ I could murder someone on fifth Avenue and not lose any voters’ and this is true, he has never slipped below 35 percent approval and a majority of the Republican primary electorate.

So this was inevitable. In fact repealing the plain meaning of the 14th and the other reconstruction amendments is a long standing project of the trainees of our lawless judiciary.