Rich Hanley

Cloverdale is the perfect place name for an episode of The Twilight Zone where a small town is invaded by aliens and transformed into a zone where everybody is connected to a central server and constantly surveilled, the true nature of a networked state.

Washington pundits are a pathetic lot who care only about access. They are also profoundly narrow in their perspective of reality despite their overcredentialed profiles.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

As a long-time subscriber, I can confirm that the Washington Post is in a much-diminished state, largely self-inflicted. My subscription will not be renewed.

McDaniel will be fired within hours.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Trump and his kind live in a simulation. Unfortunately, we have to experience the reality generated by that simulation with no chance of rebooting for years.

Trump is clearly living in a simulation assembled by Stephen Miller and shown to him as television news.

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The reason this theory works is because most of our elites and leaders have no real views or opinions, but merely adopt those that they believe will earn them approval. And now they’re all seeking approval on the Internet, where everyone really is 12, or has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old

Wait times are increasing because private equity firms ruthlessly look to cut costs (i..e, fire doctors) the moment the ink dries on the ownership contracts.

Ask JD about this: As of March 2025, approximately 488 U.S. hospitals are owned or operated by private equity firms. The number of private equity-owned hospitals is growing. At least 27.7% of these hospitals "serve" rural populations.

Trump’s Generals Speech Proved to Be Dumb, Deluded... and Dangerous President Trump and Pentagon Pete seem determined to declare war on America itself.

The greatest threat the US faces stood on stage in front of the collected leadership of our military and forced them to salute. He then made it very clear why he himself is the enemy within. And then the government shut down. Happy Trump Tuesday, everybody. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-gener...

I don't know. You would think that Jake Tapper would be on the case but no. I fear that he is being shown old news footage and/or clips from fictional television series/movies via his television and is being told it's real by Miller.

Perfectly done.

Great job, everyone.

Take samples of the threads in the paper and extract DNA residue if possible. Compare it with DNA scrapped off artifacts of the current president.

White House official Twitter account tweeting helicopter emojis

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them.

That's what they're threatening.

He is one sick and twisted individual.

John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers

"One of the country’s largest manufacturers is worse off now than it was six months ago."
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All while fighting a war in Southeast Asia.

National Guard troops deployed in D.C. add sanitation, landscaping duties Service members say they’re glad to help the National Park Service. But some question if trash removal and groundskeeping are an appropriate use of the military.

If the Natty Guard is looking for stuff to do, please deploy them to my yard and show lethality against the criminal invasion of weeds. They can mow the lawn, mulch the shrub beds, and maybe clean the gutters, too. wapo.st/3HVJNLh

So a grand jury literally refused to indict a ham sandwich.

These people are running around loose.

Well, Volcanoes on Moons must now be the title of my next album.

I know we’re all desensitized to this shit by now, but do you ever think about how insane it is that a large portion of this country recreationally takes horse dewormer for no reason other than ideology?

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