Jim Ryan

The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.

Miller wants power and he wants to hurt people. He's got the mentality of a serial killer, but sublimated into politics. There were plenty of guys like that running the original German Nazis.

The coming AI crash will be a "black swan who moved in months ago and attacked everybody in the house daily" event.

So You’ve Decided to Join a Failing President's Goon Squad! An orientation guide for new ICE agents who will totally never get prosecuted for any of this

So You’ve Decided to Join a Failing President's Goon Squad!
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A Greek Tragedy, but with Morons Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make MAGA

A Greek Tragedy, but with Morons
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

OMFG. I heard Epstein had a first edition of “Lolita” but he got it on the recco of a Harvard literature prof who never fucking grasped the idea of an “unreliable narrator?” Moral depravity and abject stupidity are running neck in neck here

Yeah. I saw those bullet holes on buildings all over Berlin, but especially on old ones near the Spree river banks

Queen Queazy's puzzling "Porkpie"
Graphic novels:
Mark Lustigkeit's Holocaust saga, "Ratten"
Manoosh Aranshah's Iranian young girlhood: "Parthia"
Dan Whenn's "Billy Mulligan: Cleverest Kid Ever"

OK, I'll stop.

The Rodolfo brothers’ “Rocket Romance”
“Tacitus the Capybara” “Oddball” underground comics magazine. “Roscoe Blurp’s True Cartoonings” “Why I Dislike Jupiter”

Breakthrough comic, “Clockmasters”, Superhero Series: “Battles of Darkness” indies: “Desperate in Toronto,” and Lulu Douceur’s “La Vie en Pussy”

I can understand, why @bsky.app won't comment on the details of suspending the account of Sarah Kendzior. But it doesn't inspire a lot of trust in the overall decision processes, when there's basically no official information at all what caused the suspension.

Give corporate Democrats a barrel of fish and a pistol, and they’ll give you back a strongly worded letter

Courage is contagious.

Sounds too simple, but is true.

Same for cowardice.

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

Fair point. I'm pretty sure Renfield/Miller is driving the cruelty bus these days.

Dracula praises Renfield—up to a point

One of my favorite historians channels Chaucer’s Wife of Bath. And I mean that as a sincere compliment

Pathetic failson says what?

This Is Fascism

On the other side, cosplay Catholic JD Vance and the inhuman Robert’s SCOTUS

Important point from fascism scholar, Thomas Zimmer: we should never underestimate the ugliness of their plans, but we should also never mistake what they want to do for what they have done.

"Nazi lightbulb" is not a good spokesperson for any cause

It would be great if people educated themselves past knee jerk reactions, or were open to that kind of instruction. But 99.99% of the time, people’s first reaction is what stays. You only get one chance to make a first impression

Most of us canceled our WaPo subscriptions after Bezos turned it into a regime mouthpiece. We don’t have the financial leverage we had with Disney plus.

One of America’s greatest weirdos

Oy

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

Disney cancellation form with reason for cancellation marked as "other," with the explanation, "you corporate cowards gave in to anti-democratic pressure and cancelled Jimmy Kimmel. You will never get another penny from me."

I posted this on my FB early yesterday and got lots of folks saying they're doing the same

Me, I prefer those who moan impotently that all is lost whenever they encounter a setback