Excellent work on the tittle.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Poster for the film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story featuring John C. Reilly.

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up.

But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

What are those seminal truths that supply essential context to the daily news report? Here’s my list: That the United States has become an authoritarian state, with armed soldiers on city streets; immigrant neighbors abducted and disappeared by masked agents; the state seizing stakes of companies; political opponents targeted with criminal probes; educational institutions extorted into obedience; media organizations paying tribute to the ruler. This is reality. That Trump is personally deranged and debilitated. That he operates almost entirely in a bubble world of lies and fantasies. That he makes things up, is misled by his staff, and often doesn’t know what they are doing. That white Christian nationalism and virulent racism are primary drivers in this administration. That misinformation and lies are not coincidental to the Trump agenda, they are essential to it. That Trump is engaged in a massively corrupt scheme to enrich himself, his family, and his oligarch friends. That Trump is leading what is effectively a criminal enterprise – openly violating the law at almost every turn. That the Trump administration is systemically diminishing hard-fought civil and human rights for women, for immigrants, for brown people, and for trans people. That the Republican Party of the past no longer exists. It is no longer serious or credible. That the nation’s historic checks and balances, through the separation of powers, have collapsed. That the federal government – especially the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security – has been so weaponized against Trump’s political opponents that nothing it says can be trusted without evidence. That Trump’s cruelty and racism have been fully embraced by the MAGA movement and by federal agents terrorizing and abducting immigrants.

Here's my list of the essential truths about our current crisis that are routinely missing from New York Times coverage: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-...

Same here.

Nothing more to add.

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

“…a handful of us”

It’s a good start.

(1/X) I was listening to an interview with someone from Wire about how DOGE cuts have gutted the monitoring of invasive species (specifically ants) and how this could lead to various disasters.

For a minute, I thought, well a disaster like that would hurt Trump, and then I realized that no...

Because that’s the smallest size they offer?

They don’t show much of the design process this time around either.

The DUI hire weighs in.

Perfection. The Love Island USA “villa” has some excellent examples of the form.

WaPo, do better.

I always thought it was the gast that got flabbered. Thank you for the clarification.