Prophesy Not Punditry

And poll workers applaud first-time voters regardless of party affiliation. It’s a celebration of democracy and is entirely nonpartisan.

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53277-new-second-term-low-donald-trump-job-approval-government-spending

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18."

p.s. Older people are really showing up.

I feel like Albany should probably prioritize regulating this kind of thing out of existence.

This really is part of it. So many of them rolled over without putting up a fight, so scenes of ordinary folks demonstrating and standing up to ICE goons are foreign and a bit shameful to them

The claim of novel emergency or extrajudicial powers are dangerous precisely because once established, they can be expanded.

It really is amazing that when a popular young Democratic politician who wants to solve real problems for people beats an old-guard institutionalist Democrat in a primary, the institutionalist Democrat just stays in the race and basically runs as a Republican.

I asked someone today what to call the equivalent of a Scrooge of Halloween

This is well done.

Every time I open a new sponge: why didn't I do this sooner?

If Trump’s presidency were ever made into a TV series, the template should not be “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” but “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

Worth reading to get to the part where the judge finds that the conduct of the ICE agents was "outrageous." The cherry on top is the judge's name at the end: Xavier Rodriguez.

Republicans think that they and their children and grandchildren will be the genetically superior ones who will survive future epidemics. They will be surprised to learn that diseases don’t work that way.

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

It also seems pretty obvious to me.

Solid graphic.

I wrote about whether "hate crimes" really "affect interstate commerce" in 2009: sanityfringe.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-...

The majority lied about what they were doing then, and they’re lying about what they’re doing now. Either that, or they are among the stupidest people ever to have worn black robes.

This:

@theonion.com:

Post saying that Trump holds weekly meetings to go over the minutiae of the ballroom.

Also, I’m actually pro-ballroom right now.

While Miller and Lewandowski impose their Fox News-pilled plans on a public that now has former prosecutors screaming “Nazis!” at law enforcement, the man who could actually rein them in is looking at carpet samples.

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Why are the lengths of the bars not proportionate? The bar for "Whites," at 7.5 million, should be almost twice as long as the bar for "Blacks," at almost 4 million, but the bar is only slightly longer, which makes the graphic misleading.

So people going hungry is not an emergency allowing the gov to spend reserves, but protesters dressed as frogs is an emergency allowing the National Guard to invade cities. Got it.

Contingency fund exists bc of past government lawsuit shutdowns that the government lost. The contingency fund is so politicians cannot jerk the most vulnerable around and use us as pawns. USDA is no longer independent and their 'legal analysis' meaningless. Trump is withholding the contingency.

This IS decoding a dementia patient.

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Only 13. I was amazed to find that my 60+ year old girlfriend had never been to San Francisco, which I think is the most fun city in the list.

Trump is killing people outside the US that he THINKS (can’t prove) are GOING to commit a crime (but haven’t yet). That’s just murder.