this shit is just beyond parody, man

Talking about the UK’s bounty of graveyard waxcaps, here are a group of Hygrocybe conica, Blackening Waxcaps or commonly known as Witches Hat mushroom, all lined up like the Three Amigos. #fungi

while making some tea i remembered a substitute Physics teacher we had at school for a bit who'd end every lesson with a general "do you have any questions?" segment and one person asked why when you forget to boil a kettle you can tell by the sound because hot and cold water sound different

DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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When the GOP get unchecked power, they don’t govern, they run experiments. Kansas was a warning. Texas is next. In Nov 2025, 17 GOP amendments rewired the Constitution to lock in giveaways, hollow out public goods, & explode deficits. We already know how this ends.
#Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue

Classic Karen Slayer. Watch til the end.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.

Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."

“Trump’s Take” is a real-time financial tracker documenting the cash and gifts that Trump and his family have received by selling the presidency...

20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:

“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)

Unbelievable…

Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy.

That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.

We had a buoyant and thriving economy at this time last year.

We saved millions of kids around the world at the same time that we overproduced and essentially subsidized American farms to feed everyone.

Then we had Day One of Putin’s puppet.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Life is just like this… a whole made of storms, light, and shadows. And within that whole, we lose ourselves—just to find ourselves again. 💙

Life is just like this… a whole made of storms, light, and shadows.
And within that whole, we lose ourselves—just to find ourselves again. 💙

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This isn’t a peace plan: it’s a proposal for unconditional Ukrainian surrender.
We need the European coalition of the willing to step up again

Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government

Somebody watched brave heart before bed.

Holy shit! This is what I'm talkin' about. David Clayton is running for congress in North Carolina's District 5 against MAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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Notice a difference in how Democracy Docket framed Trump's threats vs how legacy media did? This is no accident. They are more interested in normalizing Trump to please their corporate overlords. Democracy Docket is only interested in providing you the truth. Support its work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.