ANCIENT EVIL

“It doesn’t take much imagination to understand the kind of chaos this will unleash: in courts…

Caught on camera keying the neighbor’s car? Just claim it was a deepfake.”

@daniellecitron.bsky.social & Bobby Chesney wrote about the Liar’s Dividend in 2019, and I covered the courts aspect in 2020…

Seen at the American History Museum

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Ed walks down a street toward the MegaGamers store wearing a jacket with a popped collar that reads "PS3 Live in your world, die in mine" on the back. He is carrying a case in his right hand, a tracking device in his left, and is armed with a shotgun. To his left and right, members of the Hayasaka Fan Club are being attacked by vending machines controlled by Largo. Fan: <Gyagh!! No, nooo!!! Help!> Fan: <Oh my god... stay away!! Aieeeee!>

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the left very clearly views support for mamdani as a litmus test - does party loyalty run both ways?

Crockett: "They have already decided the only way they can win, b/c they have failed policies, is by making sure they can cheat their way, & while they're cheating, the only way they can do that is while they violate the Constitution as well as the Voting Rights Act & make sure it's people of color"

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Trump takes on D.C., sort of, in a rambling news conference full of lies It's bad. But there are limits to the steps Trump actually took on Monday — and reasons why he could take these steps — that are worth noting.

NEW: Trump takes on D.C., sort of, in a rambling news conference full of lies.

It's bad. But there are limits to the steps Trump actually took on Monday — and reasons why he could take these steps — that are worth noting.

Today, at Law Dork:

RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids.

RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.

The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

D.C. Mayor Calls Trump's Police Takeover ‘Unsettling And Unprecedented’ “I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” said Muriel Bowser, who refrained from attacking Trump for infringing on her role.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today called Trump's decision to take over D.C. police + send National Guard troops into the city "unsettling and unprecedented."

She also didn't condemn him or his authoritarian move even once in her 45-min press event. www.huffpost.com/entry/muriel...

The Republicans are presently stripping away all our rights, and all we can reliably get from the Democrats is a half-baked shitpost, scores of scammy text messages, and flagrant efforts to undermine every energetic young progressive candidates earnestly stepping up to succeed them.

JUST IN: Judge Friedrich, a Trump appointee on the bench in DC, rules that the administration is illegally withholding funds from the National Endowment for Democracy, in violation of Congress' direct appropriation. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Trump's DOJ just cleared the way for healthcare monopoly UnitedHealth to buy the second-largest provider of home healthcare in America.

The approval came after UnitedHealth hired Ballard Partners, Pam Bondi's former employer, to lobby on its behalf.

"Drain the swamp."

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Trump pardoned Jared Wise, a January 6th rioter who repeatedly urged the mob to “kill” police officers there. He called the cops Nazis and “the Gestapo”

The same Jared Wise currently serves as a senior adviser in Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.

We are under attack by our own federal government.

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy " ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying and says " look how they massacred my boy "

Trump, describing how a 15-year-old girl beat up his sweet little broccoli-haired Big Balls.

Robert Reich How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich

Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year.

Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.

It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared

In Mugi's room at the hospital, Mugi is asleep in bed with the covers pulled up to her chin and covered in the origami foxes that Junpei had left behind. Yaku is laying partially on top of head buried against Mugi's chest, having had a frightening day escaping from the ninjas. Mugi: Nng...

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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

Love to see FBI agents with accounting degrees walking the streets of DC bullying homeless people instead of doing their jobs because a DOGE cybercriminal named "Big Balls" got beat up by a 15 year old.

Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...

At the MegaGamers store, Erika puts Largo's camo jacket over his shoulders and shoos him off to work. Erika: From a tactical standpoint, you need to not blow off work to hang out with me.

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When they're not telling MAGA followers to stop talking about Epstein, Trump and his cronies are ... talking about Epstein. The serially failing cover up demonstrates that Trump's cult show is jumping the shark, like The Apprentice before it.