Farmer Shafer

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

Give it (back?) to Finland.

Russia is indifferent. Deliberate, conscious indifference is worse than hate; it has got to be the most perfect cruelty.

Former Congressman George Santos to serve 7 years in federal prison A federal judge in Central Islip sentenced the ex-congressman Friday to the maximum sentence of 87 months in prison over multiple wire fraud and identity theft charges in connection with his 2022 run ...

A federal judge has sentenced former Congressman George Santos to 87 months in prison over multiple wire fraud and identity theft charges in connection with his 2022 run for Congress. (via @wshupublicradio.bsky.social)

Some people, especially from the Washingtonestablishment, tell me that American institutions are too strong to be tipped over by Trump. That might be true, but it's time for these institutions to start doing something. Оtherwise it might be too late.

Raccoons need a group word. Like a f'n cartel. I can't abide them.

Dictatorship 101: Its not compulsive liars but compulsive believers that are important.

He effectively dissolved congress. We have to see beyond 20th c. political history.

If you don't have the legitimate power to do something but you do it anyway and nothing happens, then legitimacy no longer matters.

Enforcement is the underpinning of all law.

We must alter or abolish a tyranny

i'm starting to think that making the guys that make video game graphics cards a load bearing pillar of the entire american economy might have been a bad move

Someone should make a dice set that just has QR codes on each side, and scanning it directs you to a page with the number.

No wait better yet, sends you to a website with a virtual die rolling on said number

Elon Musk controversial salute image beamed on Tesla factory in Berlin The large image shows Musk giving the salute with the words "Heil Tesla" beamed above him.

The large image shows Musk giving the salute with the words "Heil Tesla" beamed above him.