John Beck

this really isn’t an exaggeration

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Um, other way around? Clear writing requires complex thinking? Or perhaps, complex thinking produces clear writing? (General agreement on your point, though.)

Are the Republicans in serious trouble going into 2026?

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

It really isn’t said enough how much these people straight up hate America. People should say this a lot more frequently. They simply don’t like the good parts of modern American life.

Fuck you if you support him.

My wife is from South Dakota. Many of her family & friends there voted for both of these dipshits. And they hate it when I point out they're all in a cult.

chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

What a great headline

To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.

Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.

Another one for the "we are ruled by hollowed-out husks who believe in nothing but their own untouchability" files

@profanity.accountant what's the damage?

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This tree has more personality than a lot of people I know

He lives in the past a good bit, and 40 years ago he was handsome. (Not defending his meanness, just suggesting an explanation.)

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

judge dismisses georgia election interference case against trump

bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup

the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines

In Google's search engine, you can suppress AI summaries by adding "-ar" to the end of your query.

For example: "best way to brine a turkey -ar" www.google.com/search?q=bes...

My point was that Brazil has made great progress over past decades, while the US has regressed.

So in Brazil, a literal one-time banana-republic, their ex-president who tried to pull a coup to stay in office, started his 27-year prison sentence. Yet here, our justice system epically failed, then 77 million dipshits voted our criminal ex-president back into office. Prosecute them all this time.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Two women riding on horseback up a wide trail thru a forest (in California's Santa Cruz Mountains), with beams of sunlight breaking thru the trees and shining on them

Hiking a bit behind these two gals, when suddenly the light broke thru #nature #photography #landscape

Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/

Someone teed up my favorite poster on his favorite subject (thread):

@rubengallego.bsky.social responds to Trump's threats on Sen. Mark Kelly: "This is fucking insane."