Chandler is clean on OpSec

And what'll probably end up being reality it's said criminals are actually gonna end up actually being ICE.

I have to confess...I'm kind've looking forward to waking up tomorrow and reading about the insane rantings you know we're gonna get from the Orange Turd tonight.

Populist Dems won. Moderate Dems won. We won in blue states. We won in purple states.

Maybe the take is that (a) people think Trump is out of control; and (b) people like Dems when we're taking a stand and fighting for what we believe in - as we have been for the last month.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...

"That's just how it is."

Not all heroes wear capes.

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

/3 I've been trying to get the Vice President of Procurement to sign a contract for three weeks and he keeps sending it back with CAPITALISM IS A DEATH CULT scrawled on it. I think it's in blood.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

"I'm just an owl, standing in front of a sign, asking you not to molest me."

A little collie with a black-and-brown face and white-and-black body sits in her human’s arms with a sign reading, “I BITE FASCISTS”

Ditto.

Post from President Trump on Truth Social: Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing crime. He is CRAZY!!! He better straighten it out, FAST, or we’re coming! MAGA. President DJT

Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first?

(Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)

"Chris is fucking awesome and if you don't vote for him, you're stupid. Release the Epstein files." - New York Times Bestselling author Wil Wheaton

The worst part is that it was all predictable. Everyone knew "grave security vulnerabilities" would be the outcome.

Gliding in for a landing

76% of Texas’s $2.4 trillion GDP comes from the blue parts.
- DFW: $709.0 B (29.5%)
- Houston: $642.1 B (26.7%)
- Austin: $229.2 B (9.5%)
- San Antonio: $201.2 B (8.4%)
- El Paso: $49.3 B (1.9%)

Blue: $1.83 T (76%)
Red: $0.57 T (24%)
#EconSky #Gerrymandering

comptroller.texas.gov/economy/econ...

A colorful graphic with the text: I don't use AI. I'm not a fucking loser.

Don't be a fucking loser

An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: ‘It’s Not Going to Be Good’

one of Trump's big accomplishments is wrecking the economy of an Ohio town that was thriving until he decided that had to end

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

throwing a sandwich is a gateway to more nefarious food-based acts like tossing tea into a harbor

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:

700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start

Combined.

🔥 Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social to Will Cain : "Do you know how many Republicans joined Dems in Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the Democrats voted for it. 0 Republicans voted for it. Spare me your both sides rhetoric."

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

Also under-reported: What's the Opportunity Cost of all the FBI, DEA, National Guard, etc. who are no longer doing their day jobs?

How much work won't be done or crimes prosecuted because these people are out strolling around the parks and streets of DC instead of doing what they're paid for?

I’m sorry, but “territorial concessions” by any democratic nation protecting their sovereignty and their citizens to any invading army seems kinda nuts, as well as contrary to what our US has always believed.

Why is this on the table at all?

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

Electricity bill going up?

One study found that AI data centers were responsible for 63% of price hikes for customers of PJM — the nation's largest electric grid.

Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more private-sector usage of AI and fast tracking permits for more data centers.

What uncritical acceptance and uncritical rejection of AI both miss is that AI is useful, but that the use cases are limited enough to not justify the enthusiasm.

Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Ruth Buzzi, my favorite actor, Val Kilmer, and my favorite singer, Roberta Flack. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.