Pamela Grenfell Smith

The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.

A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass

It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...

"Appeasement Plan"

When Trump saw Mamdani, he didn't see a fellow politician; he saw a fellow charismatic celebrity.

Donald respects people who can get praise and attention, as he values those things far above politics.

Capabilities, Not Authorities: The Quiet Evolution towards a Panopticon State The Steady State | By Steven Cash November 21, 2025

"The essential question is no longer what federal agencies are authorized to do, but what they are capable of doing. Capability now outstrips authority by orders of magnitude... The true danger lies in what the modern American state can do right now."

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Haiti qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 50 years!!! Today is the celebration of Vertières, a Haitian national holiday honoring the final major battle against Napoleon and France during the Haitian Revolution. Seems pretty poetic to me. 💙❤️🔥

The Lady Hero’s Journey A woman tries to set out on The Hero’s Journey only to find that Joseph Campbell didn’t believe that women take The Hero’s Journey. She must instea...

The Lady’s Call to Adventure is not really the one she wanted. She knows that if she doesn’t choose to slay this dragon, then they are going to give This Call to some Hero who is 22, went to a fancy dragon-slaying school, and whose dad was a famous dragon slayer.
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the boutique is a nice touch, too.

The railings!

Not only this but we’re still told that young men are the real victims of society right now.

I get that the end of the hallway ramps up but JFC I can't unsee this. It's visible for like 3 frames and my brain still screams in agony.

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

The attack on transgender people is not made to solve a problem.

It is fomenting bigotry to take power. Concessions are encouragement to do more attacking.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

This keyboard is too small to be practical. Maybe look at a bluetooth keyboard?

Guys, I'm starting to think this iteration of automation is heavily tied to the desire to eliminate humans as a factor of concern in social systems dominated by a hereunto unseen cohort of ultra-eugenicist gilded elite.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

This was done to the White House, a federal property, by a man who wanted protesters who spray painted a wall arrested for "destruction of federal property."

The “othering” of America by a cabal of malignant weirdos.

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

man in royal robe and horned helmet with scepter cheerfully posing with three National Guard

National Guard in DC:

Five petal white flowers with exserted yellow anthers

Prunus pumila var. besseyi, our Sand Cherry, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplant It often has many of its branches buried beneath the sand. This is part of why we see clonal mats of it on dunes here in Colorado.

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿

Even after we deal with Trump, we'll be cleaning up the mess he created for decades. Once you mainstream bigotry, it takes a long time and a lot of work to make it shameful again.