Central Coast FOG

Define "belittle" and then explain how the government punishing it isn't a violation of the 1st Amendment.

Beyond disgusting.

Partisan gerrymanders may be legal, but only because SCOTUS said so. They are anti-democratic measures used by a party that fears losing power to hold onto control, a mechanism that lets parties choose their voters instead of letting voters choose who will represent them.

Vance’s is a white guy whose entire political career was handed to him by billionaires — a career also fueled by the grievance that U.S. institutions conspire against white guys.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

And the Maxi-Grift continues apace, while American commercial/corporate media chooses to ignore it out of fear and its own economic interests.

Sadly, penalties for violating the Hatch Act are simply removal from federal service, demotion, suspension, reprimand, or a civil penalty of up to $1,000. When Trump is gone, the clowns who do this will be gone too. So we are looking at a max of $1,000 penalty.

True, Hegseth is an idiot, undeserving of applause, but, in this situation, any applause would be totally inappropriate.

Okay, for anyone without military experience, let me point out that before Hegseth left, the assembly was ordered to “attention.” That is standing in silence. It would be contrary to military decorum to applaud when standing at attention.

Copenhagen?

And we have been saying this for a long, long time. This is what happens when life is lived within the Fox News world.
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The oil stooge running the Energy Dept. just banned the words 'climate change' Since science, public opinion, and everything else isn't on their side, they're just banning reality now in their mission to harm America.

Evey day, someone in the Trump regime does something that feels like the entire country is being punked. For example, the oil stooge running the Dept of Energy has banned the use of the words, "climate change." Yep, that fixes the problem, for sure.
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I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

True. The Army taught me to dislike two things: camping and guns.

Trump's deal to sell TikTok won't just enrich his billionaire pal Larry Ellison.

It also gives UAE investment firm MGX — a key business partner of the Trump family's crypto company — a major ownership stake and board seat at TikTok.

Everything is for sale.

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Why isn't the damage Trump & Hegseth are doing to US military readiness a bigger issue? Beyond Hegseth's incompetence, his mismanagement of his own staff, his security breaches, we have seen resources improperly redirected to the borders, to policing our cities, and to impossible projects...

Trump's corrupt prosecutions of enemies as "retribution" for legitimate fact-based prosecutions of him are really about the core authoritarian goal of erasing the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence.

This new firing is all about that. Thoughts on this here:

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So all the money that Trump brags about his tariffs generating will go to a farming relief bill. In other words, a huge tax bill for American consumers will fund a MAGA farmers bailout.

And the Roberts Court sets the timing for the overruling of a very long established precedent (this time one 90 years old), and prepares to say that the clear language of an enacted and long observed federal statute mean nothing.

It’s not just Silicon Valley..,,

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

This is the most corrupt and disgusting thing I think I’ve ever seen from a president. A blatantly impeachable offense. Republicans in Congress will say and do nothing.

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.”

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“They aren’t allowed to do that”? Sure, they are. It’s called freedom, clearly a foreign concept to Trump.

"Ownership matters. When you've got Paramount that has all these other business interests, they have made deals to protect their other interests. Same thing with Bezos. Same thing with the Walt Disney Company. I'm hoping the New York Times is going to hold the line," says @krforde.bsky.social.

Surrendering to tyranny only invites more of it.