Christopher Lucas

My Friend Leatherface Remembering a creative conservationist as plutocrats take a chainsaw to Texas.

New article! On "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the plutocrat class ripping America apart: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...

Agree 100% w @davidcorn.bsky.social

Trump talked about "Shylock bankers" last week. Which didn't make front page.

Instead this crap about menace of Ivy league antisemitism.

(FWIW GOP has never had Jewish national-ticket nominee. Four of past six prez of Harvard have been Jewish, including now)

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:

Paramount, President Trump reach $16 million settlement over "60 Minutes" lawsuit Paramount has agreed to settle President Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris for $16 million, the company announced late Tuesday.

"The lawsuit was filed in Amarillo, Texas, a portion of a federal district court where the sole judge is a 2019 Trump appointee... CBS News is not headquartered in Texas, nor did the interview take place there." www.cbsnews.com/news/paramou...

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer The Concentration Camp Tendency Goes Global | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What

A good time for people to familiarize themselves with the best way to understand Trump II:

The Concentration Camp Tendency.

Out here in rural America, where we already wait weeks and weeks for absolutely necessary tests and scans. Agonizing waits.

So tired of having to look at these people’s fetishes in public.

NPR and PBS Are More Than “Tiny Desk” and “Daniel Tiger” They Are Critical to Public Safety WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, today released a Snapshot Report that highlights data on public broadcasters across the United States and broadcasters' role in responding to emergencies and public safety events. In rural areas, public broadcasters may be the sole source of information during emergencies, leaving them disproportionately impacted by federal funding cuts.

This study on the impact of NPR and PBS stations, released by U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., highlights stations serve 13 million people in areas threatened by hurricanes, tornadoes, disasters where the stations are an important source of information. https://loom.ly/GzzWg0M

Pay no attention to the 250K behind the curtain

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations.

He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

If there’s a lower age limit for presidents, we can have an upper age limit.

Trump so scared he used the teleprompter

Abolish ICE. Treat them like the kidnappers they are.

WTH?

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.

Growing into a real Maoist vibe here

In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

This really is a remarkable story

Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican bans New emblems approved by city councils in defiance of bans on ‘unofficial flags’ on government property

Salt Lake City!

They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

“Racial preferences” - pretty ugly look, CHE

The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty The internet is up in arms about Pope Francis's tomb, and it's all because of lettering.

Just reading up on the calamitous Pope Francis kerning scandal.

At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

Shari Redstone kept tabs on ’60 Minutes’ segments on Trump Tensions between CBS and parent company Paramount culminated in the resignation of a longtime producer this week.

New: Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know about upcoming 60 Minutes stories involving Trump. It was part of an increase in scrutiny of 60 Minutes that resulted in producer Bill Owens' departure from the network www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.