Michael Clark

YouTube video by Pérez Prado - Topic Mambo No. 5

Just a thought about wrong footing ICE thugs in public confrontations. Have protestors considered the optics of blockading them simply by dancing, maybe to old timey Latin music?

Can't imagine how Pam Bondi would justify images of Trump's goons rushing and violently bashing mambo dancers.

Even the Mamluks, slave mercenaries of the Ottoman rulers, were paid for their service. This statement of the MAGA ethos should give Americans pause. Who do they think *we* serve? Who is it unnecessary and inappropriate to pay for their labor?

Even the Mamluks, slave mercenaries of the Ottoman rulers, were paid for their service. This statement of the MAGA ethos should give Americans pause. Who do they think *we* serve?

The speech was greeted with stone cold silence by the general officers in attendance.

10 yrs ago I spent vast effort trying to get the most basic facts about Bondi's AG career into her WP page. A partisan troll kept trying to obstruct - often arguing that the cited facts & sources were portraying her as implausibly shameless.

Normie WP editors almost always accepted that argument!

Sounds just like a man who has a ready plan to hide from the truth whenever it isn't on his side.

A very sharp weapon for Democrats if they just resolve not to take a defensive crouch over the shut down but instead keep making the case that Republicans are so out of the minds & intransigent on one-party power they're now refusing to accept the results of any congressional election the GOP loses.

A hostile VC takeover of a once great news organization. Nobody henceforth should cite or discuss CBS News reporting with any more credence or respect than a tweet or a public insult or a Nazi salute coming from any of our reviled tech oligarchs.

There's a story to be told about a shitty Civil War historian, the USNA, some comically extreme sucking up to Harrison Ford, the filming of Patriot Games, and the first time I heard somebody spouting 'they didn't try hard enough to win'. But it's too nauseating to tell in these v nauseating times.

Thanks I deleted it.

Thanks it's deleted

The adolescent Artemis! What a charmer.

In my youth older Italians would tell you fondly about how when the fascists realized they were cooked, they began to slip away first in a trickle & then suddenly almost all went to ground or fled in a rush - often in disguise. Sometimes they were caught on the edge of town. They know they're hated.

Bari Weiss' opinion on merit in the university was expressly that the only professors who merited continued employment were those who shared her own political opinions. Infamously she tried to impose that POV at Columbia.

He's an abuser and a narcissist; checks out.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

Yep, it's Vance's way of saying "you don't really rate". No coincidence it's closely analogous to the racist trope that slaves and their descendants ought to be grateful for how much they benefited at the hands of the slavers.

Vance is very special and this is his very special version of 'You should smile more!'

Still recall fondly when George Will started pretending he was an expert on baseball. When I was a research assistant to the architectural historian Wm. MacDonald, he would always greet me when I walked in his office by reading roguishly Will's latest column - punctuated by gales of laughter.

Trump administration considers minting a $1 Trump coin The U.S. treasurer said on Friday that Treasury is considering minting new one-dollar coins for the nation's 250th anniversary featuring President Trump's image.

When did we decide in the US that we want this man to get all up in our grill every damn day about everything? He won't leave us alone, and now we're supposed to carry around a graven image of his stupid face in our pocket?

Democratic governors need to declare that this will not be valid currency.

Focusing on health insurance premium hikes right now is re-arranging deck chairs on a sinking submarine.

if you abandon a principle the first time it under performs electorally, it was never a principle in the first place, it was just a pose.

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

There are no more constraints on a president’s ability to use military force, and this president is using all that power to target civilians. All Americans should be extremely alarmed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

It's fascinating to watch ppl and institutions behave as if they don't understand the mindset of abusers.

'We're just gonna concede a little bit more to this person and maybe it'll work out for the best for us in the end who knows seems legit that thing too you say yes of course that as well.'

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

"It was not clear how these schools were selected or why."

Pretty clear to me why Brown was chosen. It already bent a knee to Trump the first time he decided to extort the university. It's why I asked them to nullify my degree, bc I don't want any association with their new authoritarian project.

Headline of WSJ op ed by Rahm Emanuel: "Democrats Need an Education Reset. Covid closings deservedly hurt our reputation. To regain public trust, we need to embrace reform." https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-need-an-education-reset-c70711de

List of the 15 states having the worst test scores in 2025 for their public schools. Every state on this list except New Mexico is Republican dominated. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-school-rankings-by-state

This troll knows nothing about education. The worst schools are in Republican run states.

Personally I don't care what ppl think who wanted more children and teachers to die of Covid in 2020.

This is curious. I always thought that outdoor feral cats almost never purr to avoid drawing attention.

1/ My Jane Goodall story: I had heard speak when I was a kid; I don't remember if my parents took me up to meet her after the talk.

A few years later I was 14 and we were visiting my uncle at his farm on Salisbury plain in Hampshire.

One afternoon we were summoned into the sitting room for tea...

U.S. Navy relieves aircraft carrier commander who wrote letter urging coronavirus action The U.S. Navy relieved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt's captain of his command on Thursday, punishing him for the leak of a scathing letter he sent to superiors that sought stronger measures for curbing a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship.

Hegseth defends soldiers who didn't want to get the COVID vaccine, which reminds me of this:

www.reuters.com/article/worl...

But evidently drunkards are welcome in Hegseth's military.