Paul Bowes

this is exactly what's happening

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

1 in 8 Americans rely on SNAP…

Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

2/ What got my and our reader's attention though are the posters in support of it.

US Department of Labor launches Project Firewall to protect America’s highly skilled workforce

A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

I hope Trump appreciates that he has just given any would-be assassin their justification. In a state of lawlessness, nobody is safe. Hobbes called this the 'state of nature'. Highly appropriate for Trump, who is after all 'nasty, brutish, and shorter than he claims to be'.

(I paraphrase.)

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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In Spencer, Ok, a MAGA POS hung a massive banner reading “ICE Needed Here” across from an elementary school; its red arrow aimed at his Hispanic neighbor’s home.
He scrawled “Deport Them All” nearby. Parents are furious. “My children go to this school. We will not tolerate this,” said one mom.

Katie Lam’s anti-immigrant rhetoric sounds a lot like that of the 1930s The Kent MP is espousing views that would have barred entry to her own ancestors when they were fleeing the Nazis

The anti-migrant language about "cultural coherence" used by rising Tory star Katie Lam sounds very much like the 1930s, when her grandmother found sanctuary in the UK www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Leo Strauss’ Ambivalent Liberalism illiberalism.org | Matthew McManus on Leo Strauss' relationship to liberalism, modernity, and antiquity, and how Strauss' views have been taken up by his followers and critics, plus their relevance today.

Really interesting @mattpolprof.bsky.social piece on the real foundations of modern liberal egalitarianism and the right's enduring attachments to hierarchy and subjugation, which very much define MAGA:
www.illiberalism.org/leo-strauss-...

Trump and MAGA spent the last 4 years saying that Lula was an evil communist who illegally persecuted his friend Bolsonaro. But now it’s “deal” time.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

a close up of a man in a suit and white shirt making a silly face . ALT: a close up of a man in a suit and white shirt making a silly face .

Zack Polanski wants to deal with Putin using "peace and diplomacy"

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Slap in the face': White House irked by a new $100M pro-AI super PAC A super PAC called Leading the Future — whose backers include Trump donors — plans to support AI-friendly candidates from both political parties during the 2026 midterm elections.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
White House is threatening some of Silicon Valley’s richest and most powerful players over their efforts to spearhead a $100 million midterm strategy to back candidates of both parties who support a national framework for artificial intelligence regulations.

Conservatives are terrified of losing more voters to Reform. Regardless of what they may think privately, in public they will always minimise Reform's racism and xenophobia, because they know that their own voters are likely to share it. It won't help them: they have backed themselves into a corner.

Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist.

Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy If Zuckerberg deliberately enables advertisers to microtarget weight-insecure girls with content that will push them to suicide, then we are living in an unprecedented dystopia ruled by the sickest of...

Why The Bad Guys Keep Winning: A 500-Word Manifesto Against The Shitocracy
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CAN I HAVE LINKS

because I wrote about how they didn’t see the working class if they were brown or understand how education was really working

And got told that because of where I lived I was still elite

But the dude who inherited 7 figures from daddy on a farm was “working class”

Leftwinger Catherine Connolly wins Ireland presidential election by landslide Heather Humphreys concedes defeat after early vote tallies show insurmountable gap between candidates

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Jasmine Crockett: “This administration is racist. He has always been a racist. The culture is created at the top. We know that we have a racist at the top. Everybody has decided it’s okay to take off their hoods and mask up as ICE agents. It reminds me of the klan.”

The existence of that power argues that the American legal system has no mechanism to correct egregious miscarriages of justice. If that is the case, the answer is not to give a random individual the power arbitrarily to set aside legal verdicts: it is to create a genuinely independent review body.

At a certain point, you are entitled to ask whether anybody could be *that* stupid.

Because if the answer is 'no', then it's malice.

I was born at the children’s hospital in Washington DC