Embracing any religion is an exercise of self-deception, especially when belief involves ignoring evidence, or rationality. Then there is the issue of trusting any Christian when they believe that they receive absolution for absolutely any transgression, because Jesus.

It’s a credible narrative, well documented, and consistent with the Trumpian idiocracy

Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

3) What fraction of this group represents people who have ended their education without a college degree, and have independently accessed these sources? I am curious about the demographics of people without degrees who have independently accessed reliable sources.

2) What fractions of this group represent groups like high school students, and college students who have not completed their degree programs? Are they accessing these sources, because their parents rely on these sources, or are they accessing these sources independently? ...

1) I am curious about the people without college degrees that access reliable sources of news, or investigative journalism, e.g. the 38% share without a college degree that read "The Atlantic," or the 59% share without a college degree that access PBS for news ...

Statement from the King Family on the Release of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Files:

Part II bsky.app/profile/leta...

Part I bsky.app/profile/leta...

Fuck Christo-fascists

... of course, 50% of voters must also be bullies

Sociopathy = Assh*le personality disorder. I'm mystified how Trump hasn't been punched his entire life. From your essay, " (sociopaths) display a ... pervasive ... disregard for ... others ... violation of social norms, rules ... deceitfulness, impulsivity ... aggression ... a lack of ... empathy."

I’m wondering how much time he has been imprisoned for his previous convictions

Wait for Usha to rephrase this

Don’t make watch a video. That reduces you to clickbait. Clickbait = Fraud. You are clearly too lazy to write.

Clearly, there are too many detectives in a certain unit, because this is trivial, and meaningless.

Seriously? You are taking pride in this moment?

“First, kill all the CEO’s” - Shakespeare

Budgets as Propaganda Trump's budget proposal formalizes the paranoid style as government policy

New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts.

Lets take a look. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...

Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison (Gift Article) New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Shared NYT Article, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

It is part of the extinction debt formula.

Here are some Nice mushrooms, literally, a "variety of Mushrooms at the Liberation Indoor Market in Nice, France," (credit "My French Life")

YouTube video by Philomena Cunk Philomena Cunk vs Prof. Brian Cox

youtu.be/Vi039BihSAk?...

Will @marcelias.bsky.social sue for libel over the statement regarding him in the memorandum?

Cuban is so out of touch for posting this, that it offers evidence that what Nick Hanauer warned 10 years ago, that a day will come when the pitchforks would tear into every single billionaire regardless political orientation.

So, reading the article, I am also struck - in addition to the OPSEC catastrophe - by how shallow the strategic thinking here is.

Maybe that's just always the way it is, but all the concerns are domestic politics and messaging. No one asks, "will these strikes accomplish anything and if so, what?"

Damn. Imagine the alternate universe where Hayes won the role of Romeo in his high school play.