Patrick Rogers

Murmuring Heads

Cartoon with two frames. The first frame has a choice between two red buttons first one says "senile pedofile" The second one says "democracy." The second frame shows someone sweating trying to choose.

It's a tough choice, I know. #savedemocracy

In the past week I've eaten Panda Express, Taco Bell, Teriyaki King and pizza. It's not that hard! Sometimes I'll go to Jack in the Box and get a hamburger, two tacos and egg rolls. 3 cultures in one meal!

Polling bias is also a thing. Polls already encapsulate disenfranchisement into their "likely voter" models, for example.

Media won't cover it, but there are persistent rumors of ICE detention facilities being run as brothels.

It's the circle of life!

Interesting that the only real change between the primary and now is that the Republicans have really gone all in on protecting pedophiles from prosecution. Draw your own conclusions about Dugan from that.

I have my own trillion dollar business model on similar lines. It involves me just sending fraudulent invoices for $1,000,000 to 1 million businesses. Viola! Instant trillionaire!

the thing to take from Cuomo—a politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albany—having a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.

“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.”

~Mary Karr

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Age verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before

The UK age verification rollout, chaotic as it is, is a proving ground for platforms that are looking ahead to using it on a global scale. In the US, there’s never been a better time to get educated and get loud about the dangers of this legislation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Almost like conservatives don't actually believe in free speech or protecting private property as a general principle. It's as if they only care about protecting *their* property, and anytime they claimed otherwise was in bad faith.

Adam Schiff is patently corrupt. This might be the one random time a Trumpie is actually trying the truth.

Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’ Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care.

“Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

This is par for the course for the NYT. Pretend to be a legitimate journalism outlet when either nothing is on the line, or actually changing anything is no longer feasible. But when it matters, all the reporting is falsehoods about WMDs, or illegal immigrant caravans, or the price of eggs.

This is the sort of piece that should have been featured nonstop in the New York Times from August through November last year.

Outside the US, people more easily recognize the NYT as a valueless gossip rag, hence the lower price. I'm personally astonished that anyone anywhere pays money at all to subscribe. Wordle isn't THAT essential.

Here are when the 17 Dems who voted against the Sanders resolution are up for reelection:

2026:
Booker
Coons
Hickenlooper
Peters
Warner

2028:
Blumenthal
Cortez Mastro
Fetterman
Hassan
Padilla
Schumer
Wyden
Bennet

2030:
Cantwell
Gillibrand
Rosen
Schiff

They're looking ahead to the collapse of coffee production from climate change and just breaking our coffee addiction early.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Anytime US policy is objectively bad or counter productive or doesn't make sense, it's pretty much always because of racism.

Establishment support for Israel lost Harris the election and gave us Trump 2.0. Democratic party leadership traded away our country to protect Israel from punishment for war crimes. That will be the legacy of Biden, Harris Pelosi, Schumer, et al.

It's almost like everything the right has ever argued was said in bad faith.

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."

Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

Remember, post-truth really came into its own during the Bush admin. How many billions of did grifters make selling the Iraq War? Did Obama make sure any of them paid a price? No. Same for Trump, did Biden prioritize prosecuting any of the serious crimes? No. It's proliferating because it pays.

A colorized photo of Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a femme in uniform holding a rifle. Quote text: "Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children, and old folks. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives. " -Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

A true role model for today.

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The WaPo bemoaning misinformation and the dumbing down of American public intellect is peak irony.