If it's not by design, it's just as effective, Trump breaking this country, institution by institution. He's a conman, a lecher and a traitor. He cannot perish from this Earth soon enough. I hope the Center for American Progress does everything in its power to use this suit against it to discover and publicize the depths of Trump's depravity. There has NEVER been more of a SLAPP case, and this man's abuse of court is pathetic and laughable. Trump needs to feel real pain in court. In launching a fight with CAP, he may have picked the huckleberry to make that happen.
I feel for Guard members. A lot of them are just kids, or else people just starting out in life, who see Guard duty as an opportunity to help their communities in addition to their chosen professions. Why wouldn't Trump -- an idle nepo baby who has always been envious of people who didn't have to rely of grift -- want to fuck that up? It pleases Daddy Vlad, after all.
Please join me in my ongoing effort to make the name Trump so unspeakable that, once he is gone, it shall taste of ashes to anyone who dares speak it.
FYI: Every person deployed signed up FOR THIS DEPLOYMENT. This was an entirely voluntary deployment, not mandatory. The NG makes lots of these opportunities available to NG members. They are a great way to learn new skills, practice skills, and stay involved.
But...EVERY SINGLE PERSON NG MEMBER in DC signed up to be there and point their weapons at citizens. They went because they believed that orange bag of shit's rhetoric and lies.
<An Ohio principal allowed a homeless student to stay in school, and it cost him his job. He has no regrets.>
Clunky headline. He took a student into his home and out of a dangerous situation. He let him attend the school when the district said no. They fired him. He chose the kid over his job.
So, a homeless kid isn't allowed to attend school if they are homeless? WTF???? OK I read further but STILL none of this makes any sense to me. FUCK the school board idiots!!!
They get up to all sorts of hinky mess in "leadership" in the Midwest
I mean -- they're letting Vivek Ramaswamy run for governor when he basically built his wealth on a faked patent and insider trading (with his mother's help, no less)
And before someone says "Administration/regime" as opposed to "country" I'll refrain from reminding people the country's vast wealth was built on racism and genocide and instead remind them that after the Katrina disaster mostly Black people were permanently displaced -- and now the racist gentrifiers are moving in and "developing" the region
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post has come out with its plan to "save" Social Security. It's fairly simple: means test benefits. They don't even mention the possibility of raising taxes. They don't engage with the fact that means testing Social Security doesn't even "save" Social Security unless you apply it quite harshly to those now receiving Social Security or you use vast amounts of general revenues to make up the difference, something they dismiss off the top.
You'd never guess that the Post is owned by Jeff Bezos who's worth more than $280 billion.
Right wing think tanks and editorial pages seem to be coalescing around means testing Social Security as their demand for "saving" Social Security. I think Republicans in Congress will stand behind this demand -- way behind it, like on a different continent.
The Democratic plan is to lift the cap on FICA. That's vastly more popular with the public than turning Social Security into a "welfare" program. As someone once said, a program for poor people is a poor program. Democrats aren't agreeing to means testing.
Do remind Bozo Bezos and his Presstitutes at the Whitewashington Post that Social Security benefits have been means tested ever since Pruneface Reagan signed the 1983 Amendments that made them taxable...
I mean, as a former resident and forever Mountaineer in my heart, it depends on how you define "unprotected." If it's heart disease, cancer, or large-scale corporate abuse? Then yes, we're wildly unprotected. If it's something you can run to the hills over and shoot at? We're good.
You’re saying West Virginians might be equipped to fend off my Soros-funded militia, despite their national guard being elsewhere? Back to the drawing board, folks.
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
Do not forget that Nazi Vought has repeatedly said that he answers to God, Trump and nobody else...This Nazi should be arrested and tossed in jail for the rest of his sick perverted life.
The decline in ticket sales at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was made even worse after Donald Trump’s name was added to the venue, according to a report.
The president’s controversial MAGA takeover of the center in Washington, D.C., last year drove audiences away, and performers pulled out of scheduled shows.
However, analysis from The Washington Post found that the dire situation at the Kennedy Center was exacerbated after Trump’s name was added to the building in December 2025. The rapid decline in ticket sales and fleeing donors means that the center is on course to generate around $100 million less in total revenue than it had anticipated.
This is despite those connected to the MAGA rebrand of the Kennedy Center insisting that renaming it would be crucial to stave off financial ruin, even as they knew the true extent of the declining numbers.
In June, after a judge ordered Trump’s name to be removed from the venue, a Justice Department lawyer tried to argue that renaming the center after the president was necessary because it “represented a saving of The Kennedy Center which, if this doesn’t happen, would go into financial and structural collapse.”
One official familiar with the center’s finances said that while it took a “huge hit” in the months after the president installed himself as chairman, it was an “absolute fiscal cliff” when Trump’s name was added to the building.
“Donors disappeared, ticket sales disappeared, artists disappeared—like it was doomsday,” they told the Post.
In total, officials at the center estimate that the venue’s budget target will fall short by 70 percent and contributed revenue will decline by 25 percent, leaving it with a $23 million deficit.
Trump installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center last February after branding the arts venue too “woke.” Trump brought in MAGA loyalist Richard Grenell to lead the institution, despite his lack of experience
Think about what the NG could be doing for, oh, let’s say Gary Indiana right now. The kind of thing that should be their mission, imo. Distributing water and food and setting up generators and going door to door to check on folks.
But no. We get this fascist performative bullshit.
If it's not by design, it's just as effective, Trump breaking this country, institution by institution. He's a conman, a lecher and a traitor. He cannot perish from this Earth soon enough. I hope the Center for American Progress does everything in its power to use this suit against it to discover and publicize the depths of Trump's depravity. There has NEVER been more of a SLAPP case, and this man's abuse of court is pathetic and laughable. Trump needs to feel real pain in court. In launching a fight with CAP, he may have picked the huckleberry to make that happen.
I feel for Guard members. A lot of them are just kids, or else people just starting out in life, who see Guard duty as an opportunity to help their communities in addition to their chosen professions. Why wouldn't Trump -- an idle nepo baby who has always been envious of people who didn't have to rely of grift -- want to fuck that up? It pleases Daddy Vlad, after all.
Please join me in my ongoing effort to make the name Trump so unspeakable that, once he is gone, it shall taste of ashes to anyone who dares speak it.
FYI: Every person deployed signed up FOR THIS DEPLOYMENT. This was an entirely voluntary deployment, not mandatory. The NG makes lots of these opportunities available to NG members. They are a great way to learn new skills, practice skills, and stay involved.
But...EVERY SINGLE PERSON NG MEMBER in DC signed up to be there and point their weapons at citizens. They went because they believed that orange bag of shit's rhetoric and lies.
https://www.nationalguard.mil/About-the-Guard/Army-National-Guard/Resources/Soldier-Resources/Guard-Tours/
“it's going to completely rebrand everything that was noble about the National Guard into being mundane at best and threatening at worst.”
Wow, just motherfucking wow!
Goddamned NICE TIME!
<An Ohio principal allowed a homeless student to stay in school, and it cost him his job. He has no regrets.>
Clunky headline. He took a student into his home and out of a dangerous situation. He let him attend the school when the district said no. They fired him. He chose the kid over his job.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-principal-lakota-east-high-school-begknows-america/
So, a homeless kid isn't allowed to attend school if they are homeless? WTF???? OK I read further but STILL none of this makes any sense to me. FUCK the school board idiots!!!
Right? Show me the bad thing he did.
It's Ohio
They get up to all sorts of hinky mess in "leadership" in the Midwest
I mean -- they're letting Vivek Ramaswamy run for governor when he basically built his wealth on a faked patent and insider trading (with his mother's help, no less)
While all shitty, was anyone punished for it? This is why we're here - scammers and criminals allowed to thrive and not punished.
If this were not such an appallingly racist country the Guard could be in Gary helping people
https://bsky.app/profile/allinwithchris.bsky.social/post/3mtuphnavds26
https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.app/post/3mtjkvirz722e
And before someone says "Administration/regime" as opposed to "country" I'll refrain from reminding people the country's vast wealth was built on racism and genocide and instead remind them that after the Katrina disaster mostly Black people were permanently displaced -- and now the racist gentrifiers are moving in and "developing" the region
https://www.youtube.com/live/DtJOEx2bs7g?is=ZdYVjmJOYi6En2AN
The first thing my daughter said when I was telling her what was going on in Gary was, "It's a Black city, right?"
Smart daughter gets an "A" today with bonus points for speed reaching her correct conclusion since such things matter in emergencies
She was young, but she watched a lot of the Katrina footage at the time and has never forgotten. It informs the way she thinks.
Putin is proud.
Xi is laughing.
Melania is shopping resort wear . . .
Natalie is shopping for jogging/golf shoes with heels.
"Show me all the troops I can make patrol inside the country." - l'orange
Aren’t most Buc-ee’s locations off interstates, by definition away from where people live?
Anyway, while I still appreciate the cleanliness of their bathrooms, John Oliver has convinced me that they are run by assholes.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J6OzxDLdnZ0
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CC-23tVxvNw
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post has come out with its plan to "save" Social Security. It's fairly simple: means test benefits. They don't even mention the possibility of raising taxes. They don't engage with the fact that means testing Social Security doesn't even "save" Social Security unless you apply it quite harshly to those now receiving Social Security or you use vast amounts of general revenues to make up the difference, something they dismiss off the top.
You'd never guess that the Post is owned by Jeff Bezos who's worth more than $280 billion.
Right wing think tanks and editorial pages seem to be coalescing around means testing Social Security as their demand for "saving" Social Security. I think Republicans in Congress will stand behind this demand -- way behind it, like on a different continent.
The Democratic plan is to lift the cap on FICA. That's vastly more popular with the public than turning Social Security into a "welfare" program. As someone once said, a program for poor people is a poor program. Democrats aren't agreeing to means testing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/08/24/social-security-medicare-insolvency-is-coming-here-are-solutions/
Do remind Bozo Bezos and his Presstitutes at the Whitewashington Post that Social Security benefits have been means tested ever since Pruneface Reagan signed the 1983 Amendments that made them taxable...
WHY? I mean, why do they care? The money people get from SS during retirement is pocket change to them. Leave us the fuck alone.
Killing off SS has been a right-wing Crusade ever since it began.
NO
NOOOOOO
BEZOS DOESN'T EVEN PAY INTO THE SYSTEM
AND THAT IS ALREADY THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY PAID INTO THE SYSTEM
I find it enraging when rich bigots try to prey on the ignorance of Americans to steal more than they already have done
Lift the F***ing Cap
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3ljekmjeidc2s
I am NOT taking suggestions from RICH bags of shit.
hasn't that always been their go-to "solution"? Well, that and privatization.
Just ... don't even entertain it
Shut it down early
https://www.wonkette.com/p/guardsmen-deployed-in-dc-maybe-dont/comment/322308029
If only they'd been warned...
They didn't sign up for this...
I have a sad.
Later.
*sigh*
No wonder the national debt is > $40 trillion.
In two more years $100 trillion or bust!
the likes of which the world has never seen
So does this mean West Virginia is “unprotected”? Hmmm (scratches chin thoughtfully…)
I mean, as a former resident and forever Mountaineer in my heart, it depends on how you define "unprotected." If it's heart disease, cancer, or large-scale corporate abuse? Then yes, we're wildly unprotected. If it's something you can run to the hills over and shoot at? We're good.
You’re saying West Virginians might be equipped to fend off my Soros-funded militia, despite their national guard being elsewhere? Back to the drawing board, folks.
I mean. As much as it normally is. They're not great w/ the infrastructure there right now.
CUTENESS BREAK
https://substack.com/profile/541164525-og-cookie-lady-less-stabby/note/c-322294606?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=8y717x
Now back to our regularly scheduled bouts of fascism….
I LOVE IT.
I don't have the muscles to do this with Linus :(
Same. My girls are 68-70 lbs which doesn’t seem like much but would definitely be difficult to balance on a bicycle.
I love how he had his arms around daddy's shoulders :D
He is definitely a cutie! And so is his dog :)
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
https://www.alternet.org/russell-vought-2677770299/
Do not forget that Nazi Vought has repeatedly said that he answers to God, Trump and nobody else...This Nazi should be arrested and tossed in jail for the rest of his sick perverted life.
"You cannot serve both God and mammon."
--some itinerant preacher in 30 CE
Fuck that traitorous asshole. He needs to go. To Hell.
https://substack.com/@theatomickid/note/c-300218258?r=8k8949&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
He's a sick freak.
The decline in ticket sales at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was made even worse after Donald Trump’s name was added to the venue, according to a report.
The president’s controversial MAGA takeover of the center in Washington, D.C., last year drove audiences away, and performers pulled out of scheduled shows.
However, analysis from The Washington Post found that the dire situation at the Kennedy Center was exacerbated after Trump’s name was added to the building in December 2025. The rapid decline in ticket sales and fleeing donors means that the center is on course to generate around $100 million less in total revenue than it had anticipated.
This is despite those connected to the MAGA rebrand of the Kennedy Center insisting that renaming it would be crucial to stave off financial ruin, even as they knew the true extent of the declining numbers.
In June, after a judge ordered Trump’s name to be removed from the venue, a Justice Department lawyer tried to argue that renaming the center after the president was necessary because it “represented a saving of The Kennedy Center which, if this doesn’t happen, would go into financial and structural collapse.”
One official familiar with the center’s finances said that while it took a “huge hit” in the months after the president installed himself as chairman, it was an “absolute fiscal cliff” when Trump’s name was added to the building.
“Donors disappeared, ticket sales disappeared, artists disappeared—like it was doomsday,” they told the Post.
In total, officials at the center estimate that the venue’s budget target will fall short by 70 percent and contributed revenue will decline by 25 percent, leaving it with a $23 million deficit.
Trump installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center last February after branding the arts venue too “woke.” Trump brought in MAGA loyalist Richard Grenell to lead the institution, despite his lack of experience
https://www.thedailybeast.com/embarrassing-secret-about-trumps-kennedy-center-rebrand-exposed/
this is why he wanted to "close it for renovation"; to have some alternative explanation for its fiscal decline.
Probably the only good thing to come of it is that the National Symphony Orchestra is going to be on tour during the 'renovations'.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/music/national-symphony-orchestra-announces-season-outside-the-kennedy-center/ar-AA2ao24l
I don't believe they ever took his name off the building when the court order came through. That's why the tarps never came down.
They did remove the letters. But the tarps remained because the plan was to put his name back up, somehow.
At the time, I expected them to chisel it into the facade, but it sounds like they've come up with other alternatives.
They make me SO tired.
I think people saw the workers remove the letters.
ETTD
Everything!
Anyone with a trace of cultural awareness despises him.
"the center is on course to generate around $100 million less in total revenue than it had anticipated."
Oh Christ--Donald the Terrible will use that as an excuse to privatize it and hand it off to one of his billionaire sycophants, won't he?
In case anyone thinks that putting the Trump brand on their building would be a good financial decision.
Think about what the NG could be doing for, oh, let’s say Gary Indiana right now. The kind of thing that should be their mission, imo. Distributing water and food and setting up generators and going door to door to check on folks.
But no. We get this fascist performative bullshit.
Trump perpetually destroys more than he creates but apparently a lot of voters wanted that to be the mission.
"what the NG could be doing for, oh, let’s say Gary Indiana right now"
See also: Reno/Washoe County, Nevada FFS...
Memphis, TN also too
Note how the RepubliKKKlan Governor of Indiana isn't lifting a finger to help Gary either.
Not surprising for a state where the KKK had total political control 100 years ago...
The governor of Indiana is such a tool; so is the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state and the attorney general.