Since my US Senators (Tillis and Budd)do not seem to be unduly upset by the Trump takeover of the United States, I sent them a message this morning:
Senator: I can tell you are in on the Trump fix to be a dictator. If he doesn't get all that he wants he will declare martial law since he runs his administration as if everything is an emergency. Since you have consistently denied your oath of office and Trump's takeover of the United States Government, you are hereby warned: YOU WILL BE NEXT. He constructs a government of goons, thugs, and a man who believe people should die because HE doesn't believe in vaccinations. This means death for millions of people. This happened the last time Trump was president, it is history, not fantasy. It is not the economy, Senator, it is the Government, a government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump. Not us, not you, not anyone but the Orange Fascist. You will be replaced. You ready? Pack your things or fight for your nation.
"He still griped that while “I get along great with the mayor, but they’re not doing the job. Too much crime. Too much graffiti. […] Too many tents on the lawns of these magnificent lawns, and there’s tents.” National crisis stuff." Is this literally what the doddering idiot said?
Speaking of homeless people, and how much they obviously offend Dear Leader, Houston has the second highest number of homeless people in America. The warm weather contributes to the large number of them sleeping in the business district's largest park and populating the main branch of the city library by day. But obviously that doesn't bother Trump. Coincidentally, Texas is governed by Trump's staunch ally, Greg Abbott, who doesn't seem to mind Houston's very real homeless crisis.
So if you think sending the military to remove these unfortunate people (who are the most politically powerless of all people living in America) is that orange faced asshole's real agenda, my response is, hell no.
The hypocrites who "govern" could have solved the problem of homelessness many years ago. But they made the choice not to. Trump is no different. Putting people in jail who have not committed any crimes seems to be something he enjoys.
Jamie Raskin, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett and Bernie and AOC--they can't do it by themselves. They ARE doing it, fearlessly and tirelessly, and we should never overlook that. But Dem "leadership," especially in the Senate, has to get with the program. And the program is FIGHT. NOW.
Because the battle is not for 2026. Or rather, the battle for 2026 is NOW. I can carry my sign to protests but I'm just me. Dick Durbin? You gotta wake the fuck up. Before it's really over.
Evidently, mainstream media prefers bowing to the Orange King. We have a new Adolph Hitler running things and our Republican congresspeople are on board with the switch to a dictatorship.
They're afraid of him. It's that simple. Trump's been using the courts for decades to scare off the people who are a danger to him. It's worked. Thousands of workers he stiffed out of their pay, businesses he scammed, and all those bankruptcies were just practice for the biggest grifts of his entire miserable life.
He's become a self-made dictator. He started by changing the names of historic places such as the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali, the names of military ships, and removing Black history from museums and schools. Now he wants to change the name of the Kennedy Center and alter American history as it is told by the Smithsonian. Distractions? No. This is what strongmen do. He wants his likeness carved into Mt. Rushmore and will probably demand that all businesses display his portrait in public areas.
He's a sick man who has become the most powerful one in the world thanks to the promises he has made to the richest and most influential monsters in the world. How we can fight this and win, I have no idea, but voting and peaceful protest, sending out postcards and signing petitions haven't worked.
I'm waiting for some person who has defensive training to ask, "I don't know who you are. Show me a badge, or I'll assume you're a mugger." And when they don't, that person goes all Natasha Romanoff on their ass.
I still have ALL of yesterday's articles to catch up on—I got stuck in TABS at the link to the transcript of Laura Loomer's deposition and was reading that for most of the day. Hoo-boy, is there some crazy-ass shit in there! Before I made dinner and we went to the pub last night, I was up to page 169 where it's page after page of arguing about Kamala Harris' sex life and what the meaning of "snatch" is. Fucking wild. Bolger kind of has her on the ropes at this point in the story and Loomer and her lawyer are getting pretty upset about it. I still have quite a way to go before it wraps up, I think, so I'll see y'all later...
Repeatedly asking Loomer what she meants by Harris' "infested snatch," and Loomer won't answer. Bolger says something to the effect of, "I thought you said you were a First Amendment free speech warrior?" and then calls her and her lawyer cowards for not owning up to what Loomer actually wrote. It's great, and they're getting quite...frazzled.
It takes damn near forever, but Bolger is cleverly setting Loomer up by making her read every mean tweet she ever did (along with the ones that say "I love Trump so much!"). Jayzus, Loomer's a horrible person...
And how stating things as "fact" like she does is actually opinion, not fact. I'm on page 176 and it's getting more and more obvious what Bolger is doing—Loomer is now babbling, her lawyer is apoplectic...
This is better than any book I've read in a long time, lol!
I wasn't aware we had such a big inland sea on our northern border. Here I thought you could drive to Canada from NY and most of the northeastern states.
I only got that exchange secondhand, but in case you don't know, "roast beef" or "roasties" is an incel thing saying women's ladyparts look like the aforementioned substance when they've gotten used up. If you already knew, sorry for bringing it up.
I like how the American Prospect envisioned the Baileys as liberals, whereas John Oliver looked at Chuck's descriptions of them and decided they'd probably gone MAGA by now.
Since my US Senators (Tillis and Budd)do not seem to be unduly upset by the Trump takeover of the United States, I sent them a message this morning:
Senator: I can tell you are in on the Trump fix to be a dictator. If he doesn't get all that he wants he will declare martial law since he runs his administration as if everything is an emergency. Since you have consistently denied your oath of office and Trump's takeover of the United States Government, you are hereby warned: YOU WILL BE NEXT. He constructs a government of goons, thugs, and a man who believe people should die because HE doesn't believe in vaccinations. This means death for millions of people. This happened the last time Trump was president, it is history, not fantasy. It is not the economy, Senator, it is the Government, a government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump. Not us, not you, not anyone but the Orange Fascist. You will be replaced. You ready? Pack your things or fight for your nation.
Who knew it was so easy to end all crime just by saying “crime ends now”?
"He still griped that while “I get along great with the mayor, but they’re not doing the job. Too much crime. Too much graffiti. […] Too many tents on the lawns of these magnificent lawns, and there’s tents.” National crisis stuff." Is this literally what the doddering idiot said?
Speaking of homeless people, and how much they obviously offend Dear Leader, Houston has the second highest number of homeless people in America. The warm weather contributes to the large number of them sleeping in the business district's largest park and populating the main branch of the city library by day. But obviously that doesn't bother Trump. Coincidentally, Texas is governed by Trump's staunch ally, Greg Abbott, who doesn't seem to mind Houston's very real homeless crisis.
So if you think sending the military to remove these unfortunate people (who are the most politically powerless of all people living in America) is that orange faced asshole's real agenda, my response is, hell no.
The hypocrites who "govern" could have solved the problem of homelessness many years ago. But they made the choice not to. Trump is no different. Putting people in jail who have not committed any crimes seems to be something he enjoys.
Jamie Raskin, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett and Bernie and AOC--they can't do it by themselves. They ARE doing it, fearlessly and tirelessly, and we should never overlook that. But Dem "leadership," especially in the Senate, has to get with the program. And the program is FIGHT. NOW.
Because the battle is not for 2026. Or rather, the battle for 2026 is NOW. I can carry my sign to protests but I'm just me. Dick Durbin? You gotta wake the fuck up. Before it's really over.
And what have the protests accomplished? The news media doesn't even cover them.
Evidently, mainstream media prefers bowing to the Orange King. We have a new Adolph Hitler running things and our Republican congresspeople are on board with the switch to a dictatorship.
They're afraid of him. It's that simple. Trump's been using the courts for decades to scare off the people who are a danger to him. It's worked. Thousands of workers he stiffed out of their pay, businesses he scammed, and all those bankruptcies were just practice for the biggest grifts of his entire miserable life.
He's become a self-made dictator. He started by changing the names of historic places such as the Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali, the names of military ships, and removing Black history from museums and schools. Now he wants to change the name of the Kennedy Center and alter American history as it is told by the Smithsonian. Distractions? No. This is what strongmen do. He wants his likeness carved into Mt. Rushmore and will probably demand that all businesses display his portrait in public areas.
He's a sick man who has become the most powerful one in the world thanks to the promises he has made to the richest and most influential monsters in the world. How we can fight this and win, I have no idea, but voting and peaceful protest, sending out postcards and signing petitions haven't worked.
US winning again:
July - Budget Deficits
2025: $291bn versus 2024: $244bn
So tariffs revenue is meaningless in this context and whatever happened to DOGE?
And we are seeing Epstein go away, which is exactly what Trump wants.
Okay, I know the law only says for a month but does it also say how long before he can just do it again?
A very very short and highly amusing dog story by the renowned Tim Dowling, from the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/09/tim-dowling-my-wife-takes-the-dog-to-be-spayed-its-best-i-dont-go-with-her
𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘏𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦-𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘧𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘨𝘺𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴 — 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘍𝘰𝘹 𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘊 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 “𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴.”
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗖
It's happening here.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-federal-forces-dc?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=501423&post_id=170832336&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3i9ct&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE GUYS. I FUCKING DARE A DUDE WITH A HAT ON BACKWARDS AND AN (EVIL) AMAZON VEST TO ASK ME FOR MY DAMN ID.
I'm waiting for some person who has defensive training to ask, "I don't know who you are. Show me a badge, or I'll assume you're a mugger." And when they don't, that person goes all Natasha Romanoff on their ass.
Leave your families, sleep on floors, and stop the whole 5 people with guns that the cops already do? What a morale booster!
Good morning . . .
They literally look like something straight outta 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' . . .
As if military serving as police ain't bad enough, I'm sure visitors to D.C. from around the world will love seeing these beauties 😬 . . .
'Amid deep cuts, USDA spent thousands on 31-foot Trump banners'
Salon @Salon
Department also ordered but never displayed banner that featured Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins behind Trump
From salon.com
6:49 AM · Aug 13, 2025
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https://xcancel.com/Salon/status/1955582354333835664
Oh Christ, not the giant Dear Leader banners. The only place his picture belongs is the Post Office bulletin board, front and side.
They went with the picture that has half his face sliding off? I thought BB was supposed to be strong and handsome, like Stalin (or hot young Stalin).
I swear he'll want the whole Lenin's Tomb treatment.
Unless I missed 7AM, no one wants to top Dina. That's just great.
You did!
Blame Canada
Take off eh!
I still have ALL of yesterday's articles to catch up on—I got stuck in TABS at the link to the transcript of Laura Loomer's deposition and was reading that for most of the day. Hoo-boy, is there some crazy-ass shit in there! Before I made dinner and we went to the pub last night, I was up to page 169 where it's page after page of arguing about Kamala Harris' sex life and what the meaning of "snatch" is. Fucking wild. Bolger kind of has her on the ropes at this point in the story and Loomer and her lawyer are getting pretty upset about it. I still have quite a way to go before it wraps up, I think, so I'll see y'all later...
Pages 170-171:
Q: Ms. Loomer, this is another tweet of yours from June 1, 2024; can you read that to me?
MR. KLAYMAN: Continuing objection. Relevancy.
THE WITNESS: "Daddy issues got you
down, Claudia Conway? Don't hate Trump just because
he actually loves his children. How does it feel
knowing that your dad loves attacking President Trump
more than he loves you? Is that why you take your
clothes off for five dollars a month looking for other
men to call 'Daddy'? You're one sad, pathetic, broken
bitch."
BY MS. BOLGER: So she was 19 years old when you tweeted
8 this; right?
A Yeah. So what?
Wow...
"Snatch" is a verb meaning "to yoink".
Not in the context it's written, I'm afraid—like about Willie Brown "sticking his dick in that infested snatch." Loomer's a charmer, all right...
She's a real gem.
Going in hard...
Is there crazier stuff than MTG literally having roast beef in her pants?
Repeatedly asking Loomer what she meants by Harris' "infested snatch," and Loomer won't answer. Bolger says something to the effect of, "I thought you said you were a First Amendment free speech warrior?" and then calls her and her lawyer cowards for not owning up to what Loomer actually wrote. It's great, and they're getting quite...frazzled.
I may have to go read it, that sounds great!
I just got to
ON BEHALF OF PLAINTIFF LAURA LOOMER: LARRY KLAYMAN, ESQUIRE
🤣🤣🤣
Ermahgerd, not superlawyer Larry Klayman! They're in trouble now!
I'm imagining him banging his shoe on the table yelling "OBJECTION!" to everything, ha ha!
Garbage Person is so imprecise.
It takes damn near forever, but Bolger is cleverly setting Loomer up by making her read every mean tweet she ever did (along with the ones that say "I love Trump so much!"). Jayzus, Loomer's a horrible person...
Yeah, it's it's clever that Bolger establishes from the beginning that Twatter comms is speaking with others.
And how stating things as "fact" like she does is actually opinion, not fact. I'm on page 176 and it's getting more and more obvious what Bolger is doing—Loomer is now babbling, her lawyer is apoplectic...
This is better than any book I've read in a long time, lol!
It's funnier if you read it in Ving Rhames' voice.
Haha!
YES!
If it's in your pants, you can call it a "grinder".
Yep. And now I'm at the part where she's forced to read one of her own tweets about MTG "sucking McCarthy's dick all day."
This is hilariously nuts.
And yet Morning Joe is talking about baseball. Right now. Again. I swear.
Please continue reporting, you're doing bog man's work!
For now.
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LOL, I had the same thought.
𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗛. 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗻
LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/gpt-5-fake-presidents-states/?td=rt-4a
The map drawn by Gemini is truly excellent. I wish chemical additives to see the world this way were legally available here...
https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/08/08/map9.jpg
I wasn't aware we had such a big inland sea on our northern border. Here I thought you could drive to Canada from NY and most of the northeastern states.
Gelahbrin isn't too far off from Oklahoma, I guess. It's interesting to me that the AI seems to try to replicate the shape of words.
Nailed Montana and Kansas though!
"Tesas" sounds lazy.
Trump's going Blasia!
Boston Globe:
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐡
𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖨𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗇𝖾𝗍’𝗌 𝗅𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖿𝗈𝗅𝗄 𝗁𝖾𝗋𝗈 𝗋𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗎𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝖿𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝖻𝖾 𝖺 𝗉𝗈𝗐𝖾𝗋𝖿𝗎𝗅 𝗍𝗈𝗈𝗅 𝗈𝖿 𝗉𝗋𝗈𝗍𝖾𝗌𝗍.
𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑏 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛’𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙. 𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑤𝑎𝑦.
[...]
𝑃𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑐ℎ. 𝐴 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑? 𝑊𝑒’𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤.
Bonus: pierogi mention
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/lifestyle/dc-man-sandwich/
Fucking paywall.
However! From the bluesky coverage of same event, the best comment:
"I've never been so pro-drunk-white-bro-in-a-pink-shirt in my life."
Is this how Loomer got confused that MTG had roast beef in her pants?
Eta ?
I only got that exchange secondhand, but in case you don't know, "roast beef" or "roasties" is an incel thing saying women's ladyparts look like the aforementioned substance when they've gotten used up. If you already knew, sorry for bringing it up.
I know what it means, but she also said literally so I'm going with Arby's in her pockets.
I might've know she was one of *those*.
Of COURSE she is. Are you shocked?
How many ICE agents were in there?
I like how the American Prospect envisioned the Baileys as liberals, whereas John Oliver looked at Chuck's descriptions of them and decided they'd probably gone MAGA by now.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VJAIChXYQVk
That was a brilliant piece. Fuck off, Chuck.
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