“I the Lord your God do not give a tinned shit about the White House ballroom” is honestly the most theologically grounded statement in the whole Christian nationalist discourse right now.
Because somewhere along the line American religion started confusing gold decor, political power, and national mythology with the Kingdom of God. Meanwhile the actual Jesus kept talking about feeding people, forgiving enemies, healing the broken, and warning rich men they were spiritually cooked.
I like the story of Tamar and Judah. This fine patriarch patronizes a prostitute, who turns out to be one of his son's wives. Graphic, and 100% Republican family values. Praise Him!
he search for the boy took on more urgency as police learned that he was dressed in camouflage and with an acquaintance — facts that were not consistent with someone about to die by suicide, the chief said.
I'm sorry. They ramped it up when they figured it was not a likely suicide? Like why not ramp it up when they thought it might be a suicide?
When you’re almost done with everything you have to do before you go to bed and then you come to bed and there’s three cats laying on it, and you just decide to lay down with them for a little bit, and then you fall asleep, and then you wake up and you’re surprised that you fell asleep and it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you still have to finish doing stuff before you can go to sleep, by which point you are somewhat awake, and you have no idea what’s gonna happen next.
That matters because it NORMALIZES and provides legal cover for Trump colluding with DoJ and IRS to control both sides of the bogus lawsuit he filed. This is not a settlement. It’s theft. Facts matter. END/
CNBC headline: "Home Depot says core shopper is resilient in the face of higher gas prices, sales rise 5%."
And as I'm starting to think through all the reasons people might shop more for home repair projects when everything else is a struggle, I see this Bloomberg headline: "Home Depot's Sales Fall Short on Lackluster Housing Recovery." So even the pro-business news sites can't figure out what's really going on or how to spin it.
The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News had a bankruptcy notices section, which was even bigger than the news section. Yet voters believe the lie that the Republicans are better on the economy than the Democrats.
Hmmmm ... let's see. Can't afford to buy new replacements for things? The contractors who might be able to fix and/or service things are in hiding from ICE? The cost of fuel has driven up the cost of *everything*? Did I miss anything?
Geez, media ... stop giving handies to the fascists.
The frantic mother’s call came in at 9:42 a.m. on Monday: Her son was missing.
That wasn’t all, she told the San Diego police. Several guns were gone, and so was her car, and her 17-year-old might have a friend with him.
The police were alarmed and began a desperate hunt for the two teenagers. They were somewhere in California’s second largest city, a sprawling community of 1.4 million people nestled amid palms and purple jacarandas.
A license plate reader seemed to show them near a mall, and officers rushed there. Then, they converged on the high school one of the teenagers attended. Those turned out to be the wrong places.
The teens’ target was a mosque, the police said. They shot and killed three people there, including a security guard who worked for the mosque and whose actions, police said, likely saved lives. And then the teens killed themselves, the police said.
The grounds of the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in San Diego County, include a school.
“I’ll tell you what got me,” Chief Scott Wahl of the San Diego Police Department said at a news conference. “Watching kids come running out, just thankful to be alive.”
So the Congo Ebola outbreak is making the WHO nervous.
Notes:
Ebola is bad. Expect people have heard. Fatality rate around 50 percent. This particular outbreak is already messy. It’s been spreading some 30 days at least. There are some 130 deaths, 500 suspected cases so far last I saw but expect that to rise quickly as systems do wake up. Delayed detection seems to have been partly because it’s an unusual strain this time (Bundibugyo) for which detection is more difficult but there also seems to have been some missteps in reporting. It’s spread to the capitals of Uganda and Congo, and that is going to make tracing much more difficult, potential spread much more rapid.
Generally, also: USAID being shuttered by Elon the human Ebola virus and generally homicidally glib piece of shit, the US withdrawing from WHO, and another dumb grifting lying asshole running the US department of health don’t exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling under the circumstances. It’s like being told the big hospital downtown that otherwise might be able to help is being run by Bozo the cryptocurrency obsessed clown and he’s too busy doing meth in his office to offer much help.
Prediction at this hour: going to be very messy, deaths in the area will climb. Scattered worldwide cases from travellers I think likely.
Bet we're just likely to ban people from Africa from coming here. But only the folk from there. As if a communicable disease can't spread to people not born there.
And when that fails, it'll be the next out group and the next and the next, all the while paralysing the correct response to arrest the spread and treat the infected.
Covid laid bear all of the weaknesses of the Chump "administration". They do not live in objective reality and they think they can lie away, shout down or threaten until the world conforms to their fantasy.
Which is really too bad for them and for anyone unfortunate enough to live under their rule, because disease can't be intimidated, it can't be profiled and deported, it doesn't care if you set the online howler money brigade on it and it won't relent because some halfwit access-junkie writes a pissy little op-ed in the NYT.
Make no mistake: if Ebola ever makes it here in significant numbers its game over with this administration telling everyone to just take their vitamin D and ivermectin and they'll be fine as the anti-vax idiots start bleeding out from every orifice and organ.
USAID used to provide support to medical organizations that among other things provided surveillance to identify this kind of thing faster. But those contracts were DOGED last year.
Well, you'd better hope it doesn't spread fully to the U.S. because the current regime are not equipped to handle the reality of a deadly disease as demonstrated by their psychotic reactions to covid.
That’s good
Brilliant, Mr. Gary. Off to watch "The Meaning of Life" & "History of the World Pt. 1" in your honor :))
If the savior is currently the nation's guiding light I think his flashlight needs new batteries.
So glad my born-in-the-20s parents aren't around to witness this mess :/
Nicholas Kristof in 2017: "Jesus should sue for defamation."
“I the Lord your God do not give a tinned shit about the White House ballroom” is honestly the most theologically grounded statement in the whole Christian nationalist discourse right now.
Because somewhere along the line American religion started confusing gold decor, political power, and national mythology with the Kingdom of God. Meanwhile the actual Jesus kept talking about feeding people, forgiving enemies, healing the broken, and warning rich men they were spiritually cooked.
Funny how Grindr Mike’s Boner-App doesn’t extend to Remedial Bible Instruction.
I like the story of Tamar and Judah. This fine patriarch patronizes a prostitute, who turns out to be one of his son's wives. Graphic, and 100% Republican family values. Praise Him!
How did we win WWII without a ballroom????
A miracle I suppose.
Even LBJ's pornographically huge genitalia never demanded more ballroom ; )
Little things that make me laugh - winding through the TSA line, PSA: “passenger Guerrero, please return to the security checkpoint.”
But let's not talk about gun culture in America: two teenaged gunmen kill three men and then themselves in a San Diego mosque yesterday:
https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-islamic-center-shooting-7f74a37a58116f40e852a303ea23230d?
White men with guns are a problem in America.
To be sure, we do not know their ethnic background as of yet, at least from what I have seen. So maybe more "people with guns"
We also won't talk about right wing radicalization, which is also a common feature of these events even when they don't target a mosque.
"generalized hate rhetoric"
he search for the boy took on more urgency as police learned that he was dressed in camouflage and with an acquaintance — facts that were not consistent with someone about to die by suicide, the chief said.
I'm sorry. They ramped it up when they figured it was not a likely suicide? Like why not ramp it up when they thought it might be a suicide?
Mother called police-"The guns are missing!"
Either there was not a safe, or the safe was not locked, or she gave the teenager the combo to the safe
Wonder which it will turn out to be.
And this, youngest, is why I will not have guns in my house. I never, ever, want to be this mother.
When you’re almost done with everything you have to do before you go to bed and then you come to bed and there’s three cats laying on it, and you just decide to lay down with them for a little bit, and then you fall asleep, and then you wake up and you’re surprised that you fell asleep and it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you still have to finish doing stuff before you can go to sleep, by which point you are somewhat awake, and you have no idea what’s gonna happen next.
I say if you fall asleep it is because your body has overruled your brain and needs the rest.
The three cats give you side-eye for waking them up?
Oh, yeah.
Stephen King calls out Tangerini's cognitive decline:
https://www.comicsands.com/king-trump-quiet-western-lobe?
It's NOT A SETTLEMENT, it's theft, period.
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3mm6pl5tk222n
That matters because it NORMALIZES and provides legal cover for Trump colluding with DoJ and IRS to control both sides of the bogus lawsuit he filed. This is not a settlement. It’s theft. Facts matter. END/
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/business/anti-weaponization-fund-brian-morrissey-treasury.html
Source: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/treasury-lawyer-quits-as-government-settles-trump-irs-suit-0658a44a
The judge: [image of ruling]
The point is not only the cruelty of this regime, but the corruption as well. This place is looking more and more like Cuba every minute.
Maybe we'll finally get universal health care?
Even in Cuba health care is spotty. It is better in Havana, the nation's capital than in the small towns that are in the provinces.
https://bsky.app/profile/jerasikehorn.bsky.social/post/3mm6urqu7uc2g
SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR A CHANGE…👇 [image]
ENJOY. 😎✨
I'm happy for Vindman but I don't like Jolly at all.
Uh huh.
I know, I know ... it's Florida. But even to be within shouting distance in polling is somewhat ... uh ... unexpected.
Like I said yesterday, I'll believe it when I see it.
I don't hold out much hope with this. I do think it is tightening a few sphincters in Florida's republican party.
Possibly, behind closed doors and in their Ketamine-fueled nightmares.
CNBC headline: "Home Depot says core shopper is resilient in the face of higher gas prices, sales rise 5%."
And as I'm starting to think through all the reasons people might shop more for home repair projects when everything else is a struggle, I see this Bloomberg headline: "Home Depot's Sales Fall Short on Lackluster Housing Recovery." So even the pro-business news sites can't figure out what's really going on or how to spin it.
Home Despot's increased prices are the reason for their sales increase.
Reminds me so much of 06-07, when I was searching for "the news" to tell us how fucked we were.
Once one corporation failed, then it was cascading and we were all fucked.
The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News had a bankruptcy notices section, which was even bigger than the news section. Yet voters believe the lie that the Republicans are better on the economy than the Democrats.
Hmmmm ... let's see. Can't afford to buy new replacements for things? The contractors who might be able to fix and/or service things are in hiding from ICE? The cost of fuel has driven up the cost of *everything*? Did I miss anything?
Geez, media ... stop giving handies to the fascists.
It's like how great credit card usage being up is!
Real mind blowing what the fuckism on this shit
𝗔 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
The frantic mother’s call came in at 9:42 a.m. on Monday: Her son was missing.
That wasn’t all, she told the San Diego police. Several guns were gone, and so was her car, and her 17-year-old might have a friend with him.
The police were alarmed and began a desperate hunt for the two teenagers. They were somewhere in California’s second largest city, a sprawling community of 1.4 million people nestled amid palms and purple jacarandas.
A license plate reader seemed to show them near a mall, and officers rushed there. Then, they converged on the high school one of the teenagers attended. Those turned out to be the wrong places.
The teens’ target was a mosque, the police said. They shot and killed three people there, including a security guard who worked for the mosque and whose actions, police said, likely saved lives. And then the teens killed themselves, the police said.
The grounds of the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in San Diego County, include a school.
“I’ll tell you what got me,” Chief Scott Wahl of the San Diego Police Department said at a news conference. “Watching kids come running out, just thankful to be alive.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/san-diego-mosque-shooting-search.html
So the Congo Ebola outbreak is making the WHO nervous.
Notes:
Ebola is bad. Expect people have heard. Fatality rate around 50 percent. This particular outbreak is already messy. It’s been spreading some 30 days at least. There are some 130 deaths, 500 suspected cases so far last I saw but expect that to rise quickly as systems do wake up. Delayed detection seems to have been partly because it’s an unusual strain this time (Bundibugyo) for which detection is more difficult but there also seems to have been some missteps in reporting. It’s spread to the capitals of Uganda and Congo, and that is going to make tracing much more difficult, potential spread much more rapid.
Generally, also: USAID being shuttered by Elon the human Ebola virus and generally homicidally glib piece of shit, the US withdrawing from WHO, and another dumb grifting lying asshole running the US department of health don’t exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling under the circumstances. It’s like being told the big hospital downtown that otherwise might be able to help is being run by Bozo the cryptocurrency obsessed clown and he’s too busy doing meth in his office to offer much help.
Prediction at this hour: going to be very messy, deaths in the area will climb. Scattered worldwide cases from travellers I think likely.
Bet we're just likely to ban people from Africa from coming here. But only the folk from there. As if a communicable disease can't spread to people not born there.
And when that fails, it'll be the next out group and the next and the next, all the while paralysing the correct response to arrest the spread and treat the infected.
Covid laid bear all of the weaknesses of the Chump "administration". They do not live in objective reality and they think they can lie away, shout down or threaten until the world conforms to their fantasy.
Which is really too bad for them and for anyone unfortunate enough to live under their rule, because disease can't be intimidated, it can't be profiled and deported, it doesn't care if you set the online howler money brigade on it and it won't relent because some halfwit access-junkie writes a pissy little op-ed in the NYT.
Make no mistake: if Ebola ever makes it here in significant numbers its game over with this administration telling everyone to just take their vitamin D and ivermectin and they'll be fine as the anti-vax idiots start bleeding out from every orifice and organ.
Anything but take care of people...I do wish that, when it comes back to bite them, it would refrain from biting us as well. But it won't.
White South Africans are apparently immune.
CDC used to dispatch specialists and treatment teams to help with these outbreaks, no idea if that is happening now.
USAID used to provide support to medical organizations that among other things provided surveillance to identify this kind of thing faster. But those contracts were DOGED last year.
Well, you didn't expect a thieving halfwit like Musk to think his acts of vandalism and espionage through, did you?
Well, you'd better hope it doesn't spread fully to the U.S. because the current regime are not equipped to handle the reality of a deadly disease as demonstrated by their psychotic reactions to covid.
Can see the Fox headline now: Get your insides eaten for the Dow
"NO FACE DIAPERS FOR ME!"
Ebola symptoms are a lot more dramatic than covid, so they won't have as much scope for performative bullshit.
Yes, it's hard to miss the "crash and bleed out" stage.