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Brian Wilcox, the Friendly Curmudgeon
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Retired professor of psychology, former Senate staffer (Bradley), enthusiastic guitarist and bass player. More interested in policy than politics. Californian who's lived in Texas, Ohio, Virginia, DC, Nebraska, and Porto Alegre (Brazil) but returned home.
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No one let go of anyone's hand.

During the Bolsonaro regime in Brazil, resistors adopted this phrase to remind all that we need to stand together, and especially with those targeted by the regime.

That's the assignment now.
Melania is not going to be happy if Habba loses her position in NJ and Trumps brings her back to Washington.
Appeals Court Weighs Whether Alina Habba Is a Lawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
OK! A World Series between teams from two cities who LOATHE Donald Trump.
🎯 💯 🎯

Gary Shteyngart absolutely nails it. If they're going to govern like clowns, treat them like clowns. Zero respect.

"What is happening to us is as serious as a guillotine. We must harness our best creative, humorous and frivolous selves in order to keep it from falling."
Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance
www.nytimes.com
Too funny! Hard to believe she's a lawyer, let alone a US Attorney.
🤭 My daily warmup is 30 push-ups and 50 sit-ups...and I'm just shy of 75. My last 10K I averaged 8 min/mile.
While the other universities stand tall against assaults on academic freedom...
Two UT PhDs in our household, and we also expect UT Austin and the UT system to cave.
Put this person on camera more often. What a fantastic way to discredit the GOP talking points. She comes off as a total buffoon.
Ha! In CA fall is just a milder summer and winter is what fall is elsewhere.
This morning my Republican neighbor said "it sickened me." I told her she's welcome to come to the next No Kings rally and she said "I might just come."
Translation: "Jews! Jews! They're everywhere and they're out to get us!"
Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."
And this would be a two-for...shipping more US $ to Trump's buddy Milei.
We had more No Kings participants in little Ventura, CA than the entire national attendance for those Tea Party rallies. And we even had people dressed as Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and other historical characters.
Great. More people recording other people without their permission or knowledge.

Wearers should be required to carry a sign saying "I may be recording you."
Someone could have asked Mike Johnson what "point" Trump was making with this "satire."
Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.
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If you missed this yesterday, it’s just as jaw-dropping a read today. The quotes are really something.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
GOP to Jews, Muslims, Buddhists--all non-Christians:

"You're not Real Americans."

Johnson and Roy are very clear that their America is a Christian Theocracy. No one else is welcome.
Trump and Navarro putting on the worst 🤡 show ever.

This is the clearest admission yet that Trump's tariffs are hurting American businesses and consumers.

But they still have no clue what they are doing. "A tariff for anyone who pisses off Trump" seems to be the plan.
Yep...
Three times the @nytimes.com mentions the dumping of "brown liquid" on demonstrators. Only once do they mention that it "resembles feces."

Some editor must have told them "well, we can't really smell or taste it to know for absolute certain that it's supposed to be feces."

JFC...cowards.
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NEWS: Trump is finalizing plans to offer U.S. asylum to far right, anti-immigrant protesters in Europe.

Meanwhile, he posts videos of himself literally shit-bombing U.S. protesters.

This sums it up. Freedom for neo-nazis. Feces for my people.

www.treason.io/p/read-trump...
READ: Trump defends foreign, neo-nazi protesters but bombs U.S. protesters.
Trump’s refugee plan offers asylum to white extremists; meanwhile, he attacks U.S. protesters online with virtual human excrement.
www.treason.io
The literalist cognitive functioning of an eight year old child. Stuck in the concrete operations developmental level.

This dumb mottherf**ker thinks we think Trump is an actual king.