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"If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth."

-- Václav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless"
Also on the nose: That side of the WH faces the Capitol.
Maybe the next president can take over Mar-a-Lago by eminent domain and build a wind farm.
"Surrender, why doncha?" is a hell of a strategy for the American president to urge on a democracy fighting for its life.
Calling your fundraiser a golf "classic" is the naming equivalent of pasting polystyrene gold filigree all over the Oval Office.
Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio: the defense attorneys' fun couple of 2025.
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
Bezos's news outlet offering me a FREE new browser.
What could go wrong?
"Trump’s belligerent repetition of Putin’s rhetoric on Friday dashed hopes among many of Ukraine’s European allies that he could be convinced to increase support to Kyiv."

So giving in is the Art of the Deal. Fits with the bankruptcies.

Coward bullies gonna coward bully
"today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity." - Donald J. Trump, Oct 13, 2025

Six days later:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
Israel Strikes Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid, Saying Hamas Broke Truce
www.nytimes.com
Reminder that coffee is already up 22%, the highest YOY increase in 28 years.
My 4-year-old grandson thought this was hilarious. Which goes to show you.
Got to admit, the Dollar Store Halloween costume crown is spot on.
A little light reading while waiting for the Concord Massachusetts #NoKings rally to start
TOMAHAWKS!
[Putin call]
NO TOMAHAWKS!
SANCTIONS!
[Putin call]
IN TWO WEEKS!!!
"nothing to see here" IS the plan
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A message and a Lesson from Norway 🇳🇴 💙💙
Warsaw, then. Big guy with gun abducts kid labeled alien.
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💯 The goal is threefold:

1) Tie the GOP to corruption + crime, thus reclaiming "law + order."

2) Perhaps deter some violations now.

3) Build popular support for an anti-corruption crusade when Dems regain office, a master frame that Dems can use to legitimize transformative institutional change.
Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
“The first thing that happened with the Holocaust—it didn't start with concentration camps,” she said. “It started with finding a group of people to scapegoat and to blame.”

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
This should be read into the Congressional Record
That's an annual HHI of $9,700 in 2009 or $14,500 today -- well below the poverty line FOR WORKING FULL TIME.

THE GOP IS FINE WITH THIS, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY'VE BLOCKED RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR 16 YEARS.
Adjusting for inflation, that minimum wage is today worth $4.85/hr
Suspending the tariff on imported Nazis
Also - just monumentally stupid.