Still Brilliant at Breakfast

"You may be big. But I'm small!"

My garden crew was here all morning ripping out drought-dead plants, putting in new drought-and-deluge-tolerant plants and trimming low tree limbs...and I've heard the sound of "cha-CHING" in my ears all day. (My backyard garden looks fabulous though.)

The kid from “Empire of the Sun” done good.

It occurs to me that it's highly likely that the very same people who called me a traitor for not supporting the Iraq War after 0/11 and who chastised me for not putting one of those [expletive deleted] "Support Our Troops" ribbon magnets on my car are the ones still supporting Trump.

I'm seeing some people ask why the Democratic Party and congressional leaders aren't doing more to challenge Trump's anti-voting executive order. They were literally the first to seek a new injunction after SCOTUS ruled. I know, because I am their lawyer. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

I love this. Senate candidate Annie Andrews says she decided to jump into the race the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS. She’s a pediatrician. Saw what was coming & decided she couldn’t sit on the sidelines. THIS is what I’m talking about. Feeling called to serve & actually following through.

This is quite possibly the truth.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

THIS is how you protest, not with a march every three months.

Well played, sir.

I really hope Jon Ossoff’s entire campaign isn’t just variations on “Trump bad.” I’d like to see some substance. I know he has it. But the focus on Trump gives Trump free publicity. Voters want to know what he has done and will do for THEM.

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

What restaurants does he go to where you have to show ID? Does me mean to buy alcohol? I guarantee you, no one is carding Todd Blanche.

They're so predictable.

Well, Team Trump DID show it works, after all.

There is always a tweet.

Gotta love the accompanying photo. www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

Is anyone surprised that the sex predator president leader of a party rife with sex predators has recruited sex predators for ICE?

How evil a woman do you have to be to not be outraged AT THE RAPE OF CHILDREN?????

Listening to Ven. Bhikkhu Pannakara speaking over sound-off Super Bowl pregame B.S. is revelatory.

Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger. Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs. Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

Bam.

But whose?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I could get on board with this.

They still don't realize there are things they can't delete.

Amazon has cut a combined 28,000 jobs since October. Its CEO made $40M+ in 2024 UPS has announced 78,000 job cuts since last year. Its CEO made $24M. HP announced up to 6,000 layoffs in November. Its CEO made $21M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Pizzagate was a confession, not an accusation.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is still not our friend. Never forget that.

JFC what a shitshow this is going to be.

I recognize that Democrats are in the minority. But even if making a lot of noise is all they can do, they need to do it. Let them stand outside the Capitol with whistles…introduce a flurry of bills that they know won’t go anywhere. Sternly-worded tweets aren’t enough.

Tonight I’m watching “Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen” followed by the new Mel Brooks documentary. Because I need to laugh. Mel Brooks must live forever. We need him.

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Racism, misogyny, white male gratuitous rage. Yep, all the checkboxes checked.

My late husband was a Deadhead since his early teens. This feels like he has died for a second time. Fuck 2026 too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Best Post Today.

the clip:

The only thing that kept me same last night was watching three good friends supporting each other as they all won medals at US Figure Skating Championships. Who won what medal didn’t seem to matter to them. How about we let women run things for a while?

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

NOT in the Treasury. In outside bank accounts. Likely those owned by Trump family members and other Trump cronies. And WE will be paying for their indefinite occupation of Venezuela. Hey, Tantrum Caucus -- want to rant about colonialism and occupation? Look south. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

And right on cue, here is @nytimes.com both-sides-ing a murder. Video of ICE Shooting Becomes a Political Rorschach Test www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

I just had CNN on for about 45 seconds before I could take no more. Why does Abby Phillips allow Scott Jennings to filibuster everyone else on the panel?

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Congressional Republicans must be awfully sure that the midterms will be rigged in their favor to silently go along with this.