Hectic Spectacles part deux

"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

Everything these corrupt clowns do is for show, actually just for a show. The entire right-wing media apparatus is just theatre. Fucking clowns. We need to bring back the stockades and public shaming!!

Sea Foam as a general rule is second only to scary trash washing ashore to inducing disgust at what we’ve done to our oceans.

If not nazis, then the American Taliban. That’s today’s Republican Party!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Problem is the message is not being received where it’s most needed. Thanks to the Sinclair-ification of local media, and the Fox-ification almost everywhere else. Not to mention oligarch capture of most social media…

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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Wow!!!

Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.

I almost showed some integrity! That should count for something, right?

Perfect response

See @mtsw.bsky.social response. The NYT headlines are rage-bait.

Vile Morons do what vile morons do best

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

They are the American Taliban. You remember the right wing outrage over the Taliban. It turns out they don’t mind the actions of the Taliban - just the religion.

Everyone has experienced that bad and mediocre manager that only hires people even more mediocre than them.

The level of disrespect this regime shows to their fellow Americans reaches a level that’s completely incompatible with democracy. These people literally believe they have the right to kill people who disagree with them. It’s disgusting.

Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.

🚨 five minute warning 🚨 💭

If we weren’t living in hell, this would end the Trump oligarchy

Agreed. This court is evil, racist and corrupt - and destructive. Like the courts found in kleptocracies and dictatorships. What a stained legacy they are leaving. Future history books will lump them in with the likes of Benedict Arnold.

Check her bank account…

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The NY Times says the theft of Black political power has “surfaced a fraught debate about just how far the South has been able to move beyond the racism of the region’s past.” Everything is a “debate” when NYT doesn’t want to confront racism. This is what cowardice in journalism looks like. 3/4🧵

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

This is the greatest single act of corruption in the United States ever? Worth mentioning in news reports. Calling it "unusual" is .. not sufficient. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

calvinball-ass "we have the votes and you don't" court wiping their asses with the very idea of rule of law none of these people should ever be allowed to decide what's for lunch again, let alone the law of the nation

maybe the funniest possible sentence to include here

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

His legacy.

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Can't hide from science. CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

They won’t because they are complicit. The Republican Party is a fascist movement of white supremacy from top to bottom. They already chased away anyone who wasn’t all in. Anyone left is complicit. At all levels of government down to animal control officer!!!!

The only Cancel Culture Bari hates is when powerful people get exposed for the horrible criminals they actually are. And she’ll gladly take their mega$$$$ to be their smoke screen.

MAGAs by definition don’t understand basic biology and social development.