Donna Mugavero aka Mugsy

I will never again join a party. I'm too old, and my GOP divorce too traumatic, as I said here:

My favorite political ad of all time and it's not even close

Of the things that haven’t happened, this has not happened the most.

NO PARDON FOR HARP

Pour one out for the lovely and immensely talented Eric Bauza—gone WAY too soon. He was Mel Blanc’s heir apparent and is now the stuff of legend at much too early an age. www.vulture.com/article/eric...

Do not believe the polls. There is no safe margin. Every single citizen - needs to vote Democrat. In overwhelming numbers to protect the outcome of the Midterms from any scheme to manipulate the outcome. Musk admitted he manipulated the 2024 outcome in a quid pro quo deal w Trump. Never Again.

I love accounts like this, which not only post beautiful old pictures, but care enough to credit the photographer

Voting early is a good idea for a LOT of reasons.

I miss having a president with a little class and decorum. Even the very worst ones I've lived through would never have done this.

The unfathomable corruption

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if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you

The New York Times describes this as a “Republican rift over Ramaswamy’s attack ad.” But this does not fully grasp what is actually happening, because we are not witnessing a “rift,” but an abyss; A vast, yawning, gaping moral abyss in our politics. charliesykes.substack.com/p/we-stand-w...

Calm Before The Storm. 13°C with rain approaching. Geese

Alarm about declining interest in reading is perpetual. But the chief executive of Barnes & Noble thinks a different future is at hand. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

THEY ARE FEEDING SACRIFICES TO BLUCIFER

A perfect man does not exi...

No one ever told me that vindication would feel so much like nausea. Donald Trump’s treachery was predictable and predicted. Even so, watching him throwing a financial lifeline to Putin as the monstrous mob boss murders Ukrainians is sick-making stuff. charliesykes.substack.com/p/russia-rus...

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it."

BUY THIS MAN A COFFEE! Want to know who’s a patriot? This guy! And he is ALWAYS working for us. Happy birthday, Aaron, and thanks for everything you do.

Shillbilly beclowning himself again.

Spectacular! 🧵

Mamdani administration proposing to require that companies offer customers a one-touch phone option to connect to a human representative and escape AI "help." Does anyone have any hot coals that I could walk across for this mayor?

I totally love these ceramic trees with peppermint candies painted on them. I hope they bring holiday fun (and light) to someone out there. I’ve made two. At surly.etsy.com

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Democrats say they are planning to extensively probe the DOGE rampage that kicked off Donald Trump's second term if they retake a chamber of Congress and obtain subpoena power.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

And, Reader, it is top-tier work!

"It’s hard to think of another documentary that does a better job of making you feel like you’re in the same room with the people whose stories are being told, especially when the people themselves are doing the telling." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/once...

New in PN: The weird rise and spectacular fall of Katie Zacharia "Zacharia is not a victim. She is a lying conspiracy theorist who desperately maneuvered herself to attract the attention of an image-obsessed fascist in hopes that she could gain money and fame by lying on his behalf."

There will come a time—and it won't be eons from now—when Zuckerberg's rule comes to a bad end. I mean go-down-in-flames end. What he's doing is not sustainable. I look forward to the demise of his life's “work”.

This is why NIH Institutes and Centers NEED independent advisory boards and councils. Bravo to Mr. Leslie and the board members for standing up for the integrity of clinical research at NIH.

“After a press secretary's quick firing, people share the briefest jobs they have ever held.” Check out this feed! People’s stories are hilarious, poignant, surprising, and so many are relatable. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Expert panel weighs in:

So “multivariable calculation” is just a quisling way of saying, yes, yes, he will.

No. She got obnoxious and ended up in the papers. Greed doesn't get you fired in this White House. Making the president look like a mook, however, gets you canned in a hot second

I’ll bet they are totally trying to out-smile each other. There is a horror movie in here somewhere.

I’m not going to post his truth social post with the heinous video, but the president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans. That's right. You read that correctly. You could power a city block with my rage.

Do yourself a favor and scroll these comments!

The richest man in the nation’s history is spending big to prop up the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history. charliesykes.substack.com/p/thank-you-...

Something I didn't anticipate when we moved into a forest: raindrops hitting leaves and dripping down from leaf to leaf amplifies the sound of rainfall dramatically, even if the rain is quite light. It's magical, and with everything else quiet outside it's truly lovely to experience.

Like so many billions of other humans, I hate this man. Absolutely hate him. Even more so, I hate his political party, which looked the other way when it wasn't accepting money and favors from him They could've ended him eight or nine years ago, but chose not to

She’s no Karoline Leavitt, but she’ll do just fine.

I do hope that Rubio sanctioning the International Criminal Court because one of its judges won the Nobel prize instead of Trump comes up fairly frequently when he tries to run for president. Like daily.