News, 2026-08-04 (part 2) 1. Texas Republicans intended to shut down half of Tarrant County (Fort Worth & some blue strongholds) Election Day precincts, but backed down after outraged voters packed a meeting room to protest the plan.
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News, 2026-08-14 (no ICE-holes this time but plenty of GOP jerks) "I hope that you [...] do the same amount of digging as you are into me, as you will into those other two" "They're not accused of physically abusing you. I mean, it's pretty simple" -Max Miller & Jake Tapper
News, 2026-08-03, this time no (or minimal) references to our president, by design 1. Eric Adams, disgraced former NYC mayor, spent his weekend trying to convince Wisconsinites to support data centers. (Hell Gate NYC has the video.) One heckler shouted, "You belong in prison!"
News, 2026-08-02 (part 2) 1. ICE-holes are putting ankle monitors on the Haitians who lost Temporary Protected Status.
Quotes, 2026-08-02 1. "If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?" -Max Miller, (R-OH), whose "special announcement" was that he isn't going anywhere. We got *so close*, as a society, to taking out the trash (metaphorically) before backsliding.
News, 2026-08-01 (part 2) 1. ICE-holes say that Nixon Pérez Paz had two DUI convictions; court records do not. Those (made-up) DUIs are why NPP was deported. His wife self-deported to be with him. Both were murdered in Guatemala. Their infant daughter was found (alive) near their bodies.
News, 2026-08-01 1. ICE-holes have been caught on video all over New York City spraying protestors with chemical weapons (pepper spray).
News, 2026-07-31 1. Minnesota experienced a cyberattack against its water supply. (Not to be confused with the months of attempted ethnic cleansing Minnesota survived.) Despite evidence that the Islamic Republic of Iran is behind the attack, our president puts sole blame on Minnesota itself.
News, 2026-07-30 (part 2) 1. ICE-holes in Chicago made a warrantless October 25 raid on a private residence, chasing 4 construction workers onto a balcony & deploying tear gas "for fun" (it blew back to their own cars). The Institute for Justice helped the homeowner file suit earlier this week.
News 2026-07-30 1. DOJ complied with its legal requirement to share unredacted Epstein Files with Judge Emmet Sullivan (for private review), but has yet to comply with its legal requirement to share the entire (albeit redacted) Epstein files with the public.
News, 2026-07-29 1. Anthony Fauci, who has given Congressional testimony 200+ previous times, declined to answer questions at a hearing called by the man who released Fauci's diary & who has publicly pledged to put Fauci "behind bars." The hearing ostensibly centers on where COVID-19 came from.
News, 2026-07-28 (part 2) 1. Chris Wright (Secretary of Energy) lied to Congress. The court stipulations, in which our regime admits that it withheld grant money specifically to states won by Kamala Harris (& for that specific reason), directly contradict Wright's hearing testimony.
News, 2026-07-28 1. Nancy Grace (Crime Stories) aired audio provided by Sea Tow of the distress call made by Nolan Xavier Wells's "friends." Phrases yelled from the boat before the dispatcher picks up the call include "Nolan!" and "Is he dead?"
News, 2026-07-27 (part 2) 1. Mitch McConnell's doctors say he is unfit to return to the Senate. Unlike the conspiracy theorists, I strongly suspect he is alive; but he's clearly incapacitated, as might result from (for example) a stroke that went undetected for too long.
“Alex Jones, who once frequently hosted Loomer on InfoWars, quipped that Loomer should stay out of global politics and go back to eating dog food. Loomer retorted that Jones should pay the Sandy Hook families the money he owes them.” Zing!!!
News, 2026-07-27 1. The Bite of Seattle shooting was hours ago; already blowhards are blaming WA firearms laws for the lack of a "good guy with a gun." I used to buy that theory. The Utah No Kings tragedy (someone killed specifically by a GGwG) is one of many reasons I no longer do.
Peanuts: If the relevant xkcd (931) had already existed then the "Why, Charlie Brown, Why?" special could have been named "FC, CB" as it so clearly deserves to be.
This is neither here nor there but I'll never forget the day I needed a fantasy football update on a specific player (game-time decision for a Week 1 Thursday nighter right after the draft) and that's how I found out said player was dating Taylor Swift.
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · last wk.Mitch McConnell downgraded to “doubtful.” Consider picking up another Senator from the waiver wire to start this week in fantasy.
News, 2026-07-26 1. At least two horrific incidents in the last 24 hours: One attacker plowed his van into a Berlin Pride event (one dead, 30+ injured). Another shot up the Taste of Seattle (two dead, five injured including a toddler).
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Patrick Matthews@matthewsp.bsky.social · last wk.Shark Week is here everybody. Post a Shark.
News, 2026-07-25 (pt 2) For emphasis: the Dept. of Energy held back the money for approved grants, admitting to a court that those projects were in states Kamala Harris won. Meanwhile at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, our president "joked" about (illegally) running again in 2028.
man I cannot overemphasize how many people I know fell into some form of madness because they could not accept that their kid got an autism diagnosis and that maybe that was just how life was going to be
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 2w agoI sat down with a crank who doesn't know shit and she made some good points...
News, 2026-07-25 1. Our regime admitted in court filings (shared by Lyle Fass & others) that they clawed back energy project grants to particular U.S. states specifically because Kamala Harris carried those states in the 2024 presidential election.
News, 2026-07-23 (part whatever) 1. ICE-holes at SFO (San Francisco International Airport) violently kidnapped Iryna Gorb after she flew from Poland. A DHS spokesperson claimed that Gorb tried to flee & resisted arrest, claims contradicted by widely available video of the incident.
Marlon Torres Gomez tried to take up ICE on its self-deportation offer. But they refused to let him leave the country, then used his continued presence as an excuse to send him to Delaney Hall. A judge just ordered his release, but take a long look at the twisted incentives at play.
News, 2026-07-23, starting with a focus on women's sports (as you'll recall, a lot of the anti-trans hate we see these days comes from politicians who claim to be sticking up for women's sports)
The fascists want you to be very afraid of what they call communism. I do deeply fear & loathe the kind of world Stalin & Mao brought to their countries, but despite how the fascists mislabel things, Stalin & Mao are much closer to fascists than to the things fascists rail against.
News, 2026-07-22 (part 2) 1. Police in Madison, WI, killed a man today by firing three gunshots at close range. Madison's police chief acknowledges that cellphone video of the shooting is widely available online but alludes to other video footage, insisting that "not all perspectives are online."
News, 2026-07-22 1. ICE-holes at Denver International Airport were caught on video kidnapping Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, who has a valid work permit and a pending asylum case. She was trying to board her Southwest flight.