I really wish @lincolnproject.us or @meidastouch.com would create a simple but powerful ad ahead of the midterms juxtaposing clips from Mister Roger’s Neighborhood with clips from Trump. Imagine Fred saying “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind... [1/4]

I was scanning a "trends in global payment" study from McKinsey & Company today which estimates that "cash transactions now represent just 5% of the value of consumer payments" in the U.S. Got me thinking how devastating the impact of this shift must be on buskers, the unhoused and so many others!

For anyone who thought powerful political protest songs died with the 70s, I give you the title track off of Ren & Chris Webby's new album Asylum...because the more we hold a mirror up to hypocrisy the sooner this madness will end.

Inpatient (Ren x Chris Webby) - Asylum (Lyric Video)

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Okay...I'll admit it...maybe I was wrong that AI provides no societal benefit! 😎

Mitch is recovering well. #mitchmcconnell

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I think this pretty much sums up my mood this morning...

A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 Dance scene 4K

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Doe anyone really doubt that this is the vision? 🤮

Meanwhile McConnell's staff says the Senator is in regular communication with them and eager to lope back to work!

Given the current state of this dysfunctional, dystopic country , I'm about to sit everyone down at the table and begin airing my grievances so that maybe there's an outside chance I'm actually finished kvetching by the start of Festivus on 12/23! 😑

I assume this weekend is just the start of what will be a steadily increasing flow of federal pardons for fraudsters, tax cheats and sex traffickers willing to line Trump's pockets. I just hope blue state prosecutors will start filing state charges (e.g., CA indicting P-Diddy when he gets pardoned).

On this day, I think back to a 1995 quote from Carl Sagan that was eerily prescient: “I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away... 1/4

Wishing a happy 100th birthday to the inimitable and indomitable Sir David Attenborough - an incredibly kind, gentle and universally loved soul. I take great pleasure in knowing that long after Trump's name has been totally forgotten, people will still be talking about the greatness of Sir David. 🥰

Every time I see a clip of Trump lately, my mind immediately goes to Russian President Zorkin in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 telling his secretary "from now on I am to be described as 'robust' and 'healthy" right before he keels over. 😎

I realize Minnesota has no chance of ever convicting Jonathan Ross on state charges for the murder of Renee Good because of Supremacy Clause Immunity...BUT...I don't understand why they aren't at least indicting him, if for no other reason than to keep a spotlight on his and ICE's brutality.

Imagine you're a Republican Party bigwig (Thiel, Leo, Mellon, etc.) You're saddled with a deranged sociopath as your party leader - an albatross that will sink you in the midterms. But you can't push him out, or risk losing what's left of your shrinking base. What's the solution? Hmmmm 🤔

Except for their position to NOT supply weapons or troops to Ukraine, Péter Magyar's Tisza Party looks quite similar to the Democratic Party. Yet Tisza is considered a "center-right" party. In the U.S., we have absolutely ZERO conception of what a true left or even a center-left party looks like.

The 1943 Tehran Conference - oh, the irony - is where FDR and Churchill first hopped into bed with Stalin (i.e., "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"). Embracing MAGA supporters who are now turning on Trump for disrespecting their imaginary friend has a similar bitter taste. 🤮

Seeing some of the 'flat-earthers' tying themselves into knots this week has been an unexpected joy. I actually heard one, unironically, post a supposed gotcha video asking "If that's real, then where are all the thousands of orbiting satellites!" The stupidity is breathtaking to watch. 🤣🤣

Dear @apapsychiatric.bsky.social could you please explain to me how the most devastatingly destructive mental disorder of the past decade (MAGA) isn't listed anywhere in the DSM-5? It should have its own separate damn volume! 🫤

There's a part of me fervently hoping that Iran sends a big "fuck you" to Trump and refuses to open Hormuz until the U.S. withdraws all forces from the theater.

I'm really starting to feel like every single person in this country needs to be strapped to a chair, their eyes clamped open like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange," and then forced to watch this iconic clip (from almost a decade and a half ago) on repeat for 24 hours straight! 🫤

Can You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?

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I look at this vicious clown-show of a regime - where stupidity meets toxic masculinity - and all I can think of is an old (mid-1700s) quote from British writer/politician Horace Walpole: "𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡." We are seriously fvck'd! 😖

"Put me in coach I'm ready to play, today Look at me, I can be, your AG!"🎶

In what should be a unanimous decision, you just know that it'll end up being a 7-2 ruling because these two corrupt fuckwits can't help but side with the MAGA Mein Kampf crowd. 🙄

Today marks the anniversary of the death of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (self-portrait below). A criminally underappreciated woman artist (what's new), and arguably one of the greatest portraitists of the late-1700s to mid-1800s; perhaps most well-known as Marie Antoinette's preferred court painter.

If I EVER had the slightest hesitancy about replacing U.S. currency with a completely digital payment system...this just broke down any disinclination I may have been harboring!! 💸💸💸

Trump signature to appear on US bills in first for sitting president

Treasurer’s signature to be removed for first time since 1861 in change made to mark US’s 250th anniversary

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Can you be both a prophet AND an atheist?🤔Seriously, when you go back and listen to Hitch's warnings from nearly two decades ago, it's a literal blueprint for where we find ourselves today - with christian nationalists (and others) gleefully and joyfully striving to bring about Armageddon.

Hitchens Religion Poisons Everything Here's What #christopherhitchens

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The more I see Nick McKim (Australian Green Party) the more I love the guy...oh how I miss sane, rational, and passionate elected fighters!

Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim delivered a fiery address in the Senate, accusing the government of “complicity” in what he called an “illegal US-led war.” #australia #worldnews #news #iran

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Thinking lately how sad it is that the new "𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢" for more and more of us who are tired of the spiraling insanity, is to simply no longer live here. 180,000+ American citizens were fortunate enough to emigrate overseas last year; I expect closer to 250,000 will make it out this year.

I can hear the chant swelling now: But...but...but...but...whaddabout BENGHAZI!!! 🙄

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Congressional Democrats accuse Trump administration of failing to ensure the safety of State Department personnel in the Middle East in the leadup to US and Israeli strikes against Iran.

It's a staggering and sickening realization when you finally come to grips with the immutable fact that somewhere around a quarter or more of the U.S. adult populace would gleefully sign-up to be guards at Auschwitz if given the opportunity. 😞