That’s what you’d expect, if a criminal was President.

[2025] My U.N. Commission’s finding: Israel is committing genocide, by Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Peace Prize

Trump says he should have won 8 Nobels after being snubbed for the Prize

And with Trump in charge, she’ll probably get it.

Excerpt: “Everybody wants to motherfuck the secretary of state,” said Bernie Ryan, a 64-year-old electrician in St Louis.

Excerpt: Cook was appointed by former President Joe Biden and is the first Black woman on the Fed’s board. Trump’s attacks on her followed other efforts to oust or indict Black officials, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James and Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The world’s second-richest man is a boot-licker.

Now that Ross Douthat has departed to start shitting at 60 Minutes, David Brooks and the New York Times‘ transphobia are my main reasons for not subscribing.

In 1987, young, rich, and already somewhat famous, Donald Trump was invited by the USSR’s American Ambassador to visit Moscow, to negotiate building a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, with the Soviet government as his business partner. Trump went.

‘Trump Tower Moscow’ was never built, but it’s almost silly to imagine that the KGB didn’t have a hand in Trump’s visit and/or didn’t offer an ‘investment’ in Trump. Equally or perhaps more unthinkable (based on everything we know about DJT) is the concept that he would turn down such an offer.

In other words, Trump is and has long been a Russian asset.

At the American rate of consumption, this amounts to perhaps a day’s worth of diesel. It’s piddly. But, jeez, the visuals — Russia has been America’s existential enemy since the McCarthy era, and more recently Russia attacked Ukraine, is funding and arming Iran, etc. For anyone who believes the last 75 years of propaganda, making this deal with Russia is treason.

‘He better damn well stop’ — Trump slams Zelensky for attacking Russian refineries, says Ukraine should get ‘new president’

Excerpt: “Zelensky could have settled this war many times, many many times, and he chooses not to,” Trump claimed.

Zelensky’s response

Very well-written and measured. I’ll bet the first draft had a lot of damn-its and mother-fuckers.

Excerpt: A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Excerpt: The administration has pushed out roughly 20 inspectors general over the past 20 months in favor of “politically aligned replacements.” DOJ’s IG, Don Berthiaume, was confirmed 51-47 after declining to call January 6 an attack on the Capitol. Hearn’s lawyers call their request “a further test of the IG system under this Administration,” which is generous of them, considering the administration has spent 20 months rigging that very test.

In the Field vlog was there

Video looks “indistinguishable from a carjacking”

ICE agent at NYC shooting has history of violence and illegal arrests

Trump will probably play this as “another antifa attack on ICE.”

Will they be shackled to oars and forced to row?

Excerpt: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, the front-runner to be elected governor in November, has said she believes Ms. Pike should face execution again.

Me again: And after she’s dead, maybe they should execute her a third time, to show their strong stance for law & order.

‘Not pleasant’ but ‘necessary’: Support at Trump rally for public execution

It’s what Jesus would do.

‘Resigned’ is good. ‘Prosecuted’ is what’s needed, though.

Even companies making mind products like books have no respect for the mind.

Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say

I vaguely remember thinking Eminem seemed like a decent guy. Whoops!

Excerpt: The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.

“Vaccine injuries” is the medical equivalent of “non-citizens voting.” It happens, but it’s incredibly rare.

Whenever a company throws its AI in my face, I give it five or ten minutes of “Fuck off and die” queries. It’s the only joy I get from AI — and soon they’ll take it away.

Excerpt: “Faces are always uncensored, and many of the prompts are sexual in nature and dubiously consensual,” one person who works on the prompts told 404 Media. ….

These contractors are not being hired to flag or vet offensive or inappropriate content. They are being paid to review the quality of Copilot’s output, including in these cases of sexual imagery.

Interesting, sad, and frustrating that it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference.

When cops won’t release the bodycam video, something like this is always why.