Too many elections scolding us to VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO have produced a hell of a lot of Democrats not worth voting for — they’re spineless, courage- and principle-free, and not merely unwilling to oppose fascism but reaching across the aisle to welcome it.

In 2026, let’s vote for candidates who believe in freedom — definitely not the Republican, and sadly, probably not the Democrat, but here’s one who seems to grasp the idea:

El-Sayed’s answer is damned near exactly right. And personally, I disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, the Catholic Church, the Democratic Party, and the Seattle Mariners.

And who’s Tommy?

Excerpt: The Handbasket is first to report that Tommy is Thomas Teepell, who, according to his X and Facebook profiles, currently lives in Detroit. Teepell served as Operations Director for Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley until February of this year, according to Legistorm. He then took a job as Political Director for the failed gubernatorial campaign of Philip Sarnecki, a Republican businessman in Kansas. 

Tommy’s father is Timmy Teepell, a Republican strategist who worked for congressman and then Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal from 2004 to 2011; he also ran Jindal’s ill-fated presidential primary campaign in 2015. He joined the consulting firm OnMessage in 2011, and helped the virtually unknown Hawley get elected Attorney General of Missouri in 2016. Two years later, he helped Hawley become a United States Senator.

Objective journalist offers Tommy congratulations

The person completely missing the point is Jan Crawford, @JanCBS, the chief legal correspondent for CBS News.

Excerpt: Trump has pardoned 9 of the last 11 Republican congressmen to be convicted of federal crimes.

His Justice Department has indicted, tried to indict or taken reported investigative steps against at least 13 Democratic members of Congress since he returned to office.

Excerpt: But the most frightening presidential powers are the ones that neither you nor I nor Medish and McCleary have seen — the so-called Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) that, according to some reports, are kept locked inside a White House safe. These were created mainly to ensure continuity of government in the event of a highly destructive nuclear war, but the authors are rightly worried that a panicked Trump could apply these to a domestic crisis — real or invented.

There are believed to be as many as 56 PEADs that have never been seen by the American people, the authors noted, and they apply to such matters as “suspension of habeas corpus, martial law, censorship, the detention of citizens ‘considered dangerous,’ [and] the seizure of property and communications.”

Excerpt: Lang, wearing a polka dot dress shirt beneath a navy blue suit jacket, was making his video call from a familiar location where he frequently gives interviews, sitting in front of a backdrop branded for his “Blessed News Network,” which markets itself as “AI-curated Christian and conservative headlines.”

Me again: 3-for-3.

Trump has no interest in cost-cutting, except for his own projects. When it comes to federal spending, his only interest is money for himself and his cronies, and cruelty for the rest of us.

But Vice President JD Vance has “not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself”

The difference between ICE and the Gestapo is, the Gestapo didn’t cover their faces.

Excerpt: What’s different about Perez’s case is that U.S. military personnel appeared to be working with ICE to identify a potential target and use a long-standing military-recruitment tool—the promise of legal status for loved ones—to facilitate an arrest.

Sounds crazy counter-intuitive — would any woman even want to be in a fraternity? But read the article, and see if you’re not at least half-convinced it’s a good idea.

I will always believe women who step forward and tell of rape or harassment. At a lower level, guess I gotta accept a jury’s verdict, when they’ve listened and watched an entire trial I hadn’t even known was going on.

Will this legislation pass? Of course not. Is it worth trying anyway? You’re damned right.

I would feel viscerally unsafe in any home not constructed mostly by Hispanic labor.

Excerpt: Musk showed off the car at an event outside Waco, Texas, with a demonstration that saw the car use a mixture of high-powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and ease itself to a landing on the pavement below. The car also used the thrusters to lift itself over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 while in motion.

“This will be the actual car that’s on the roads,” Musk said of the car, which Tesla showed accelerating 0 to 60 miles per hour in one second. “It literally is just going to puff itself up, and uh, and be able to do this, these maneuvers whenever you’d like.”

Absolutely never gonna happen.

Oh, and the car will be sentient, says Musk

Excerpt: The Musk Foundation says almost nothing about its work. Its website contains a mere 33 words…. Of the money that has actually been handed out by the Musk Foundation, the vast majority has gone to other organizations linked to the entrepreneur.

Excerpt: Online pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation, sex between people who are related or pretending to be related, or when somebody is pretending to be a child under 16, will be illegal.

Me again: No more pigtails?

No joke, this is the definition of a slippery slope. Ban icky porn today, and broaden the definition of ‘icky’ tomorrow.

Excerpt: “It’s also time to choose sides,” [Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu] said. “Either you are in the camp of the Republic, and therefore of law enforcement — and of those who protect people and property and enforce the laws — or you are on the side of the rioters.”

Me again: I’ve never been to France, and have only the loosest grasp of what folks are angry about there, but I have seen police. Which is why I have never, will never, and could never be on the side of someone so rhetorically, reflexively pro-police as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

“You’d be forgiven for mistaking this for Frédéric Chopin, it’s so soothing on the ears.”

It’s against the law to stand on the sidewalk?

Can it really be “bipartisan” when there’s only one party?

Excerpt: Some riders have complained about fare enforcement operations slowing down or even halting buses, and see it as counterproductive to the city’s mission of faster buses. Many have taken to the internet to criticize the officers’ use of excessive force and profiling, such as this Reddit user.

The Rev. Kevin McCall, a civil rights activist who appeared at a press conference with Taylor on Wednesday, called MTA’s enforcement efforts a “new level of legal stop and frisk.”

Ass-covering, that’s all.