Originally published at: Buckle Up: The Final 3 Weeks of the Campaign Are Gonna Be Some Kind of UGLY
One Dark Damn Day We’ve endured some very dark days in Trump II, but yesterday was particularly grim — and a possible taste of what’s to come between now and Election Day. President Trump launched a race war against Somalians and Somali-Americans in Minnesota. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exuberantly announced that the holiday season execution…
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FRIST!
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Mark Zuckerberg is a complete freak. I mean he’s not human in any human way.
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I didn’t know this…
Oaks hundreds of miles apart mast in the same year, with no known signal passing between them.
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Heather, a short Paup and Tim today:
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American Taliban on full display for the world to see. Thanks so much to all the dimwits, racists, misogynists, and feral macho men who gave Drumpf a second crack at destroying the US.
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Does a CAT 3 hurricane count as a cat photo?
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Israel having a normal one re: the Nobel Prize announcement.
“From defending apartheid’s most vulnerable to her pioneering role in the…judgment [that] helped establish rape and sexual violence as weapons of war – a historic breakthrough that placed survivors’ experiences at the heart of international justice…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Osoff ought to win this in a walk.
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We’ve endured some very dark days in Trump II, but yesterday was particularly grim — and a possible taste of what’s to come between now and Election Day.
And it’s all just the fucking tip of the iceberg.
I.e, folks attending to Guilfoyle while Kushner and Witkoff keep on keeping on and Donnie banks his earnings from bankrupting his cryptomarks.
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Pretty cool.
I saw a similar fungus the other day the size of a dinner plate.
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Jack Reed, the Senate armed services committee ranking member, has also condemned the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.
On Friday, Reed called the decision “a barbaric spectacle”, adding: “This is yet another stunt by Secretary Hegseth to distract from his tenure’s repeated failings which have only weakened our national security and standing in the world.”
Reed called on the Donald Trump administration to “reconsider this abhorrent move” and said that a livestream would be a “gift to anti-American terrorist recruiters”.
A survivor of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting said that he supports the execution of the gunman but was concerned about the Pentagon’s decision to livestream it.
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As a (no longer active) historian of medieval Europe, I’m usually appalled when people apply the adjective “medieval” to mean backwards, superstitious, etc. Here, however, I’m in complete agreement with Senator Murphy. Hegseth is a Crusader wannabe–and I specialized in Crusades history.
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This is why he makes the big bucks.
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The Cassidy Hutchinson attempt to indict
They’ve failed repeatedly on lawsuits. They’re going a different direction with this one, it seems.
In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division — and not the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. — is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case.
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From the article
The storm could be the first major test of the ability of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to deploy a large workforce after the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts and restructuring of the agency, emergency management experts say.
The Trump administration has said it wants to eliminate, or drastically downsize, Fema, putting more burden on states. More than 4,300 employees left the agency in fiscal year 2025, about 17% of the workforce, according to a recent US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.
The agency’s staffing reductions were not carried out systematically to ensure Fema could still meet its statutory obligations, said Chris Currie, director of homeland security and justice at the GAO.
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Looks like a bracket fungus. Is it growing on a stump underneath?
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