Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Not all heroes wear capes.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

“woke” is the new caravan.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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  1. 1.

    TenguPhule

    Trump: ‘Our ICE officers are mean. But they have heart.’

    Via Wapo.

    Hearts of Coal.

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    @JPL: another old white guy speaking about how people are supposed to simply eat their outrage while people are out and about fucking those who can least afford it and fewer voices to speak for them.

    Sen Sanders, can hug his gun at night and sleep soundly, I sure can’t. I find myself in a daily state of barely suppressed set of feelings that range from rage to disgust.

  7. 7.

    Rob

    I love love love the Drowsy Maggie music and video.It certainly put today’s news out of my mind for a few minutes. The Loose Cannon is good too.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Roger Moore: and Hayes is about to have the trump/Putin useful idiot on to receive his adoring gaze for five minutes of fawning (Hayes) and sanctimonious bloviating

  10. 10.

    Jeffro

    Very cool music, AL, thanks!

    For last week and this one, I have been playing two things pretty constantly:
    – last week was Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell
    – this week is Walking Paper’s 2nd album, WP 2

    Although given how today went, a little Dropkick Murphys would be a good idea too…

  11. 11.

    B.B.A.

    For some reason I thought of Preston Brooks assaulting Charles Sumner today.

    Nowadays, the media would spend weeks decrying the incivility of Sumner’s speech while sweeping Brooks’s nearly lethal violence under the rug as “oh, Southerners gonna Southern.”

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    Les Dudek, “Old Judge Jones.”

    Church on Sunday he’s the first in line
    Last week he gave the preacher a fine
    You can’t hate a man for what he must do
    But if his cause ain’t just and his word untrue
    That man in the robe’s a devil in disguise
    The bailiff’s books are filled with lies
    Election time and Jones will never lose
    With a gun at your back in the voting booth
    You can’t do what you think is right
    Sad as it is
    There’s a hangin’ tonight

  13. 13.

    kindness

    Trump world is too stressful 24/7. I need to clear my head once in a while. Especially about right now. Thank goodness we get 2 shows of Dead & Co Monday & Tuesday at the Shoreline. Something to look forward to.

  18. 18.

    cope

    Thank you, thank you, thank you. There is no better balm for my battered soul than wonderful music, especially if it is new to me.

    I left my friend’s house this afternoon after watching much soccer and when PBS told me the news on the radio, I literally felt socked in the stomach (certainly not the first time in the last many months). Your videos brought me back to feeling almost OK again and I thank you so much for that.

  22. 22.

    Doug R

    @Jeffro:

    Although given how today went, a little Dropkick Murphys would be a good idea too…

    See my link above at 17

  25. 25.

    hellslittlestangel

    Sounds interesting. Too bad the incredibly obnoxious autoplay ad for wine in a box forces me to always keep BJ pages muted.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @M4

    My bank mule in WoW dinged to 99 today. Considering the only things he participates in which involve getting xp are holiday quests, that ain’t hay.

    ;)

    And BTW, your 110s should be getting a pre-release of next expansion quest now when they log on to kind’a sort’a buff up their weapons. Hard to believe Blizzard could make Silithus less pleasant, but they did. Quest chain itself is easy peasy and not terribly long to run through.

  36. 36.

    M4

    @NotMax: hmm, might check it out when I have time in fifteen years or so (which in job+job-seeker+trump time is maybe two weeks).

  37. 37.

    NotMax

    @M4

    If you do check it out, say “Hi” to the dwarf in the outhouse.

    Shall say no more. Anything else would be a spoiler.

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    John Lewis has good advice

    Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

  41. 41.

    Gretchen

    Thank you for the Punjabi bagpiper. That made me feel that we’ll win in the long run, that a more diverse America will be stronger than a bunch of old angry white people. I need this to be true since my daughter is marrying a man of Indian descent in March, and I’m wondering if I can trust my Fox-watching, immigrant-disparaging sister to behave herself at the wedding.

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