View on Threads Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has polling numbers, and the public has emphatic opinions about Trump integrity, gifts, and profits. Jason Linkins actually saw it coming. aww man, to think that Gretchen Whitmer sucked up for nothing who could have seen that coming besides me www.rawstory.com/trump-democr… [image or embed] — Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social)…

The late James Coburn on the virtues of Muppet meditation: More sanity from our usual suspects: Julian Sanchez notices that TrumpTaxTariffs seem to have been mindlessly (occasionally ridiculously) formulated by a nonhuman. He wonders if other presidential actions might also have come from AI instructions. So, just for giggles, he asks an AI chatbox what…

View on Threads There’s a new Pope in town. Editor Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice goes to mainstream news and social media for reaction to Pope Leo XIV. Turns out conservatives are in meltdown. Those outside of Trumpville kind of like a Pope who urges a more Christlike approach toward migrants and others who are marginalized.…

Acts of kindness are everywhere. Humanity on a bus: View on Threads News Corpse notes the political reality. Fox polling joins every mainstream poll, showing that voters don’t like Trump, or Musk, or what they are doing in pretty much every area. So, naturally, Trump attacks Rupert Murdoch. Dave Columbo provides a wonderfully frank review…

Too cute: And so we transition from our new source of sweetness to more familiar wellsprings of wisdom: Hackwhackers has US District Judge Paula Xinis stomping all over specious falsehoods and evasions offered by Trump and Trumpers to excuse deportation and continued imprisonment of innocent US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The 4th Circuit Court of…

Disturbed at Musk reading your private stuff? Well, this is startling: Yikes. That was intense. We can take comfort, maybe, in the always available sagacity offered by our usual suspects: Dave Columbo tracks the overlapping, contradictory, TrumpFolk narratives about the on‑off‑on‑off TrumpTaxTariffs   Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the numbers. The American public doesn’t much…

As a kid long long ago, I was taught to write out a straight line list with commas between all items, even when it concludes with and. As in: My loved one asked me to move the car, clean out the garage, and move the car back in. As opposed to: My loved one asked…

From @pubity on TikTok: Leading us to blogging wisdom from the usual suspects: The Beaverton reports from the Mediterranean as Greeks celebrate the results of Trump’s first weeks in office. They are no longer the civilization that has fallen the furthest. The editor of the Yale Review has finally broken the code. He has the…