Monday, February 17, 2025
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Murder, Inc.
May I Gentrify That For You?
James Mackenzie / Reuters:
Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by Trump — Israel has received a shipment of heavy MK-84 bombs from the United States, after U.S. President Donald Trump lifted a block imposed on the export of the munitions by the administration of predecessor Joe Biden, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
Situation Normal: You Know What
Saturday, February 15, 2025
This Yr. In Nazis
JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Nazi camp. The visit, timed to coincide with Vance’s trip to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, comes a year after Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and newly-installed most powerful person in the United States, visited Auschwitz last January.It’s worth recalling the circumstances that led to Musk’s visit to Auschwitz a year ago. The visit came after months of antisemitic statements, including using his social media platform X to boost conspiracy theories accusing Jews of “flooding their country” with “hordes of minorities”; threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for being the “biggest generators of anti-Semitism”; and accusing Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros of attempting to “erode the very fabric of civilization” because he “hates humanity.”
Finally, in the wake of a threatened advertiser boycott with the potential to harm Musk’s bottom line, he did what any wealthy celebrity accused of antisemitism does these days: he made a ritualized visit to a concentration camp or Holocaust museum to have his sins of bigotry washed clean. (In Musk’s case, he also made a similarly ritualized visit to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who, of course, has a long history of giving kosher passes to far-right antisemites in exchange for their support for the most right-wing elements within the Israeli government.) Musk’s brief trip to Auschwitz was enough to win instant forgiveness for his sins of antisemitism.
Except, of course, Musk was not radically, instantaneously transformed by his time at Auschwitz. He was not magically cleansed of his antisemitism. In the year after his trip to the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Musk reinstated the accounts of Holocaust deniers and praised a Holocaust revisionist historian. In just the past month alone, Musk infamously performed a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration rally; joked about the Holocaust; told supporters of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany that Germany needs to “move beyond” its historical guilt for the Holocaust; and reinstated a briefly-fired 25-year-old government employee who had bragged about being “racist before it was cool” and called for the repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Dead Man Walking
Second Amendment Remedies
Smart man, begging to be killed, murdered or executed, as he so richly deserves. C'mon, Iran!Clichéd Local Action
Friday, February 14, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Daily Suffering & Anger Devotional
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Wall St. Wk.
Self-Censorship
Not man enough to call for executing them all right now? I'll call for sterilizing the entire humanoid population immediately. I mean, have you seen & heard these people? I went outside today. A chilling experience.
What I saw outside. Everything at ground level was putrid or worse. |
Any Attorneys Available?
Every Day Is Trash Day Now
Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos: Surprise! Yet another Trump pick has a vile and racist online history
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
First We Fuck The Fake News
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Oh, how "crude". |
Preferably in the mouth w/ my fist.Meghan Blonder / freebeacon.com:Erik De La Garza / Raw Story: 'Please don't tell my children!' Dem rouses crowd with profane plea to oppose TrumpSister Toldjah / RedState: Introducing the Democrats' *Other* Mad Maxine Problem
Frog W/ An AK-47
The Words Of The Prophets Advertisers Are Stenciled On The Sidewalks
I s'pect "Bring me more gasoline" is commentary rather than part of the ad, but if you think this reporter givesa flying fuck you are, again, sorely mistaken.
Monday, February 10, 2025
"They Made You A Moron"
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If those are the choices, then not to be born at all. |
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” — Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use. — A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely …Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find
Good Idea: We'll Start W/ Republicans
He doesn't mean feral cats or dogs.Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations
“Population control? If only!” wrote Darren Beattie, who was appointed to a senior role by Marco Rubio.
Lined Up Like The Sheep They Are,
But Not For Super Bowl LIX
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Slept Past 1300
Sleep all night, sleep all day
Nothing good on tee vee anyway
Friday, February 7, 2025
"Clean Out This Place!"
Don't Lie To Yourselves: Nothing Matters
Int'l. relations by punk song. Not meant to be taken seriously by anyone but an exceptioally alienated teenager.Let's have a war
So you can go and die!
Let's have a war!
We could all use the money!
Let's have a war!
We need the space!
Let's have a war!
Clean out this place!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Why Trump's plan to “clean out” Gaza actually matters — It's a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as well as a follow-up social media post, is not going to happen.Alex Lederman / The Forward: Trump's plans for Gaza could undermine the ceasefire. The hostages will pay the tragic priceAaron Boxerman / New York Times: Trump Digs In on Gaza Takeover and Palestinian ResettlementDigby / Digby's Hullabaloo: America First — He really thinks the Palestinians are pets who can be rehomed to a “farm in the country.”
None Dare Call It Genocide
It's Just A Little Gentrification
At this point one has to assume the alleged atrocities of 7 October were a false flag operation, & that Biden & Trump were both in favor of this eventual resolution. Is Israel proud of itself? Absolutely. They found a final solution to the problem of two million unwanted others in "their" shithole nation. Lovely people, everywhere.Sometimes? Pretend?
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Bob Marley Would Have Been 80 Today If The C.I.A. Hadn't Killed Him
Or Did Chris Blackwell Give Him Cancer?
Variations On A Theme
New York Times:
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu — A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows. — Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds …Helen Branswell / STAT: USDA milk testing shows different strain of H5N1 bird flu in Nevada dairy herds
Any day now.There are many subtypes of avian influenza (bird flu), including H5, H6, H7, H9, and H10.The subtypes are named based on the proteins on the surface of the virus.
Subtypes that have infected humans:
H5N1: A(H5N1) is the most common subtype to infect humans.
H7N9: A(H7N9) is another common subtype to infect humans.
H5N6: A(H5N6) has caused human infections in recent years.
H9N2: LPAI A(H9N2) has caused human infections in recent years.
You're Born Alone, You Die Alone. Between, You Are Made To Suffer Alone.
It's an ugly, shit-toned world. You made it, & you'll die in it. |
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Superman Is Dreaming
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
First Amendment Wrongs & Rights
Another Institution Fails: "Just Words On A Page ..."
Just what could be expected from an upper class of chickenshit bullies & assholes. Death to the cowardly publishers & their corporate greed! At least send a strongly-worded letter.Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
Each legal settlement with Trump by powerful media organizations weakens the freedoms they rely on, damages their credibility, and pressures other outlets — Judge Learned Hand, revered for his eloquent and consequential defense of free speech at the height of World War I, came to fear …Ben Mullin / @benmullin: An eloquent essay, from @JameelJaffer, on the current media moment: https://www.nytimes.com/...Matt Taibbi / Racket News: Nation Shrugs as Godzilla Eats Washington@freedom.press: These settlement payments amount to legalized bribery by news networks' corporate parents. — Ownership should not put journalists in the position of having to report on Trump's corruption while their employers participate in it.@knightcolumbia.org: “Some of the nation's most powerful media institutions have concluded that it is simply not in their commercial interests to inconvenience the president, even if sparing him inconvenience means abandoning their own First Amendment rights.” - @jameeljaffer.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Kate Klonick / @klonick.bsky.social: All of this by @jameeljaffer.bsky.social but especially this: — “The 1st Am. is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning—sustaining their promise, generation after generation—depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply” — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...@freedom.press: The First Amendment gives U.S. publishers and platforms rights “that are the envy of their counterparts around the world. That today so many of these organizations evidently lack the will or courage to exercise them is frightening and dispiriting.” — @knightcolumbia.org's @jameeljaffer.bsky.social.Renee DiResta / @noupside.bsky.social: An op-ed in defense of free speech -the law & the value- that highlights how it's being compromised by media outlets & CEOs capitulating to a man whose movement turned “free speech” into a meme. — “Civic courage...seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Alexander Karn / @xankarn@mastodon.online: Press freedom isn't free. If big media won't use its treasure for self defense, then it never was journalism to begin with. — Gift link. — https://www.nytimes.com/...@froomkin.bsky.social: “The First Amendment gives American publishers and platforms rights that are the envy of their counterparts around the world. That today so many of these organizations evidently lack the will or courage to exercise them is frightening and dispiriting.” (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...Jennifer Stisa Granick / @jennifer@defcon.social: We are watching as “some of the largest American media institutions and technology companies prostrate themselves, one after another, before Donald Trump, offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits that one would have expected them to contest.” — https://www.nytimes.com/...Jean-Paul Marthoz / @jpmarthoz.bsky.social: US media corporations and Donald Trump. “The First Amendment is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply”. This is how autocrats prosper — www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o... @jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Fumigation?
Not A Christo and Jeanne-Claude Deal
Earthling brains are already filled w/ plastic. If you aren't demented yet, you could check the news, but chances are good to excellent your brain is already bloody mush. After all, you're reading this.Monday, February 3, 2025
Remember "Where's The Outrage?"
[Techdirt]Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse
from the we've-been-pwned dept
People sometimes think that cybersecurity is just about defending computer systems from remote adversaries. But it’s broader than that; cybersecurity has always been about protecting computer systems more generally from any sort of misuse, no matter how the adversary might access them.So that Elon Musk and his minions have managed to walk right into government offices to take over computer systems where they had no legitimate authorization or entitlement needs to be understood as a cyberattack by a rogue actor. And every ounce of outrage we ever would have had if any other rogue actor had taken over critical government infrastructure needs to be mustered here, because it is just as outrageous, and as dangerous, if not more so on both fronts, because this time the threat to America’s security came from within.
Wake Up! Or Don't. If You Cretins Don't Care, Why Should I?
How Long Have I Been Telling You To
Stop Pretending?
"What. Ever." sez America.A Coup is In Progress in America
This is not hyperbole or exaggeration. The constitution of the United States is not operating. This is a grim moment in American and world history.
A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: In just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk's DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed. Career civil servants across agencies are being systematically purged for having followed legal requirements during previous administrations. The president openly declares he won't enforce laws he dislikes, while Congress watches in complicit silence. This isn't happening through tanks in the streets or soldiers at government buildings—it's occurring through the systematic dismantling of constitutional governance and its replacement with a system of personal loyalty to private interests. Those who resist are being removed, while those who enable this transformation are being rewarded with unprecedented control over government functions. The time for euphemisms and careful hedging has passed. We are watching, in real time, the conversion of constitutional democracy into something darker and more dangerous. To pretend otherwise isn't prudence—it's complicity.
I understand why many Americans are hesitant to accept what's happening—acknowledging the reality of a coup in progress is frightening. But we must confront the facts before us with clear eyes: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government's machinery through plainly illegal means. They are violating civil service protections established by law, shuttering congressionally mandated agencies without authority, and subjecting career public servants to ideological purges.
Evening Star & Loon
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Sold American
Apparently for less than US$300 million you can lease this nation's gov't. & do anything you want therew/.CNN:Katie Hawkinson / The Independent: Elon Musk dropped nearly $300M supporting Donald Trump in 2024
There's A Fog Upon L.A.
WhatVisibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.WhereThe coasts and inland coasts of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties.WhenUntil 10 AM PST Monday.ImpactsLow visibility could make driving conditions hazardous.SummaryIf driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.Issued ByNWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA