Trump and his fascistic cabal, epitomized by billionaires such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, are constructing a mafia state. A nation of gangsters and marks. A nation where they alone have unlimited freedom to pillage and exploit. A nation where the government is privatized.
Project 2025’s Russell Vought is trying to run from his own identity.
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(Edit - by David Abruzzese, one of the best rock drummers on earth)
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
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Housecat size sand cat, or Felis margarita in Libya.
RT: @Sludge NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. https://readsludge.com/2026/06/22/palantir-goes-on-a-democratic-lobbyist-hiring-spree/
His arrival was foretold in the ancient murals
King Of The Code - Roger Miller
Limpkin lifer - yay!
#birds #birding #lifer #Limpkin #marsh #FloridaBirding #OrlandoWetlands #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature
More babies! Here an adult pileated woodpecker (right) feeds his fledgling son on my deck railing. There are 3 still photos in the Comments. #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #HoosierMast #feeding #pileatedwoodpecker
Another day, another illegal billion-dollar bribe to raise your electricity prices https://electrek.co/2026/06/17/another-day-another-illegal-billion-dollar-bribe-to-raise-your-electricity-prices/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I got to play the wear down the witnesses game today. Chatted with two Jehovah Witnesses until they begged off. They try hard to feign interest in me for as long as they can.
McSweeney's shot to kill. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
#Libraries are one of my favourite places in the world. A place that wants nothing from you, yet gives everything. Really important for social cohesion and a powerful Third Place.
Go support your local library. Least you could do is sign up for a library card.
A gorgeous Bengal. Knows how gorgeous they are - has heard it in many languages.