stephen.daedalus

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i got values but i don't know how or why

Who has a right to exist? The Trans athlete case and the birthright citizenship case and the TPS expulsion case and the religious liberty cases are ALL THE SAME CASE. They are all, at their core, a judgement on who can be allowed to exist in our society, pitting the liberal “well, of course every individual has value” against the reactionary caste system that lumps people into categories of acceptability. Replies 1 Recommended 95 M. Gessen commented July 2 M. Gessen M. Gessen Opinion columnist · July 2 @Bob Briggs Yes, Bob, that is exactly right. This entire Supreme Court session can be read as an exercise in drawing the lines of exclusion.
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CBS News: “Some artists who were announced as performers for what’s being billed as a Great American State Fair amid President Trump’s push for a major American birthday bash this summer in Washington, D.C., dropped out of their appearances shortly after an initial lineup was released.”
Lame-Duck Republicans Who Don’t Owe Trump Anything May 27, 2026 at 10:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments Washington Post: “One by one, Trump is putting an end to the political careers of lawmakers in his party that he deems, for reasons more personal than policy-oriented, to be apostates. But in doing so, he may also be liberating them as they serve out their remaining seven months in Congress. They now have nothing to lose if they stand up against him.”
nyt hed and dek: With Big Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Collides With a Testy Trump President Trump has alternated between bullying the justices and cozying up to them as the court prepares to announce major decisions that will determine the fate of the key aspects of his agenda.
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Alleged Embezzler Runs GOP Lawmaker’s Defense Fund May 14, 2026 at 1:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments The manager for Rep. Andy Ogles’ (R-TN) legal defense fund continues to oversee the fund despite facing federal charges that he embezzled money from a Maryland politician’s campaign account and a community organization to refinance a yacht, NOTUS reports.
a sticker on the S shuttle between grand central and 42nd street saying "FUCK TRUMP" with the U in FUCK represented by a raised middle finger.
More Republicans Think Trump Would Beat Them in a Fight May 7, 2026 at 7:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments A new YouGov poll finds 39% of Republicans think that 79-year old Donald Trump could beat them in a fight, while just 33% think they could beat him. Meanwhile, 54% of Democrats think an eight-year-old boy could beat Trump in a fight.
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George Santos Floats Comeback Against Ilhan Omar April 22, 2026 at 4:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was expelled from Congress, floated the idea of running in 2028 to oust Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the Daily Beast reports. Said Santos: “Think I can’t win? Try me, my life is an open book and I’ll take aim at any seat and primary someone out just to prove a point, the American people rather vote for someone who is open about their life and past and seeking truth than someone who is shady and full of secrets.”
Graham Says Trump Is Planning ‘Overwhelming’ Attack April 4, 2026 at 3:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 464 Comments After a phone call with President Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Iran will be facing “overwhelming military force” if they do not give in to U.S. demands. Said Graham: “I am completely convinced that he will use overwhelming military force against the regime if they continue to impede the Strait of Hormuz and refuse a diplomatic solution to achieve our military objectives. If it’s not clear to Iran and others by now that President Trump means what he says then I don’t know when it will ever be.”
Speaker Mike Johnson took questions from reporters: REPORTER: Why isn’t Trump involved in trying to end the government shutdown? JOHNSON: I think he is involved. REPORTER: He shot down the plan yesterday. JOHNSON: Well, that’s what’s been reported. REPORTER: He said it in the Oval Office.
"Our first and last word has always been, is, and will be this: someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you — not now, not ever.” — Iran’s military command, quoted by the Financial Times, in a video message to President Trump rejecting a ceasefire.
Biden grew sullen as he spoke of the surge of immigration agents in Minnesota that resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti. “My friends, I can’t sugarcoat this,” Biden said. “These are dark days.” And he hit Trump for ignoring those violent events in Minnesota during the State of the Union. “He doesn’t mention Renee Good, Alex Pretti, who were killed by Minnesota ICE — in Minnesota by ICE — offer even a word of solace to their families,” Biden said, appearing to mispronounce Pretti’s last name. “He doesn’t offer a word of support, even recognition to Epstein’s victims sitting in front of him. During the entire time he never acknowledged them.”
The Secret Service will soon offer each agent who graduates from protective detail training two tailored suits, according to sources familiar with the matter and a public contract solicitation. The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.” “DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin denied that account, telling CNN, ‘This does not have to do with optics’ but aims to fix inequities for the ‘men and woman who are just starting their career.’
As Trump Puts His Brand on Washington, the Kennedy Center Gets a New Name The center’s board announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress. 4 MIN READ Kent Nishimura for The New York Times
My friend recently told me a story over drinks that I haven’t been able to get out of my head. Her two friends, let’s call them Alice and Bob, were something of a lynchpin couple in her friend group. They’d been dating for a few years and moved in together almost immediately. Everyone knew them as an item that did pretty much everything together. Alice and Bob were more like AliceandBob, really.
“The consequences are notorious, but they deserve emphasis: between 1918 and 1922, assassinations traced to left-wing elements numbered twenty-two; of these, seventeen were rigorously punished, ten with the death penalty. Right-wing extremists, on the other hand, found the courts sympathetic: of the 354 murders committed by them, only one was rigorously punished, and not even that by the death penalty. The average prison sentences handed out to these political murderers reflect the same bias: fifteen years for the left, four months for the right. Right-wing putschists like Kapp, who had tried to overthrow the Republic by force and violence—his associates committed several revolting murders—were acquitted, freed on a technicality, or allowed to escape abroad. After the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of November 1923 failed, the trial of the putschists was degraded into a political farce; the court permitted the accused and their lawyers to insult the government in the most offensive and incendiary language and finally convicted Hitler to five years of Festungshaft, a comfortable form of detention of which, in any event, he served less than a year. The Feme murders committed by members of illegal "defense organizations," paramilitary vigilante groups, belong to the most atrocious crimes in a century filled with atrocities.” – Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, p. 20
text from article published by cnn: "But the Comey case — the centerpiece of a trio of indictments the President wanted — came with different issues."
The two-count indictment against Comey claims that he lied to Congress when he testified that he never authorized other FBI officials to leak information to the press, despite allegedly directing a Columbia University professor to pass information to a New York Times reporter. Comey pleaded not guilty to the charges and denies ever authorizing anyone at the FBI to leak information on his behalf.
Lemons finally told the court that he did seek to find out if a declination memo existed, but said he was under instruction from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office not to disclose the answer. "What is it that the office of the deputy attorney general told you you cannot say?" Nachmanoff asked, to which Lemons only said he was aware of various draft memos.
"Maybe I wasn't clear yesterday; that wasn't a suggestion," [Judge Sara Ellis] told lawyers for the Trump administration. "I am modifying the temporary restraining order to include body-worn cameras." "It's not up for debate," she added. Federal agents at large wear body cameras but federal agents in Chicago have not been. "This was not a suggestion," Ellis said in court. "It wasn't a hint. It wasn't a topic of discussion or conversation. It was an order. So, I will enter it today and then I will expect that it will be followed." A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security called the ruling an "extreme act of judicial activism."
pbs article about how the regnant doofus apparently intends to build something like an arc de triomphe in washington, d.c., pretextually to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United states.
A lot of the weirdness of press coverage of the current Democratic party, its goals, its abilities and its future get resolved if you have a clear set of definitions about who and what the Democratic party actually is. More primaries the better. Basically every poll you see with the public standing of the Democratic party at an historic low is based on Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who are fed up with the party because they see it as ineffective and weak. That is about the elected leadership. And that anger and realization is a good thing not a bad thing because it shows that voters aren’t satisfied with the current party, the current elected leadership. They are, as they say, looking to go in another direction. And that’s great.
Pat Boone's in a metal mood No More Mr Nice Guy album atrocity from the 1990s
Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill. But Not as Many as Democrats Say. A widely circulated talking point about cuts to Medicaid inflates the legislation’s effects by about five million people.
a sweet still from the sound of music. julie andrews and guitar singing for the von trapp kids in an alpine setting.
there's never been a president who's invoked the name of jesus more than you, says incoming chair of donald trump's council on religious iberty to his false idol.
Unhighlighted text: The bad economic data could hang over Trump’s meeting with more than two dozen business leaders at the White House later Wednesday. Highlighted text: And his blame-casting in response to the reports could trip up his recent efforts to take credit for what he asserts are a slew of positive economic developments. Unhighlighted text resumes: For example, in a speech Tuesday evening celebrating the 100th day of his second presidential term, Trump boasted that “prices are coming way down,” claiming, “that’s what I’ve done.” In fact, the latest GDP report showed the personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, sharply increasing by 3.6% in Q1, up from the 2.4% rise in the prior quarter.
MOLLY OLMSTEAD We Learned Almost Nothing This Hellish Week—Except That MAGA Can Spin Almost Anything ALSO Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Blowing Up in His Face in One Big Way DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN Why Did John Roberts Just Give Trump Such a Huge Supreme Court Win?
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board writes: 'We’ve long thought Mr. Trump’s “reciprocal” line is mainly political spin intended to mollify Republicans and businesses....'
chatgpt 4.0 correctly identifies donald trump as the rapist based on an obscure metaphorical description of what an unnamed abomination of a political actor is doing to our republic.
The Democratic National Committee just sent an email requesting donations. I responded. "You are clueless, feckless, incompetent whores and you are failing spectacularly to meet this moment. I cannot believe I donated money to you. Nor that I've spent the last decade defending Democratic leadership to my lefty-est friends. Out with all of you. Tear down the whole rotten edifice. You won't get another penny from me until the existing leadership is pruned, uprooted, and put out with the rubbish."
A story in the UK Guardian newspaper about how a Maltese singer had to alter the lyrics of the song she planned to perform in Eurovision because her reference to "Kant" sounded like ... something else.
Donald Trump makes an empirically false claim and the New York Times fact checks it calling it misleading.
miles davis' miles in the sky album
detective lester freeman from the wire
Inspector Clouseau asking if the (not so) blind accordian player's minky is licensed.
traffic's shoot out at the fantasy factory album cover (mfsl edition)
elton john tumbleweed connection album cover
sammy baker davis jr. and jake ryan celebrating her 16th birthday. unknown if she is wearing panties at the time.
the cover of feddie hubbard's open sesame lp
a trump voter sez: this is not what i thought i was voting for when i cast my ballot for trump. their feed since thurs-fri night is exasperation-inducing. what *did* they think they were voting for if not this?
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the president-elect / doofus promised during his campaign not just to bring prices down, but that prices would come down quickly, almost immediately. he's now backtracking from that promise, saying there's only so much he can do.
Sean Penn portraying Jeff Spicoli driving a technically stolen Trans Am in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Alfred Molina air drumming in a movie I really don't want to name because it would spoil the whole conceit of this thing?