I wonder where Jill Stein is these days?

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas):

There are more mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are House Republicans here in Washington D.C. today.

This is the ethos:

Maybe Newt Gingrich, for creating the playbook that McConnel used?

This actually sums up pretty nicely the rant that Anand has in this piece. Your war on terrorism analogy is absolutely perfect in this situation as well.

Cory Doctorow just published a piece MAGA crackup

… Like all successful political campaigns, Trumpism is a coalition. Coalitions form when groups of people set aside their disagreements and join together. Virtually every important political change is downstream of a coalition.

The easiest kind of coalition to form is an oppositional one, where groups agree on what they don’t want, without agreeing on what they do want. Think, for example, of the Andrea Dworkin wing of the feminist movement making common cause with Jerry Falwell to oppose pornography. Obviously, these people have a completely irreconcilable goals for what they want, but when it comes to porn, it’s easy for them to agree on what they don’t want.

That’s fine when you’re waging the campaign against something, but if you happen to win that campaign, you’re in trouble. That’s when the fight starts over who will get their way. That’s the moment when winning coalitions become bitterly divided

I run DietPi on an OrangePi5+ to run Jellyfin on. It’s brilliant

It was refiled in state court instead. It’s not over.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/06/30/trump-moves-his-lawsuit-against-register-and-its-pollster-from-federal-court-to-state-court/

That’s been a fantasy of theirs since the 1840s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

This shows how scared they are of him. This is a bellwether moment.

Her response is gold

No True Christian
No True MAGA
No True Scotsman

Remember the poem that is written on the Statue of Liberty (pictured in this gaudy trumpcard):

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

I don’t blame you. I grew up here thinking that most people were generally good/decent people. I was propagandized to hell and back and grew up believing that America was as good as it got in the world. Other places (like Canada) weren’t bad, but just but as great as America.

It wasn’t until I left my cult-like religion (Mormonism) at age 18 that I truly started learning more accurate history and exploring other cultures that I realized how deep in the hole I was as a human. I spent 20 years thinking that America was imperfect but had the potential to be better, and to come to terms with it’s thorny past. Obama being elected seemed to prove that potential.

Trump (then Trump 2.0) had destroyed that last illusion and I’m not sure what it would take to rebuild any sense of pride in my country. My entire extended family (as far as I’m aware of) are all in support of what is happening here, and it is stressing any vestige of relationship I had left after leaving their religion all those years ago.

Trust takes years to build, and a moment to lose. America has lost any trust in this moment. It’ll take a lifetime to rebuild at best. My son is in for a harder life because of it and I can’t help feeling guilty

I’m an American, and it’s going to take me a lifetime to look at America as anything resembling intelligence.

Edit: this is not directed at Miles, but the situation

Security by obscurity, baby!

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

• Henry II