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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against Trump

Not quite everyone, maybe not the hardcore MAGA (though plenty of conservative grifters), but all the journalists and pundits academic institutions and lawyers and businesspeople who have submitted.

America's Worst Humans

George Borjas

One of Borjas’s direct contributions to the Trump administration this past year was his extensive behind-the-scenes work on Trump’s overhaul of the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers that added a $100,000 fee, according to three people familiar with his work and a White House official, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to share internal deliberations. Borjas had previously written about the “well-documented abuses” of that program over the years.

Doing The Fucking News

NYT reporter (an actual reporter, not one of Dash's politics gang) informs CBS they don't know what they are talking about.

Rubio is no longer the acting administrator of USAID. He handed that to OMB director Russ Vought in August for Vought to finish the shutdown of the dismantled agency. Politico did a story on it, and we spoke to Vought’s office about it as well. https://t.co/9TCO9vlDuA https://t.co/O7fARtIpcw

— Edward Wong (@ewong) January 9, 2026

The Minority Whip

I know it's mosty a fake job in the Senate, but Dick Durbin is, actually, the Minority Whip.

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch

— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM

The Killer App

I suppose a subscription CSAM app might be the way MECHAHITLER manages to make money, but only if the company isn't treated like any other such company would be.

Morning

Fascist Friday

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86'd

Steny Hoyer, more part of the problem than solution his whole career, to retire.

America's Worst Humans

Jonathan Ross.

As I Told Everyone Who Would Listen 20 Years Ago

the fascist mouthpieces have a massive resource advantage. this is a way to chip away at that advantage: give valuable stuff to real journalists at real news outlets (and real independent journalists.)

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— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM

We all talk about how left-leaning people should have been funding media outlets. We have all been talking about this for years.

But not everyone in "DC" has access to the funding button, of course. What they do have access to is information and "scoops."

Matt Drudge got big because journalists decided they had to pay attention to him.

Yes lefty media outlets need funding, too, but DC Dems have mostly not promoted the ones that do exist. Leadership runs to the Times and Politico with "scoops," not to the American Prospect.

There are various reasons for this, but one is they are largely uncomfortable taking questions from The Left, as their entire pitch is to "the Baileys" and those center-right journalists.

Funny Times

I don't think anyone has to hand it to Bill and I certainly don't support putting him in charge of anything, but of all the "NeverTrumper" types, he's the only one I think is genuine, not grifting, and not always angling.

I'd replace most of the Pod Save America guys with him, at least.

That Could Be Me

I think empathy is normally talked about as the ability to understand someone else's experience and feelings - and therefore the ability to care - but the other part of that is it brings selfish awareness that their experience could be yours, that what is happening to them could happen to you.



ICE agents aren't committing violence only against immigrants or protesting libs, but people who lack empathy still can't imagine being affected by it.

Small consolation that almost everyone suffers and then (everyone) dies eventually.

Liars

That reporters are not willing to deal appropriately with regular lies and liars is not a new thing, but I do think what is new with the Trump administration is that they lie about everything.  There is no interest in in attempting to lie plausibly, or even to stick to the truth when that would serve them just as well.  

This isn't about lawyerly word choice or the usual exaggerations of politics. They just get up there and lie, constantly, in press conferences, in quotes to reporters, on MECHAHITLER THE CSAM APP.

You can't report on this administration by fronting the lies and having the rebuttal 3 paragraphs  - or 3 days - later.  That they lie constantly has to frame all coverage of them.  Nothing is the truth.

I wrote "not willing" because this isn't hard.  They - or their editors - just don't want to.

Morning

Thirsty Thursday

Wednesday Evening

 Another day in Trump's America.

America's Worst Murderers

 ICE Agents.

Safe Home For Billionaires

This stuff quieted down a bit, but "the billionaires will regret their support for Trump and we should welcome them back so stop being mean to them" was a big thing late last Spring.  How is that holding up?

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Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Says Party Should Court Musk

The near-silence about Elon Musk's MECHAHITLER CSAM GENERATOR is explained in large part by this attitude. 

Meet The New Boss

It really wasn't a good idea to start all those statements saying it was good that Maduro was gone.

There is no sign that the United States’ demands include less repression. Instead the regime is taking the opportunity to crack down. It published a decree directing the authorities to search for and arrest “any person involved in the promotion of or support for the armed attack by the US against the territory of the republic”. On January 5th it sent armed paramilitaries, known as colectivos, onto the streets of Caracas. These are largely controlled by Mr Cabello. Some were stopping drivers to check their phones. The likely aim is to deter any protests against Ms Rodríguez. Some 14 journalists and media workers were also detained for hours before being released, according to the National Union of Press Workers in Venezuela. Ms Rodríguez may have some economic nous and a pragmatic streak, but she was in the innermost circle of a regime that has regularly tortured, killed and disappeared opponents and their family members.

Decades of baby brains thinking that even if someone is a "bad guy" that removing the "bad guy" is good. It likely isn't!

The Trumpers don't even try to fake competence or good intentions! Politicians and many in the press do it for them!

We'll Be Supporting The Moderate Rebels

I have no idea what will happen in Venezuela, but...

Venezuela could face violent instability following the shock capture of President Nicolas Maduro by the US military, experts have warned.

While Maduro’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez was quickly sworn in with US-backing, there are fears a political vacuum sets the stage for a power struggle among multiple heavily armed factions that could spark an insurgency.