Ondine, MD ☕️

Brendan Carr so loves being America's top censor.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Great article btw and sounds like a fun project to have participated in. I’m thinking about the idea it raises that Las Vegas is a place where human’s baser natures can discharge semi-safely while never allowing the participant to avoid seeing its seediness. Never thought about it like that.

I know nothing about gambling (the female - male chasm is a Thing) but I did read an article (Nate Silvers I think) about the House Edge creep in Vegas, and how not even blackjack has reasonable odds anymore. Triple Os on roulettes. Not sure how accurate that is, or if it is limited to the Strip.

QUACKS 🦆🦆DRIVE OUT TYRANTS

I have not howled with laughter in a while. Thanks.

I know. Right?

damn. smart.

HE MEANS HE COULD HAVE USED THE SILVER CANE

ANATES TYRANNOS PELLUNT

JUST WHAT A GUY WHO STILL BELIEVES IN SHOES ON PLANES WOULD SAY

"Go to Las Vegas with @mckaycoppins.bsky.social ," the bosses told me. "Okay, then" I said.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

TYRANTS HAVE CALLED THOSE WHO WANT HUMANE TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN QUACKS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.

1. Is Lindsey Graham the U.S. Secretary of State now?

Is he coordinating these threats against a U.S. ally with the White House?

Now he is demanding that a top U.S. ally enter a regime-change war?

And then threatening, “Hopefully this changes soon… if not, consequences will follow.”

If I had a dollar for every person who asks how defense attorneys sleep at night, I’d be able to pay my student loans. If I had a dollar for every person who asks how prosecutors sleep at night, I could maybe buy a pack of gum. Broken society.

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.

We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.

Everything is for sale.

I swear that’s not (just) snobby snark. Most folks who think and talk about politics professionally quite literally cannot enter the headspace of the median voter. Trump being an idiot is sort of his superpower.

Which branch.

💔

That's Noem, Lewandowski, and Bovino out.

Wannabe fascists, perhaps, but you are not living in a fascist country. Public pressure, embarassment, legislative opposition - all of them helped to turf these folks. That's what I mean by "the levers of democracy still work and you should use them."

We would never stop hearing about this if this were someone Biden pardoned.

Apparently, the GOP has a Nazi problem.

I am clearly being threatened with a good time!! 😁

*clears throat*

lol

Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.

She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.

This earned a follow.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.