John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰

How I came to support taxation of extreme wealth

As a former public defender, I'll tell you the answer is no. In my state, stealing $500 is a Class B felony. I've seen men go to prison for it. Yet Trump, who doesn't need more money, can steal 126,000 TIMES MORE THAN THAT and the only place he'll go to is a country club to golf.

Bubbles are rational for investors in the same way that fresh water is good for lions.

Pathetic

The fear levels seem excessive

Dems call for probe into 'troubling pattern' of legal wins for Pam Bondi's brother Two Democrats are calling on the DOJ internal watchdog to launch a probe into what they say is a "troubling pattern" of favorable outcomes for Brad Bondi's clients.

This has been a topic in bar circles for weeks. Two Democrats are calling on the DOJ's internal watchdog to launch a probe into what they say is a "troubling pattern" of favorable outcomes for clients of defense attorney Brad Bondi, the brother of AG Pam Bondi, in cases involving the DOJ.

NEW POLL: Most Americans Believe Trump Launched Iran War to Cover Up Epstein Scandal An exclusive Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress survey also finds likely American voters are split on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or to Israel.

Congressional and Presidential candidates who support Trump's illegal war in Iran could be toast in their primary races, according to a new poll with DropSiteNews
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DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit Trump gets donations, you get surcharges.

"Trump gets donations, you get massive Ticketmaster surcharges — service fees, platinum fees, per-order fees, payment processing fees, facility fees, magical money-sh*tting unicorn fees — on top of already sky-high ticket prices." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The best way to see the current moment is that Trump started the Iran war in a fit of self-soothing with the goal of regime change. He quickly scrapped regime change because it’s hard and it jacked up gas prices. The new war aim is to keep oil under $90 a barrel.

Grinding slowly

Evil Queen II going down

Going public

The ADL died years ago

A bit early

I’m basically a hard core reductionist materialist. And I take religions seriously.

This has bemused me for decades. Even American evangelicals don’t seem to take (other) religions seriously (much less US media). It’s as though they don’t actually believe religion matters. Or perhaps they think every other believer is faking it

Brilliantly encrypted. Special glasses help.

Meteorologists in the USA actually have a professional code that strictly limits how sexy the ladies among them can dress on the air, specifically to avoid the "hot weather girl" trope so prevalent in the UK and Latin America.

A disturbance in the Force

PS: I don't mean to imply that the people who do this stuff are necessarily just being cynical. Part of the dark magic of algorithms is they act like operant conditioning. You happen to have a comic with boobs in it, likes go up, and before you know it your rent depends on nipple anatomy.

In a way, it's proof that webcomics are just mainstream comics now, I suppose. Like, nobody is surprised when the local news person doing weather forecasting happens to also be weirdly attractive, and in possession of a low-cut blouse. It just feels a little alien to comics to me.

Leaked Documents Show a Border Patrol Remade in the Image of Gregory Bovino - The American Prospect Bovino’s smash-and-grab tactics are now the norm for immigration enforcement across the country.

Leaked documents show the US Border Patrol being remade in the image of Gregory Bovino. Example: last November "guidance was issued across the Border Patrol to clarify how to smash suspects’ car windows and extract them from vehicles while minimizing legal liability."
prospect.org/2026/03/11/b...

Shortly: Trump administration formerly surrenders America to Russian rule. MAGA celebrates his 49-dimemsional chess

Putin hates Trump with a cold eternal rage. Trump is beginning to suspect ..

Once I’d have laughed at such a weak smear job of Ogles.

Never would have occurred to me that even a GOP Congress critter would so declare with pride.

We see how fragile civilization is.

U.S. Forces Attack Iranian Mine-Laying Ships Near the Strait of Hormuz

Since 9/11, the U.S. Navy has adopted autonomous underwater vehicles that greatly reduce the amount of time required to locate naval mines underwater. The EOD sailors at CTF56 in Bahrain are trained and ready to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if required www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

Helluva way to run a war, as the NYT reports. But the article doesn’t go far enough. WHY are his aides terrified of telling Trump the truth? Because the commander-in-chief is not OK in the head, that’s why. These reporters should say it instead of covering it up. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

They were stealing his money. Ultimate crime.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"