Third full-body self-portrait, the top one 8x8 in real life, the bottom 6x6 in real life, not only can't you see the three-dimensional layering in the below you couldn't see the below perfect rectangle in real life, fine metaphors abound
54 links below, the fuck. Do you think there is ONE person on the planet who personally knows Tronald Dump in real life that genuinely likes him, much less trusts him? Thinks he has a good heart and good soul and ever does anything not in direct service to himself? Yes, he's a hero to his Crackerchrister-American base (who think he has a good heart and good soul and acts in *their* behalf) and, yes, he's the greatest weapon shitlords have ever had at their disposal for achieving *their* aims, but surely they hate him, loathe him, are contemptuous toward and comprehensively don't trust him, think (and hope) they can rein in his reign if/when needed, but remember: they despise you more - they hired Dump specifically to hasten your immiseration, disposable peasant. The head above a representation of the seconds of unencumbered glee I felt hitting basket with teeshot on Emmitsburg 14 with my green teebird a few weeks back, the body beneath is me typing this paragraph. The fuck am I posting on Fridays now, the few of you here are many times fewer on the weekend. Cease bleggalgaze here. Bonnie Prince Billy below, my favorite song off one of my favorite albums of the 2025 so far:
"Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp."\
"The Supreme Court has ruled, temporarily at least, and perhaps permanently, that the United States government can deport anyone, including a US citizen, to a foreign country and then maroon them there on the grounds that they no longer have control of them"
"It’s long been my contention that you can understand Trumpism as the synthesis of two ideological currents, which were long dormant and marginal in the American political scene, and then came roaring to prominence"
"The failure of the left to offer a plausible path out of the worsening social fallout paved the way for Trump’s electoral victories. The legitimation crisis from which Trumpism emerged was a result of the strength of American capital, not its decline"
"Viewed in light of the president’s psychological need to dominate, it is almost certainly true that his flagrant abuse of the rights of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign-born students in the United States — snatching them off the streets to be imprisoned or, worse, sending them to an unaccountable foreign prison with no practical legal recourse — is just the beginning. In the same way that there was nothing that could stop Trump from imposing a tariff regime that, in his mind, humiliates America’s rivals, there is nothing that can dissuade him from using the coercive power of the state to dominate those he disfavors at home"
"Some might ask: How could David Brooks be a longtime columnist for the NY Times when he couldn't see what was right in front of his face? Others would say: David Brooks is a longtime columnist for the NY Times *because* he couldn't see what was right in front of his face"
"A lot of very frustrating American political behavior is explained by reasoning something like this: A pathologically mentally unbalanced moron surely could not receive a major party presidential nomination, let alone win, twice. Therefore if he seems like one, it must all be a clever act"
"Members of Trump's cabinet, as well as Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted felon leader"
"I will never stop reminding people every time I see his name that the entirety of the Democratic leadership, Pelosi, Hoyer, Jefferies, Clyburn, went to the mat to ensure that Cuellar kept his seat despite his GOP favorable voting record, FBI investigation in a safe blue seat over a progressive woman"
^ Yet another opportunity to begin your obamapostasy, you dope ^
the jetsam sighs,
flooding the front hall,
with the fragile violence etched
on the captain’s forehead:
some got off at the next-to-last stop;
others, less fortunate
were lost on the trail,
pines and mist carrying over
until the exit wicket
displaced all thoughts of a former, human time.
We, it was reasoned,
led lewd lives, belong with the bears.
A very few carry enough energy to
create a kinetic bonding arrangement.
These are the so-called sad ones
eating alone in restaurants,
drying their hair . . .
The dandelions are dead and the mud
of summer. They
tell of roasted meats, be oblivion
but a decade away
and the waterfall, unused,
is ruined, it is ruined, is not to stand.
I didn't want to retire, I said to Robert, a 50ish electrician from outside Dexter who I played a round at Hudson Mills yesterday, now I can't retire and never will be able to retire. Robert, who can huck it but can't putt (I can putt sometimes and huck never), said, I want to retire but know I never will and knew I never would but now know I never can. Earlier in the day L and C and me drove to the Detroit Institute of Art and paid full freight to discover their entire wing of contemporary art closed for refurbishing, what we went to see, check the website before going, dummy. Detroit's Hands-Off even started on Woodward in front of DIA, we didn't join. Robert's red discraft driver somewhere in the reeds below, he can huck but not always control
I hate going on vacation, like vacation when there, can't wait to be home though dread the drive tomorrow, fine metaphors abound. Robert, an equal opportunity loather, a Trump hater, a Democratic hater more, and I didn't talk politics once our mutual kinship in despising anyone and everyone in the ruling class and their henchmen established. If I come back this summer he said he'd take me to a Tigers game if interested (I'd mentioned I saw Tiger Stadium, or whatever they call the ballpark they play in now when driving to DIA), maybe, I said, no, I thought. He declared his red disc lost, played his next disc from spot he best guessed the disc flew out of bounds at, moved on. This was on shuffle on drive back to cottage
The DIA is right next to the Wayne State campus, I thought the ginormous cop presence was because of the Hands Off march that the cops were all on campus, not on Woodward Avenue, but no, here's why the cops were where they were
What if Trump's behavior isn't just personal madness?
"He’s at the peak of just not giving a f--- anymore,” a White House official with knowledge of Trump’s thinking told The Post. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a f---. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.”
"The more important question is: How has this insane man managed to gain control of the government of the world’s richest and most powerful nation? That, my friends, is the unfortunate outcome of an economic system that has so profoundly failed to enforce economic equality, and a political system that so profoundly failed to protect its democracy from the influence of capital that it allowed itself to be totally captured by extreme lunatics backed by extreme wealth. And here we are. The whole thing is most notable for its absurdity. If it’s any consolation, all the capitalists who led us down this road are going to lose a shitload of money. Ha ha, fuckers."
"So, let’s sum up. Peter Thiel believes he belongs to an elite group, often understood in implicitly or explicitly racial terms, that is entitled to set aside democratic governance in favor of pursuing a program of technological progress and national restoration. He believes the political means to accomplish this is through a charismatic leader with manipulative, populist appeals to past national glory and against parasitic immigrants and culturally decadent liberalism. For him, even the most milquetoast, reformist liberalism is “tantamount to communism.” He’s obsessed with romanticized fantasies of absolute power, domination, and control. He dreams of wielding the the national security state against enemies both foreign and domestic. He envisioned a kind of imperialist world-state controlled not through deliberative bodies like the U.N. but directly by the intelligence and secret police bureaus. He combines the ideology of white collar, petit-bourgeois intermediary class with its emphases direct management techniques and closely-held ownership with the grandiose, world-spanning designs of an industrial titan"
"One of the strangest emotional states in liberals is when they fantasize about a world that would only exist with a vociferous, partisan leftist ruling party in charge but they somehow think Chuck Schumer will do it instead. Once again: they never even fired the Post Office guy"
"The world that Trump is accelerating through tariffs is a world of militarist ethnonationalisms—highly combustible geopolitics and “fluid” alliances. Militaries will grow. Economies will shrink. And the victims of our policies will rapidly become more numerous. None but the oligarchs shall be spared"
How could so many people in the world’s richest nation be without enough to eat?
"Just to be clear: In Louisiana, the state where Bill Cassidy began the vaccination project he considers to be his most important contribution to public health, state employees are legally prohibited from recommending that parents vaccinate their children"
"The romanticization of Canada by Stanley - and so many others - is laughable & detrimental. As a scholar of fascism, he should know that much of the roots of contemporary American fascist thought are intertwined with the far right movement in Canada - which has become mainstream conservatism"
"I keep thinking about how terrified this man’s five year old nonverbal autistic son is and getting so mad I can’t see straight"
"The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met"
"Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances"
Trump's ICE disappeared a 52-year-old mother from Westminster, Maryland
"There's a form of liberal whose self-image is about seeming "smart," who's unfailingly shilled for Dems & neoliberalism & who's been unrepentantly wrong about everything. They've enabled the GOP, they've helped ruin the world & they hate those who've been right the whole time"
"Corey Booker voted this afternoon to keep sending bombs to Israel, which is much, much more meaningful and important than a speech about values, even if it did last 25 hours"
I attended the burial of all my rosy feelings: I performed the rites, simple and decisive: the long box took the spilling of gray ground in with little evidence of note: I traded slow
work for the usual grief: the services were private: there was little cause for show, though no cause not to show: it went indifferently, with an appropriate gravity and lack of noise: the ceremonies of the self
seem always to occur at a distance from the ruins of men where there is nothing really much to expect, no arms, no embraces: the day was all right: certain occasions outweigh the weather: the woods just to the left
were average woods: well, I turned around finally from the process, the surface smoothed into a kind of seal, and tried to notice what might be thought to remain: everything was there, the sun, the breeze, the woods
(as I said), the little mound of troublesome tufts of grass: but the trees were upright shadows, the breeze was as against a shade, the woods stirred gray as deep water: I looked around for what was left,
the tools, and took them up and went away, leaving all my treasures where they might never again disturb me, increase or craze: decision quietens: shadows are bodiless shapes, yet they have a song.
