Sanewashing, episode infinity

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by liberal japonicus They just cannot help themselves. All the headlines about Jesse Jackson’s passing, if they note Trump, say something like this: After that first reflex, I note that some are pointing out that Trump’s [Un]Truth Social post is essentially an excuse for Trump to insult everyone else. Here are the last 3 paragraphs … Read more

Take your’n and beat his’n

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by liberal japonicus The title is from Bum Phillips, a football coach who, when talking about Don Shula, said “He can take his’n and beat your’n, and then he can take your’n and beat his’n” This is what this article had me think of. The article does have a problematic portion, when it refers to … Read more

Open Thread

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Since there’s been a complaint. I’ll start… The American West is suffering a severe snow drought this winter. The water level in Lake Powell, the upstream one of the two big reservoirs on the Colorado River, is already 32 feet lower than at this point last year. The next deadline for the seven states that … Read more

The Aiken formula

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by liberal japonicus GftNC links to this article from the Independent about the surge being wound down. The Trump administration is ending the “surge” of thousands of immigration and law enforcement agents to Minnesota that sparked months of protests and led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens who were protesting the federal presence there. Homan goes on … Read more

What fresh hell is this?

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by liberal japonicus From this article South Africans love a bit of online chaos, but this week’s trending clip of Trevor Noah took things to a whole new level. A hyper-realistic AI generated video surfaced on social media showing the Grammys host refusing to apologise to Nicki Minaj for a joke he made about her. … Read more

Unsure on the definition of ‘torn’

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by liberal japonicus The discussion has shifted in the comments a bit to what it takes to move the Maga base, so I thought I’d put this up. I’m a fan of the NYT daily, (and Michael Babaro’s vocal fry!) but this one is rather depressing. Entitled Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis, after … Read more

Separated by a common language

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by liberal japonicus I’m watching the UK meltdown over Peter Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein as well as Andrew Montbatten and am totally astonished that it seems siloed over in Europe. I’m at a loss which youtube videos and articles to share, but I open us this thread for your thoughts. A couple of things I’m … Read more

Bingeing on schadenfreude

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by liberal japonicus From the creators of Jmail The creators (Riley Walz and Luke Igel) have expanded the project into a suite of “J-apps” to handle the different types of data in the 2026 release: Jmail.world: Continues to be the primary hub for emails. As of February 2, it has been updated with the latest … Read more