Peace President™️
@mandyk
We are being lied to about what’s going on and numbers of casualties in the Strait, the “Gate,” and the Gulf. Let’s go golfing!
Got a minute and a half? That’s how long this “motorcade” (battalion? legion?)— 30+ vehicles? I lost count in the high 20s—took to pass, for Trump to reach his first joy ride in the ✈️Qatari Emolument. A cop was there >1 hr waiting to close the road: a waste compounded along the entire route.
You sweet summer child, it’s right there in the abstract: “Men generally benefit more from maintaining traditions; women often benefit more from eschewing them.“ If traditions aren’t culture, what are they? [That’s rhetorical. Don’t even try, bc I’m done arguing this obvious point.]
Nice job! Proud to volunteer for this and delighted to meet and congratulate you in person tonight, Adam. Our friend took this pic of the çiğ köfte—hope the folks at your house enjoy it.
Totally normal to go to a state fair and just… lie down. <AP photo/Nathan Howard>
Governor, what kind of celebration turns the nation’s capital into a militarized dystopia? Or hies to the whims of a power-mad dictator? CALL YOUR STATE GUARD HOME NOW. @freedcproject.bsky.social has clearly documented their deployment in our peaceful n’hoods. #EndTheOccupation #FreeDC
Behind those (sort of) full bleachers were broad swaths of open lawn. And cops. Oh, so many cops, from as far away as Oklahoma. Trump’s voice also blared through speakers onto a similarly sized overflow lawn just beyond. It was entirely empty of people. Took these pics.
The so-called Founders loom large at MAGA’s lifeless State Fair, but let’s be real: 🇬🇧 1776 Trump would’ve been a Loyalist. 💥Civil War Trump a Confederate, war-profiteering and slave trading while sending his sons to Europe to avoid the draft.
Caught this unending stream of people cheerfully leaving on my way in. Trump had just run through his cabinet members name by name and recited the Wonders of Freedom250. (Did you hear there’s a Ferris wheel ?) He was just starting on his accomplishments, from victory in Iran to cheap gas.
Compare: security throngs at Kamala rally, security … vista at Trump’s. Identical set-up for both.
This is a large DC crowd — from Kamala’s Oct. 2024 rally outside the White House.
Only a sparse crowd remained for the obligatory Y-M-C-A boogey-woogey closing: Trump's own double-fist-jerk was pretty tired and perfunctory (hmm), but this enthusiast was ... into it?
Entered late, only to encounter this stream of attendees leaving *while Trump was still speaking*. NVM that it was only 9:17 p.m., during one of his shortest rally rants ever. They weren't even jazzed up or talking about it.
Yup. "Safe" (for mutants) + "Beautiful" -- provided your idea of beauty is neon-green slime on blackened surfaces amid weird, noisy machines grinding fruitlessly to ... filtrate? And cops every-fucking-where. If this is what de-algaefication looks like, we want our $14 mil back.
"These loafers weren't made for walking." Dude in khakis + pink button-down Oxford went 100% Karen on a (young, Black, female) National Guard last night on why *He* shouldn't have to detour around Trump's senseless roadblocks to watch sweaty men grapple under tacky lights in a lightning storm.
#MAHA what, now? "This review highlights the need for greater rigour in the assessment of sudden cardiac death, particularly in young people, as legal substances such as energy drinks may be involved." White Hou$e response: Naw. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
A terrible loss. And for the death of a historian, compounded by narrative failure. Agency matters. Wood was not killed “after” a “crash” — he was run over and killed by a person driving a vehicle.
Ever your servant, friend, upholding small-d democracy. Chatted up 2 DEA agents yesterday, quite genial, during their tax$-funded riverfront promenade. When I remarked that criming is uncommon here + we'd been fine w/o them, they asked sincerely if their presence bothers me. You know I answered.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social why did this cogent thread of yours disappear? Censored or self-deleted?