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(Steve Nease, politicalcartoons.com, Canada; additional context here)
(John Cole, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains why the sick and narcissistic Malignant Fascist's embrace of the tyrant Kim Jong Un's regime is especially repellent, but expected:
"I know that Donald Trump does something new and terrible every day, sometimes several times a day. Yet his betrayal of South Korea in favor of his 'very good relationship with Kim Jong Un' stands out even among his many betrayals.
Why? Because North Korea isn’t simply a bad government, just another murderous authoritarian regime. It is something that has become rare, even among dictatorships: a full-blown totalitarian state, in which the government controls every aspect of life and even thinking dissident thoughts is a crime. [snip]
Much of the commentary I’ve seen about Trump lashing out at South Korea has focused on the damage to U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. How can anyone consider us a reliable ally at this point? Fair enough.
But it’s even more important to realize that Trump clearly prefers a nightmarish, totalitarian dictatorship — the worst regime on the planet — to a vibrant, successful democracy. A democracy, by the way, that more than 36,000 Americans gave their lives to defend during the Korean War.
America has a president who hates everything our nation was supposed to stand for." (our emphasis)
These are dark time in which the nominal leader of the nation is actively promoting our adversaries, while deliberately alienating our long time allies (Canada, Mexico, the UK, the European Union, South Korea, Taiwan, and on and on).
Operation Epic Quagmire: Hormuz nuz, delusions, quagmire, --
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) August 18, 2026 at 5:49 AM
He can say it however many times he wants, the fact remains that Iran is still targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and the situation won’t stabilize until the administration pulls their heads out of their ass.
— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) August 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Silver lining of the media treating the U.S.-Iran MOU as a big achievement—Hormuz open! Nuclear deal soon!—is that with the 60-day deadline passing and nothing actually achieved, they’ve given themselves permission to frame the situation negatively, breaking out the word “quagmire.”
— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) August 18, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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The Malignant Fascist's constant companion --
Decent chance that she’s making her own policy decisions by control of his accounts. She may also be influencing what information does & does not get to him. I wonder if she’s in classified briefings.
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Is Natalie Harp writing his 4am Truth social posts too?
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) August 17, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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The reason the White House is so sensitive about Trump and his relationship with Natalie Harp is because, well . . . because it's a bit awkward
— Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Another poll shows the Malignant Fascist losing ground --
Enten: "Trump net approval hits a term two low, 31 points underwater ... at the beginning he was at +6 points. He's 37 points from where he was ... President Trump was unpopular going into the midterms during his first presidency, but not anywhere as unpopular as this ... he's doing 19 points worse"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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The mentally unfit MF threatens to bomb Oman (where 25,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed) --
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Advice to our broken media (which they'll never take) --
"The news media need to say plainly, in big headlines: Trump is building a dictatorship. Use the D word. Say that this is the most corrupt presidency in American history, which it obviously is. Say that the president is mentally unstable, which he obviously is." My Stop the Presses newsletter.
— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) August 18, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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The Make America Sick Again movement in high swing --
The share of kindergartners with exemptions from school vaccine requirements for the 2025-2026 school year rose to a record high, according to federal data. The sharp increase comes as the U.S. battles its worst measles resurgence in 35 years.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) August 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Food poisoning Vaccine cancellation & rampant disease Restoring gun rights to convicted criminals
— Doc Zombie - Trauma Therapy for Americans (@doczombie.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Important book on Silicon Valley's swing to the far right is out now --
The day has come! “The Nerd Reich” is now available at your favorite local bookstore. I’ll be on @msnowreports.bsky.social at approximately 10:30 am ET to talk about it. Tune in. And buy it! First week sales make a huge difference. If you keep reading, I keep fighting.
— Gil DurΓ‘n (@gilduran.com) August 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Voting today in several states. We need to stop being the MF's decoys --
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
— Hoodlum πΊπΈ (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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MAGAt Rep. Nancy Mace, tatted up and ready to mingle --
She’s one neck tattoo away from announcing a podcast.
— ππ¦ππππ πΎπ¦π£π (@sundaedivine.lol) August 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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If you haven't read about this latest Trump Crime Family get-rich-quick grift, Christopher Bates at Electoral-vote.com has a brief summary of the "World Liberty Bank":
"The griftwatch is eternal with this president. We could easily write an item about grifty behavior from him and/or his kids every single day, and not run out of things to cover. The only reason we don't is that it quickly moves into beating-a-dead-horse territory. Everyone should know he's on the take, at this point, and that the powers that might hold him accountable (outside the court system, sometimes) are not currently doing so.
"This story is sleazy enough, however, that we just could not let it pass. World Liberty Financial (WLF) is, of course, the Trump family's crypto business. However, it cannot legally issue its own stablecoins (bitcoins tied to reserves of some commodity, commonly U.S. dollars) because it is not a bank. Instead, it has to rely on a middleman and, of course, the middleman ends up with some of the profits and a lot of the power.
"The owners of WLF (including the Trumps, who hold 38% of the company in their own names) do not want to give up their profits or power. So, they have come up with a solution: World Liberty Bank. WLF applied for a charter with the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and yesterday federal officials who work for Donald Trump gave preliminary approval to Donald Trump to open his own bank.
"It is not a done deal yet. There are still hoops to be jumped through, and maybe the Trumps won't be able to jump through them all. Or maybe it will take long enough that by the time final approvals roll around, the Department of Treasury will no longer be under the control of Trump, and will say "no." These are possibilities, though we are not at all confident in them.
"If the Trumps do get to run their own bank, particularly if Trump is still president (and Todd Blanche is still AG), the possibilities for grift are endless. Trump was already bandying about ideas for a third Trump-branded cryptocurrency. Imagine how many different coins they might issue, and how much they might fleece
the rubesthe base for, especially if the wolf is guarding the henhouse. Trump also has a habit of ordering his businesses to transfer funds to his personal accounts, and then having the businesses declare bankruptcy. This is what happened with his casinos and it could happen here. Perhaps most obviously, a Trump-run bank would allow for money laundering on an industrial scale. The first 50 accountholders would all be Russian oligarchs."It is clear, at this point, that Trump does not give a damn about hiding his corruption. He was more subtle during Trump v1.0, but now all bets are off. Maybe this is a variant of his usual strategy of muddying the waters with so much crap, it's hard to focus on any one bad act. Or maybe he's just gotten more desperate, since his time as president (and maybe his time on Earth) will soon run out. The Democrats are going to try hard to make this stick to the President and his Party in 2026. We do not know if they will be successful, but we do know that Trump has given them an embarrassment of (purloined) riches to work with."
We see the primary business for this "bank" would be to launder money for oligarchs and criminal organizations around the world, with the Trump Crime Family getting their beak wet at every transaction. The voiding of this charter needs to be among the first acts of a new Democratic administration (if we get there and elect a junkyard dog Democrat as President). Hoping for prison for some or all of the participants in this outrageous, unprecedented scheme may be too much to hope for, but it's sure goddamn deserving.
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Under the vindictive Malignant Fascist, his FCC has been used as a tool of coercion and censorship, threatening media outlets if they have programming that offends the MF. Now, Disney / ABC is pushing back on the FCC's threat to challenge its broadcast licenses by suing the commission. The Associated Press reports:
"Disney filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission alleging a violation of its First Amendment rights.
The suit comes after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Friday recently defended the agency’s actions against ABC, saying broadcasters have a duty to 'operate in the public interest' and the FCC is merely trying to restore that standard.
Carr has said the country should have a 'trusted, respected news media, and we’re not there.'
ABC had accused the agency of a brazen attempt to chill its constitutionally protected free speech — and by extension, that of every media outlet in the country. The network’s July comments came in its latest filing to the agency, expressing its formal opposition to the FCC’s early review, launched in April, of eight ABC local broadcast licenses well before they expire." (our emphasis)
The "public interest" that Carr refers to is clearly meant to be the MF's interest. ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been relentless in his satirization of the buffoonish MF. The pressure tactics worked on Paramount during the merger with Trumpist David Ellison's Skydance Media, which was approved by the FCC after Stephen Colbert's CBS show was cancelled as an obvious favor to the MF.
Late last year, the MF sued the BBC for $10 billion under a bogus claim that a BBC documentary misrepresented the MF's instigation of the January 6 riot, causing him economic damage. The BBC now has the MF on the ropes by asserting its right to see the MF's business and financial records to argue whether he was damaged financially or not. Pushing back against a bully and his acolytes is better than rolling over and handing him your lunch money.
The sub-moron troll to whom 49.8 percent of voters in 2024 gave control over America's nuclear weapons is re-iterating his asinine threat to make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. Territory this morning in an official U.S. Government statement on his failed social media platform:
What a world-historic catastrophe for our country.
The latest Reuters/ipsos poll has more bad news for Dementia Don:
President Donald Trump’s approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.
Just 33% of respondents in the four-day survey said they approved of Trump’s performance in the White House, while 64% disapproved. Trump’s approval rating, down from 35% in a poll that closed earlier this month and lower than at any point in his current term, has now tied the lowest level of his prior term reached in December 2017.
After returning to the White House last year with just under half the country approving of his presidency, Trump’s popularity this year took a hit after he ordered strikes on Iran alongside U.S. ally Israel. The ensuing conflict paralyzed a fifth of the global oil trade, triggering a surge in the price of gasoline which is weighing on U.S. households - and on Trump’s Republican allies defending congressional majorities in November midterm elections.
Trump, who campaigned on promises to keep inflation in check and avoid long-lasting wars, initially pledged the conflict with Iran would take a few weeks, and argued the war was the only way to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon that could threaten the world.
But Iran has proved resilient and has kept the oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz largely bottled up even as the conflict has cooled.
Some 80% of Americans - including 87% of Democrats and 71% of Republicans - think U.S. involvement in Iran “will go on for an extended period of time,” the Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Just 16% said the conflict would likely end in a few weeks.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted online, gathered responses from 1,166 U.S. adults nationwide and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction. (our emphasis)
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
We're pretty sure Dementia Don's comfort binkie, Natalie, won't be showing him this poll.
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The Epstein-Trump Files coverup / Todd? Todd? --
Where are the documents Todd? - Katie Phang
— IslandMapleTree (@buttermaple.bsky.social) August 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Operation Epic Fail / bombing allies, cozying up to tyrants --
Trump wakes up this morning threatening to bomb Oman. Welcome to another week with an unhinged madman running the country.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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In Trump’s war against Iran, North Korea actively sided with Iran, and Trump chooses to reward them for it. So weak!
— Joni Askola (@joniaskola.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 3:46 AM
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Trump, the "absolute crook," and the media's silence --
“What an absolute crook” — Ossoff on Trump
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 16, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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It’s a searing indictment of the media that the family business run by the US president had *hundreds* Of bank accounts closed by Capital One based on suspicions that they were involved in money laundering And-especially since Trump is a convicted felon-it barely registered as a story
— Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) August 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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'sup with Trump's ass? --
As a proctologist, this looks like a fecal extrusion device, although it appears he's using a fairly heavy duty model. We only prescribe these to patients who diarrhea themselves 24/7.
— Lagoogoo Doll (@matchbox30.bsky.social) August 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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The U.S.S. Lincoln disaster --
The USS Lincoln disaster is the latest reminder of why Pete Hegseth still has a job. He is laser-focused on flattering Trump's ego, instead of running the military. Trump's ego is why that ship has been deployed so long. My analysis as to why. www.salon.com/2026/08/17/p...
— Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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Republican SCOTUS: pay E. Jean Carroll, Trump! --
As expected, SCOTUS rejects Trumps' unusual attempt to seek reconsideration of the court's decision in June not to hear his challenge to E. Jean Carroll's $5 million jury verdict against him.
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Why we can't have nice things, health insurance edition --
A reminder that we don't lack national health in this country because it would cost too much. It would actually save tons of money. We lack it because it would not enrich businesses and their executives like the current system does. bsky.app/profile/jent...
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Republicans' Medicaid cuts are a ticking time bomb for the US health care system. newrepublic.com/article/2142...
— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Weak on ICE. Dump this out-of-touch former corporate lawyer --
ICE can’t be reformed. What voters are we courting by being weak on this issue? Do we have some massive Dem donor that owns concentration camps or something?
— Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) August 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Winning! --
New FT poll: Is the economy going in the right or wrong direction? 64% wrong 25% right Are you better or worse off since Trump took office in Jan 2025? 53% worse 21% better 36% Approve of Trump 55% Disapprove giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) August 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Taking responsibility, Japanese style --
Why a viral apology from a Japanese volleyball player reveals something profound about their culture
— Digital Brain (@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social) August 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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The deranged and petty Malignant Fascist threw a hissy fit yesterday against the annual joint military exercise with South Korea, praising his tyrannical friend Kim Jong Un and instructing Whiskey Pete Hegseth to limit our involvement this year. The MF pointedly noted that South Korea had declined to join his disastrous war on Iran as a factor in his tantrum. The Atlantic's Tom Nichols writes that this is a pattern with the mentally disturbed MF, cozying up to our adversaries and kicking our long term allies and blaming them for his failures:
"America and the rest of the world are now witnessing a public exhibition of narcissistic rage. Trump embarked on a war for personal glory, and what he got instead was ongoing humiliation. He clearly finds it all unbearable.
Trump both fears and respects the autocrats who rule Russia, China, and North Korea, and so he dares not cross them. Instead, he is seeking to assuage the psychic injury of his loss in Iran—including the American public learning of the shameful conditions to which he has subjected U.S. forces—by kicking America’s allies, the nations he can punish without fear that they will kick him back.
The Iran war was not the president’s failure, you see. Others failed the president. Those disloyal South Koreans, who every few years drag him into a needless confrontation with that respectful and peace-loving young man in Pyongyang, refused to help him topple the Iranian regime. And because Trump is unable to subdue Iran, unable to replenish stocks of U.S. weapons he should never have expended in this war, unable to take care of the service personnel he has put in harm’s way, someone is going to pay. The most convenient target he could find, at least for the moment, was South Korea." (our emphasis)
As Nichols points out, when things go wrong, someone must be held responsible but never the MF. It's a foolish move and one sure to please Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow, not to mention Teheran.
It's worth noting that we maintain nearly 30,000 armed forces in South Korea, and this petty act by the MF makes their position far less secure. And if the ignorant MF is wondering how Iran's missile production is so efficient, North Korea has been the source for missile technology, materials and technicians for decades, contributing to his failure in Iran.
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Our very stable genius detective president is always on the case, be it ninja vandals who mar his vanity projects, election fraud only in those elections that MAGAts lose, and finding his way out of the war he started and has lost. A veritable Sherlock!
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A massive store devoted to President Donald Trump gear and other MAGA merch is closing, and it’s because even deep in a deep red state, fans are just not that into him anymore.
Slate recently visited the Trump Superstore just outside of Knoxville, Tenn., and found everything on sale at 50% off or more as the shop prepares to shut down.
“We’re not busy anymore,” one employee told Slate.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported last month that the store was closing in part because its owner was moving to Florida. But owner Bill Hays laughed at that.
“The girl that reported that did not know what she was talking about,” Hays told Slate, adding that he’s not retiring or moving. “I don’t think she wanted to say we were closing for lack of business, but that’s why we’re closing.”
An employee named Dan was even more blunt, telling Slate that Trump “really is dwindling, dwindling, dwindling.”
When asked whether he meant Trump’s health or his popularity, Dan said the latter.
“You can see more and more Republicans are not happy with their life situation,” Dan said. “People really are saying, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to do a full load of groceries or I’m going to put my electric bill on a credit card this month.’”
Trump’s overall approval rating has plunged to historic lows, and affordability is a key reason. His approval rating on affordability specifically is now 43 percentage points underwater, according to The Economist’s poll tracker.
Even in Tennessee, where Trump once enjoyed massive popularity, his numbers are falling: Trump entered office with his approval rating 24 percentage points above water. Now, the latest polls show his approval at 47% and disapproval at 45% in the state, just 2 percentage points above water, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Rest easy, MAGAts! The thing you elected twice, your cult leader, is doing just fine with his unprecedented graft, crypto businesses, pardons-for-payoffs, and other grifts he's been running to enrich himself to the tune of $2 billion since 2025. He has also asked that you STFU about "affordability," and high gas and grocery prices, and his endless war of choice with Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
The water level at Lake Powell, the United States’ second-largest reservoir, has fallen to a record low, heightening concerns about the ongoing crisis in the Colorado River system.
The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low. Plummeting water levels pose a major threat to the Colorado River Basin, which is a key resource for wildlife, hydropower and more than 40 million people in seven U.S. states.
The historic lows come as the federal government and states that rely on the river — California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado — struggle to reach agreement on a long-term management plan for the dwindling resource. Persistent overuse combined with a record-dry winter and rising temperatures have been depleting both Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
Lake Powell’s elevation dropped to 3,519.91 feet (1072.9 meters) above sea level on Saturday, dropping just slightly below a previous record set in April 2023, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The lake is more than 20 feet (6.10 meters) lower than it was at the start of the year, USBR data shows.
The reservoir is now about 30 feet (9.1 meters) away from the point at which turbines would stop producing hydroelectric power. Federal officials warned in April that a “major intervention” would be necessary to avoid reaching that threshold by the end of this year.
USBR in July proposed a 10-year plan that includes major potential water cuts for Arizona, California and Nevada.
The crisis has been in the making for years. Both reservoirs are at the lowest they have been in nearly seven decades, and levels may continue to drop, USBR data shows.
The last time their combined storage was this small was in May 1957 when Glen Canyon Dam that holds back Powell was being built, according to a recent paper published by a group of academics and retired water officials. Powell began to fill in 1963.
The depletion has also impacted Lake Powell’s substantial tourism industry, forcing marinas in the reservoir to adapt. Boat ramps have closed or moved, new ones are being added and marinas have been temporarily relocated to deeper waters.
The southwestern US is experiencing a megadrought that has lasted since 2000, exacerbated by climate change (a term you don't see in the article above). With an incompetent, vindictive, and corrupt Malignant Fascist administration in Washington, DC, as a party to reaching a resource management plan, we can only say, "Good luck with that!"
In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purchased electric shock gloves for his officers after learning about them at a trade show. And his employees, he said, couldn’t get enough of them. “If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands,” Glueck joked on a podcast interview a couple of years later. “They’ve grown really attached.”
The shock gloves, he went on to explain, allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that could look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits.
“In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But “the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” [Ed.: yeah, you wouldn't want to have your brutality have any negative consequences for you!]
The gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies, have been used by police, sheriffs, jail wardens, and even school resource officers for years. They’ve been described by groups like Amnesty International as “readily misused for torture.” And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them.
The device is called a GLOVE, which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. It looks like a regular padded black utility glove, but when the wearer presses a small button on the glove’s wrist, it produces a painful electric shock.
“We have a saying: Feeling is believing,” Compliant Technologies CEO Jeff Niklaus said in one 2022 YouTube video. In promotional clips, you can see people losing control of their limbs, falling to the ground, and crying out in pain after a light touch from the GLOVE. In 2022, the company called it a “weapon” in Instagram posts. Since then, though, it’s downgraded the language to “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation device,” branding the technology on its website as “humane.”... (our emphasis)
In a better, more just world, everyone involved with these "de-escalation" torture devices should spend time in prison, from the Torquemadas at the company, to the local law enforcement seeking to cover up brutality, to ICE leadership who ordered $20 million worth of them, to every goon that uses them. But here we are... for now. That's the slippery slope to fascist America that we're on.
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” -- Madonna Louise Ciccone, singer, songwriter, author, actress, dancer, record producer, born in Bay City, Michigan on this day in 1958. One of the most influential musicians of our time (and best selling female music artist of all time), Madonna racked up 18 multi-platinum albums, acted in such movies as "Desperately Seeking Susan," and "A League of Their Own," and wrote a series of children's books. But that still scratches the surface of her life and career, which symbolizes change, freedom, longevity, and creativity.
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(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
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(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)
(Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun)
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(Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada)
(Bart van Leeuwen, Oedipoes.com, Netherlands)
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"... She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction.
"She didn’t brief so much as infect, flicking that forked tongue across every steaming mound of bile that sloughed off Donald Trump and buffing, burnishing, bleaching, and bullshitting it into something she hoped Americans would swallow, transforming lying into liturgy, degradation into doctrine, indecency into catechism, until the grotesque sounded governmental simply because she said it beneath chandeliers with a seal behind her.
"She became an apologist for depravity, an
acolyte of authoritarianism, a servile little lickspittle for sin, a
lacquered lackey for a sexual reprobate whose appetites, abuses, lies,
and grotesqueries were already smeared across decades of public history,
and she fucking knew exactly who she was protecting. Goddamn right she
knew..." -- a brief excerpt from political commentator and podcaster Jo Carducci (a.k.a., JoJoFromJerz), firing a well-deserved salvo on the departure of White House Spokesliar Karoline Leavitt, on her "Are you f'ng kidding me?" Substack. The entirety of her masterpiece is a must read and should be saved for when, after a likely long future career in fascist propagandizing, she shuffles off this mortal coil and an obituary needs to be written. By her sheer evil and moral vacuity (while displaying that cross around her neck every moment!), she will be remembered as The Worst White House Spokesliar in a long history of spokesliars (so far!).
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There is perhaps a no greater example of the idiotic and unstable Malignant Fascist's habit of shooting himself in both feet than his obsession with tariffs. Those tariffs, as any economist or business dealing with imported goods or materials, add to the prices consumers pay for everything from clothing to car parts. The MF has always misunderstood who pays the tariff, consistently saying that it's the foreign country exporting to us, when it's paid by the importer and ultimately the consumer. Emeritus Professor of Economics at Babson College Kent Jones writes in Salon.com:
"President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements no longer cause the market gyrations that they did in 2025. But their sticker shock for American consumers is becoming increasingly clear – just as economic sentiment is souring ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections.
Many business groups had hoped that the tariff wars would end in February, when the Supreme Court overturned Trump’s emergency tariffs. They got a rude awakening five months later, however, when Trump announced a raft of new import taxes to replace the levies that were struck down. [snip]
On one level, Trump’s tariff fixation is a mystery. Tariffs continue to be unpopular, and it’s unclear why Trump would double down on them before midterm elections when his approval ratings, including on the economy, are so low.
But on another level, Trump’s embrace of tariffs can be understood as an instrument of personal power. He has long viewed them as tools for negotiating leverage, and he recently declared that U.S. tariffs 'aren’t high enough.' The president also has deflected criticism of their impact on consumer prices by claiming erroneously that foreigners pay for them. [snip]
And now that tariffs have had time to work through the economy, researchers have found an impact on prices. The Dallas Federal Reserve recently estimated that the Fed’s preferred inflation measure would have risen without tariffs at an annual rate of 2.3% in March, instead of its actual 3.2%. Meanwhile, an analysis by the Yale Budget Lab concluded that consumers are paying anywhere from half to the entire cost of the levies through higher prices, depending on the goods." (our emphasis)
If it weren't hurting families' budgets, we'd be all for his mindless use of tariffs to show his power and for retribution for imagined slights by foreign countries because it'll cost him and his slavish cult in the mid-term elections. The MF foolishly says affordability is a "hoax," something voters will show him is very real in November.
