Hi Jeff, glad to know that you share a birthday with my late father. He was born in 1921, in NYC, served his country in the Navy in WWII, and was a lifelong Rooseveltian Democrat
I personally am stunned by this development--so unexpected, so shocking. Yessiree. Surprised. Caught off guard. Never thought it could possibly happen.
Three rulings in one week. All 6-3. The Supreme Court spent the back half of June handing the administration a deportation machine — and did it on the shadow docket, no argument, no briefing, just the quiet thunk of doors closing on people who did everything this country asked. Damn near 350,000 Haitians and Syrians stripped of protected status with a paragraph. This is not the law catching up to a crisis. It's the law bent into a crowbar.
Funny story - SCOTUS’ WHOLE DEAL was being / or appearing as ‘non-partisan’ as possible (I actually read Woodward’s ‘The Brethren’ back in the day) - how ‘quaint’. I don’t think ppl really know how completely bankrupt it is to constantly refer to the 6 ma ga justices… it’s so blatant. Much like R Congresscritters 100% voting in lockstep and not with their actual constituents in mind. Ever. Ah well
Iran's Fars News revealed that the drumpf regime privately told the Iranian government to ignore his tweets, as they are for the consumption of his followers and do not constitute actual negotiations or official stance on issues. See the limerick above
Here's the open message I'm posting everywhere and sending to my Senators and Representative and office holders at all levels: "Trump is stealing from us. If you are on his side you are working for him, not us."
If MAGA can't get off their fat asses to attend a fair, what are the chances they'll vote this fall? The public wanking was the most entertaining thing there, and the average neighborhood street fair has better organized food.
Another day, another pile. As a person born and raised in Washington DC, the DC metro area is resolutely blue. The only people who would ever attend this fair are out of town tourists.
It occurred to me that only someone who had never attended an actual state fair would have come up with the idea of a national state fair. I mean, the operative word is “state”.
I lived in D.C. most of the years from 1969 to 1985, when it was still Chocolate City. In presidential elections, D.C. reliably turned out +80% for the Democratic nominee. Being a native of Massachusetts (who's been back here since 1985), I was proud that MA usually had the second-highest Dem percentage. (Still have a T-shirt from the 1976 Festival of American Folklife.)
FYI, I grew up in nearby Annapolis. We all tended to regard people who said "Chocolate City," or "Chocolate" prefixing anything to do with Black people, as pretty racist. Not accusing you, just giving you a friendly warning.
DC tourism--that kind of died with the high price of gasoline and airline tickets and soldiers/ICE surrounding the museums and monuments. Also, these days, those from other countries are avoiding U.S. tourism as well.
Even the 1,500 J6 criminals granted pardons by Trump couldn't be bothered to attend his DOA Birthday Jerkoff Jubilee. It's transactional, even for MAGA.
Jeff wrote: "imagine that a President Kamala Harris had handed America’s 250th birthday celebrations over to a corrupt cabal of cronies, and that she was getting a taste of the action."
And I think every Republican voter understands the double standard. It's become a game to them. As long as Republicans win and Democrats lose, everything is fine. Our country could be a pile of rubble, but many would celebrate the fact that -- at least -- Republicans have control of the government. I hope that's changing in time for the November election.
Freedom 250 turning into melted ice cream, dead booths, broken rides, canceled acts, and one extremely confused Uncle Sam is almost too perfect. Trump tried to hijack America’s birthday and turn it into a merch table for his ego, but the country RSVP’d “new phone, who dis?” Patriotism cannot be grifted into existence. You can slap flags on a dumpster fire, but eventually people notice the smell.
It makes me sad because I remember the bicentennial, and how patriotic it made me feel at age 19. This year we had a chance to try to revive some good feelings about the country, thinking about our history, how far we have come, but nope.
I love how the booths for states that chose not to participate in the shit show have just a couple of lounge chairs and a table and lamp in them. How ridiculous.
And it seems that one of the former Confederate states (possibly NC?) celebrated the recent triumph of racism brought to us by the Extreme Court by flying a Confederate flag at the oxymoronic state national fair.
I went to a NYC private school that was part of the same independent secondary school association that NYMA was, and even 50+ years ago everyone knew that was a place where parents with money sent bad seeds to try to straighten them out.
It will be interesting to see how Trump fans react when the water in the pool turns to blood during his next rally. Then comes the pestilence, the blight, the locusts flying out of his mouth. He really needs to up his game as an entertainer. Talk about losing a step.
Ew…ew…ew…. gross and incompetent handling of the 250th for America. WTF?! Anyway…besides the beautiful Claudia photos…I also love your closing remarks…today: “don’t take your dick out of the National Mall….” Sick freak is right! Have a nice Sunday everyone!
The incompetence was a byproduct, albeit a predictable one, of his grabbiness and grifting. He usurped what was a genuinely patriotic, non-partisan celebration in order to aggrandize himself and award non-bid taxpayer money to his cronies. He probably is getting kickbacks, too. Everyone should be incensed at this waste and defilement of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, where most ironically, the Founders threw off the mantle of oppression by a dictator.
I'm incensed. I have been since 1985 when he was splashed across the tabloid pages with his flashy lifestyle. Everything is with OPM- other peoples money.
Donnie also stole money from the National Park Service which forced layoffs of employees and deferred maintenance at our National Parks. That was our taxpayer money. He has the stickiest fingers. Freedom 250 my ass. Everything is a marketing gimmick. Always in used car salesman mode. Today we're at war again. Just go away permanently and take your family, cronies and crackpots you installed into our government with you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Grrrr!
The Bald Eagle attacking the orange sadist is the best part! That should be shown on Jumbotron screen -- better yet, Jumbotron screens at the "four directions" -- along with the Uncle Sam imitator masturbating in front of a group of women performers.
I can't help laughing at DonnieFelon's failure. At 80, I was around for the Bicentennial, when relief from Tricky Dick and Vietnam was beginning. Now? We're screwed!
While this is ironic, and yeah, kinda funny--I'm also really sad and bummed out by this.
Don't get me wrong, I relish Trump's failures, but yet I'm so sad that EVEN THIS WONDERFUL anniversary is tarnished by the orange one!
I'm old enough to remember 1976 and how COOL and FUN it was to be a young person for the celebrations. 😟
Yet another thing Trump has destroyed.
I suggest everyone look up Heather Cox Richardson's "250 to 250" series she has been releasing. Ten videos of America per week, each about a minute or so long. I am grateful for them.
About Trump's photo - the caption says he's 20, but there's no way he would have been in a military uniform at 20. That was a military HIGH SCHOOL, and the date of the yearbook puts him at 17 or 18. After graduation, he got Daddy to get him all those deferments.
Yes! At 20, he was a junior at Penn in the Wharton School, being "the dumbest student" one professor ever had. Shows how demented he is that he couldn't even get his own age right.
Remember how Putin commanded a group of them to Moscow on July4, 2018 and they came back saying there was no election interference, and since have continued to faithfully follow Trump's lead, straight into the ditch? Almost like they're compromised? My senator, Russian Ron Johnson, the white guy on the most recent ballot, was one of them.
And some - namely 700,000 children in Africa - are actually dying or in many cases already deceased because of the corrupt gift of unconstitutional line item veto-equivalent power the transactional tRump bestowed on his number one political donor, the overtly racist Elon Musk
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
things are going swimmingly with Donny's peace deal:
"Iran attacks US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait as strikes strain fragile truce
US President Donald Trump warns Iran 'will no longer exist' if strikes continue, while Tehran threatens to halt negotiations."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/world/live-news/iran-war-strikes-trump?post-id
no one could have predicted this
As Rick Wilson said, “Everything Trump touches dies”.
🎯🎯🎯🎯👏🏼👏🏼
I know right? I did nazi this coming.
Ba dum tsss!!
Sarcasm detected. The Gods love you Jeff.
No one except everyone with a functioning brain.
Haha, meaning only non-MAGAs
Hi Jeff, glad to know that you share a birthday with my late father. He was born in 1921, in NYC, served his country in the Navy in WWII, and was a lifelong Rooseveltian Democrat
WWII veterans are the OG Antifa
I personally am stunned by this development--so unexpected, so shocking. Yessiree. Surprised. Caught off guard. Never thought it could possibly happen.
Except my magic 8 ball.
good one
jeff, Its so fucktastic, that I couldnt even write about it.
I focused on SCOTUS being a bunch of sycophantic ass suckers.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-lid-lung-donald-trump
Three rulings in one week. All 6-3. The Supreme Court spent the back half of June handing the administration a deportation machine — and did it on the shadow docket, no argument, no briefing, just the quiet thunk of doors closing on people who did everything this country asked. Damn near 350,000 Haitians and Syrians stripped of protected status with a paragraph. This is not the law catching up to a crisis. It's the law bent into a crowbar.
Supreme Court….well…except for 3 of them….not so supreme, more like sickening. UGH.
Those six injustices are turds
Their rulings are ridiculous words
Roberts, Alito and Thomas
Have fulfilled drumpf's promise
Of enabling the racist herds
Need an asterisk for Leo/McConnell somewhere Doc :/
Funny story - SCOTUS’ WHOLE DEAL was being / or appearing as ‘non-partisan’ as possible (I actually read Woodward’s ‘The Brethren’ back in the day) - how ‘quaint’. I don’t think ppl really know how completely bankrupt it is to constantly refer to the 6 ma ga justices… it’s so blatant. Much like R Congresscritters 100% voting in lockstep and not with their actual constituents in mind. Ever. Ah well
Supreme Caught ~ is more like it ::
The second SCOTUS reform (after adding judges) is to get rid of ghe shadow docket.
Amen.
I truly don’t understand the dragnet thrown on those specific people.
Why them??
Racism and Islamophobia
They're Black.
most vulnerable / easy grab for max effect
Mafia drumpf
Iran's Fars News spilled the tea
What non-MAGA Americans can see
drumpf's blustery tweets
Are cult bullshit treats
To create his own reality
How many times does Donnie think he can threaten (or claim) obliteration before the threat begins to lose its effect?
Iran's Fars News revealed that the drumpf regime privately told the Iranian government to ignore his tweets, as they are for the consumption of his followers and do not constitute actual negotiations or official stance on issues. See the limerick above
Or just playing for the Markets…?
I think it already has lost its effect.
We do not have bombs to take out Iran!!!
The boy/man child who cried wolf?
The only thing Donny is good at is stealing. And even that is a joke. His family only gets away with it if we let them. See Magyar and Orban.
Quote of the week: “The American Spirit is ALIVE and WELL… in Albania.”😖
So good!
Here's the open message I'm posting everywhere and sending to my Senators and Representative and office holders at all levels: "Trump is stealing from us. If you are on his side you are working for him, not us."
Just another daily clusterfuck engineered by the worst fucking President in American history by professional Presidential scholars again this year!!!
The Straits of Schrödinger will never release us!
I think the press has forgotten what "truce" means. If everybody is shooting at each other you don't have a truce.
America sent its best to negotiate. 2 real estate developers.
The only things going swimmingly are the sailors forced off their burning ships.
Well that's different...🙄
And magically, later today, there'll be a tentative "peace deal" for the markets.
As always. Yawn.
So what’s the deal with the REAL America 250 not the “Freedom America” bs?
Has it been canceled or has it all fallen on Heather Cox Richardson’s shoulders?
They were denied permits for the events they attempted to organize.
Really?!
Oh, joyful thanks for the Daily Mail link, which shares so many delightful images and vignettes.
Imagine that…
If MAGA can't get off their fat asses to attend a fair, what are the chances they'll vote this fall? The public wanking was the most entertaining thing there, and the average neighborhood street fair has better organized food.
Our block party two years ago had more people. Just saying.
The line to the portable toilets at the air show had way more attention!
Another day, another pile. As a person born and raised in Washington DC, the DC metro area is resolutely blue. The only people who would ever attend this fair are out of town tourists.
It occurred to me that only someone who had never attended an actual state fair would have come up with the idea of a national state fair. I mean, the operative word is “state”.
Oxymoron, thy name is MAGA.
I lived in D.C. most of the years from 1969 to 1985, when it was still Chocolate City. In presidential elections, D.C. reliably turned out +80% for the Democratic nominee. Being a native of Massachusetts (who's been back here since 1985), I was proud that MA usually had the second-highest Dem percentage. (Still have a T-shirt from the 1976 Festival of American Folklife.)
Not just DC, but the Maryland and Virginia suburbs are also very blue.
FYI, I grew up in nearby Annapolis. We all tended to regard people who said "Chocolate City," or "Chocolate" prefixing anything to do with Black people, as pretty racist. Not accusing you, just giving you a friendly warning.
DC tourism--that kind of died with the high price of gasoline and airline tickets and soldiers/ICE surrounding the museums and monuments. Also, these days, those from other countries are avoiding U.S. tourism as well.
I’ve seen more people at a neighborhood 4th of July parade.
The disallusion will flow like warm ooze
Even the 1,500 J6 criminals granted pardons by Trump couldn't be bothered to attend his DOA Birthday Jerkoff Jubilee. It's transactional, even for MAGA.
Jeff wrote: "imagine that a President Kamala Harris had handed America’s 250th birthday celebrations over to a corrupt cabal of cronies, and that she was getting a taste of the action."
And I think every Republican voter understands the double standard. It's become a game to them. As long as Republicans win and Democrats lose, everything is fine. Our country could be a pile of rubble, but many would celebrate the fact that -- at least -- Republicans have control of the government. I hope that's changing in time for the November election.
Apparently the votes are magically cast.
The wanking incident should bring in a few jovial J6 folks.
The displays look my 6th grade science fair circa 1967. Did anyone make volcano with baking soda? Which state was that?
*snort*
It's just so typical MAGA that their version of Uncle Sam is a perv
Good one Doc!
Freedom 250 turning into melted ice cream, dead booths, broken rides, canceled acts, and one extremely confused Uncle Sam is almost too perfect. Trump tried to hijack America’s birthday and turn it into a merch table for his ego, but the country RSVP’d “new phone, who dis?” Patriotism cannot be grifted into existence. You can slap flags on a dumpster fire, but eventually people notice the smell.
It makes me sad because I remember the bicentennial, and how patriotic it made me feel at age 19. This year we had a chance to try to revive some good feelings about the country, thinking about our history, how far we have come, but nope.
Yeah, that is a big nope. :-(
I love how the booths for states that chose not to participate in the shit show have just a couple of lounge chairs and a table and lamp in them. How ridiculous.
And it seems that one of the former Confederate states (possibly NC?) celebrated the recent triumph of racism brought to us by the Extreme Court by flying a Confederate flag at the oxymoronic state national fair.
Yes it was NC, and they removed it after the national attention
Yet another tRump success story!
Why was Trump still attending his military high school when he was 20 years old?
I went to a NYC private school that was part of the same independent secondary school association that NYMA was, and even 50+ years ago everyone knew that was a place where parents with money sent bad seeds to try to straighten them out.
He never was good at math.
Growing them bone spurs arrested his development
It was an expensive private 'reform school'. 'Bet he did something bad enough to get him sent to the real thing without Daddy's checkbook.
Maybe set the dog on fire?
That was my first thought as well
He was 18. He should fire that sycophant assistant that posts this garbage.
While Obama was surfing and smoking doobs while getting straight A's in Hawaii, Donald was curled up in his robe on his dorm bed taking perv selfies.
Good question!
"hey Gian — is that a chapstick in your pocket, or are you just happy to be at the Mall?"
😂😂😂 Thats brilliant.
Every day it goes from worse to worser. 😜
Terrific photos today...I would have really liked to share a cocktail hour with Ms. Spouse. ❤️
MAGA Uncle Sam thought his venue was Cirque du Jerk
HAHA!!
I read it as 'chopstick' but that works too!
It will be interesting to see how Trump fans react when the water in the pool turns to blood during his next rally. Then comes the pestilence, the blight, the locusts flying out of his mouth. He really needs to up his game as an entertainer. Talk about losing a step.
The plague of frogs has begun with the amphifa
Just wanted to say
Happy 100th Birthday Mel Brooks! 🎂🎂🎂
Here's an idea: Let's celebrate America's 254th on the Mall in the summer of 2029. What better excuse for a summer-long party?
I like that idea
Ew…ew…ew…. gross and incompetent handling of the 250th for America. WTF?! Anyway…besides the beautiful Claudia photos…I also love your closing remarks…today: “don’t take your dick out of the National Mall….” Sick freak is right! Have a nice Sunday everyone!
The incompetence was a byproduct, albeit a predictable one, of his grabbiness and grifting. He usurped what was a genuinely patriotic, non-partisan celebration in order to aggrandize himself and award non-bid taxpayer money to his cronies. He probably is getting kickbacks, too. Everyone should be incensed at this waste and defilement of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, where most ironically, the Founders threw off the mantle of oppression by a dictator.
I'm incensed. I have been since 1985 when he was splashed across the tabloid pages with his flashy lifestyle. Everything is with OPM- other peoples money.
Well, at least someone was having fun the Freedom 250. He just took the Freedom to be himself.
Donnie also stole money from the National Park Service which forced layoffs of employees and deferred maintenance at our National Parks. That was our taxpayer money. He has the stickiest fingers. Freedom 250 my ass. Everything is a marketing gimmick. Always in used car salesman mode. Today we're at war again. Just go away permanently and take your family, cronies and crackpots you installed into our government with you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Grrrr!
The Bald Eagle attacking the orange sadist is the best part! That should be shown on Jumbotron screen -- better yet, Jumbotron screens at the "four directions" -- along with the Uncle Sam imitator masturbating in front of a group of women performers.
I can't help laughing at DonnieFelon's failure. At 80, I was around for the Bicentennial, when relief from Tricky Dick and Vietnam was beginning. Now? We're screwed!
While this is ironic, and yeah, kinda funny--I'm also really sad and bummed out by this.
Don't get me wrong, I relish Trump's failures, but yet I'm so sad that EVEN THIS WONDERFUL anniversary is tarnished by the orange one!
I'm old enough to remember 1976 and how COOL and FUN it was to be a young person for the celebrations. 😟
Yet another thing Trump has destroyed.
I suggest everyone look up Heather Cox Richardson's "250 to 250" series she has been releasing. Ten videos of America per week, each about a minute or so long. I am grateful for them.
I’ve been watching HCR’s series every week. Learning new things because I’m not afraid of education.
Makes me sad, too, and for the same reason.
About Trump's photo - the caption says he's 20, but there's no way he would have been in a military uniform at 20. That was a military HIGH SCHOOL, and the date of the yearbook puts him at 17 or 18. After graduation, he got Daddy to get him all those deferments.
Yes! At 20, he was a junior at Penn in the Wharton School, being "the dumbest student" one professor ever had. Shows how demented he is that he couldn't even get his own age right.
The enthusiasm for anything Donald is over. Everyone is sick to death of him
Everyone except the congressional members of the Guardians of Predators party
They are sick of him, too. They are just too cowardly to push back. Besides, they still expect to get their cut.
Not sick enough to grow a spine or do the right thing
Remember how Putin commanded a group of them to Moscow on July4, 2018 and they came back saying there was no election interference, and since have continued to faithfully follow Trump's lead, straight into the ditch? Almost like they're compromised? My senator, Russian Ron Johnson, the white guy on the most recent ballot, was one of them.
I'm celebrating "the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air" over Moscow now. Zelensky knows how to throw a party.
If Kegsbreath were smart, he would hire Zelensky. Sigh.
Godless Old Pedaphiles
And some - namely 700,000 children in Africa - are actually dying or in many cases already deceased because of the corrupt gift of unconstitutional line item veto-equivalent power the transactional tRump bestowed on his number one political donor, the overtly racist Elon Musk
Musk is a NAZI. He can't get over that South Africa outlawed Apartheid.
Literally.
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/donald-baby-name-popularity