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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—

"Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions"

"Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

ugh. these people are the worst

Miselle's avatar

What is really terrifying is that people like the women you quote at the top is probably a VOTER.

Seriously, I'm struggling as I feel like I fell into the Twilight Zone. This existence CANNOT BE REAL.

I'm living in "Lord of the Flies" (where actually, the "lord" resembles Trump).

HI2thDoc's avatar

And she may have. . .reproduced!!!

Miselle's avatar

😱😱😱😱😱

HI2thDoc's avatar

I dunno, UK can secretly run us in my book if they take Yiannopoulos back. They already have the Taints, er, Tates.

Theresa Breach's avatar

We can send you Nigel Farage 😬

Joyce's avatar

A thing of absolutely beautiful Leopards Eating was the news that Milos Yia[insert however many letters you want]los was detained by ICE in Louisiana.

Wendymae's avatar

One of the things Rs do that enrages me the most is how they attempt to twist laws like this to serve them when it is illegal on its face. This is of course a favorite tactic of the corrupt scotus. Words have lost their meanings.

Susan Niemann's avatar

“Ass spraying mayhem” 😂😂😂

I thought rice was at least safe. Christ. I haven’t had a salad in a month either. But you know what IS SAFE? A vodka martini.

We’re all gonna die.🤦‍♀️

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Rice has always been the thing to eat when you’re experiencing ass-spraying mayhem. We’ve officially come to the end of the line.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I say Lone Skum, all the DOGE incels, Russ "Don't Let Them" Vought, Curtis "I Like the Poor to be Starvin'" Yarvin, and all the Project 2025 assholes should be restrained and force-fed all the tainted food products that they enabled.

Wendymae's avatar

I live and work at a small retreat center where I feed people. I am terrified of buying food that will sicken people.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I wonder about the nutritional content? I guess I won’t care. 😂

Martha Howell's avatar

It's made with potatoes, so it's a vegetable. Add a few olives for your green vegetable and your nutritional needs are complete.

arne link's avatar

Be sure that the olives are imported, just to be on the safe side.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Vodka is entirely free of salmonella. So far.

Joyce's avatar

US rice allegedly has some interesting arsenic levels in it, according to Consumer Reports.

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

That's why you need to rinse it before cooking. Who knew? FFS I'm 67 and learned this about 4 years ago.

Joyce's avatar

And why you need to buy rice from India--not the American South.

Bill Corbett's avatar

Or Gin, it's on the dinner menu tonight and well deserved after this week and every other week. 😊

HI2thDoc's avatar

You can lead a life of crime

And dupe the rubes with bullshit jives

Or you can choose to use your time

Improving other peoples' lives

Instead of being an evil lump

Causing only harm and folly

The world doesn't need that predator tRump

But could use so many more like Dolly

2Cats2Furious's avatar

Every day of this maladministration, I am the blonde lady wearing glasses and giving an emphatic middle finger. Every. Single. Day.

Leu2500's avatar

re the phone. Yes, dementia patients can forget how to use the phone. My dad did. It's hard to grasp, since it's something we've done for DECADES. But it happens.

Joyce's avatar

Yep--my mom forgot how to answer the phone; the step after that was that she no longer knew what the ringing sound was at all.

arne link's avatar

Oh, dear. That is so sad. My mom is physically failing at 98 but she still has her mental capabilities. I am so grateful for that.

Bill Corbett's avatar

Arne, we have a little in common here, my mother-in-law is the same age and sharp as a tack but a little worn physically and she certainly looks like she will make it to 100, and I hope your mom does as well.

Mingo's avatar

My mom did the same except with a cell phone. She kept pushing all the buttons until the phone went fubar. She still kept talking into it but complained that nobody was on the other end.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

I'm curious as to where the "King of England secretly runs America" conspiracy comes through. It's Lyndon LaRouche isn't it? I know, the internet is right over there.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I googled it. there are no other references to any such conspiracy. this woman made it up all on her own

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Fatfuck keeps rumbling on about “good genes”, while Harp stares with that big grin. A scene from a slasher film. I’m thinking it’d make a fitting end to this if one day staffers find her sitting next to his splayed-out body with a chunk of his jowl in her teeth, blood dripping from the freshly-torn flesh, big eyes gleaming, as his last words are mumbled out…

Now, homies, what should those last words be?

Megan Ross's avatar

I dream about Nappy Nurse Natalie killing TRump every day. She's crazy enough. TRump's last words should be "I deserved this "

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

He’d never think it.

Dina's avatar

Well, the Secret Service didn't try to keep her away from him for no reason—even THEY thought she was such a nutty stalker she would do harm to him and/or herself while with him.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, this food scare/contamination we are witnessing is all a product of Doge and was predicted at the time, fully expect more.. At the grocery store the other day, stopped by the butcher and made my order. Then some guy hands me a pamphlet with JC all over it, I hand it back and say do not want. Then he gets in my face, “you are not a believer?” I begin to yell… leave me alone, then he says “why aren’t you a believer?” I yell louder..leave me alone, go away… I’m so loud the manager comes over says “do you want that fellow removed?” I said nope.. let karma do its work… Getting so tired of these folks feel so emboldened.. Have a great weekend fellow travelers…

arne link's avatar

Wow, that would scare the bejesus out of me. That man was crazy. You never know when they will pull out a knife and murder you for Jesus. I would have asked for an escort to my car.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

Please carry pepper spray!

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Being a very fit 74 year old I don’t fear some rando going at me.. once again, I cannot believe how emboldened people are these days.

Leu2500's avatar

wait - Harding is a failure? but I thought the felon loved Harding's tariffs?

Wendymae's avatar

And that socialist FDR is a great?

Megan Ross's avatar

That one surprised me! 🤔

Carol C's avatar

That was McKinley, I think. Harding was known for corruption, if I remember. Corruption is just smart, right?

Dina's avatar

Pretty sure the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that pretty much led to the Great Depression was signed into law by Herbert Hoover.

Dina's avatar

Spit out my drink while reading the subtitles for the MAGAt preacher "speaking in tongues"—something translated to "my mandolin suit on," ha ha!

Megan Ross's avatar

It's quite depressing to know we'll have soooooo many more weeks of reading all of the dumb shit that TRump does on a daily basis. I just wish he'd die. Today would be good. Everybody, PLEASE VOTE!!

arne link's avatar

How can the harp produce that rictus for hours on end? It's really quite a skill.

Susan Jane's avatar

Those teeth look kind of feral.

Susitrav's avatar

About to head out to our weekly protest! We're using "all of this stupid" to infuse and motivate and energize. Hoping it works on red-assed east Tenneseans!

Barbara Ferrara's avatar

The food issue I’m worried about is the wild horses that are now being ground up and packaged as ground meat. No hamburgers any more.

Mark Slattery's avatar

Anybody who would stay silent while their child throws temper tantrums, insults and conducts cruelty towards others would be considered an unfit parent.

Larry Bushard's avatar

The architect of all this is Russ Vought who is using donnie diaperwearer as a sideshow to distract us from what he is doing to tear down our country brick by brick. On 1/21/2027, donnie (assuming he is still semi-coherent) will be 25A’d and we will get president by proxy Peter Thiel. How in the name of sweet jesus did this imbecile get re-elected!