Republicans Support Madness 🇺🇸

For the record, on November 13, 2024, at 9:09 PM, EST, I am writing: IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP. Just tryin' to beat the rush.

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Olga Skabeeva complained about Ukraine's unrelenting drone attacks, acknowledged Russia's diminishing strength, and was outraged that her country has become a laughing stock for its enemies. youtube.com/watch?v=rk97xi…

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

“The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.” (April 3, 2025) theguardian.com/environment/20…

For the @nytimes, I wrote about how cruel and horrific Ebola is, as both a provider, and as a patient. I tried to reflect the science, and the profound sadness. Very grateful to my editor, who pushed me to make this more personal. I usually avoid doing so. For reasons that become clear at the end of this piece. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi…

UPDATED: Jeffrey Epstein's personal assistant Sarah Kellen alleges three men besides Epstein abused her, including former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine and celebrity hair stylist Frederic Fekkai, the Miami Herald has confirmed. "Us victims never had a chance," she said in testimony before House Oversight Committee. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…

Hundreds of Ukrainian attack drones are once again trundling towards Russian targets tonight. Ukraine has carried out a major drone raid every night this week, putting major pressure on Russian air defenses and hitting critical Russian oil and gas installations.

In 2014, when the Ebola response began, we had 40–50 cases. This new outbreak had as many as 400 cases when it was identified. That's about 10 times as large. The virus has a big head start. In an Ebola outbreak, every minute, every hour, every day is crucial in preventing the virus from getting further ahead of us. Time is lives.

Estonian Military Intelligence: Ukraine continues striking strategically important Russian enterprises and military facilities, which has already begun influencing public opinion inside Russia itself. 1/6

Zelensky is very bullish these days….

'She made her position a platform for promoting distortions and undermining public confidence in the very institutions she’d sworn an oath to lead" From @shaneharris, on Tulsi Gabbard theatlantic.com/national-secur…

The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers. This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. Before and after:

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works. Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this." That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door. Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply. Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

Trump’s DOJ proudly admits they’re deleting info about the insurrection, rewriting history right before our eyes as they prepare to reward the attackers with mountains of cash.

Somebody asked for it, so here it is. I think Willie would approve. Link in reply

Watch this video of Trump repeatedly lying that he will end the war in 24 hours.

Someone should line up all 12 of Elon's baby mamas on live TV and then challenge him to try and match each child with its mother. It'd be hilarious

There’s a “deluge of narcissism in the modern world, especially among failed-to-launch young men whose injured grandiosity leads them to blame others for their own shortcomings and insecurities,” @RadioFreeTom wrote in 2023: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trump is amassing more enemies in Congress than ever before, but this time from his own Party. The next seven months will be quite interesting.

U.S. Job Openings Fall to a Five-Year Low America’s job market is sending a quiet but unsettling signal. Job openings have fallen to their lowest level since 2020, hiring has slowed to a crawl, and layoffs are rising. …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/americas-hir…