Patti Ringo

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak. He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected. France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy. Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust. Honestly? Understandable. Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@2cannan1 @PatrickStrother @duty2warn Mercifully, we won't have to hear him at all after that finally happens.

@PatrickStrother @duty2warn Wonder how long before he'll start using the "N" word in public....

So much of the fate of the free world right now seems to be in the hands of one man, one old and highly disordered man; and here's an excerpt from a speech that man gave today: "You see this pen right here? Right here, the one I'm holding. This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. I like the brand, but I don't want to give them too much publicity. It's Sharpie. So, when I came here, into the White House, they had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They like them. But they were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pens, gold, silver, gorgeous, ball points. I handed them out to kids that I don't know. A kid is getting a pen worth $1,000, and they have no idea what it is. But - I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I try to sign and there's no ink. I have all you people looking and saying there must be something wrong with Trump. But there is no ink in the pen. And it cost $1,000." This continued for 3 additional minutes, this was only one-third of the pen discourse. God help us.

this is not a joke

Gotta put away money somewhere to pay your private army or it won't last long.

@jimboxp @BraddrofliT This is the correct answer. Adding only that we've never had reality show politics before now. That affects the lens through which people view and react to the information. It doesn't feel as "real" if you're not following all the real stories. And most don't/won't because ☝️.

@BraddrofliT I'm vacationing in Asia next week, so I've been following allot of this for years. Most people I'm guessing are not paying attention because they don't know how it affects them.

Most people aren’t saying this but I will. Americans are drastically underestimating how serious things are right now. And by the time it’s obvious to everyone… it’ll be too late. What are people missing?

@JoyceWhiteVance @bigpapandres51 I’m exhausted living in the stupidest timeline where millions of people have a literal encyclopedia on their phone that’s attached to them like an organ.

We only get around 75 years to live… if we’re lucky. And Trump has taken 10 of those years from our peace. That’s not small. That’s a huge part of our life gone.

Going to leave you with this tonight: The best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. Go outside, travel more, go to new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, go for hikes, see cities, countrysides, take your notebook, speak to people, ask questions, start businesses - go on more side quests. You can literally just do things, and the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you. Night gang.

Thank you, yes! The time I am forced to spend on apps these days is absolutely ridiculous. Tech is supposed to make your life easier and simpler. On that count, it is failing. Spectacularly.

Sadly, yes.

Mike Johnson should be a keynote speaker at the next DNC.

I love linguistics in general and this is a fun post. How far back can you still read and understand the text?

Picture this: women in parts of the U.S. are being arrested and jailed for miscarriages, a medical event they didn’t choose, didn’t cause, while not a single powerful man named in the Epstein files is sitting in a jail cell. Women’s bodies are surveilled, criminalized, and punished at their most vulnerable, yet men accused of exploiting and abusing children are shielded by wealth, influence, and silence. That’s not justice. That’s a system that polices women and protects predators. If this were really about “protecting life,” the priorities would look very different. Instead, what we’re watching is blatant misogyny and it’s disgusting.

Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent. None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say"most men are the same," this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.

@StephenM 🖕

A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.

we are DECADES behind on research on female health and this is what resources are being wasted on. studies about how males are collaterally affected by diseases that women suffer, studies about how men can’t get enough pleasure due to endometriosis . WHAT ARE WE DOING

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?” They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him. Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway. An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.” The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.” Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it. At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID. This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified. ICE’s own training materials explicitly state: “Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.” In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime. And here’s the key legal issue: Unless agents have: • a valid arrest warrant, or • probable cause that a specific crime has been committed they cannot: • use force • break windows • issue violent threats • detain or arrest someone Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions. Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting: “First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.” The driver responds: “Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?” The agent replies: “I don’t know. Hands up.” Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands. At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat. Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?” The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking. The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men: “How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?” He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle. This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse. No probable cause. No warrant. No lawful basis for force. And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents. This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence. So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?” The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?

This! 👇👇👇👇👇

If anyone should be ashamed of themselves, it is you, @VP. How dare you go on live TV and coddle that "poor ICE agent". FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION. We know what we saw and your version is the version of a kid caught red-handed. FUCK YOU.