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For all his Administration's outrage about alleged fraud by Somalis in Minnesota, that does not disguise the fact that he has a penchant for letting fraudsters and other criminals off the hook, if it benefits him.

Let's go down the roll, shall we? And the list goes on and on. If you or a loved one has a Federal conviction (or a charge pending) and you can cough up a million or more to the right lobbyist, you, too, can get a pardon from Trump. It's almost as public a "pay to play" scheme as it would if it was on a billboard outside of Mar-a-Lago.

Of course, we can't forget the fraudster sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Which comes down to this: The people accused of fraud in MN are not wealthy and are of the wrong color to get pardons from Trump.

From the coining of the term "Kavanaugh Stop" for when the goons at CBP/ICE grab someone off the street because they look brown enough to his having butthurt over it.

Fuck him. He legitimized racial profiling by ICE/CBP/DHS. Everyone knows that's what they're doing, stopping people who look brown and holding them if they don't think their name matches their appearance.

These two sentences have to be the funniest non-humor news story in awhile:

[T]he Kennedy Center was forced to cancel its annual Christmas Eve Jazz Jam due to what [Trump-appointed Kennedy Center President Richard] Grenell described as “dismal ticket sales.” The concert was free.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

If you're always reading this on your phone, go to the bottom, click "web view" and read the Rules of the House on the right-hand side of the page.

You might learn something.

And please govern yourselves accordingly.

In an image:

2025 was worse than 2024 and I have no optimism that 2026 will be better than 2025. The Right seems to be fully onboard with the destruction of democracy and the installation of His Fraudulency, King Donald of Bronzer. The Democrats in Congress seem largely feckless.

Not all of the Right has buckled. Grandpa Sundowner pushed Indiana too hard and they didn't like it. As for the Democrats, their leaders in Congress seem to be addicted to tut-tutting as a response.

As for the media, well, a couple of cartoons summed it up:


Oligarchs bought up the companies that control most news outlets and then used that control to bend them to Trump. If they were hesitant, Trump had no qualms signaling that he'd use his power to fuck with their companies. So Larry Ellison, who owns Paramount, put a Trump-loving sycophant in charge of CBS News, who promptly spiked a 60 Minutes story that was unfavorable to the Administration (after he terminated Stephen Colbert's show). Bezos, who is trying hard to get into the rocket biz, muzzled the Washington Post's editorial section and forced out Ann Telnaes (the cartoon that precipitated that is the second one, above).

The only way this gets fixed is if we do it. If we vow, for the duration of Trumpism, to not vote for a Republican for any office whatsover, right down to the Town Dogcatcher. Maybe the non-Trump conservatives can assemble and for a new party, for the GOP may be irrevocably tainted by its slavish devotion to a corrupt wannabee dictator.

But we have to vote. For something like 35% of this country hates the fact that the rest of us can have a say. They want to repeal the Civil Rights Act, as well as the 14th and 19th Amendments. They want to repeal the Married Women's Property Acts. They want to repeal no-fault divorce to make it harder for women to get out of abusive marriages. And I have zero doubt that they want to make husbands immune from spousal violence laws.

The only way to stop this in a civil matter is to vote those fuckers out.

This is the signal:

A foreign leader arrives on American soil and is mt by nobody from the State Department, let alone the Administration.

Of course Trump is reporting to his boss.

Two turning, two burning, a P2V-7:

It's heeerrre!

A heated bed is almost as good as a sunbeam.

First off, our president is seriously ill between his ears. On a day that is supposedly about faith and family, he dropped over 100 posts on his social media site.

Who does that? Who who has a family and a social life does that? Shouldn't we care that a man who spends his Christmas shitposting has a guy following him around with the nuclear launch codes?

Second, it should be pretty obvious, by now, that Steve Witkoff is a Russian asset. Read what he posted on X:

The last paragraph is something that could have been said by a spokesman for the Russian government. The only peace Russia wants to achieve in Ukraine is the peace of the conqueror. Witkoff is clearly working more for Russia than anyone else. That Trump is backing Witkoff tells a casual observer where his loyalties lie.

The white supremacists have a new code phrase: "Heritage Americans". That's code for white people, and only white people who can trace their ancestry back before the 1880s.

Which, as far as they're concerned, doesn't mean anyone from Southern or Eastern Europe or Jews from anywhere. Basically, "Heritage Americans" are people who were eligible to join the KKK a century ago. (And they don't like it that women can vote and refuse to have sex with these incels.)

And it ignores the fact that the original "Heritage Americans" were these people:

Finally, JD Vance has effectively sided with Russia against NATO, completing his transition to full-on Nazi:

Vance is a full-blown lunatic and a fascist.

The taxpayers paying Trump to run ICE recruitment ads on Truth Social. The government is paying Trump’s company.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) December 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM

North Central Railway in PA:



That steam locomotive is virtually brand new, as it was built in 2013.

Racist, bigoted, neo-Nazis, all of them. Every last member of the Trump Administration.

And if you identify as a Republican and you're not denouncing this shit, you are one of the Trumpist Nazi Party.

Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution does it say that this is a Christian nation.

George Washington didn't proclaim this country to be Christian, far from it. He said that we are a nation of tolerance:

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

This was reiterated several years later in the Treaty of Tripol, which declared that the United States was not founded on the Christian religion.

But none of that matters to the neo-Nazi government that so many of our deluded citizens voted into power.

We must correct this. We must shame and shove these religious tyrants and bigots back into the dark recesses from whence they came. Otherwise, they will continue to take our freedom and liberty from us.

This appears to be the full text of the book, so set aside a little bit of time.



A shorter version:



Happy Christmas, everyone. Spare a thought for those who are on the job tonight: Police, firefighters, EMS, hospital workers, military, all to keep the rest of us safe in our beds.

And a special thought for those who, like John Kavanagh, went on patrol and never returned.

(Every year, I read both The Shepherd and The Spirit of Steamboat.)

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday’s congressionally mandated deadline.

"Oopsie, we just found a million more Epsten documents"... sure they did, sure they did. Were they safely stored in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lao? In Melantonia's skivvy drawer? Maybe in Bribable Bondi's garage?

There is no DoJ anymore. It's a conglomeration of taxpayer-paid lawyers that serve the interests of the Ancient Orange Sundowner.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown, a significant defeat for the president’s efforts to send troops to U.S. cities.

The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act.

Three justices, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, publicly dissented.

That gives us an idea who the True Nazis are on he Court.

And it's interesting that either the Court is signalling that they won't always roll over for Trump or they are trying to fool us into thinking that.