| second: Because Trump is a big fan of Malcolm Reynolds and River Tam shooting people, the Trump administration announced that the Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution: [go to link] Will execution by ax and sword also be adopted because River Tam used both in the movie? Waiting for Trump's decision on those two methods. |
| second: Because Trump is a big fan of Malcolm Reynolds and River Tam shooting people, the Trump administration announced that the Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution: [go to link] Will execution by ax and sword also be adopted because River Tam used both in the movie? Waiting for Trump's decision on those two methods. |
| THG:
This resurfaced clip of Trump saying “you could never catch me sleeping” is going viral
[go to link] |
| second: Trump admin fired Navy secretary for refusing to ignore court order. Hegseth and Phelan "butted heads" when Phelan refused to ignore a recent federal judge’s ruling that it would be a violation of First Amendment rights to punish Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for making a video in which he reminded military officers of their constitutional duty to reject illegal orders: [go to link] |
| second: Former Trump official confirms age is 'enhancing' Trump’s craziness: [go to link] |
| second: White House officials are doing a lot more than just saying preposterous things. They're also doing preposterous things: [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: "THG: Too bad no firefly browncoats are coming to the site to protest the destruction of America and therefor its democratic ways. Shame on them" No. Shame on YOU for living the way you do. You two assholes scare everyone off. |
| second: Trump’s first term featured plenty of people freaking out over his day-to-day pronouncements. But a large amount of abnormal rhetoric or reported behind-the-scenes behavior was also waved aside as hot air, or exaggeration, or dark humor for supporters who were in on the gag. That’s much harder this time, when there’s frequently the force of government behind them, something the media members in attendance for Trump’s speech on Saturday understand all too well.
This is the difference between Trump I and Trump II: Nobody is laughing this time. [go to link] |
| THG: Too bad no firefly browncoats are coming to the site to protest the destruction of America and therefor its democratic ways. Shame on them |
| second: The trap Trump set himself by launching his war against Iran is twofold—sparking frustration among Americans over rising gas prices while deepening divisions in his MAGA base. A host of MAGA figures have turned on the warmongering president, feeling betrayed over his reversal on his “no new wars” pledge. [go to link] |
| second: The White House press corps should ask these 2 questions every time. Every time President Trump asserts a fact at a podium, on a tarmac, or in the Oval Office, the White House press corps should respond with two questions, asked plainly every time: “How do you know that?” and “What does that mean?”
Used as a standing protocol rather than an occasional follow-up, they would do what shouted questions and next-day fact-checks have not managed to do — make evasion visible in real time and render “fake news” an insufficient reply. [go to link] |
| second: "We would go in to talk in the Oval Office about matters of life and death. And there was always a weird non-sequitur, a complete distraction, unfocused, couldn't remember things. The guy was a basket case," said Taylor. "There's no better way to put it. There's no academic way to put it. He was a basket case. Any normal person would have sat there on the couch in the Oval Office and said, 'What's this guy taking? What's he on? He's acting in such a bizarre manner, given the subject. So that was always true.” [go to link] |
| second: President Donald Trump seems to have lost his marbles, according to some critics, but one former Trump official said the man was already in decline in his first term. Trump’s former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor on Wednesday took to task Nicole Wallace's point about Trump’s behavior getting bizarre, saying that he picked up on hints of breakdown during his "two and a half years inside the administration." [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: Oh. Looks like you're winning again today. Good for you, Second.  |
| second: Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment that would temporarily redistrict the state if any other state redistricted for partisan reasons: that is, in retaliation for the partisan redistricting President Donald J. Trump launched in Texas in 2025 in an effort to retain control of the House of Representatives. [go to link] |
| second: There is an uncrazy argument to be made for calling for the removal of the brutal Iranian regime. But there is no uncrazy argument to be made for choosing to go to war without a plan for the day after. There are uncrazy, if unsound, arguments for protectionist tariffs, but none for a policy of tariffs by tantrum. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: $600 to $10 is a little more than 98% price reduction. |
| 6ixStringJack: second: RFK Jr. testifies to Congress on Trump’s budget today: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." So, just to be clear, Trump math is just making numbers up. Got it. [go to link] They claim that Warren said there's a drug for $200 on Trump RX that is available for $16 at Costco. Why don't they say which drug so you can verify it? |
| second: "I’m a lifelong Republican. This is not what we voted for. . . . If the Republican Party continues down this path, it risks losing not just elections but the trust of those who once stood firmly behind it. I am one of them." [go to link] |
| second: Trump’s DOJ is aligning itself with the KKK and other extremists by indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center. Running a confidential informant program inside hate groups is expensive and dangerous work. For about four decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has done it anyway. Its work contributed to the dismantling of the Ku Klux Klan as a political force. The SPLC’s work is so important that it routinely shared what it learned with the FBI. On Tuesday, the Trump Justice Department indicted them for it. More at [go to link] |