Thank you

I suppose those of us who live in "blue" cities should be thanking the taxpayers of red states for their eagerness to spend the estimated hundreds of millions of dollars ($1.8 million a day for Washington, DC alone!) to help us with our Neighborhood Watch, infrastructure improvement and city beautification projects by sending National Guard troops. It would, of course, probably have been less expensive to simply provide the money to the city governments, but since the MAGA voters are happy spending their money, and sending their sons and daughters to our community to intimidate the libs with their pruning and sweeping and mulching, we should be thankful. I'm sure the cities will be happy to channel the money they would have had to spend doing it into other things, like compensating for the administrations draconian cuts to social services. 

We would also be remiss if we didn't appreciate the red states' willingness to let their citizens become a bit hungrier, sicker, more addicted and less safe so that we don't have to see trash on our streets. Again, thank you for your generosity. I hear that our Vice President is especially enthusiastic about gratitude. We'll take the money we don't have to spend on landscaping and apply it to social programs that help our citizens. 

So, again, thanks. If you'd like to pay more to improve the quality of life for urbanites living in cities run by Democrats, please feel free. 

I said it twice, you fauxbilly douche

Somebody didn't get the memo...

Further to my recent post regarding the removal of factual data from government websites, it seems even members of the Big-Beautiful-Administration's Office of Obfuscation can't keep track of which lies they've been telling. A tangled web indeed. 

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/idiocracy-trump-aide-mocked-for-sharing-graph-on-far-left-versus-far-right-violence/

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-terrorism-2674080202/

https://www.alternet.org/media/abigail-jackson-terrorism/

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/28/left-wing-terrorism-far-right-violence-research

Facts is facts

Political violence is horrifying, and unacceptable. But if we are going to have any chance to find solutions to it, we have to be honest about it. Clearly, the current regime has no real interest in finding solutions. Still waiting for der Mango Führer to explain how an ex-marine, known to festoon his home and family with Trump t-shirts and yard signs is the product of "Radical Left" rhetoric.  

History rhymes

History rhymes

You decide:

• https://chc.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressional-leaders-condemn-white-nationalist-stephen-miller-call-for
• https://www.americanprogress.org/article/white-supremacy-returned-mainstream-politics/
• https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/25/stephen-miller-charlie-kirk-speech/ 

Send in the Clowns

Attack academia. Check. Attack journalism. Check. Attack science, history, art and public resources of all kinds. Check. Now the Big-Beautiful-Regime is coming for the comedians. What's the matter, TACO? Can't take a joke?  

This machine kills fascists

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

If, in order to keep believing what you believe, you have to hide facts, erase or distort history, intimidate and cancel journalists, teachers and scientists, what you believe is bullshit. If you can't handle the knowledge that slavery, Jim Crow and the holocaust were perpetrated by white people, or that history is "woke" whateverthatmeans, you are being deluded. If you think there is some kind of organized invasion of our country by poor and persecuted people, you've been duped. You've been conned. You've been had.

You're part of a cult, seduced by an ideology that tells you you've been cheated by the people trying to help you, promulgated by the people who are actually cheating you. You are a victim, a rube, and very much on the wrong side of history.  

From here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/281543725526797/ 

No matter what you hear from the Great-Big-Beautiful Administration, these are the actual facts:

"Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]"

Last week you would have found that article on an official government website (https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism). 

This week you can find it at https://archive.is/2024.10.24-222147/https:/nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism.

I guess Big Balls missed a spot. 

Apparently, without any public input or notification, the Minister of Personal Vengeance had the study removed in the hope that you couldn't cite the government's definitive research on the topic of Domestic Terrorism when your racist MAGA uncle tries to claim that the political Left is more violent than the Right. Or use the information to help us reduce the threat from our delusional neighbors, relatives and government officials. Or to refute the aforementioned autocratic regime when they use imaginary "emergencies" as justification to send the goon squad after you.  

Our country is now being run by your ignorant bigoted uncle. And he's building an army to stamp out dissent. Is that really what you wanted? 

De minimis maximus

Tobidashi kun pin from Blue Lug Bike Shop

Immediately prior to our current stoopid government imposing its latest stoopid import tax, I was fortunate enough to place an order with the world's greatest bike store, Blue Lug Bike Shop of Tokyo. I mostly ordered from them to get a Campagnolo Record threaded headset for the upcoming build of my second Crust Lightning Bolt, but of course while there, I had to throw a few other trinkets in the cart. I picked up a couple of the must-have mini triangle reflectors, a couple of their popular brass bits, and the enamel pin of the running boy above. Oh man, I'm gonna be so cool. Like the Ronnie Romance of the Bethesda, Maryland 60+ crowd. I've been picking up the necessary components for the better part of a year, and I've got nearly everything. Now I just need to get an IRD square taper bottom bracket and I should be ready to ride!

The Police State; brought to you by Big Balls

Thanks to one of Elon Musk's DOGE goons it looks like we're going to have Marshall Law in our nation's capital. Apparently, "Big Balls" was out at 3 a.m. in Logan Circle. Nothing out of the ordinary there, right? Claims he was beat up by a group of unarmed teenagers. 

I guess his balls aren't that big after all. Maybe he should go back to Rye County where it's safe for a member of his school's wrestling team to be wandering the streets at 3 a.m.

Now our city will have Cheeto Führer's brown shirts lurking around. They're no doubt already using Coristine's bitch-beating as an excuse for rounding up every black teenage male they can find.

Just another Reichstag fire. Coming to a town near you.    

Big Balls, der Cheeto Führer and uncle F'elon

Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a 19-year-old software engineer and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer, was allegedly assaulted during a carjacking incident in Washington, DC, on the morning of August 3, 2025.  

The incident occurred in the northwest region of Logan Circle, where police reported that approximately 10 juveniles surrounded Coristine and his significant other, Emily Bryant, before assaulting him. Coristine attempted to push Bryant into their vehicle before turning to confront the suspects, after which he was beaten, reportedly sustaining a concussion. Two suspects were arrested and charged with unarmed carjacking.

Why do Republicans hate wildlife conservation?

I knew the autocrats would try to destroy any and all institutions that threaten to expose them for the grifters they are. Think journalism, education, science. I knew they'd overcharge the taxpayers for fixing non-existent problems (an you say, "immigrant invasion"?) so they can channel the money to the oligarch friends. You didn't have to be Hannah Arendt or Masha Gessen to see all that coming. Autocrats gonna do what autocrats do. MAGA can only survive if voters are ill-informed and lack access to accurate information. Straight out of the authoritarian playbook; see Orwell, George.    

I get that the current regime hates foreigners, the highly educated and generally, facts. What has surprised me are the current crop of assaults on things hunters, who I would have thought a core segment of their constituency, care about. I guess I should have presumed a real estate developer from Queens wouldn't care about public land or wildlife conservation, but I'm nevertheless stunned by the brazen attempt to demolish the American model of wildlife conservation, which has been the envy of the world for a century. 

First there were not one but TWO attempts by the GOP to steal our public land from the People, no doubt to provide a few lovely vacation ranches around Tahoe and Yosemite for select GOP mega-donors and begin the third world type exploitation of our common natural resources. Again; real estate developer. Both attempts were beaten back, largely by conservatives from Western states. 

But now come the following:

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/looming-federal-cuts-threaten-bird-banding-lab-cornerstone-avian-science (note that the USGS page about "bird science" has been deleted; ; see Orwell, George). "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/usda-revokes-roadless-rule-nationwide/

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/executive-order-mining-federal-public-lands/

So if so-called "Conservatives" aren't conserving our public lands or wildlife, what exactly are they conserving? Is it really only white pride? The interests of the Oligarchy?  

They're certainly not fiscally conservative. They're not interested in conserving the health and well-being of the citizenry or the world's human population. US influence and prestige? Nope. 

Now that we're solidly in the grip of an autocratic regime modeled on the likes of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, it's becoming obvious that Cheeto Mussolini doesn't care about America at all, beyond what he can steal from it. So, what are we gonna do about it?

 

Source: https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/products/poster-resist-fascist-liars 

Rim Brakes ARE Disk Brakes!

 found here ...  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/350014202263148084/