Thunderbolts: youāre not alone
Superman: kindness rocks
Fantastic Four: family is so important
Itās been such a feel-good summer for CBMs. We were due for one.
Nico Harrison betrayed the entire North Texas region. He betrayed millions of fans in Europe who ADORE Luka and fell in love with the Mavs because of him. He betrayed mark cuban. He betrayed Kyrie Irving. He betrayed Klay Thompson & Dereck Lively. He betrayed every. Single. Fan.
Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
I have a question for you, one I very much doubt youāll answer even if you do manage to read this post all the way through. And yes, I understand that facts are about as useful to you as a cousin-less dating pool and a case of woke beer you canāt shoot, but for now at least, they are still facts, regardless of how you feel about them.
So, here goes⦠what I want to know is this - what has Donald Trump done since he returned to office that has benefitted you or your life in some tangible, measurable way? How has he made your life better?
Did pardoning or releasing the most violent January 6th insurrectionists make you safer in your home? Did shutting down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention make your kids safer at school?
What about the freeze on cancer research? Halting the operations and external communications from federal agencies like the FDA & CDC? Did you get a job you otherwise would not have gotten thanks to the dismantling of DEI?
Did ending protection from discrimination at work make your daughterās professional path easier? Did stopping the aid we were sending to Ukraine and Taiwan put more food on your plate?
Did raising prices on your prescriptions make it easier for you to manage whatever medical condition you have which requires treatment? Does shutting FEMA down make you worry less because you live in a state recently ravaged by hurricanes or wildfires? Do you sleep better at night knowing that ICE is raiding offices and citrus groves in some blue state nowhere near you?
Because hereās the thing ā eggs are now more expensive than they were a few weeks ago and in short supply due the Bird Flu we canāt get any official government health or food safety information about, gas and groceries are more expensive, school shootings are still happening, youāre still not going to get a job you were never qualified for, your daughter can now get fired for being a woman, the hurricanes the government wonāt help you with arenāt going to stop coming, the immigrants who picked your citrus fruit arenāt showing up for work, the crime rate which was already lowering hasnāt decreased in the least and isnāt going to, and the bridge repair project your town has been counting on, is indefinitely on hold.
āRe-takingā the Panama Canal isnāt going to change any of those facts, neither is āannexingā Canada or ātakingā Greenland.
Your taxes arenāt going down, prices are going up, your towns are no safer, you arenāt suddenly more qualified at your job, your daughter can be discriminated against, you donāt know and wonāt know if thereās a public health emergency or if your food is safe, your roads arenāt getting repaired, your produce isnāt getting picked, and your government wonāt be coming to help you in the middle of a natural disaster.
So, what have you gained? What will you get? Nothing he has done has improved your life. None of it is designed to. Is this what you voted for?
Is it enough that he hates the people you hate? Is that all you think you need?
Because from where Iām sitting, given the fact that heās actually made your lives a heck of a lot harder, it sure as shit does look that way.
Franco, Hitler, Mao, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Stalin, and countless other dictators said virtually the same thing as Vance does here.
To authoritarians, experts and academics are always the enemy
No FEMA, IRS, NIH, CDC or FDA.
No infrastructure.
No public education.
No environmental protections.
No workplace safety.
No veterans affairs.
No co-equal branches.
No transparency.
No oversight.
Theyāre not planning on actually governing. They never were.
The plan is to rule.
Jeffries: Diversity, equity and inclusion are American values. Perhaps I can explain. The motto of the United States of America is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. Thatās diversity. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitutionāone of the most influential important amendments in our countryāprovides equal protection under the law. Thatās equity. In this country, we pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. A flag that we just presented to the new President and Vice President. And in that pledge, we promise, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. A-L-L. Thatās inclusion. Not complicated. Diversity, equity and inclusion are American values. Itās about economic opportunity. Itās about merit for everyone, based on what you know, not who you know.
If you said he wasnāt gonna implement project 2025, you were wrongā¦
If you said, he loves the āblacks,ā you were wrong.
If you said heād only deport the ābadā ones, you were wrong.
Oh and my fav, if you said he was going to reduce the cost of eggs, Boy, were you WRONG.
Trump donāt give a damn about the country as a whole⦠PERIOD.
AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."