John Sheehan

Ms. Willful Ignorance

Hey Daryl,
Mr. Quiet Piggy doesn’t care.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🥂

Dignified? Not a chance this guy does anything "dignified."
"According to a report published by The Atlantic on September 3, 2020, Donald Trump made disparaging comments referring to U.S. service members killed in action as "losers" and "suckers" during a trip to France in November 2018"

you mean this guy?
"According to a report published by The Atlantic on September 3, 2020, Donald Trump made disparaging comments referring to U.S. service members killed in action as "losers" and "suckers" during a trip to France in November 2018"

Sources: Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran Advisers are urging the president ‘to go bigger to end this once and for all.’

Trump Is Dangerously Close to Sending Troops to Iran: Sources Tell Zeteo

Gift Link
The reporting on this from the NYT.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

For those interested here's the reporting on this from the NYT.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

I was just about to post the same response. Or they accuse us of "playing the race card."

It's so sad.

Binance Fired Staff Who Flagged $1 Billion Moving to Sanctioned Iran Entities Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, the company dismantled a probe and suspended the investigators. Binance denied that the inquiry ended or that staff were fired for the concerns.

Periodic reminder: Binance reportedly helped $1.7B flow to Iran-linked entities.

When internal investigators flagged it, Binance fired them.

Balance is a major business partner of Trump’s.

Why I think it is impossible to reach the "Daryls" of the MAGA world:
This is a sad story, made tragic by the fact that this woman can still not find it in her to blame Trump, even though it was his policies & Stephen Miller's & Noem, Bovino and the others Trump appointed who killed her own son.

A Trump voter whose son was killed by ICE is calling for an end to "abuse and impunity" at the agency "I just want to know what happened," Rachel Reyes told CBS News during her first TV interview since the death of her son, Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen shot and killed by an ICE agent in Texas la...

"I don't blame President Trump for the death of my son, 'cause he wasn't the one who pulled the trigger," Reyes said. "But I do think that something needs to be changed in that department as far as the pattern of violence or abuse and impunity." www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mom...

Colorado Democrats blast Gov. Jared Polis as he again hints at intervening in Tina Peters’ prison sentence Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has again signaled that he thinks Tina Peters’ prison sentence was too harsh as he considers granting some form of clemency — though not a full pardon, his off…

Seems like the Colorado House Speaker could (and should) preempt this with an impeachment threat. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/j...

Like Trump, Elon has always been a loud-mouthed showman, a lout and an incompetent con artist.
Pro-tip: He's not a genius.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the term:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfuck...

Workshops Learn to write professional op-eds and personal essays with Elizabeth Spiers, a contributing writer for The New York Times opinion section, former columnist at Fortune and Fast Company, and opinion co...

Ooops. Forgot the link! www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

I guess it would help if I included the link! (The workshop is tomorrow.) www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

That is exactly the line I glommed onto too. Brilliant.

Wow, that is simply brilliant. Thanks for steering me to that, @espiers.bsky.social What a wild ride.

I hold out hope that we can learn from history, but sometimes it does seem we are incapable of it. Here we are, once again, rushing in where angels fear to tread. With the best of leaders, it would be folly. With this set of damaged, deranged and stupid children running it, it is hopelessly idiotic

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ by Philip K. Dick “The Man in the High Castle” explores the sort of “what if” question that plagues the imagination of anyone who has ever thought critically about our history books, our involvement in war, our past, and what it all might mean for our present. “It allows you to think ‘what if I'm reading the present wrong? What if we did lose to fascism?’” notes author Jonathan Lethem. “I don’t think it has ever failed to be relevant.”

"The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick asks what humanity, morality and creativity look like in the face of evil. "He’s asking you to experience a kind of vertigo," says author Jonathan Lethem. "It allows you to think 'what if I'm reading the present wrong?'" #VelshiBannedBookClub #Velshi

‘Mass disenfranchisement’: The Slow, Methodical Attacks on Voting Ahead of Midterms In Dallas County on election night, mass confusion caused by a sudden rule change sent hundreds of voters to the wrong polling places. This is what modern voter suppression can look like: not always dramatic, but just confusing and discouraging enough to stop people from casting their ballot. Mother Jones’ Ari Berman weighs in “when you change laws and when you make voting more difficult right before an election, without giving people time to prepare, it can lead to the kind of mass disenfranchisement we saw in Dallas on Tuesday.”

Mass confusion unfolded at polling centers in Dallas County on primary night. That confusion was manufactured. It renewed fears of voter suppression ahead of the midterms. ProPublica's @dougbockclark.bsky.social warns "last minute changes to election laws can disenfranchise a lot of people." #Velshi

Fuck the Wall Street Journal for this framing.
Murdoch is rotten to the core.
That is the face of a war criminal, an animal and a punk:

Public pressure brought down Kristi Noem – and it’s cracking Trump’s veneer of invincibility Kristi Noem’s abrupt firing from DHS reflects mounting public pressure across the country. Millions of Americans are protesting, voting in record numbers, and demanding answers, while lawmakers from both parties begin to push back. In other words, democracy is reasserting itself and growing pushback is forcing accountability at the highest levels of government– signaling a potential turning point in American politics.

Kristi Noem is out.

That’s no coincidence. It’s democracy pushing back, and it marks an inflection point. We've seen the evidence: Record protests, record voter turnout this week, and bipartisan pressure.

Democracy is reasserting itself– and cracking open Trump’s veneer of impunity. #velshi

What clip best sums up the Trump era? An old Mitchell and Webb sketch about WW2 Politicians and media figures are starting to let their roots show, and this meme is about them

This is from 2018, but it is FAR more relevant now than it was then. Are WE the bad guys?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DOD Cancels Army Training, Sparking Fears of Escalation in Iran “We’re all preparing for something—just in case,” one official said.

DOD Cancels Army Training, Sparking Fears of Escalation in Iran newrepublic.com/post/207471/... via @newrepublic.com