Brian Clapper

In case you need more convincing that this administration is full of grifters and corrupt opportunists, here's a good @propublica.org summary.

link.propublica.net/view/6764c19...

Like clockwork.

Trump, as Lord Farquad from Shrek, saying, "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

Callous motherfucker...

"Sadly, there will likely be more, before it ends. That's the way it is," President Donald Trump said of deaths.

www.npr.org/2026/03/04/g...

I canceled my @actblueorg.bsky.social account, for 2 reasons. (1) As noted in several recent articles (e.g., readsludge.com/2025/11/06/t...), ActBlue continues to allow bad behavior. (2) I'm tired of being flooded with emails just because I donated to a few campaigns via ActBlue. Do better, ActBlue.

@theactionnetwork.bsky.social, maybe stop spamming me with emails. I donated once, through your network, and you've flooded me with emails ever since. I have to unsub from each one individually. Your strategy has backfired: I'm adding email-filtering rules for emails sent via your org. Great job.

BetterHelp Customers Will Begin Receiving Notices About Refunds Related to a 2023 Privacy Settlement with FTC

If they have your data, they 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 sell it—especially when revenue starts to drop, as has been happening at BetterHelp. They used personal information to sell ads. And, as gateway to a conglomeration of therapists, BetterHelp presumably has a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of personal information.

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities President’s statement blaming acclaimed director’s death on his dislike of him described as ‘disgusting’ and ‘vile’

There is, literally, no bottom to the vileness Trump will spew. "Narcissist" doesn't begin to cover how awful he is.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I cannot recommend this podcast highly enough. If you're not already listening to it, you really should be.

Utterly predictable and utterly horrific.

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

Spot on.

Oglaf cartoon depicting hilariously disgusting D&D spell. Search for: Oglaf Conjuration V,S,M

It's so tempting to homebrew "Velvet Embrace." #dnd #D&D #oglaf

A must-read for AI enthusiasts, from Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/b...

"Slopsquatting" is a nightmare scenario.

Conversation in a D&D game tonight:

Me: What's the D&D equivalent of a Geiger counter, anyway?

Other player: A Gygax counter.

The DM understandably awarded inspiration (after everyone stopped laughing).

Cruz’s Returned ‘As Fast as Humanly Possible’ Claim Crumbles Cruz says he returned to Texas as quickly as he could after news of devastating floods broke. Flight data tells a different story.

Cancún Cruz, at it again.

www.thedailybeast.com/vacationing-...

FEMA will no longer to door-to-door to assist you in a disaster, but ICE will go door-to-door to kidnap you and turn your life into a disaster. America has its priorities, y'all!

A good moment to re-up this.

If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.

Well... This, and straight up bigotry.

Experts warn RFK Jr. is unraveling the system that kept vaccines safe Secretary Kennedy has long held many vaccine-skeptic views.

These are the consequences when you put a vaccine conspiracist in charge of making sure Americans can get safe and effective vaccines. This is a disgrace.

abcnews.go.com/Health/exper...

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.

"In an industry full of grifters & companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a … worse actor than Meta, whose platforms have been fully overrun with viral AI slop, AI-powered disinformation, AI scams, AI nudify apps, & AI influencers…"

www.404media.co/meta-invents...

I'm firmly convinced, after seeing far too many of YouTube's awful and insipid ads, that being a "creative" whose job is to create such ads must be an utterly soul-destroying experience.

100%.

Also, if you aren't listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's "Weird Little Guys" podcast, you really should be. It's extremely valuable in understanding how we got to this awful place.

It’s so funny how every time one of these guys ruins their life doing violence for the fascist cause all their heroes are like “actually he’s a trans communist and a federal agent.”

Video purports to show man being arrested near No Kings West Chester rally The video shows officers seizing numerous items from under the man’s coat at High and Gay streets just prior to the rally on Saturday, then they took him away.

I attended the No Kings protest in West Chester, PA. About 90 minutes before I arrived, this apparently happened: www.pottsmerc.com/2025/06/15/v...

I don't know whether the guy with all the ammo is MAGA, though it seems likely.

There are a lot of violent cult members, and some of them are local.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Protestor holding a sign showing Hitler killing himself, with the caption "Follow your leader"

The most mind-boggling thing I heard at a No Kings protest today was a 40-something white woman who yelled, "God save the King!" as she drove by.

It really is tribal; actual thinking does not enter into it AT ALL.

But I did see a fellow protestor holding this sign, which made my day.

my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones Responds To The Palantir Hysteria & Lays Out What's Really Happening

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End of America’s National Parks?

"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..."

(gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...