Dan Skinner

Fuck ICE

Denali
Gulf of Mexico
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Just three things among many others that will have to be restored to their proper names in 2029.

Great timing, WaPo.

It’s a small thing given the larger context of horrors, but the Kennedy Center nonsense really encapsulates an essence of Trumpism.

As they should. Enough.

I wish anybody in that room had the courage to walk out.

Remember the Cambodia-Armenia war?

Is someone going to come get him off the stage? Or nah.

I hope Trump talks for three hours in Davos -- the more he talks, the clearer it all gets.

South Carolina is going to have to change its state slogan to something about measles.

Americans need to take a minute to imagine how Russians are thinking about the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader.

Dying Metaphors from Orwell's Politics and the English Language.

The thoughtless repetition of "boots on the ground" by politicians, media, and others, is a perfect illustration of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." It's almost like they are actively trying to dissuade real thinking.

Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.

Proposal: stop using the euphemism "boots on the ground." This is a time for clarity.

Another grim day for American imperialism and lawlessness.

COVID-19 killed more than a million Americans and MAGA has made clear they either don't care or don't believe it. Not clear where we can go from there.

Washington Post editorials seem to reach new lows every day. Just pure garbage written for an audience of one.

Swing and a miss, Market District

Every one of them will get a better job somewhere else when they are inevitably canned by the fascistic CBS.

Oh, and Bari Weiss. Duh.

Sharyn Alfonsi has more courage and conviction in her pinky than Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump have combined in their total beings.

“Mother’s Maiden Name” is a ridiculous and medieval part of our society’s approach to security.

The "Gulf of America" stupidity is different than the "Trump-Kennedy Center" stupidity.

Only autocrats name things after themselves while they are still in office. He is showing us who he is, again and again.

Trump literally tried the old "check is in the mail" schtick last night...

Reagan-era EMTALA remains an existential backdrop that protects Republican policymakers from total moral depravity.

I often find myself lamenting the lack of historical sense among us. Amazing to me that these high level people can't already see how sycophantic they are going to look for things like this in even a few years. I mean, they already look sycophantic and silly...

I would like to see the major medical centers to file comments pushing back hard on this rule, which has implications for clinical judgment far beyond this context. I'd especially like to see it from the ones (like that affiliated with my university) who have bowed to Trump threats by ceasing GAC.

You're right. And yet, the political toxicity of their approach will be their undoing. Once again, its the trap set by the ACA that will flip the House and get us out of this autocratic/kleptocratic hellhole.

Trump is playing with fire when he characterizes the ACA as a giveaway to insurance companies. The ACA's concessions to industry were necessary to pass the only viable alternative to single payer. Trump STILL has no viable alternative. Undermine the ACA and you're left with Medicare for All.

This is…wow.