Wednesday Reads: The Big Beautiful Obituary

So this cartoon just seemed to tickle my fancy…I thought it was hilarious.

Boston Boomer and I switched days, so you will get a double dose of cartoons today.

In fact let’s get down to it, via Cagle:

Now for a few news items:

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-07-08T14:06:46.629Z

That is outrageous…what a huge cuntwaffle!

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" was shocked when they learned that President Donald Trump's Department of Defense kept him in the dark when they halted a shipment of weapons destined for Ukraine last week.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-07-09T10:11:01Z

This is the ballgame, folks. A majority of the Supreme Court are Trump's eager henchmen. He has free rein. "In a brief unsigned order on Tuesday, it said Trump's administration was "likely to succeed on its argument that the executive order" and a memorandum implementing his order were lawful."

digby (@digby56.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T21:33:42.166Z

New: Texas officials estimate 161 people are missing after floods as death toll rises to 109

Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) 2025-07-08T21:37:43.282Z

Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2025-07-08T21:26:48.045Z

CBP SECTOR CHIEF GREG BOVINO TO LA RESIDENTS: “We don’t work for Karen Bass… better get used to us now, this is going to be normal very soon.”🤔If it quacks like Martial Law… How long til Cali folks move to stop funding this with their tax dollars?

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T16:00:56.903Z

This is one of the first dramatic "rubber meets the road" demonstrations of what anyone who knows the *mechanics of modern governance* has been warning about.—A fed agency that *exists* to measure, forecast, and warn about unsafe water levels.—Roster of that agency shows mass purges via DOGE

James Fallows (@jfallows.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T20:42:36.816Z

Trump is mentally unfit to be president. He shows us that every day.

Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T21:32:08.174Z

ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com

molly taft (@mollytaft.com) 2025-07-08T17:16:03.664Z

That is all I can take…stay safe.


5 Comments on “Wednesday Reads: The Big Beautiful Obituary”

  1. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

    Something tells me that war criminals recommending Trump for Nobel Prize is something that isn’t going to fly! It is telling though.

    • Mama Lopez's avatar Mama Lopez says:

      Yeah, it was like watching a some surreal satire, but it’s not, it is real fucking life.

      • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

        However, Donald Trump has been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize by various individuals and groups:

        • 2018: A group of U.S. House Republicans and two Norwegian lawmakers nominated him for his efforts to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea.
        • 2020: A far-right Norwegian lawmaker and a Finnish member of the European Parliament, along with a group of Australian professors, nominated him.
        • 2021: He was nominated by a Norwegian lawmaker for his work in the Middle East. The prize went to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.
        • 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pakistan have nominated him. 
  2. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

    This is cool (literally).

    This groundbreaking innovation, invented in Spain, COULD have been an American invention.But no, MAGA declared ware on science, and yam tits is saddling us with polluting fuels like petroleum and coal. And our scientists and inventors are fleeing to other countries.www.herox.com/blog/354-the…

    Rhuta Bhayga (@rhutabhayga.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T17:40:01.533Z

  3. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:

    Permafrost collapse triggered devastating flood at Tibet-Nepal border,

    (TibetanReview.net, Jul09’25) – Eleven people are missing and 350 displaced on the Tibetan side while at least nine have died and 19 remain missing in Nepal after flash floods hit Gyirong (Tibetan: Kyirong or Kyidrong) Port area on Jul 8 early morning, sweeping  away the Friendship Bridge between the two sides and destroying hydropower dams downstream, according to official Chinese and Nepali media reports over Jul 8-9.

    The water level of the Donglin Tsangpo river in Gyirong surged that morning, destroying the Rasuwa Bridge (Friendship Bridge) at the Gyirong Port. As a result, 11 people remain missing, including nine construction workers and two road maintenance workers, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn Jul 9.

    It cited authorities in Shigatse City government as saying the evacuees included 46 villagers from Rasuwa village, 90 Nepali traders and migrant workers, two tourists (including a driver), 61 construction workers, and 11 border checkpoint merchants, with the rest being customs and border inspection staff.

    Dozens of container trucks headed to Nepal via the Tatopani border have been stranded in Nyalam, Tibet, due to damaged roads.

    “Some 40 to 45 metres of road sections in various parts of the Shigatse-Nyalam-Khasa corridor have been destroyed by floods and landslides, bringing transport to a standstill,” the Kathmandupost.com Jul 9 quoted Phunu Sherpa, president of the Bhotekoshi Chamber of Commerce, as saying.

    We’re also waiting for information on the flash flood in New Mexico

    Fuck this greedy administration and its anti-science shit.