Trump Disaster
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data (age, high-stress job, cardiac history), it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months.
Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising.
Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.
But regardless, IT is going to HAPPEN. So you’re allowed to think about IT.
--When It Happens, by Tom Ellison (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-it-happens)
ICE Killing in Minneapolis
Here is the better angle.
— Evil Eye Stalk (@krietzsche.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Faces of the Riot
When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform's contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site's users had taken part in the invasion of the US Capitol building just days before. But the videos uploaded to Parler also contain an equally sensitive bounty of data sitting in plain sight: thousands of images of unmasked faces, many of whom participated in the Capitol riot. Now one website has done the work of cataloging and publishing every one of those faces in a single, easy-to-browse lineup.
-- Andy Greenberg, "This Site Published Every Face from Parler's Capitol Riot Videos," Wired, January 20, 2021.
What Parler Saw
As supporters of President Donald Trump took part in a violent riot at the Capitol, users of the social media service Parler posted videos of themselves and others joining the fray. ProPublica reviewed thousands of videos uploaded publicly to the service that were archived by a programmer before Parler was taken offline by its web host. Below is a collection of more than 500 videos that ProPublica determined were taken during the events of Jan. 6 and were relevant and newsworthy. Taken together, they provide one of the most comprehensive records of a dark event in American history through the eyes of those who took part.
-- "What Parler Saw during the Attack on the Capitol," ProPublica, January 14, 2021.