Babel, bad babel:
Sen. Tuberville: "Obama's a crook. Let's put 'em in jail."
Ugly reality without an ounce of irony or shame, or just truthful good sense.
And a leap into the real ‘vandals’ of our DC heritage sites — one of the most interesting and actually the most obvious view:
Who are the SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE vandalizing our nation's capital? I think I found them. My latest column: www.notus.org/perspectives…
— Dana Milbank (@danamilbank.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T12:03:13.701Z
Dana Milbank at NOTUS:
I made one more stop on my tour: the Capitol, attacked by a mob five years ago in a rampage of vandalism and violence. I went inside to visit the plaque honoring the police “who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021. Their heroism will never be forgotten.”
Yet the vandals who now run Congress did everything they could to make sure it was forgotten. They hung the plaque this year — three years later than required by law — in the basement, without illumination, next to an emergency-exit-only door that sees almost no foot traffic.
Go read the whole piece, the actual reality of the destruction.
Check this:
.@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "Donald Trump is 80 years old. He’s lost a step. He’s even more willful and erratic than he once was. His self-indulgence and narcissism are even more out of control. And it’s only getting worse."
Further:
Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum.The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-06-23T20:33:43.566Z
Close us out step one — Miss Emily Dickinson and Much Madness is divinest Sense:
Much Madness is divinest Sense –
To a discerning Eye –
Much Sense – the starkest Madness –
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail –
Assent – and you are sane –
Demur – you’re straightway dangerous –
And handled with a Chain –
Step two:
Final step:
Immoral, crazed, incompetent, or not, yet once again here we are …
(Illustration out front: MC Escher’s woodcut, ‘Tower of Babel,’ and found here.)
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