A massive goliath figure in a loincloth, holding a club and sitting on a boulder; his head has been replaced with the head of Benjamin Franklin taken from a US $100 bill. He is peering down at a Synology NAS box, festooned with Enshittification poop emojis, with angry eyebrows and black grawlix bars over their mouths.
California strikes back at Texas with its own redistricting plan, a Florida judge shuts down the Everglades’ notorious “Alligator Alcatraz,” and Trump’s DOJ raids John Bolton’s home and office. This week’s political battles are heating up on all fronts. Dive in here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/august-22-weekly-news-roundup
Tweet from user 'Jax Persists' reads, "The same people who pretended to be offended by the Paris Olympics mocking the Last Supper are cheering Trump posting an AI image of him as Pope."
Why did so many MAGA folks skip civics and government in school?
A post from Alex Cole (@acnewstics
) on X reads: "Yes. They got trials, lawyers, and appeals—exactly what they tried to destroy while chanting for a lynching. I don’t think MAGA knows what 'due process' means." Below, a quote from Sharon McCutchan (@SharonMcCutchan
) asks: "Did Jan. 6 political prisoners get due process?"
She said under oath she wouldn’t politicize the Justice Department. She lied.
"Two social media posts on X. The first post by Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent
) reads: 'A straight-up admission from the Attorney General of the United States that the FBI and DOJ will be purged of people based on their views of Trump.' The second post, quoted within, is by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar
), posted 20 hours ago, with a verified badge, stating: 'AG Bondi: “There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the DOJ who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don’t want to be there. We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, you have to do the right thing. We’re gonna root them Show more.' The quote includes a screenshot of Pam Bondi speaking on a news segment, with the headline 'PAM BONDI ON HER FIRST WEEKS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL' and a cityscape background."
A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage ( pluralistic.net )
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