Abby Zimet

Seeking to rally the troops for his unholy war on Iran, smug Christian nationalist, TV-carnie and dry-drunk war fanboy Pete Hegseth just daftly passed off some fire-and-brimstone Gospel According to Tarantino as scripture at his (unconstitutional)

Needing a break, we honor the rare sweet sliver of comity during Monday's Boston Marathon when two runners, both on course to achieve their personal best, instead stopped to help Ajay Haridasse, collapsed on the ground and unable to stand back up, over the finish line just ahead - because, they explained, “This is what it's all about...Two is better than one.” Hallelujah: For now, still human after all these years.

Leave it to this still-repugnant regime to instantly twist a Keystone Cops security breach - not a so-distant-it-was-on-another-floor “assassination

In a devastating blow to what John Lewis called “the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy,” a right-wing , illegitimate SCOTUS finally gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act they've been chipping away at for years, ensuring communities of color will increasingly be denied “a voice in their own destiny.” By striking down a Louisiana voting map as a bogus “racial gerrymander,” the court's extremist hacks betrayed generations who fought and bled, said Fannie Lou Hamer, “to live as decent human beings.”

Hoo boy. The stupid and evil, somehow accelerating, they burn. America's so-called leader, the “Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath,” manifests ever more cognitive dissonance on steroids. Absurd, addled, vindictive, looming above “a circus of death and chaos,” he commits war crimes , guts voting rights , plots devastation, abases decency, murders mercy, yet whines about mean jokes. But as America reels, Banksy, Bruce, Platner and others increasingly declare, “We are not fucking doing this anymore.”

With no grown-ups in sight, a feckless war lurches and whipsaws on, run by a regime full of clowns, drunks, losers, grifters all steadfastly defying the will of the people. Trump rants, Hegseth lies, Rubio punts, and a shameless Ka$h Patel, who actually likes to spell his name that way, is gifting bottles of personally branded bourbon - “KASH PATEL,

In a triumphal move back toward democratic rule, Hungary's new leader Péter Magyar took his oath of office Saturday in a “regime-change” ceremony

Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic spinoffs. Cue “Fuck You” upgrades, a

In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to “rededicate” America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectarian shit-show - ICE milled, vendors urged, “WIVES SUBMIT,” zealots screeched “We welcome Jesus!”, speakers attested God is grateful for the ballroom - queasily shaped a now-250-year-old America into the kind of country it sought freedom from.

Another Memorial Day of boasts, insults, “self-defense strikes,” cheap clichés from a Secretary of War Crimes prattling about unnecessary dead “delivered