Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House.

Good.

The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth, and disgorge lies, conspiracies, calumnies, contempt, and taxpayer-funded bullshit at the American press is finally slithering out the fucking door.

Of course she is.

She can smell the rot on herself now.

She can feel the accumulated filth of everything she knowingly, gleefully, shamelessly defended calcifying around her name, and suddenly the woman who never met a Trump lie she wouldn’t lacquer, powder, polish, and parade has discovered the exquisite appeal of the emergency exit.

Too fucking late.

That bleached-blonde bunker-barker, crucigerous concubine of cruelty, cold-blooded battery-acid Barbie wasn’t dragged kicking and screaming into that briefing room. She wasn’t some trembling civil servant held hostage beneath fluorescent lights, reluctantly reciting words somebody shoved into her hands while silently praying for deliverance.

She fucking wanted it.

She wanted the podium. She wanted the cameras. She wanted the proximity to power. She wanted the access, attention, applause, and reflected importance that came from being Donald J. Trump’s porcelain emissary and polished political apparatchik.

She auditioned for that privilege, and once she got it, she performed with the ravenous enthusiasm of a bankrupt of character who discovered depravity came with a government salary, a glam squad, and excellent fucking lighting.

She did it eagerly.

She did it happily.

She did it proudly.

She stood behind the seal of the White House wearing her little cross around her neck and became the glossy public mouth of an administration marinating in brutality, corruption, retribution, greed, deceit, autocracy, and spiritual putrefaction.

She didn’t brief so much as infect, flicking that forked tongue across every steaming mound of bile that sloughed off Donald Trump and buffing, burnishing, bleaching, and bullshitting it into something she hoped Americans would swallow, transforming lying into liturgy, degradation into doctrine, indecency into catechism, until the grotesque sounded governmental simply because she said it beneath chandeliers with a seal behind her.

She became an apologist for depravity, an acolyte of authoritarianism, a servile little lickspittle for sin, a lacquered lackey for a sexual reprobate whose appetites, abuses, lies, and grotesqueries were already smeared across decades of public history, and she fucking knew exactly who she was protecting. Goddamn right she knew.

She knew about the tape where Trump bragged, with the swaggering entitlement of someone who believed celebrity placed women’s bodies at his disposal, that he could grab them by the pussy. She knew women had accused him of sexual misconduct. She knew a jury listened to E. Jean Carroll and found him liable for sexual abuse. She knew the judge later explained that the conduct established by that verdict fit the ordinary modern understanding of rape.

She knew every ugly fucking inch of the public record, and still she took the immense borrowed authority of the White House and made herself his official voice, his defender, his attack dog, his pretty little praetorian guard with a press credential.

That wasn’t ignorance.

That was volition.

That was allegiance.

That was moral agency exercised in service of someone else’s impunity.

And she knew exactly who she was protecting when the Epstein files became impossible to fucking outrun.

She knew Trump’s name was in that universe of documents, testimony, photographs, contacts, correspondence, flight records, allegations, and decades of questions. She knew his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein had been public knowledge for years. She knew Americans were looking at that sprawling, squalid archive of money, minors, powerful men, hidden records, sealed testimony, missing answers, and institutional cowardice and asking one extraordinarily simple fucking question:

What are you hiding?

And Karoline Leavitt’s answer was not transparency.

It was obfuscation.

Obfuscate, obscure, deflect, deny, denigrate, distract. Bury the question under process. Attack the person asking it. Change the subject. Blame the media. Shriek about Democrats. Manufacture another outrage. Throw another fistful of rhetorical pocket sand into America’s eyes and hope nobody notices that the woman speaking for the president is working awfully fucking hard to make people stop looking at files containing the name of the depraved fuck she is paid to protect.

She knew.

That’s what makes her role so fucking repellent.

She wasn’t confused, uninformed, or discovering Jeffrey Epstein alongside the rest of the country with one hand clutched dramatically to her pearls. She was running interference for Donald fucking Trump, fully cognizant of the questions, the associations, the stakes, and the public demand for answers, and rather than plant herself before America and say open the vault, unseal the records, release every fucking thing, she helped construct the fog bank around him, a suffocating miasma of evasion, equivocation, indignation, diversion, and weaponized swill designed to exhaust the public before the public could exhaust the questions.

That was her choice.

She looked at one of the most radioactive scandals in modern American life and decided her place in it would be on the sanitation crew, scouring, whitewashing, disinfecting, sanitizing, standing there with her little cross and her big government microphone trying to smother the reek beneath institutional incense while everybody else screamed that something fucking dead was underneath it.

And she knew exactly whose stink she was trying to cover.

You poisonous fucking fraud.

You knew. You always fucking knew. And you chose him anyway.

And as a mother, I find you especially fucking shameful.

Motherhood does not magically confer morality upon women. You are living proof of that. But having children teaches you something elemental about vulnerability, something that settles beneath language and somewhere in the marrow, because you understand how utterly small human beings depend upon adults to tell the truth, recognize danger, establish boundaries, believe them when something is wrong, and protect them from people powerful enough to hurt them.

You know what vulnerability looks like.

You chose power anyway.

People are already speculating that maybe you were fired.

Bullshit.

Or maybe you finally got pissed off when Trump left your ass sitting on the drone-bait plane while he scuttled through Turkey in a food-services truck with his Flowers-in-the-Attic fluffer Natalie Harp.

Bullshit.

Please stop trying to retrofit normal human emotions onto a woman who has devoted years to demonstrating their complete fucking absence.

You are a morally necrotic revenant, an ethically eviscerated little opportunist with the moral architecture of a tapeworm. You do not give a solitary shit that Donald Trump left you sitting on a decoy aircraft. You don’t care that he humiliates people, discards people, degrades people, or feeds them into the wood chipper of his own self-preservation. You have watched him do precisely that to human being after human being and readily volunteered to hold the fucking extension cord.

You aren’t leaving because Donald Trump finally offended your delicate sensibilities.

You’re leaving because you can fucking count.

You know there is only so much runway between being the sneering federally funded mouthpiece for a fat, fetid fascist and trying to come out the other end as a freshly Febrezed Fox News personality whose entire past has been professionally dry-cleaned of the odor.

That clock is ticking.

You have watched this fucking magic trick before.

Kellyanne Conway escaped the blast radius and became a contributor. Kayleigh McEnany spent years powdering Trump’s ass from behind a White House podium and somehow emerged on Fox as a cable-news fixture instead of being permanently introduced as FORMER PRESIDENTIAL PROPAGANDIST in flashing red letters beneath her face.

You want the same baptism.

That’s the game.

Get out while there’s still enough asphalt between you and the flaming wreckage to pretend you were merely a passenger. Put some chronological distance between yourself and the funk. Trade the lectern for a television desk. Swap government-issued bullshit for commercially sponsored horseshit. Replace the White House seal with a chyron. Get a softer filter, write something maudlin about family and faith, and wait for America’s notoriously short fucking memory to perform the pardon your conscience never could.

You aren’t fleeing Donald Trump.

You’re fumigating your fucking résumé.

You smell what’s coming.

You just think you can outrun it.

Fuck that.

You aren’t even fucking original.

History is littered with women like you, a whole genealogy of vipers who hired out their fangs to monstrous men and billed it as duty.

Leni Riefenstahl aimed her lenses at the Third Reich and made fascism look like ballet, lit Nuremberg like a cathedral, gave genocide a gorgeous opening sequence, then spent the next six decades hissing her innocence at every documentary crew that would listen, and died at 101 with the swastika still watermarked on every frame she ever shot.

Magda Goebbels rented her photogenic family to that same regime as its living advertisement, the newsreel wife, the spotless children, and when it collapsed she fed those children cyanide rather than let them wake in a world Hitler no longer ruled.

Jiang Qing turned the Cultural Revolution into musical theater, scripting model operas while a million people bled out in the cheap seats, and when the tribunal finally came for her she reared up, hood flared, and spat that she had only ever been Mao’s dog, set loose on whomever he pointed her at.

None of them outran it. Not the auteur, not the “mother of the year”, not the leading lady. The verdict arrived anyway, late, sometimes decades late, but it fucking arrived, and it stayed.

And yours will too.

You were never standing helplessly beside the machinery. You were the fucking loudspeaker bolted to it, packaging the decay, gilding the venality, varnishing the viciousness, commercializing the con, marketing the malevolence, and making indecency sound official, dishonesty sound authoritative, vengeance sound patriotic, and rank civic sewage sound like governance.

And the record is indelible.

So leave.

Pack up the crosses and canned talking points. Strip the photographs from the desk. Gather your White House tchotchkes, close the office door, and commence whatever immaculate little reputational exorcism awaits on the other side of the gates.

You do not get absolution with a forwarding address.

You can leave the podium. You can leave the building. You can leave Washington. You can change titles, networks, jobs, hairstyles, biographies, fucking continents. You can molt entirely, shed this skin on the way out, glide away glistening, and wait for the new scales to grow in a friendlier pattern.

You cannot change what you did.

The animal underneath stays the animal underneath.

The cameras were rolling. The transcripts exist. The footage remains. Every smirk, every slander, every deflection, every duplicitous little morsel you spoon-fed the public, every moment you decided closeness to power deserved more loyalty than truth deserved courage has been preserved.

That’s the occupational hazard of spraying air freshener over decomposition.

Eventually the fucking stench belongs to you.

No television contract will cleanse it. No gauzy motherhood profile will erase it. No resurrection tour through conservative media will sever you from the gargantuan slag heap of ethical offal you appointed yourself to speak for.

Run cover for predators and their filth becomes your perfume. Polish the reputations of scoundrels and the residue remains beneath your fingernails. Spend your career as a smiling votary of vice and sooner or later history stops distinguishing between the shit and the person who kept fucking shoveling it.

You can run as far from that briefing room as your legs will carry you, Karoline, but the stench of what you so zealously championed will cling to your name long after the studio lights go dark.

For eternity.

But at least American taxpayers won’t be footing the bill anymore for you to serve as a publicly funded fluffer for a convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, business-fraud bullshitter, pussy-grabbing predator, and serially sleazy sack of shit.

So at least there’s fucking that.

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Terrace Villa, Ramsar, Iran by Poorkeivan Studio

My 28-year old self would’ve loved this. But my 68 year old self with all those stairs?

And it needs color. I’m thinking of it as a blank canvas to be filled in with brightly colored furniture and carpets.

Villa Terrace: A Layered Response to a Steep Coastal Landscape

Poorkeivan Studio: Villa Terrace is designed on a steep hillside in Ramsar, northern Iran, where a thirteen-meter difference in elevation is transformed from a construction challenge into an opportunity for creating a layered living experience.

Despite the complexity of construction and the increased costs associated with the site, the client intentionally selected a higher location to benefit from wide views toward the Caspian Sea and the surrounding urban and natural landscape.

The main design challenge was how to respond to the steep topography while preserving climatic comfort and creating diverse spatial experiences. Inspired by the client’s desire to experience different framed views of the landscape, the project transforms the slope into a sequence of interconnected terraces.

Each floor is conceived as an individual terrace, where enclosed spaces are carefully positioned according to their functions. The swimming pool, gym, breakfast area, bedrooms, and living spaces interact with these terraces, allowing every part of the villa to engage directly with the surrounding environment.

The north–south orientation of the site guides the placement of openings to maximize natural ventilation and daylight. The terraces extend toward the sea while opening toward the forest, creating a natural airflow system. Sea breezes pass across the terraces and enter the villa through a central vertical opening around the staircase, which functions as a wind channel and distributes airflow throughout the interior spaces.

The façade design reinterprets the traditional metal roofs commonly found in northern Iranian architecture through a contemporary language. The standing seam metal cladding, finished in a grey tone, recalls the collective memory of the region while creating a modern architectural identity.

From the northern street, the building appears as a modest two-story villa; however, entering the project reveals a deeper, multi-layered spatial experience shaped by the terrain. The terraces frame different views of the surrounding landscape, gradually revealing the true scale and complexity of the villa.

By utilizing the potential of the slope, integrating passive climatic strategies, and combining concrete structure, curtain wall glazing, and a metal envelope, Villa Terrace establishes a balance between contemporary architecture, local identity, and environmental responsiveness.

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the performative screech-monkeys of the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex are shitting themselves raw over the mere existence of Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and I am so fucking here for how he’s kicking their tiresome asses in response.

El-Sayed is so good at this. listen to him tee off on that doughy pantload, Couchfuck McGee.

“is that Peter Thiel’s boy, with that Ohio charisma he’s got? I think we’ve had enough of him. the last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy — after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. that was the last time he made sense, and then he decided to suck up to power. but that’s exactly what this is about. you got Republicans who will do anything for power and money, including corrupt their office.”

as I’ve said before, Abdul El-Sayed sounds like one of us. he’s snarky as fuck. he does everything we’d want him to in that clip but refer to JD Vance as ‘that doughy pantload Couchfuck McGee.’

we’ve all seen the video of Abdul commenting on Dear Leader’s diaper-filling habits, but let’s play it again, because it’s oh-so-satisfyingly good

Sky News reporter: “[Trump] says you’re full of shit.”

Abdul El-Sayed: “at least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.”

Abdul also wins at social media.

“I know it’s complicated for you, habibi. I’m happy to teach you how this works at our next debate…if you’re not too much a coward to debate me.”

‘habibi,’ by the way, is the Arabic word for ‘my beloved’ — and El-Sayed is employing it sarcastically, in the same way southerners say ‘bless your heart.’

but he’s not just a snark factory. he’s thoughtful. listen to him explain how the dumbfuck exercise videos farted out by Piss-Drunk Pete and Bobby Brainworms are just a hollow version of masculinity.

you asked me about like Pete Hegseth and RFK, that, like, they’re trying to speak to this particular group of people, and it ends up trying to like, again, just create one more performance that is like, the way to be a masculine person. and you know, as we’ve thought about it on the campaign, [lifting weights] is something that I’ve always done — but a lot of what I’m trying to do is be like hey, look, being a man is not about how you show up at the gym. it’s like how you show up for your family. it’s about how you show up in your community.

El-Sayed gets it. you show up — for your family, for your community, and for your country. do you think Piss-Drunk Pete or Brainworms have ever shown up for anyone but themselves? of fucking course they haven’t.

as always, the moral rot starts at the top. Dear Leader loves only three things in this world: money, power, and his own porcine self — and not necessarily in that order. he’s the fucking president, and not once has he ever put his country ahead of his own greedy self-interest.


you know who else gets it? New York City’s islamocommunofascist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it’s an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It’s time for a change. I’m proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone.

Mamdani, too, is so fucking good at this. it’s like he was made for standing in front of a camera.

but Zohran’s not just a pretty face. he wants to build a better world, and level the playing field for everyone. that’s why, as he explains in that video, he’s backing legislation that would force Amazon to stop reclassifying their drivers as independent contractors, which enables Amazon to weasel out of providing them benefits such as healthcare.

you know who else is good at this? Wisconsin Rep. Francesca Hong.

reporter: “were you prepared for this intense pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as far too extreme for Wisconsin?”

Francesca Hong: “what’s extreme is Congressman Tiffany, a long-time DC Congressman, has voted against the interests of Wisconsinites over and over again. what’s extreme is that he’s an election denier. what’s extreme is that he continues to protect Epstein and pedophiles.”

Wisconsin Democrats really biffed it when they failed to pick Hong to be their candidate for Governor in yesterday’s primary. don’t make me come over there, Wisconsin, and explain how badly you just fucked up.


Democratic Socialists like El-Sayed, Mamdani and Hong — they’re not just twenty-four-seven charisma generators. 

they get it. they get what’s wrong with America: government is broken. politics is broken. late-stage capitalism is broken. none of that shit works for We the People any more.

and if you needed any more proof that everything is fucked all to shit, did you know that Fishin’ Trip Sammy Alito has been enriching himself off the cases he’s been ruling on?

The supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows.

The findings come as the supreme court prepares to take up a case in which the oil companies Suncor Energy and Exxon asked the justices to find that federal law prevents subnational governments from filing lawsuits against fossil fuel producers for the climate-warming effects of their products.

what kind of shithole country allows this to happen? what kind of shithole country looks the other way while corrupt judges rake in the dough like it’s going out of style?

this is the kind of fuckery we used to mock tinpot third-world autocracies for. congratulations, America, you’re some penny-ante kleptocratic backwater. we’re number one!

it’s bad enough that Fishin’ Trip Sammy goes on all-expenses-paid luxury vacations with the oligarchs who tell him how to vote. now we’re finding out that Sammy’s been fattening his own wallet all along.

how fucking broken is that?

Republicans are scared shitless right now. they know that their policies totally fucking suck, and that they’re going to get creamed in the upcoming midterms — and so they’re lying their fucking faces off about the Democratic Socialist agenda.

“they’re crazy enough, yes. they want to cancel Thanksgiving, they want to cancel Christmas. look, these communists hate America. they hate capitalism. El-Sayed is also an Islamist, as is Mamdani, and look, you’ve seen the green-red convergence, where the communists and the Islamists, they want Sharia law, they hate Jews, they hate Christians, they hate capitalism, they hate America.”

shut the fuck up, Esteemed Senator Fidel Cancun. none of that that shit is true, and you fucking well know it. well, except for the part about hating capitalism. so we’ll give you that one, beardo. ace job, Ted — you got one right. take a victory lap.


El-Sayed, Mamdani and Hong grew up in this world that no longer works for We the People, and they’re fucking well tired of it. they’re tired of Republicans who work only for their oligarch overloads. they’re tired of watching Preznit Fuckwit and his felonious family rob this country blind. they’re tired of useless Democratic establishment lumps like Chuck Schumer writing one strongly-worded letter after another. let me tell you where you can stick those letters, Chuck.

Democratic Socialists like El-Sayed, Mamdani and Hong have decided that if anyone’s going to fix this shit, they themselves are going to be the ones to do it.

they’ve earned our support.

fuck yeah.


this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.

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The People Have Spoken

Traditional it is! Thanks for playing!

I hate to admit it, but the more I get into the WordPress block editor—something I’ve resisted for years—there are features readily accessilble I either had to dig or resort to an add-in with with the old editor. Conversely, I’m asking the Google, “How do I [simple command in the traditional editor, but completely hidden now] in the WordPress block editor?” I get the answer and—much like it was when I first moved to MacOS from Windows those many, many years ago—I go, “Duh! So simple!”

Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks after all?

Tricks. Sigh. I remember tricks. I remember when I had the hormones of a 25 year old and tricks were about the only thing on my mind.

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