In the world where Antonin Scalia dies six months earlier and RBG retires at some point before the third cancer diagnoses, a bankrupt Trump sits in a maximum security prison and costs us a single secret service patrol.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html

Posting this tonight for no particular reason:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
- @JuliusGoat

I'm going to tell you a secret.

Trump's fascist movement WANTS you to feel helpless.
They WANT you to feel hopeless.
They WANT this slide into fascist dictatorship to feel inevitable.
They WANT the constant barrage of nonsense to sap our strength and our will.
They WANT you to feel as if fighting is pointless.

Because that's the only way they win.
When we fight, they lose.
Every time.

So go ahead, have a little cry.
Then go put your fucking warpaint back on.

Not that anyone asked me, but -- Biden is doing a way better job than we had any right to expect. ARPA, Bipartisan Infrastructure, Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS, avoided the recession everyone said we would have, lower inflation than other Western nations, a reinvigorated NLRB with pro-Labor policies, international diplomacy that helped Ukraine resist Russia despite predictions that Ukraine would be defeated in weeks.

Remarkable. When all I really needed in 2020 was Not Trump.

Today in Torment Nexus news:

Isaac Asimov: I've created the Three Laws Of Robotics to demonstrate all the ways simple, well-intentioned rules can fail catastrophically.

Google: To protect humans we are creating a "Robot Constitution" inspired by the classic sci-fi series, Look At All The Ways The Three Laws Of Robotics Can Fail Catastrophically.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-taps-asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics-for-real-robot-safety

Amtrack has no fucks left to give.

https://www.tumblr.com/assumptionprime/738628025019777024

Edit: No it’s not actually an official amtrack account, it was comedy. This post is a year and a half old, stop showing your ignorance in the replies.