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Pretty much captures my convo with my dad last weekend.

Hegseth is incompetent and corrupt. He needs to be impeached.

Kinda cute that the people who consider themselves above the law assume they'll be protected by it, in the sense that the pardons would actually be honored or that they wouldn't be exposed to extrajuristicial redress (because we have laws about that sort of thing).

My dad: "Close the borders!" Also my dad: "The restaurant I want to go to is closed because they can't find enough workers. People are so lazy nowadays." Me: "... 🤦‍♂️"

Gawd but I hate this binary. Adam Smith and J.S. Mill wouldn't recognize what we have in America as "capitalism". And no one except a few Extremely Online tankies want the full Marxist / Leninist package.

I worked for EA for a bit and in spite of everything I never quite understood vitriol thrown at them. This makes me intensely sad on multiple levels.

I remember reading somewhere that ancient Egyptians might have literally experienced the Pharaoh as a god. Like, they lacked the mental software to process a state hierarchy otherwise. I spent years trying to understand what that would be like. Turns out I could've just asked a Trump voter.

This administration has mastered the fine alchemy of creating stagflation from a solid economy. The recipe: start with a senior leadership team that doesn't understand basic economics. Surround them with lickspittles and taint sniffers. Let Elon rummage for goodies. Throw in a stupid war. Presto!

Good thing we have such an emotional stable genius leading us through these troubling times ... 🤦‍♂️

I want to post something snarky like "akshually Putin only hates Poland because USA moniez funded the 1610 occupation of Moscow so lets lick Trump's taint" but then I realize that there are a nonzero number of people on both right and left who would agree with that.

Gawd damn. I had a dream in which Jackson Lamb gave me my annual performance review. It was not pretty. Aside: I both work too much and watch too much TV. This is fine, right?

I'm at the ballroom. I'm at the military complex. I'm at the combination ballroom and military complex

I didn't spend my youth quietly freaking out about nuclear war so that an orange felon could bend the knee to a former KGB agent.

Or do they ... ? 🤔

I cannot imagine debasing myself the way Bari Weiss or Marco Rubio or a thousand others have. What material gain could possibly be worth your soul?

The GOP and the people who support it are unable to see the world as anything other than a single turn game. Cooperation and altruism are literally baked into our DNA but they act like sitting on top of a pile of gold somehow stops the world spinning.

Any time I have to spend an extended stay in the suburbs (about 24 hours) I come away even more convinced that American suburbia is a blight. It encourages a kind of aggro individualism that's abhorrent to civil society. Mega churches fill the gaps and poison the minds of their attendees.

@governor.ca.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social what are you prepared to do if Trump provokes a true constitutional crisis over elections(or otherwise)? How far are you willing to lead us away from this madness? What have you done to prepare?

The president of the United States is actively helping Putin kill Ukrainian civilians.

I say this as someone who loves the Ave and the U District generally: closing it to vehicular traffic is an awesome idea, but the city absolutely, positively needs to address the vagrancy issues. "Character" is fine but it's way past that. www.theurbanist.org/the-ave-for-...

With the orange dipshit now talking about renaming an ocean, friendly reminder that we can all play this game.

Still boggles me that the right isn't somehow going all-in on hot blonde women with guns defending FREEDOM!!! but then I guess I shouldn't expect intellectual consistency in any form from these wackos.

One of the great ironies of the current era is that the center left got ethics and financial prudence and the right got coke and sex parties.

What if ... Mary Tyler Moore, but fascist.

It would be awesome if the Nobel committee called Trump and told them they had some very exciting news but they can only share it in person better wear a nice suit and please pretty please don't say anything on socials wink wink. Then he shows up and it's, like, an old IKEA and law enforcement.

In my middle age, I've somehow turned into a 17th c. Dutch burgher. I don't drink or smoke, I wear all dark clothes, I live in a nice but modest home, I have a sick art collection, and I work too much.

It would be criminally negligent if there's not a blandly named initiative happening right now in a basement in Sacramento or Olympia or whatever focused on what to do if the worst actually happens. Like, "The State Highways Study Group" or something.

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

I hate these eff'ing things but in fairness most of the people I see driving them in Seattle are middle aged Chinese dudes who clearly regret their poor life choices.

Seattle's light rail is so successful we're accelerating the build timeline for another line so that now it's only going to be 30 years until expansion.

Tried to outlive Charles, sorry.