Jays aka Clovis

One thing I think people, even smart people, don't quite get is if you think making daylight saving time permanent so the sun sets later during the winter means you don't LOSE sunlight somewhere else (mornings) you don't understand physics. We simply cannot manufacture an extra hour of sunshine.

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

Well crap. I read this and identified with literally everything in it. Except I have never seen a psychic. At least, not intentionally or to my knowledge. Also this is doing nothing to alleviate my crush on @jpbrammer.bsky.social. If he reads this, I have light eyes! But blond hair. (dark blond?)

Not the point, I know. But his comma errors are almost just as offensive to me as his content.

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ATTN: Gays

RFK Jr needs to be charged and sent to jail for mass murder. I'm convinced he sees people not like him as lesser forms of life, and so therefore he believes he can have them killed and it will only strengthen humanity. He's a fucking war criminal.

The eternal question with JD Vance is always "Is he grifting or is he just actually that dumb?" I'm not saying he doesn't grift. But I am saying he is a very dumb person.

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

I'm just enjoying how incredible this picture is in the context of this man holding a job with 2,000 years' worth of history behind it and thinking what all those two millennia of previous Popes would think if they could see/comprehend this. Our world is wild.

Jesus. Avengers Assemble.

My initial thought on seeing this was, "Did she really say that or is this overstated?" Oh no. That's literally what she said. This is gross and inexcusable. If you're in Ohio, please tell her office how bad this is and how much she has fucked up.

The decision to close the Kennedy Center came after Trump personally called up the board to yell about his loss in court. trib.al/rYGRdcp

I have no idea if this is actually true, but even if it isn't it sounds like a decent idea to me...

It's been a wild summer here.

Fran Liebowitz has talked about how AIDS not only killed off most of the generation's great artists, it also killed the great audiences, leaving behind only rubes and people with lesser taste to ascend up the creative ladders. Trump is the apotheosis of that - bad taste and no personal talent.

I can be skeptical when folk find evidence of Nazism all over the place (as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar) but Jesus Christ. This is just undeniable. What other reason would "88" be the chosen dollar amount???

This boycott entry also links to the de-googling guide. If you don’t like being surveilled, getting Google out of your life is a good place to start. psychopete1.substack.com/p/boycott-di...

Welp. Off to transition to @mapquest.com for my travel needs...

I only had my iPhone to shoot with, but as they say, “the best camera is the one you have on you.” Pics of last night’s blood moon lunar eclipse from Chicago:

Trump -- eyes closed, looking uncannily like an embalmed corpse -- leaves the White House today (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)

We’re not changing it.

Also, Trump is fucking with HOMES and anyone who thinks those of us who are native to the Great Lakes are going to be okay with that don't know jack shit about us.

Apropos of nothing

Two things can be true at once: 1) This is stupid and dumb because no one is going to call it "Lake America"; and 2) I so fucking sick of this giant orange shit bag and his fucking ugly toupee/wig (as seen below) embarrassing me and my entire country.

Chicagoans of a particular social bent know...

#Chicago's Sears Tower is glowing pink tonight to honor Dolly Parton! 💖🌟🙏🏽✨

Read this and leave your Doomer shit at the door before you talk to me.

We are all Canadians now anntelnaes.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.

Jesus. I really left DC at the right time.

LOL! Lady, tell me just ONE of their names...😂

This is lovely. Reminds me of Maupin's "Letter to Mama": These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama...Their attitude is neither patronizing nor pitying. And their message is so simple: Yes, you are a person. Yes, I like you. Yes, it's all right for you to like me, too. www.sfgate.com/entertainmen...

I cannot WAIT for the legal and social SHIT SHOW that is going to go down between Natalie Harp and Melania when Trump dies and Harp claims she is owed Trump assets as his actual wife and caregiver.

Just in case you need another reason to boycott Target - we all paid Trump's tariffs; they hit companies like Target, but they passed on the cost to us, the consumers. Now Target gets $1bn as a gift and the rest of us get...nothing.

This scene is BEGGING to be recreated in film. Or animation. DO IT, YOU COWARDS

It's a core tenet of conservatism that injustice is not wrong so long as it happens to someone else; it's only a crime when it happens to you. BTW, this asshole is 100% voting for any Republican in 2028 who promises to do what was done to his wife but only to black/brown people.

Fuck yes I'm reposting this...

I have so many thoughts and feelings about this but the biggest one is if you are a Dem who even flirts with the idea of having "concerns about men in women's sports" go fuck yourself. You don't get my vote and you don't deserve to be in public office.

Yet another threat from the Trump campaign to it’s “supporters”

I did not know this and I fucking love it. "OH GOD! JESUS CHRIST, JUST STOP SCREAMING! Seriously, why did The Lord give you all such well-developed vocal chords?" -- Angels, probably

I hate that she had to do this, but goddamn do I love that she had the fortitude to fight back against these cowardly, racist-ass fuckers.

I cannot believe how accurate this is.

Kinda gives you hope, huh? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Today is "Soft Rains Day" for those who remember this haunting 1950 Ray Bradbury piece. It's classic Bradbury, eerily accurate w/ its predictions in some respects (looking at you, Alexa), and well worth a few moments of your day to read if you're so inclined.