Usually Happier

The Star Wars movies gave me the impression that the whole "spaceship landing" thing was much simpler than this 🤔😁

"I've got a girlfriend, but she goes to another school. You wouldn't know her."

Fascinated that I saw JB Pritzker assessed as being "too old" to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028. He'll be 63 years old then. Tells you how some people are feeling about old men at this point in time.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

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This one is resonating today. #Andor

I can't wait for the MAGA world to freak out about how an "American" team should win the World Series. When the Dodgers have Japanese citizens as three of their best players 🤣

Why is "fragging" trending on Google search terms?

Just saw an amazing summary from a British columnist at the FT: Stephen Miller is the Prime Minister to Trump's king. HT to @edwardluce.bsky.social

I unsubscribed from Disney+

Anyone claiming that RFK Jr follows the scientific method should prove that they understand what the scientific method is. Given their hypothesis about RFK Jr, gather and evaluate evidence, and them evaluate their hypothesis against the evidence.

Just saw a recent JD Vance event referred to as a "micro-rally" and I'm dying

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Just read Snow Crash again for the first time in 15+ years and I'm stunned at how well it has held up 30 years after publication. I love that book so much

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

How WEAK is your government if an unarmed protest is an "insurrection"?

Does anyone know if Taco Bell delivers to the White House? Asking for a friend

the patron saint of regulars everywhere has gone to that big mahogany bar in the sky

"You may feel ill-equipped and aimlessly adrift, but you were sent here with a Gift. What will you do with it?" - @propagandhi.com 🤘🙏✊

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

One thing that would really help us out here as if individuals showing contempt for the judicial process were barred from utilizing the judicial process. Trump wants to ignore the courts? Fine. He can no longer sue anyone in any court for any purpose. Don’t like it? Obey the goddamn court.

#Running

I keep waiting for more and more people to realize that the emperor has no clothes. I know it's a propaganda-insulated cult, and admitting you were wrong is incredibly difficult, but... it's got to sink in sometime? Doesn't it?

Interesting new take on the Trolley Problem

Love that all of these tariffs strongly incentivize smuggling (aka "importing things without following the rules"), and that we're doing all of these tariffs because... of too much fentanyl smuggling? At least from Canada and Mexico?

They can remove the word "preparing" from the headline www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...

Florida is #1! Just learned that 1 in 6 Floridians are enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplaces. And Texas is #2 at about 10% of the population. California is #3, followed by a bunch more "red states" - Georgia, both Carolinas, and Tennessee. (Absolute enrollment numbers, not % of population)

Facebook Memories served up this excellent reminder of "Why I run" from 11 years ago. It's been a little while since I had that feeling, but I'm still chasing it. #running

So much winning!

One tiny silver lining of the Muskrats at DOGE being 19-year-olds is that you know at least one of them is going to write a fantastic tell-all book once their brain fully matures in their late twenties and they start to experience things like empathy and regret

I keep wondering: Where does MAGA think this is all going? I guess I'm struggling to concieve of people who would prefer to just burn it all down. Or have a king.

For all of us who want Democrats to "fight", we also have to be smart. Republicans in Congress & Trump/Musk WANT a shutdown. How is giving them what they want a good thing? Longer version of that argument: www.joshbarro.com/p/it-is-not-...

I'm no fan of the Ivy League universities, but they have ridiculously deep pockets, and probably know one or two decent lawyers since they encompass many of the top law schools. Hard to see them losing a legal fight about DEI and federal funding. (Which isn't to say that it's a stupid fight.)

Finally reading all The Expanse novels and just starting the final entry "Leviathan Falls" - the obvious bookend to the first book "Leviathan Wakes". It just occurred to me that the leviathan I'd been thinking had awoken in the first book may not be the right leviathan.

Feels like appropriate timing for Canadian rock/punk legends Propagandhi to produce a new album entitled "At Peace". (Narrator: They were not, in fact, at peace) propagandhi.bandcamp.com/album/at-peace

Incredible show last night from @pelicansong.bsky.social in LA. Heavy, beautiful, surprising, and better than ever. Bold move to perform a set of 50% unreleased songs but the new songs are fantastic

About Canada becoming the 51st state: Republicans would likely lose all national power. By population size and political leanings, Canada is another California - 40M people, leaning to the left. So add ~50 Reps to the House, and those same ~50 votes to the Electoral College, plus two new Senators.

Just realized that Cuba is a lot bigger than I realized. Physically about the size of Tennessee, with a population that would be about the 9-10th largest state

Calling the tech oligarchs the "Nerd Reich" is nasty work 😂😂😂

Stumbled on this band a couple days ago and have had it on repeat ever since. Absolutely worth a listen no matter what your usual thing is. youtu.be/o2zC5qRylBY?...

Is it Christian to find pleasure in the pain or discomfort of others?

Traveling in the Punjab region of India and starting to get jealous of the truly fierce mustaches on display