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Great song, great cover. She’s doing work there.

I don’t know what else to say other than our president is a complete joke. And I say that coming from a perspective of sadness and depression, not vitriol.

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

Democrats are Socialists!! Also, nationalize the oil industry.

Very recent piece by Suresh. It talks about AI in the context of use cases, efficacy, accuracy, and irrational commitment from those in the business who are non-technical and so have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about but are all in on the thing. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

It’s a bit dated but the theme of this famous essay by Nikhil Suresh is right (and very funny). He’s worth following if you want a skeptical take. The JS error handling as part of a sentence is a nice touch for those who care about such things. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

The Milky Way. Our home.

#DogDayTuesday

The FBI is raping the dogs. They're raping the cats.

TFW you make the opposition’s point for them. Yeah, it’s getting hot af but are you dead *yet*? I think not! Hoax, bitches.

A better summary for why the rule is there in the first place will probably not be found.

Turns out the energy market had not priced in the possibility that a president would actually be dumb enough to take up Bibi on his evergreen proposal. I’m sure Trump and Bessent have ruined many a position and vaporized a lot of money but at least they can say r***d.

That ‘skirmish’ cut the last oil route out of the region so I’d say that it’s actually quite a big fucking deal.

That dog is hauling ass and the end is awesome. If my Lab did that to me, while I would certainly appreciate the gesture, I’d be headed to the ER.

What’s bullshit with this question is first she couches it as important because voters are concerned. After he stomps on her, she justifies the question by saying “Republicans are heavily attacking you so it’s clearly something you want to engage on.” They just want the bad faith culture chum.

It should be a 5-alarm fire in the media that the president is saying this. Turning off trade would completely wreck the economy but he thinks it’s a viable option. This guy is a complete fucking moron but nobody seems to be willing to point this out. Ds apparently think it would be gauche.

This guy is so stupid he can’t see that the Chinese love him because he’s hastening the decline of the US. They’re not shy of saying that. Of course nobody will tell him what the Chinese have said and would dismiss it if they did.

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"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)

What I took from that era is that there is nothing the Republican Party can do that's awful enough, disastrous enough, to bring it any real accountability, because the whole system is wired to defend & excuse it. The Trump Era has only made that more nakedly obvious.

Because he lacks any empathy, this is his attempt to mimic it. Talk slowly and with less volume but completely devoid of any emotion.

I mean, he does realize he’s in the Republican Party right?

The cognitive dissonance here… It’s not just that her entire person is a large set of contradictions, it’s that her followers completely overlook it as well (in addition to the fact the party pushes ‘traditional family roles’). Certainly not unheard of (‘evangelicals’ and Trump) but still bonkers.

Ds should should embrace this attack. Hegseth is hollowing out the military in service of his insane machismo, culture wars, loyalty tests and incompetence. Trump’s lack of any empathy (‘small potatoes,’ Lincoln), Iran incompetence ties in too. Why fund incompetence? Fire, fix then fund.

This just called to my attention: SUPERB @ianbassin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

Read this. One, it’s clear eyed. Two, there some real spot on descriptions of the man that are straight up bangers. As @grudgie.bsky.social says, it’s refreshing to see. It’s how the media should be talking about Trump as a fundamental framing of everything he says and does.

Taking Kharg isn’t the hard part, it’s keeping it. The forces on the island would be stationary targets with no means of defense. It’s what happened with our regional bases and why Bahrain was effectively abandoned.

You have to read the entire series of posts. Honestly indistinguishable from parody.

Non-concurs happen. I believe that. But, how often on average compared to now broken down by issue priority/materiality and how often to do you see 4 on an issue this material? Those are the metrics to measure to determine how big a fire this is (and has been in general). I’m thinking 5-alarm.

What could slip by unnoticed is she classifies calling Trump a ‘dictator’ is an insult. Would calling Nick Fuentes a racist be an insult. The press has just been willfully blind to Trump’s authoritarianism and go so war as to contest anyone asserting it as reality.

File a complaint from Liberia. Sure. And will some reporter *please* hit this guy with the stat about the number of claims of assault on ICE officers that are determined to be total lies? Is your 9000% number really just a byproduct of officers making false claims?

The ‘military objectives’ lens is the absolutely wrong frame Welker (and a lot of the media) use. It allows the Rs to muddy the waters. War is an instrument to achieve policy objectives. The question is ‘have we achieved policy objectives?’ and clearly we haven’t. So, can we, when, at what cost?

This is a well known pattern and yet parties continually follow it. Adoption means validation. Rather than peel of voters, that mainstreaming leads to bleeding people who decide to buy the real thing, not the knockoff. Ds fall into this trap constantly.

He’s not technically wrong. 394 mm isn’t ‘empty’ but below 614 mm 20 yr historical avg, and 666 mm under Trump 1 (for valid reasons). The question he should be asked: if the spr was low, your intel said Iran wasn’t close to nukes and that the strait would close post attack, why did you start a war?

Do we even let adults drink and drive? Seems like we might want to curb that if we do.

250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...

Think about this argument: Canada is ripping off the US by abiding by the terms of a deal ‘negotiated’ and touted by Trump. No more! Unsophisticated negotiation tactics solely reliant on intimidation and coercion may work in NYC real estate but not here. But scorched earth ‘leverage,’ amirite?

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Did more to end slavery like Donald Trump accidentally being one of the biggest catalysts for the adoption of clean and green energy?

He looks like ted cruz with his wig off.

My work-from-home life, summarized in one image.

“Is your life insurance paid up?”

I am so excited to hear this!

If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that SCOTUS appointments don’t matter.

Well, you could just fix the parking garage.

“I want a president focused on being a construction manager” should be a statement every GOP shill and candidate should be asked if they agree with. Now, *I* would like the president to be focused on a laser pointer for the next 2+ years to diminish the damage he is inflicting but that’s just me.