Jon Masters

29 Apr

I have “left” and “right” socks that contour differently. Today I accidentally put two “right” ones on. Had to go back and change them. Wouldn’t want too many “R”s

2 Mar

The Congress shall have Power To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water

2 Mar

I mean nothing matters any more, but we used to live in a time where the law said that the President didn’t have the power to arbitrarily declare war. That was just Democratic elected representative government though, not this new Republican experiment in flushing the Constitution down the toilet

20 Feb

Looking forward to the Brits waking up more. Thanks for doing what others won’t 👍

20 Feb

I missed Auto-Tune The News. Watch the latest one.

In the UK (where the rule of law still applies), the latest Epstein Files tranche is quite possibly going to bring down the entire government over the “biggest scandal in a hundred years”. Meanwhile, if the same happened here it would be just another day of the current US Administration

When Dems take the House in the fall, I hope we finally see the same level of accountability on this side of the pond

Who in Boston isn’t excited to travel to the Dear Leader Back Bay train station in Leaderville (formerly “Boston”), take the Dear Leader Express (formerly “Acela”) to LeaderTown (formerly “New York City”), and enjoy all that Strong Bigly Big Leader man station has to offer?

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I can’t wait to fly out of “Giant Dear Leader Manhood Bigly Big Huuuuge” airport (formerly Boston Logan)

To be fair, I will accept renaming the municipal facility on Deer Island the Donald John Trump Dear Leader Island sewage treatment facility

If you name stuff after Dear Leader, the demands don’t stop, they only escalate. And we all know he doesn’t like escalators

wired.comWe Found Two Theaters With Sold-Out ‘Melania’ Opening Day ScreeningsA WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.

30 Jan

In Boston, they had to put up a Craigslist post to pay people to watch this movie. I suspect even then, they will struggle to find enough people to take money to watch it. On the other hand, it sold out in two locations. Easiest way ever to decide never to visit those two locations as a tourist

Brian Barrett@brbarrett.bsky.social

We analyzed ticket sales for nearly 1,400 opening day screenings of Melania at theaters across the US. These are the only two that were sold out. from @regret.bsky.social

30 Jan

She really doesn’t care though, do you? Or so goes the hoodie that was worn during the first presidency while they were rounding folks up in the streets to treat inhumanely

28 Jan

Correcting the @nytimes.com headline: Following a terrible tragedy, leading Democrats are considering doing their job for a change. But only considering it

21 Jan

Certainly by about age 10, school age children may know many details of the geographical differences between Iceland and Greenland. And by the age of 80 years, apparently it is possible that some people have learned there is a difference between the two countries. But only some people.

21 Jan

This is deeply technical stuff. For example, “you might need to correctly disambiguate a giraffe from a camel” level of 3D chess thinking is required to understand this stuff

18 Jan

Time for Starmer to grow a spine and stop the pandering. Tell the class bully where to shove it. If he doesn’t like that, call his bluff

18 Jan

If you give a schoolyard bully your lunch money he’s coming back for more next time

@missingthept.bsky.social

18 Jan

Talk to the Principal instead. It’s a good analogy for life. Sometimes that higher authority is a whole bloc of friends, maybe it’s even a tribunal or two

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In honor of his newly claimed Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump orders the U.S. military to invade Minnesota.

Great to see local a local bakery in Massachusetts exercising their protected first amendment right to express their opinion

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We’ve had a real thawing the past week or so in Massachusetts and most of the winter ice has melted. This tends to happen when sunshine comes. Sunshine is a great cure-all, also in terms of the law, where eventually everything comes out and those who do terrible things face justice under the law

ft.comDonald Trump’s first Venezuela oil sale deal goes to megadonor’s companySenior Vitol trader met US president at White House last week and gave millions of dollars to his re-election campaign

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

The first US sale of Venezuelan crude was to a company whose senior oil trader donated to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and attended a White House meeting with the president last week. www.ft.com/content/da74...

The key thing to remember about all the crazy news that is happening this week is that we still have not seen the release of the Epstein Files. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the threat of invasion of a NATO ally

Apparently 4% of Americans think invading Greenland is a good idea. All of those people need immediate psychiatric consultations

They should start with the MoCA test to check for dementia. It includes identifying a series of animals and remembering sequences of words. For example, “person woman man camera TV”

Apparently one can then monitor for the progression of such by repeating this test at regular intervals

15 Jan

Next up: folks who want to suck up to the Dear Leader will hand over their honorary degrees. Where does it end? I mean, nothing matters any more, but this ought to still disgust at least the statistical 65% of you who are not addled MAGA nutjobs

14 Jan

There must be something about those 75 countries upon which the current U.S. Administration has imposed visa restrictions. I wonder what it could be 🤔

14 Jan

Trumpers will say some horseshit. I’ll translate into English (an imported language): racism and xenophobia

14 Jan

“While claiming the decision was motivated by public benefits, we’re seeing an administration intent on demolishing nearly all legal pathways for immigrants to come to the United States from countries where people are overwhelmingly Brown and Black.”

12 Jan

Precisely zero “business leaders” will do the right thing today and condemn the attack on the independence of the Fed. Unless it starts to impact their stock price. Then, maybe they’ll consider saying something.

12 Jan

Meanwhile, the President is sending a secret police to haul away folks from the streets and put them in gulags. And is openly threatening to invade a NATO country

12 Jan

If you ever considered having a spine, or breaking from your fever, now is a moment

11 Jan

Glad to hear Spotify is resisting running ICE ads. It would be a shame to have to cancel my subscription

10 Jan

Why does The Onion have more of a spine than the countless feckless folks both siding the ongoing abuses of our basic laws

The Onion@theonion.com

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

10 Jan

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. May whatever God you do not or do believe in bless the United States

10 Jan

Let me fix the quote, however: The Trump Administration told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

7 Jan

You know what is most interesting about the Greenland News? Those Epstein Files must be really, really bad for you know who

New Presidential Cognitive test: in addition to being able to identify a person, woman, man, camera, TV, also must be able to find on a map (unaided) the country you plan to illegally invade today

One can simultaneously dislike a brutal foreign leader and also respect the rule of international law. The whackos think this is normal because they don’t see how far it can go or how dangerous it can become

We have opened ourselves up to some pretty horrifying potential scenarios. Also, if they really charged him with violating domestic U.S. laws (with acts not committed within the U.S. jurisdiction) then the case is going to be short and not go the way they think it will. even more of a mockery