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@janecoaston.bsky.social Loved hearing you on The Weeds, and just stumbled on you weighing in on the east side west side debate. Happy accident. East side is not best side tho. Northside, Clifton, and College Hill unite! DMZ FTW. 😁

NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

This is bananas, and utterly predictable considering at least half the people identifying as Christians are in it to feel superior to others and wield power over others.

I went to Mammoth Music and arts fest in Newport KY this weekend. It was a great time. I was impressed with how many different types of folks turned out. There were memaws, hippies, families with kids, and local music scene folks. Really wonderful to see so many folks enjoying each other's company.

In retrospect it was naive to think that knowing history would help humans avoid the same mistakes of the past today. An enduring feature of humanity is that there will always be people who strive to control, exploit, and oppress others. Time and progress are not linked.

I was honored to attend a Hindu engagement ceremony between a couple where one very Catholic Westside family came together with a Hindu family from Hyderabad. In this political climate people are still warmly embracing those who are different everyday. This regime cannot withstand us united.

This thread by @maxblau.bsky.social is a must-read 👇👇

@troyradog.bsky.social hey Troy this is Kate from work. I was really happy to see your message today. I hope you have great adventures awaiting you.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Call it what it is. It's not a crime crack down. It's an unwanted military occupation of an American city.

I was thinking about how, men, when confronted with their family spinning out of their control sometimes murder everyone to ensure they cannot. And so anyway I think America is the family at risk of this.

I am just finishing with As I Lay Dying, and my god. Reading it reminds me that there's no recompense for families with a stupid patriarch. Anse Bundren has multiplied himself to such a degree that we're all getting our leg hacked off.

I keep thinking a lot can be explained about America by saying that Americans prefer living in fantasy than the messy and mundane real world.

I am constantly surprised at the lack of discussion around the role of algorithms in radicalizing people. Social media would be better called antisocial media.

What's left once they've gorged themselves on cruelty? What is the next step when drinking the suffering of others cannot fill the void inside?

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Easily the most predictable thing happened, these conspiracy theorists now in official government roles are suddenly no longer conspiracy theorists. It's almost as though they secured attention online cynically. Conspiracists need to get cracking on their own conspiracy peddlers.

The BBB is a disaster. I think Republicans do not fear retribution from voters because the media environment ensures that they will never be held accountable. Bias for now will memory hole it. Fox News will never tell gramps Republicans took his healthcare www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

@mbeesus.bsky.social look at how pretty she is. 😍

As a culture, we're fixated on what people say they are doing. Journalists should stop considering what people say, and rather focus on what they do. Humans rarely tell the truth about themselves and what they're about. Watch their actions. Sincerely, a survivor of epic gaslighting.

It's wild to me that Republicans once again ran on culture wars, and once again are cutting social services and giving more money to already rich people. They've been on this since the 80's. They have no new solutions. Just be awful to brown people. Put down women. And reverse Robinhood.

Pete Hegseth saying his "war fighters" are primed for lethality is wild. Bro is bragging to Congress that he's gonna have Americans killing other Americans. The most bananas thing about this admin is that it is every fever dream Ruby Ridge extremists have had rolled into one.

I have been home from my trip for 4 days. My luggage disappeared into airline purgatory 11 days ago.

Because he's a racist. This isn't hard.

Kristi Noem is larping as a kids' movie villain. And her cartoonishness scrambles our responses to her objectively cruel policies and actions.

The worst thing religion has done to us is cultivate and support the belief that the only way humans can bring out their best is by coercion and suffering. This belief sanitizes cruelty into piousness. Most of us thrive when we're safe and supported.

Some days there's a kitten in the hood of my sweatshirt.

And more work on my back. That was a marathon 7 hour session, and I am whipped.

Why with the articles on Biden's cognition? I didn't support Biden's second run for president. The Dems who wanted to silence all of us down about our concerns in this regard were wrong. He is out of office, and the current administration is fascist. Journalists, get your priorities straight.

I am not sure why any journalist talks to anybody from the Trump regime. The words they say have no relationship to reality. If information needs to reflect verifiable facts, and journalists are purveyors of information, there's zero value in quoting fantasies.

@mbeesus.bsky.social We have the most metal foster kitten rn. She literally has a bare eye socket and is still fucking things up for her siblings. She is 2 lbs of spite and mischief.

If ICE agents truly believe themselves to be heroes why won't they show their faces?

Bro podcasters need to take responsibility for their reach. NYT has 10 mil subscribers but Joe Rogan gets 200 mil downloads per month. Theo Von gets 125 mil. The bros ARE the mainstream media. CNN online gets 1/2 mil nightly viewers, and MSNBC gets 1.1 mil nightly viewers.

Who has the time or patience to listen to a 4 hour Lex Fridman podcast?? I am convinced no one actually listens all the way through. Bro. Get an editor.

Folks into Republican Jesus are miserable. They hate themselves and want everyone to be just as miserable as they are. That's why they gleefully pursue ghoulish policies that do nothing but grind people up. Focused on the afterlife, they ruthlessly extinguish joy now.

We did a paint along with Bob Ross today, and it was perfect. Bob Ross is the patron saint of late Gen Xers. Unabashed love for PBS for giving us this gift.

Nothing says middle age during the implosion of our country like getting a cooling weighted blanket for my birthday.

Eighty percent of Americans say we need more manufacturing jobs here, but only twenty-five percent of Americans say they want a manufacturing job. So... Who is gonna work these jobs?

These house goblins keep it interesting.

I am waiting for my drum lesson to start, and there is a small child wailing their way through livin' on a prayer in one of the practice rooms.

It's also always a terrible idea to try and turn back the clock. Afghanistan did, and how is that going for them? The only reason men in power there persist is through cruelty, fear, and silencing critics. Humans living under that sort of coerced control are incapable of bringing their best.

I think when people long for more manufacturing here it's the 50's version of that. Where every working man had a house and a car. But without strong unions what we will get is the Guilded Age. Child labor. Sweat shops. Triangle shirtwaist fire. Unsafe grueling working conditions AND poverty.

I had a dream hummingbirds were back and I'd forgotten to put out my feeders. I guess this is middle age.

The person who invented the rice cake really fucken hated cake.

It's this sort of day.

I guess Trump wants to shift allies to Russia and China because he too wants to invade sovereign countries and exploit them for their resources and enslave their people.

Well this is the best thing I have read today. gothamist.com/news/extra-e...

I just heard some British pundits laughing at Trump being wholly owned by Putin. So. Ok. Are we great yet?