From The Atlantic

I am so beyond-sick of everything being a "journey." It's nearly always used in reference to a trip anyone would dread: cancer, divorce, death. It's enough to make me want to avoid any business that uses it, even well-meaning ones like this.

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So Democrats should follow the current regime's policies of retribution and persecution of those who disagree with them?

US Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has proposed a bill that would create a bipartisan group with the power to enact the 25th Amendment to remove a president if the VP or cabinet failed to do so when warranted.

From my rep, Emily Randall, on why not impeachment:

Ranking Member Raskin Demands White House Physician Immediately Evaluate Donald Trump’s Cognitive Fitness Amid Bipartisan Alarm, Calls to Invoke 25th Amendment Washington, D.C. (April 10, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to White House Physician Captain Sean Barbabella demanding an immediate and comprehen...

Ranking Member Raskin Demands White House Physician Immediately Evaluate Donald Trump’s Cognitive Fitness Amid Bipartisan Alarm and Calls to Invoke 25th Amendment

April 10, 2026
Press Release

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Ginsberg not retiring at age 80 after 20 years on the bench was one of the great disasters of modern liberalism, and it blows my mind that so many liberals still stitch her face onto tote bags.

If the president doesn’t know who the president is… who the fuck is running the country.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

At this point, given that it would be mostly the anti-vaccine people and offspring who would die, it sounds like a good outcome. Willful ignorance is killing our civilization.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

18-year-old says he never reads anything except TikTok, Facebook Marketplace, and, occasionally, the Bible.

A neighbor w/ gov't pro job says she watched a 20-minute summary of "Project Hail Mary" so "I've seen it" and doesn't need to see the movie nor read the book.

Willful ignorance is a scourge.

I once made a similar offer on CompuServe (eons ago) when I lived in Santa Cruz, and people from Japan took me up on the offer. I couldn't meet with them at the time, but the city's Sister City program volunteers were great and showed them around.

Wow!

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

That finch looks like he's dressed up to go to a Hollywood awards event and saunter down the red carpet.

Today's trivia:

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

These are suggestions for what to include in your obituary (I don't recall source). They're also good for considering how you are LIVING.

How did you make a difference?
How did you influence others?
What were you known for?
What was the credo you lived by?
What were your priorities in life?

With news of the new "Grazing Action Plan" created by the USDA to help the cattle industry, we wanted to remind everyone that wolves are not the problem. Wolves have killed 0.002% of cattle, yet hundreds of wolves were killed by government programs.

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The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

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Neither of you gave credit to the source, so here it is:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

UK transfers about 1 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine The United Kingdom has transferred 752 million pounds (about 1 billion dollars) in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Ukraine's Finance Ministry said April 15.

⚡️UK transfers about 1 billion dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

The United Kingdom has transferred 752 million pounds (about 1 billion dollars) in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, Ukraine's Finance Ministry said April 15.

Patty Murray has been working hard and doing the right thing when others in the US Congress were doing no more than ranting on social media. If that.

I'm glad she's one of my senators. Thank you, senator @murray.senate.gov.

#WA #PNW

But people voted to ELECT each them. So, all who did are complicit.

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it is honestly remarkable how the average Senator is, I would argue, about 10 percent worse than if you literally selected them by lottery.

Just like MAGA voters in the USA.