NEWS: The Supreme Court is going to find a way to make it so that LGBTQ+ taxpayers will have their money sent to an institution that can legally reject their kid, won't it?
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Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"
MS NOW - Rachel Maddow show 4.20.26 on screen: Operation Epic Fury listing our service members killed and wounded to date: Killed: 13 Wounded: 415 - 19 Marines - 62 Air Force - 63 Navy - 271 Army
Maddow "As thousands more US service members are being sent over there now, even as we speak, & as casualty numbers rise, do we think our servicemen & women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?
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saliency to far-right evangelicalism
The Palantir manifesto has the heritage of the War on Terror written throughout it. Which makes an awful lot of sense considering who staked Palantir at the start.
I have been through that door.
What is the German word for when all three of these women cabinet secretaries absolutely deserved to get fired and yet pretty much all the men cabinet secretaries and FBI director drunks do too. And yet .... 🤔
one thing i haven't seen accentuated about Palantir's corpus: the company believes there is a moral & existential imperative to give *complete* directionality and agency over US military technological apparatus to SV/itself
I want to say this with the calm of a Monday morning but…
It seems insanely, appallingly easy for Trump and his family and minions to just outright STEAL ridiculously large sums of money.
Exit through the grift shop?
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
Exterior of the Grolier Club, 47 E 60th St, which includes an arched entryway, below which are white double doors opened wide to encourage people to come in. To the left of the doors, in a black framed glass case for the display of signage, is a poster promoting the current free exhibit at the Grolier Club, “Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac.” April 18, 2026.
Saturday, I went to the Grolier Club, 47 E 60th St. Founded in 1884, it’s “the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America.” It also has free exhibits open to the public, including “Running Through Heaven: Visions of Jack Kerouac,” which I saw yesterday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolier... #NYC
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
*Yeah, that's a nice iPhone ad, unlike that unfortunate Microsoft Windows incident
"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
dearamericaletters.org
Happy 80th birthday to the fab Tim Curry, pictured with Rocky Horror creator, Richard O'Brien as Riff Raff & Patricia Quinn as Magenta. I once interviewed O'Brien who said that Frank n' Furter was a reflection of his own diverse sexuality. For moderns who like absolutes -sometimes there aren't any.
He might as well answer in Russian.
The same type of people who'll most likely try to do what the US did during the last draft where they purposefully sent "undesirables" into suicide missions except in this case it's going to be everyone that Christian Fascist White Nationalist death cultists sees as undesirable.
Palantir, the company that is being used to spy on the country/world run by a death cultist that believes denounces "inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures," that Palantir?
Perhaps, he's actually anti-war, unless he has utterly failed to realize the existence of the draft led to the end of the Vietnam war.
Screenshot of a passage from 'The Technological Republic' by Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska. The text reads: It has been more than fifty years since the United Stats abandoned mandatory conscription in 1973, near the end of the Vietnam War. And since then a generation of political elites has essentially enlisted others to fight their wars abroad. As of August 2006, there were only three members of Congress—three out of our 535 U.S. representatives and senators—who had a child serving in the American military. Charles Rangel, who represented New York City in Congress for nearly five decades from 1971 to 2017 and fought in Korea in the 1950s, has been a lonely proponent of reinstating the draft. He introduced legislation at least seven times in recent decades calling for the resurrection of conscription. If a battle abroad "is truly necessary," he has said, "we must all come together to support and defend our nation." The current model is utterly unsustainable. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
Here's the relevant passage about reinstating the draft from Palantir CEO Alex Karp's book that was being summarized in that thread on X:
"Energy too cheap to meter," as they used to say about nuclear power before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and wannabe-nuclear Iran getting bombed into splinters
Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Palantir is a menace to society. Its "Manifesto" reads like a very bad Hollywood science fiction dystopia movie.
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And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him...
Eastman: disbarred
Giuliani: disbarred
Chesebro: disbarred
Clark: facing possible disbarment
Ellis: law license suspended
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Good morning Bluesky.
Say hello to our resident Orca, in front of the Seattle waterfront during a gorgeous PNW sunset. He was traveling with his family and T034s, T037/T037Bs. Those little ones in the pods are always the most playful ones. We love our whales. This photo should be a poster!
The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
