Nice to hear
His polling is a concern for those wanting to avoid D vote splitting
Ranked choice would be much better than top 2 in this instance

Infuriating

this should be the opposition rallying cry in every country where fascists have been ascendant

We really like the Hard Knock Life rendition in the 2014 movie

Our family recently had two weekends of Newsies performances followed by a weekend of Aladdin Jr between our two kids. Would love to see them do Annie!

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

Trump truth social post: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached. 

When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

This is outside our normal DHS contracting 'beat,' however: we cannot in good conscience ignore the fact that the president is threatening to exterminate an entire country. This is genocidal and evil. The time is RIGHT NOW for congress to act.

"The danger is not that machines rule us. It is that the executive branch governs through machines while remaining formally democratic and substantively unresponsive."

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

A resonant part of a thread about Brexit

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Authoritarian regime blocking access to information that would enable the public to verify what the authoritarian regime says. Idea is: Without facts you must accept their lies.

Yes, I wrote about soccer again. This time about Mo Salah, one particular goal, and how his career seemed to be going one particular route of talented star on a lesser team until he pulled it towards immortality

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It's kinda mindbending to imagine a US oil & gas industry that - like Norway's - paid into a sovereign wealth fund. Tens of trillions of public dollars available for free universal health care, childcare, education, retirement, etc. Instead we start wars and send windfall profits to O&G barons.

Most history I’ve ever learned from a St Patrick’s Day post

Free throws?

*Lie*vening up the prose

Our current political moment feels more like Rising Down though unfortunately

Dynamite
Double trouble
100% Dundee
I love this album, listening now

I like to tap a dent in the metal with a hammer and something pointy ( center punch is best but a nail may work too) and drill a pilot hole of smaller diameter, then drill again with the full size bit. That’s if accuracy is more important. If you can drill directly with the full size bit, respect

I’m curious what it looks like if you control for salary and age. I noticed more senior versions of a similar position tended more Republican

I’m guessing it’s an error in the chart since it doesn’t match the data in the table

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

How soon is he going to recommend leeches

The Nation’s Most Democratic State Might Elect a Trump-Friendly Governor - The American Prospect California’s nonpartisan primary pits eight Democrats against two Republicans; only the top two finishers advance. Do the math.

California, arguably the most anti-Trump state, might well get a Trump acolyte as its next governor. buff.ly/y99VHrI

Quite a contrast between the Santa Clara DA and Krasner in Philly