Reading Lyz’s profile and then looking back at Tucker’s trajectory, it’s easy to just see him as a full on opportunist. He started working for the Neocon Weekly Standard when neoconservatism was cool. He became a libertarian when the Iraq War went sideways. Then he became a right wing nationalist
During Trumps first admin I interviewed Carlson and talked to him about how his rhetoric specifically hurt my life and he treated it like a big joke. Remorse that only comes when it’s convenient isn’t remorse at all.
Stage managers. What you’re looking for is stage managers
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I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
What is native? What does this environment require? What can I give it? Is that thing I'm pulling up really a weed?
Those things, in their infancy, will need you to get out there and weed every day until they're established and can go on their own.
But the plan cannot just be pulling up weeds. It HAS to include plans for ecosystem replacement, because crabgrass takeover is a sign of a deficient ecosystem.
I love this analogy, and to extend it: it is nearly impossible to outweed the weeds that have taken over if your goal is to return to bluegrass. The thing you need to do is plant things that outcompete the crabgrass.
Each year I know my enemy and my friends a little more, and each year there are fewer enemies and more friends.
But there will always be SOME crab grass.
That's just the nature of the environment I want. Vigilance and dirty fingernails will always be its price.
But each year, it's easier.
Last year I was out there with big tools grabbing giant plants all summer.
I didn't know their life cycle, I didn't know to get them early in the year, I didn't get the clover seeds down in time.
But there will always be weeds.
You will always have to find them and make them unhappy and ultimately uproot them.
As long as I want an environment hospitable to my clover and my kids, I will be out there getting my fingernails dirty, year in and year out.
You keep pulling it up by the roots and you keep working, though.
Slowly, the beautiful stuff you want starts to take over, and gradually you start to see the difference.
The good stuff starts to set down roots and mat and make it harder for the weeds to get a foothold.
So you weed.
And if the weeding has been neglected, it is a horrible job. You are basically just ripping up chunks of turf in some areas.
It's ugly, you're covered in mud, the ground is ugly, but it's how you make room for what will eventually be beautiful.
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.
Yep. A male-chauvinist pig will always wonder why women can’t seem to do a man’s job, but it’s still striking to see his prejudice play out.
Mr. Buria chastised the Army secretary for selecting Maj. Gen. Antoinette R. Gant, a combat engineer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, to take command of the Military District of Washington, said three current and former defense and administration officials familiar with the exchange. The command provides security and performs ceremonial duties in the nation’s capital, and its commander often appears alongside the president at Arlington National Cemetery.
The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion.
The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.
frustrating to have to re-up this again, but this essay has all the necessary facts to counteract today's news: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
The ppl who deliberately did this to him should be tried for murder.
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
"Many disabled people in media, myself included, owe a
debt of thanks to Alice, whether she helped us personally
or indirectly by fundamentally reshaping the culture around
us."
Very much agree with these words by @sesmith.lol on Alice Wong.
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/celebration-...
remember that this shit is not only funding bigotry in the present, it's inducting new generations of kids into a long bigotry pipeline
the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do
It can’t be reiterated enough: Anne Frank died from typhus she contracted in a concentration camp.
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping.
The cruelty is endless.
The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of Jan. 6. Their entry's capstone was a mammoth feature titled "The Attack," featuring reporting by 26 journalists.
By my count, 8 of them are still at the paper. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
