So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Ted Segers, baby!
“There’s only one Pilsner I trust when I’m alone with my sister-in-law, Ted Segers.” - Doug Segers
www.tedsegers.com
The Sun Ra bandcamp page has got you (and just as detailed for every release, which I greatly appreciate!):
sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/batman...
I love the story on how this one came to be
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
On April 14, 2024, the Pittsburgh Pirates were 11-5, first in the NL Central, laying the groundwork for a monumental run… to finish at the bottom of the division, again.
Ironically enough, I think you could make this article about Angine de Poitrine, a band whose gimmick supersedes the music, and be a little more genuine of a discussion.
days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Rabbits from Inland Empire. Three rabbits stand in a dimly lit room with teal walls. One figure, dressed in a suit, stands near the door, while another, in a pink dress, is seen from behind at a table. A third one, in a light shirt and brown pants, sits on a couch.
Morning🐰🖤
David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (2006) • Now playing on the Criterion Channel
As a result of Trump & Hegseth's re-segregation, all five service chiefs, the JCS chairman and vice chairman, and nine of ten combatant commanders are white men.
Also, the U.S. military is back to zero female four-star officers for the first time since 2008; there were four in 2024.
The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."
FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
hmm
reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping
Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over.
The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too.
This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.
by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing
I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is
The essence of all the Russia stuff from the first campaign and first term
was that Trump was an insider threat to the US, NATO, the UN, etc.—a manifest danger to the whole complex of post-WWII arrangements to defend free societies, stave off world wars, and advance the cause of human rights.
J Hey took his criticism (much undeserved) with stride. The WS rally speech, mentioned already, was a testament to his character and the unquantifiable stuff he brought to the clubhouse. But this is what will always come to mind when his name is mentioned:
You really can't exaggerate how squarely contrary this rhetoric is to the basic foundational precepts of this country. These people *hate* the actually existing United States.
The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.
Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.
To be fair, those are 100% work sounds, just with the wrong inflection.
Oh 100%
Ain’t no “boss button” for a “jfc” followed by an “OMFG”
This sequence got me busted at work.
