Found the external 120 V electric plug outside the back of the building at work. I live about 3 miles from work. I work nights and weekends when nobody's there. Seriously thinking about trading in for a cheap-ish 2023 Chevy bolt. With level 1 charging alone, I'm getting more free KW than I'm using.
I mean, it's a valid point but it still kind of reeks of upper middle-class pearl clutching. Imagine the horror when this guy realizes that fast food workers can't finance a house.
3 / I'm way the fuck more ready for this than anybody, and yet I'm still panicking. All you can do is all you can do, and yet, it's never enough.
2/ Got a 100 gallon bladder full of water ready in the bathtub. Laundry and dishes done. Two gallon thing of filtered drinking water in the kitchen. Dog and cat bowls clean and topped off.
Tomorrow, my landlord shuts off the water to an apartment complex if 13 buildings and roughly 400 apartments.
It might just be for 30 minutes. Might be for a couple of days. I don't fucking know.
2/ That's the world that establishment dems want. Now, the jury may still be out on the Rail Alliance, maybe they aren't Ezra Klein-style neoliberal ghouls, but I see no reason to be optimistic.
High speed rail, hell, even expanding low speed rail would be a huge benefit. But Buttegieg's track record (and he did the heavy lifting on Biden's rail policy) is a huge red flag. It's a right wing set of assumptions that the rail was must be privatized. Imagine a world that only had toll roads.
Yep, we're cooked. I actually don't hate Walz or AOC, but that's a huge pile of shitty candidates. And the least-worst candidates in that slate are no way ready to muzzle the security apparatus. The dems are getting an early start on wresting defeat from the jaws of victory. Where's our Sheinbaum?
2/ I find it way too easy to suspect that the High Speed Rail Alliance is just another Third Way / Abundance / neoliberal trojan horse destined to make everything worse.
I mean, the US despatately needs a rail system that actually works, but Transportation Secretary Buttegieg's solution to building out rail was to privatize the railways. That's like the FCC auctioning of the radio spectrum to Amazon and Oracle.
I really tried.
We're headed for something way the fuck worse than 2008.
I cleaned out and prepped my deep freeze.
My little deep freeze is meat, stock, and veggies.
I'm just trying to keep my mom, my dog, and the cats safe.
I have years of stuff ready to keep us alive.
If the world is to be good, America must be destroyed.
Spain, y'all good. UK, go fuck yerself, you're the reason we got here in the first place. Portugal, I love you guys. Iceland, I'm gonna hide out on a couch at yer friend's place for a bit, but I'll bring snacks.
Requiem for Menab
168 schoolgirls in the remote southern Iranian town of Menab had their lives snuffed out by American bombs.
15 adult teachers were murdered too.
America and Israel are evil, and Iran is the only good faith actor.
Only America and Israel target civilians.
She's made great strides at getting semi-housebroken and not biting, but shitty humans set her up for failure. She's a nippy girl and going potty is an ongoing process.
She's done pretty good, all things considered.
I'm way, way over the pet limit on my lease because I can't say no to an animal in trouble. I'm taking care of a shitty, elderly parent for the same reason. If my asshole mom hits the floor again, I can't take care of her.
Little girl is way the fuck too much dog.
Technically, Austin is a no-kill shelter. But in the same way nobody can afford rent here, dogs in the shelters here get shoved out after a few weeks to Williamson or Llano county shelters where death walks an assembly line.
The little stray girl I found under a car is going to the shelter on her surrender date because literally every foster in central Texas ghosted me.
I called, I emailed, I filled out all the web forms, nobody got back to me.
Yes that's you, Jack Jack's pack. Yes that's you Austin Pets Alive. FAYM
Tony checkmates the opposition.
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@doggett.house.gov Just a thought... has anyone considered a bill to remove the current administration's ability to issue pardons? What Noem, Patel, Miller and Bondi have done is so heinous that it seems like a reasonable move.
¡Greenland Libre!
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Eine Heimat. Eine Volk.
Sounds legit.
I mean, he's right, but he's still Max Boot so I kinda don't give a fuck what he thinks just on general principle.
He's a good boy. We watch each other poop. I am as proud of him when he goes potty as Ms Rachel.
He is a very good boy and I kiss his face when I come home.
This is old school punk.
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Our boy Alon is a voice for humanity.
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Don't get me wrong, I love @davidsirota.com but I have always thought he's missing a trick with the Plasmatics.
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I wasn't ready to be on the same side of an argument as MTG, but here we are.
⭕️ Israel’s “Disco Room” Torture Defense for Children International – Palestine has documented the ordeal of three boys from Gaza— ages 16 and 17 — who were abducted by Israeli forces while trying to reach food and then tortured inside Israel’s Sde Teiman military camp. All three were seized at aid points, bound, blindfolded, stripped naked, and taken out of Gaza. In custody, they describe nonstop beatings, electric shocks, starvation, and exposure to extreme cold. Soldiers forced them into stress positions for hours, unleashed dogs on them, and blasted deafening music in the “disco room,” where interrogators slammed their heads into walls and tightened handcuffs until bones cracked. The boys also recount staged psychological torture: threats against their families, edited photos meant to break them, and attempts to recruit them as collaborators in exchange for money and housing. Cells were filthy, overcrowded, crawling with insects, with rotten food and no medical care. Stun grenades were thrown into rooms at night, leaving children terrified to sleep. All three were released in the October prisoner exchange, returning to Gaza with severe injuries, trauma, suffering involuntary urination, panic attacks, and crippling nightmares. DCIP says their testimony shows a detention system that targets children with brutality and humiliation, not for “security” but to break their bodies, terrify their families, and crush the next generation’s sense of safety. TRT spoke to the boys about the “disco room” torture below ⬇️
⭕️ Israel’s “Disco Room” Torture
Defense for Children International – Palestine has documented the ordeal of three boys from Gaza— ages 16 and 17 — who were abducted by Israeli forces while trying to reach food and then tortured inside Israel’s Sde Teiman military camp.
All three were seized...