My body is a machine that turns "did you already vote?" into "Thank you for voting!"

Not a single person that reports on white supremacists with their actual name questions why antifascist activists do it anonymously. I don't know how they do it. They're worthy of great respect and support and thry don't get enough of either.

Among the many should-immediately-end-this-presidency daily scandals is the fact that the current administration is dismantling research on the most incredible new scientific advance in the last several decades. Literally killing people.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Trump ally John Eastman is disbarred over bid to overturn 2020 election The California Supreme Court stripped conservative attorney John Eastman of his law license on Wednesday over his efforts to overturn U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 ​election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

The California Supreme Court stripped conservative attorney John Eastman of his law license on Wednesday over his efforts to overturn U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

If you have standards or values, you can be excoriated or investigated for failing to live up to them, if you don't, you are completely free to do anything you want. That is the unavoidable lesson of the last decade of American politics.

Where Are All the Cranes? A California YIMBY hopepill.

Lately, there has been a lot of frank discourse about what YIMBYism has accomplished in California. I think this impatience, even after big wins, is good and healthy—but it misses the early signs of success in front of us. In a new post, I offer a YIMBY hopepill:
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also, it hasn’t sunk in with the public yet that even in this wretched country, the public charging network is largely good enough to get by

Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market Emergency service costs have been going up for years, frustrating city officials. One reason seems to be private equity, which bought up ambulance makers and raised prices.

There's an ambulance market (I could stop there), private equity has rolled it up, and it's now delaying deliveries, tripling the cost for cities & creating shortages across the country.
This is what happens as we shout about what podcasts politicians should go on

A picture of several painted gunpla on a battlefield! The Gundam is flanked by two Ball mobile workers!

Two painted gunpla miniatures on display, mounted to wargaming bases! A red Guncannon squares up alongside a grey and white GM Sniper!

A photograph of Painted Gunpla battling on a board of forested mountains! A blue Guntank is ambushed by a terrifying blue gouf! In the distance a Red and white Federation GM notices the zeonic mobile suit wreaking havoc!

A photo of painted Gunpla battling over scale terrain! The gundam spots Char Aznable's Red Zaku in the distance!

DAY 2 of #MAYHEMCON2026
We're back with more #Gunpla Battle powered by #OnePageRules! Today, I rep the Federation, by piloting the GMSniper, Guncannon, and the infamous White Devil Gundam of the One Year War!

#wargaming / #Gundam

the world never screeches to a halt for anything, it never has, this is both tragic and hopeful, you still have to get up and put on your pants and go live everyday, and that’s been the case since your pants were handmade from deerskin

Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

Tehran's got a population of 15 million and is in the middle of a severe resource crisis. A conventional strike can kill millions of people in very slow and painful ways and I wish we could talk about that instead of jumping to the worst thing we can think of and getting freaked out about it.

Man, it really bugs me that everyone's yelling about nukes when Trump's already laid out what he's threatening to do - attack civilian infrastructure

Well, this is an amazing image

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Many men are not psychologically equipped for a universe where potential mates are not entirely economically dependent on them. Nor can they handle the burden of freedom from prescribed gender-based expectations. The people least equipped for this are running the country. bsky.app/profile/drja...

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Between illegal boat strikes, illegal war with Iran, and who knows what else is coming down the road, clearly there is a institutional and cultural rot in the senior American officer corps that they refuse to fix themselves

“No nuclear weapons but we’ll help you with domestic nuclear electricity generation” oh word you don’t say somebody should have had an idea like that before

NEW: Russian forces launched nearly 1,000 drones & missiles in a prolonged strike series from the March 23 to 24 evenings – the largest Russian strike series against Ukraine of the war.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 24, 26: isw.pub/UkrWar032426

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The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

This is utterly extraordinary.

If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

Gets worse as you read it.

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Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

i just find it hard to look at the last twenty years and believe that bullying is good, effective political praxis. sorry

Treason in the Futures Markets People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets

"this front-running of U.S. policy was really large: the Financial Times estimates the sales of oil futures in that magic minute Monday morning at about $580 million, and that doesn’t count the purchases of stock futures." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

I am all for America's business travelers getting to meet ICE agents in person. That'll be an education.

Daily status update (D+22), Iranian rate of fire relatively low but within normal bounds, Israel says they might invade Lebanon next week (they say that a lot), Houthis say they might enter the war next week (they say that a lot), IGRC fired at Diego Garcia, 4,000 kms away, Brent crude at $106.77.