Nature gave us a big brain with lots of memory to remember what we did over the last few years, to reflect, regret, and apologize where necessary. It is very human.

He taught at the University of Texas for a few years, the most imperialist state in the most imperialist country.

It boggles my mind that Varoufakis held a teaching position here at UT Austin at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, right before he returned to Greece to get involved in politics.

In that case you need to tackle the perception of personal responsibility. Nobody forced these victims to smoke. Banning tobacco products is good strategy, but we need to pair it with a good information campaign to show how devastating this addiction can be.

Western European countries need to start supplying Taiwan with heavy weapons if China doesn't back out of Ukraine.

AOC is giving that nepo baby hell. Nobody knows how RFK responded, because he sounds like a bucket of gravel in a cement mixer. He only got the job of Secretary of HHS because he's a Kennedy.

That day really sucked.

Forty years ago today, Siouxsie and the Banshees, with Tinderbox. It's probably not their most famous album, but it stuck with me. I saw a TV interview with Siouxsie Sioux that year, and she was awesome. #MusicSky

Lost cause

The people who work for ICE now are a list cause. Shut it down, and fire them all. Start a new immigration enforcement office that doesn't carry weapons all the time. They don't need to pretend to be cops.

So why was she fired?

I was worried about your health for a moment...

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Running without gravity is obviously cheating 😉. Seriously, I am glad that NASA went for this experiment. The more we learn about the human body in space, the better. I sometimes about the long-term effect of space travel on our astronauts.

While I hope that she is going to be free to stay here in the US, the fact that her husband is a sergeant in the army means little to me in this context. If he was an electrician or an apple picker, she would have the same right to see an immigration officer.

There hasn't been nearly enough effort to reconstruct the last days of Thomas Crooks.

The court case is going to be hard for Patel if the defense brings a breathalyzer.

At least Patel knew that getting fired was a real possibility.

Thanks for shedding some light on Patel's security risk. I don't think you need to worry about the $250m.

Thanks for sharing. As the author Sarah Fitzpatrick says, Patel's drinking problem isn't exactly news, but the impact of Patel's erratic and drunk behavior was underreported ... until now.

Patel is digging a hole for himself. The $250m threat isn't going to scare anyone with so much recorded evidence of Patel's drunkenness.

The Sweet, with Desolation Boulevard (1974). #MusicSky

The real question is whether Putin understands that his army would fold like a cheap lawn chair if it came under attack from NATO (minus USA between now and 2029, presumably). A larger war in Europe would still be a terrible ordeal.

Was reading a Bible verse supposed to prove anything?

Congressman Greg Casar: Texans Love Big Bend YouTube video by Congressman Greg Casar

Texans of every background love Big Bend. It has some of the darkest night skies in the country and wildlife you can't find anywhere else.

Trump building a border wall in Big Bend won't make anyone more safe or more free.

Music from Mali. Tamikrest, with Kidal (2017). #MusicSky

None. I am a year older than Trudeau, and I just got tickets for a Brandi Carlile concert. I look forward to it. But I was never PM of Canada.

And we keep Melania, a hooker who still struggles with basic English after 30 years.

But Vance's hubris is the most infinite of all hubrises.

He got himself a book deal by claiming that he was a hillbilly from Kentucky, while he was neither.