Okay so this timeline we’re on does have at least one thing I like

So. Much. Triomphe

If Hillary Clinton had to testify under oath to Congress about Epstein, why the hell hasn't Melania been brought in? Certainly far more connections to Jeffrey.

“What is a novel, anyway, but a big pile of content?”

FYI, #Target customers

FYI, #substack customers

Automatic draft registration: streamlined, efficient.

Automatic voter registration: creeping deep state tyranny.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two:

#war #climate

The US Postal Service is a service, not a business (hence the name). We should want to fund services that help Americans!

It costs us $9B/yr to make sure medications get delivered to seniors in rural areas and the many other benefits USPS provides.

The illegal war in Iran has already cost us $26B!

Hello?

Apparently Tommy Tuberville can’t tell the difference between warmongering religious fundamentalism and the faith of a good neighbor like @mayor.nyc.gov. Sadly, warmongering religious fundamentalism is what’s driving a lot of #GOP policies in Washington now

This man wrote a PhD thesis at Goethe University in 2002 entitled “Aggression in the Lifeworld: The Extension of Parsons’ Concept of Aggression by Describing the Connection Between Jargon, Aggression, and Culture”

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

😕 🍪

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

The U.S. corporate tax law change (Section 174, “Amortization of research and experimental expenditures”) certainly played a role in layoffs after 2022. Today I learned that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reversed this for 2025 and beyond. Who knows if it will help much.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

I’m heartbroken and enraged about this. Texas is angry and organizing across ideological lines. But we need as many folks as possible to be loud about it.

From some of the first pilots to the engineers who put Americans in space — the legacy of these Black pioneers is inseparable from aviation and aerospace itself. They opened the skies for everyone.

This writer is so close to getting it! So close!

He even makes the connection of The Purge and Handmaid's Tale!

As I've said before, a lot of dystopian horror, is just, "😱What if someone treated us, the way we've treated Black people?!"

The purge is Sundown towns.

Handmaid's Tale is slavery.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: