The fact that three women have been pushed out of Trump's cabinet, but Hegseth, RFK, Zeldin, Vought, and Bessent are still there, plus Patel in FBI, is not at all surprising, but it's still worth remarking upon.
My "No, the FBI did not have to send a SWAT team because I was passed-out drunk behind a locked door" shirt is raising questions...
Everyone knows that the fizzy drink is "tonic".
Screenshot of the NY Times story: Hed: Man charged in Lego theft scheme of replacing pieces with, police say. Dek: A California man was charged with grand theft after the police said he reaped about $34,000 in what an official called an “off the charts” pasta-and-switch scheme involving Lego kits Below is a photo of plastic bags filled with Lego pieces and the caption, "The police said a California man bought Lego sets to orchestrate a refund scheme they involved bags of pasta."
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Four Gateway computer boxes, with their distinctive black and white "cow spot" design.
A Far Side cartoon: First panel: Four cows standing erect on their hind legs in a pasture with a split-rail fence, next to a two-lane road. Three cows stand in the middle of the pasture, looking at the fourth, who is positioned as a lookout, next to the fence at the top of a rise. The lookout cow has a speech bubble, saying, "Car!" Second panel: All four cows are down on all fours grazing, as a red car drives by. Third panel: The car is gone, and the cows are back to standing on their hind legs. Three are standing together, conversing, while the lookout is keeping watch on the road.
Gateway was just subtle about it. Who would suspect cows of having a political agenda?
There was that superbowl Mac ad, tho.
Plus the two patients at your medical practice, three co-workers, and a drug company sales rep, all of whom you're fucking on the side.
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Screenshot from the article: The Israeli authorities, and even sometimes the West Bank’s Palestinian ones, have rarely viewed his actions as legitimate political activity. He has been arrested more times than he can count, evicted from his home for weekslong stretches, shot in both legs, and arraigned by both Israeli military courts and the Palestinian Authority on charges ranging from participating in an assembly without a permit to “causing strife” and “insulting the higher authorities.” Yet the cause of nonviolent Palestinian resistance has advanced little in recent years — and support for Hamas in the West Bank has grown following the Oct. 7 attack. Many of Amro’s neighbors praise his efforts as a human rights defender, but others question what his nonviolent approach has yielded after so long. Some have wondered aloud about his various stunts in Hebron. Why does he seem so determined to martyr himself?
Also, there are Palestinian activists who model themselves on Gandhi and MLK.
Israel brutalizes them and far from falling all over themselves to support them, the "Western liberals" ignore them.
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Many people also conveniently forget how fiercely MLK demanded reparations for centuries of slavery and Jim Crow.
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Tell the truth and get fired.
This one pairs nicely with the NY Times piece claiming that these days, all the young men want to date middle-aged women.
Great journalism 🙄
1. Report one anecdote.
2. Say it represents "a rising number" without any indication how large that number is or how quickly it's rising.
3. Give the impression that this is typical of what young men are doing these days.
This is what got Neil Gorsuch's mom charged with contempt of Congress during the Reagan administration.
"English, motherfucker, do you speak it?" 1 Corinthians 13:1 (Pete's version)
I feel seen.
Right-wing law professor Twitter is all, "if frivolous litigation is wrong, I don't want to be right," today.
I told the Conclave not to allow mail-in ballots!
But, but, but... there must be a pony in there somewhere.
I'm suspecting that people who call for Vance to be excommunicated for heterodox views about war, immigration, and care for the poor and suffering would be less happy calling for the same treatment of people with heterodox views about abortion, contraception, LGBTQ+ rights, and women's equality.
New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace.
“The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com
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This is such a disturbing example of how technology can distort and amplify abusive behavior. It reminds me of how victims are often labeled hysterical and have their body language analyzed by pseudo-experts. Now these tactics are being replicated by a biased chatbot people pretend is an authority
Texas is losing $3.2 BILLION in tax revenue over the next two years to the tax incentives it's handing out to data centers, and this is probably an underestimate. Meanwhile, the state is struggling to fund things like education and disaster response.
This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.
In case it's not super obvious- you...can't get doordash delivered to anywhere inside the White House fenced off complex, much less the West Wing much less the patio of the Oval gd Office. No need to treat a stunt as something real!
Should be part of his next test.
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
it's happening
"PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences"
"Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
